Cinematic Era: 1929 Vintage

Aerial views of the city of Quito

Professional bullfight Plaza Belmonte

Civil military and religious authorities

Willi goes to sleep and dreams of being a boy more than 1500 years in the future, where he travels by airplane, servants have been replaced by mechanical device, but in the end, parents will still make sure you're in for a spanking if you misbehave.

A small sawmill owner competes against a large timber company in hopes of winning a railway tie contract.

One of the Fitzpatrick traveltalks, this film begins in Valencia. We travel down the Spanish coast, visiting the people who live in caves. We end up in Granda, visiting the Alhambra and several other locations.

The Columbia-Victor Gems series was Columbia’s answer to Warner Bros.’ Vitaphone shorts, often featuring vaudevillians or musical performers in a short sketch or musical number. Old Man Trouble stars concert singer Jules Bledsoe, best-known for creating the role of Joe in Kern and Hammerstein’s Showboat, which had just concluded its Broadway run at the time this film was made.

Record of the activities of the Fernández y Sust cigarette factory. Detailed description of the cigarette assembly, packaging and distribution processes.

Film directed by Miguel Monleón with plot and intertitles by Valencian journalists José Fernández Caireles and Federico Miñana. It is a fictionalized documentary on Valencia's festivity that takes a fictional story as its common thread, the journey of a jealous husband, Chordi, from Alcoi to the city looking for his wife, Riteta, who is gone with a friend to see the Fallas after arguing with his man about his new film-inspired haircut.

This 1929 home movie, shot by longtime Corpus Christi resident Antonio Rodríguez Fuentes, may well represent some of the earliest produced by a Mexican-American filmmaker about the Mexican-American community in Texas. In the footage, Fuentes captures his wife Josefina and four of their children playing in a park in Corpus Christi. Josefina also takes a turn behind the camera to document her husband with the children.

Early MGM sound short featuring vaudeville acts George Dewey Washington, Johnny Marvin, Rosemarie Sinnott, The Locust Sisters, and Harry Rose.

Early MGM sound short featuring vaudeville acts Van and Schenck, The Capitolians, Grace Rogers, and Harry Rose.

The Gotham Rhythm Boys perform a few of their songs.

Coletta Ryan and Duke Yellman singing a few of their songs in 'Songology'.

Vitaphone short in which Charles C. Peterson performs a number of challenging billiard trick shots.

An energetic "heavyweight" song and dance troupe of six performs with gusto.

Part of BFI collection "On Yer Bike."

One of the first to use the techniques of cinematography to study biological phenomena, Comandon accelerated his films, originally shot frame by frame, to depict a detailed view of nature only visible through the mechanical eye of the camera.

The film depicts, in a kind of fictional documentary, the 1896 Hamburg dockworkers' strike: the workers receive meagre wages for hard work and live under miserable conditions and finally go on strike (to make matters more personal, one of the strikers has a brother who is a policeman). Even though the inspiration for the story was an event that took place in the XIX century, things had little changed by the troublesome twenties so the story had a perfect contemporary ring.

A travelogue showing the beauty of the state of West Virginia in 1929.

Early silent Western from Ecuador.

A straight vaudeville performance of an all-girl ensemble. The leader is dressed in something like a lord Fauntleroy outfit, and the orchestra members wear matching dresses, with a patch in the shape of their individual instruments in front. Their tunes are slower than usual Vitaphone dance band entries, including a Victor Herbert selection.

The title orchestra play three popular tunes of the day.

Charles Hackett sings "Il mio tesoro intanto" from "Don Giovanni" and "O paradiso" from "L'africaine"

Jack White serves as an energetic and highly vocal emcee and bandleader, rapid-firing jokes and enthusiastic commentary between songs. The group performs catchy musical numbers, including the tunes "Crazy for You" and "Mean to Me". The 10-minute short also highlights vocal performances by artists Mary Lee, Billy (or Billie) Lee, and Ruth Petty.

The daughter of an American millionaire, Ms. Evelyne, arrives at a resort in Bavaria for some rest and relaxation from her busy shopping schedule. Her beauty and charm causes the usual flock of suitors to chase after her (her “beauty and charm” being mostly green and crisp, if you know what I mean). And while no one should have to put up with the annoying pestering of suitors while taking a well-deserved break from trying on dresses and dining at the finest restaurants, Ms. Evelyne shows that concern so typical of the wealthy for their less fortunate subjects by using her money to have her newly paid lackeys make fools of her suitors.

Intended as an exhibition to filmmakers of the 1920's designed to illustrate the diverse uses for Brewster Color (such as for cartoons, advertising spots in theaters and location shootings).

Felix is in love with a fair maiden. When serenading her, his rival spots him and tries anything he can come up with to get his girl back.

A documentary about the farm where the best Yugoslav butter was once made.

The Norman Thomas Quintet performs "Sleep Baby Sleep," "Listen to the Mockingbird," and "Melody in F," with quite a flair for comedy mixed in.

Theatre and Cinema Company.

Filmed by the Olmos Irrigation Commission

Theatre and Cinema Company.

Filmed by Guillermo Garland. Six hundred meters in length.

It contains: celebrations of Our Lady of Mercy; views of the Miraflores Tennis Club; on the polo field of the Country Club; the last races.

It contains: the August 28th military parade in Santa Beatriz; the best races of the year; the funeral of General Foción Mariátegui.

Theatre and Cinema Company

It contains: the plane crash of Captain Vásquez and Ensign Garland; the arrival of the frigate Sarmiento in Callao; the Atahualpa Classic; the arrival of the first airmail from New York; and social notes.

It contains: presentation of the Argentina Cup to the Peruvian tennis champion; Colo Colo versus combined team; echoes of the character festival; festivities in homage to Don Bosco.

Narrative film produced by the company Mobiliaria Snirer. No release date has been set. The film presents practical lessons highlighting the need for a moral element in the home, emphasizing the importance of combating vices to cultivate the virtues that create a happy home, where children see only examples of goodness in their parents, and where that goodness translates into economic benefits protected by the virtue of thrift.

It contains: views of the opening of the Second Animal Science Exhibition and the South American Athletics Championship.

News supplement of the Forero Theater, produced by Ricardo D. Spierman and Rímac Film. Filmed by Pedro Sambarino. Contains: races in Santa Beatriz; arrival of the aviators Jiménez and Iglesias; exhibition of automobiles of all the makes available in Lima; comic sketches; party at the San Jerónimo shooting range.

Theatre and Cinema Company

Company of Theaters and Cinemas.

Filmed by Ernesto Calvo.

Theatre and Cinema Company

Filmed by Luis Ángel Scaglione. Contains views of the 1929 carnival festivities.

February 13.

Filmed by Enzo Longhi. Contains: Fashion of the Day; Peruvian Tourism; Men of the Day; Society Album; The Prettiest Bather in La Punta; Artistic Photography; The Queens of Carnival 1929; American Tourists in Lima; The US Ambassador's Air Trip; Artistic Promotion; Automobile Triumphs

Rímac Film. Filmed by Pedro Sambarino. “The dance scenes are accompanied synchronously by the orchestra.”

Recovered fragments from two documentaries about the Fallas festival in Valencia (Spain) from 1928 and 1929. It includes images of the main and award-winning fallas monuments, some festivities, and views of the streets and squares of downtown Valencia.

A huge crowd attends the funeral procession of António José de Almeida, former President of the Republic, from his residence to the Alto de São João Cemetery.

Film made by Julio Irigoyen in 1929.