Cinematic Era: 1930 Vintage

A musical-comedy directed by Carl Boese

Everyday drama from the life of the Svans.

A Jew at War is a 1930 Soviet film directed by Grigori Roshal.

A typist is shut in a safe by her married lover and later freed by a burglar.

A film directed by Giuseppe Guarino.

A young man is marrying the girl of his heart. The film describes the day of their wedding.

Zehn Minuten Mozart was Reiniger's first attempt at merging silhouette animation with music.

A comedy short Directed by Castleton Knight,

A self-effacing prizefighter assumes a very different attitude once he hits the big time.

Bosko and his porcine friend are hobos in a runaway boxcar.

A short film of Evelyn Nesbit singing Jack Yellen and Lew Pollack's song "No Man's Mama" at Bilgray's Garden in Panama, June 1930. She performs the song three different times.

Fairy tales story about culture revolution in a small russian village. Two inventors head to propose a machine for easy soap packaging while evil capitalist tries to destroy the machine and gaslighting friends.

Different kinds of Berliners, the well to do along with the ordinary shopkeepers, enjoy their weekends in the city's suburban garden colonies.

Carlos Gardel and guitars performing "Mano a mano", tango composed by Gardel and José Razzano, and written by Celedonio Flores.

This 'musical burlesque' tells about a stylish young gentleman who works as a so-called 'Festredner', a person who makes speeches at important events like marriages etc. for people who don't feel able to do it themselves. Willi lends his voice to a speech-impaired professor, but the baroness who falls in love with Hörbiger only does so because of Willi's voice, and this leads to all sorts of complications…

German silent film

On Christmas Eve, a former thief, recently released from prison, stops a forlorn, destitute, despairing young woman from committing suicide. She's from the country and hasn't been able to find her boyfriend who came to the city earlier. The ex-con suggests having a little party together, but both are flat broke. He realizes there's an obvious solution.

Maritsa is a lively girl who finds it difficult to live in the village, with her uncle, who is also the President of the community. The son of a major industrialist is persuaded by Maritsa to take her to Athens with him.

On the struggle of artisanal peasants against the economic oppression by the kulaks.

Alternate-language version of Girl Shock (1930)

This here is the four-reel Spanish version of Charley Chase's Looser Than Loose.

A symbolical telling of the history of the Belarusian people, their centuries-old struggle for liberation.

JEWELS is an early example of the visual fascination of dark Vienna. The film was released in 1930 as one of the last silent films under the powerful title SENSATION IM DIAMANTENCLUB. The screenplay was based on motifs from Hoffmann's story 'Das Fräulein von Scuderi' (1819), which is considered the first crime story in German. Director Hans Brückner mixes some elements of the genre in his crime film, the palette ranges from classic 'Whodunit' to detective to elements of horror film, focuses on shadows, lighting effects, cross-fading according to German and drastic wrestling matches based on the American pattern. As a 'modern' script idea, the dissociative movement disorder, i.e. the psychological paralysis of a victim in shock, impresses a motif that will later prove to be indispensable for the horror repertoire.

Lt. Cmdr. Good is a naval officer who goes on an extensive search for his long-lost friend who mysteriously disappeared on a tropical island.

In this entry in the Lone Wolf series, the first to have a soundtrack, the jealousies of the King and the coquettish Queen are chronicled. When His Majesty learns that his wife has given the ring he gave to her to her lover, the King plans a large ball and demands the she wear the token. As her lover is a military attache, he is not in the palace, and the queen must send her lady-in-waiting to bring it back. En route, the lady meets a thief and they team up. She does not know that he has been dispatched by the King to steal ring from the attache.

Spanish version of the MGM romance, His Glorious Night: in the old Austro-Hungarian empire, a princess rejects her arranged marriage and loves, instead, a dashing cavalry captain.

Cartoon short.

Felix tricks his father into thinking that he's practicing the piano, then escapes to play golf with Skidoo the mouse. After raising the ire of the local fire department, he's shot overseas on a jet of water and lands in Africa, where jungle cannibals try to devour him.

A Van Beuren Aesop's Fable cartoon.

Short silent film.

Aboard a liner sailing for New York, there are no fewer than two hundred passengers bearing the name of Lévy, all persuaded that they are the heirs to multimillionaire Abraham Levy. Among them, David Lévy has fallen in love with Esther... Lévy! Which is not to the liking of Salomon and Moïse, his uncles, who have another future in mind for him.

An old clown loves a young dancer to whom he gives lessons. He heroically withdraws from the love of a rich young man.

Locuras de amor is a comedy short from Charley Chase with all speaking Spanish

Dancing Lines, also called Study No. 2, is a piece of abstract animation. White lines dance upon a black background.

A Japanese equivalent of a Hollywood Screen Song.

Boris and Nina are in love. He is the son of a wealthy merchant, she - just an ordinary seamstress. Boris's Father opposes their love.

Experimental collection. It began with a synchronized movie recording of a speech by Anatoly Lunacharsky, former People's Commissar of Education and Director of the Research Institute of Literature and Art, on the importance of sound cinema. Then came an hour-long movie "Five-Year Plan" - a documentary essay about the first five-year plan. Then - a small cartoon with newsreel elements "Tip-Top", the hero of which was making a round-the-world trip. By genre it was a political satire. Then there were recordings of Sergei Prokofiev's march from the play "Love for Three Oranges" and other musical numbers performed by a choir, solo singers, symphony and jazz orchestras, as well as actors from Sergei Obraztsov's puppet theater.

Charley Chase comic short with all speaking French

An ambitious campaign manager makes friends, influences people and welcomes his long-lost mother to Ellis Island.

An inside look at Cristiani Studios during the making of Peludópolis. This making-of documentary contains the only known surviving footage of the now lost film

Homeowner Edlund is forced to borrow money from Mauritz Berg, the local sawmill owner, but soon finds it is not an end to his problems or his dealings with Berg.

On the struggle of the Donbas miners to eliminate the liquidation in the coal industry.

Ribera, a singing teacher, is a neighbor of Fernando, with whom Sara, Enrique's wife, is having an affair.

German silent film about the antarctic

The first Terrytoons animated short

Story of the conflict between old art forms such as ballet and the revolution and the need for creating new, proletarian forms of art. First feature by Sergey and Georgiy Vasiliyev, partially lost.

Brief excerpts of raw footage from Eisenstein's time filming in Mexico.

About everyday life in a pioneer camp.

A woman, affectionately called Blondie by her husband, hires a cook called Blondie by both her boyfriends. When all five end up in the house at the same time, romantic complications ensue.

Ben Bernie and his orchestra play a few songs for a vitaphone recording.

An embezzler, Bill Marsh, swears vengeance on a businessman, John Travers, who has turned him in to the police. Twenty years pass, and Marsh emerges from jail and establishes himself as the head of a powerful crime empire, with his daughter, Paula, serving as bait to attract wealthy victims. Paula falls in love with Lee Travers, the adopted son of Marsh's old enemy, and begins to have doubts about her life of crime. Only after a series of tragic incidents is she set free to marry Lee and start life anew. This silent feature was highly regarded for its set design and 'unusual sensitivity to the expressive range of the camera and their awareness of careful scenario construction as a key to emotionally powerful cinema'. Cast includes Marie Lorraine, Arthur Greenaway, John Faulkner. A sound version was attempted soon after but was not successful and was never released.

A short drama about a married couple planning to go to Niagara Falls.