Cinematic Era: 1930 Vintage

Carlos Gardel performing "Enfundá la mandolina", tango composed by Francisco Pracánico and written by José Zubiría Mansilla.

A program of musical entertainers perform on a cross country train.

In this parody of Sherlock Holmes, the Great Detective goes to an opium den of inequity in the dangerous London district of London and challenges Tong assassins in order to rescue a woman.

An educational film on abortion.

In this color short, Albert Conti brings Mary Carlisle inside a studio to see some new outfits available at J.J. Haggarty’s, Los Angeles.

Lazar, an old worker, does not want to share the secret of hardening rapid, a high-quality steel. The workers have no choice but to find their own original way to harden steel that is as good as rapid...

As a husband and wife eat breakfast, they argue about anything and everything.

Between the feelings of the man who believes himself to be deceived and of the surgeon's instinct, it is the latter which triumphs in Doctor Bernon, who saves the man presumed to be his wife's lover. He then realizes that this is not the case and that she is still worthy of him.

An agile waiter unmasks a cabaret conjurer as a thief.

Taylor Holmes son is in love, and Holmes is to meet the girl and the dragon of an aunt. She's one of those dowagers whose accomplishments consist of her ancestors having come over on the Mayflower. Back then, of course, immigration laws were less strict.

Three friends who are broke decide to found a film production company. When they start shooting their first film chaos arises...

This first true Czech avant-garde film turns away from a purely celebratory approach to the city. The camera follows a detached protagonist on his wanderings, as his highly subjective journey becomes a fragmented visualization of urban landscapes.

Oswald tries to sell musical instruments to a father's many children.

Felix the Cat is walking along when he is abruptly blindfolded and subjected to an elaborate ordeal which turns out to be (as the title hints) a fraternal initiation.

Three old muckers meet down the boozer for a natter about their alarmingly swiftly-diminishing circle of friends.

A meek husband takes lessons on how to take control of his dominating wife.

The young, forward-thinking doctor Dr. Maerker arrives in a small factory town and is appalled by the prevailing social conditions. The working-class families live in poor conditions and can barely feed their many children. Maerker therefore wants to give a lecture on contraception in the inn, but encounters fierce resistance from his conservative boss, Dr. Witte, who wants to prevent the lecture together with the pastor and the magistrate. Only a severe nervous fever finally persuades old Witte to side with Maerker.

Jack Norton is a careless gambler, until his father turns his back on him. Dead drunk he winds up on a boat going far up North, where he leaves the boat, only to be saved by Eskimos, where he soon falls in love.

A maid applies to a good position at the Dutilleul's, but she wouldn't know how good it was to be until people starts taking her for the lady of the house...

The kids go on a camping trip and run into some bootleggers. This here is the Spanish language version of BEAR SHOOTERS.

Daisy Baroness Eggloffsburg, a ball of energy, is a spoiled and rather lively, cheerful wild child who is always in the mood for pranks. Her uncle Egon, a stern old gentleman, thinks she has had enough of her foolishness and boozy ideas and needs a man to tell her off and tame Daisy. Harry Spring, the young sportsman hired for the job, is supposed to get both the girl and Baron Eggloffsburg, the owner of the racing stable, back on their feet. But Daisy doesn't give in so easily and now begins to give the young gallant a good grooming.

Short Polish documentary about the evolution of light foldable kajaks.

An old-time Mississippi paddle-wheel showboat docks, and Krazy tries to serenade the girl that's the star attraction, but he has a hippo-faced rival. When the programme commences, She sings a long song with many gestures, though the song is a lot of holding long notes. Krazy and his rival are in balconies on either side of the stage. When her performance stops, Hippo guy does a dance, but Krazy sees to it he loses his trousers. Krazy then puts on a dance of his own, but slips up on banana skins. The audience pelts him with vegetables, shoes and irons.

A prototype for a Finnish advertising film that is taking its first steps. The frame story is about an evening at a restaurant. Presentations include furs, overcoats, margarine, coffees, creams, cigarettes, and Lahti's special beers.

The beautiful highlander Halka falls in love with the rich nobleman Janusz and rejects the adoring highlander Jontek. However, he soon finds out that the lord's love promises cannot be trusted. This is the plot of one of the most famous Polish operas in a nutshell. Konstanty Meglicki's Halka is one of three Polish pre-war adaptations of Stanisław Moniuszko's work.

A stoker, dissatisfied with his job, escapes from his ship to an island where he lives with a native girl. Eventually he is picked up by a passing steamer.

A man contracts a sexually transmitted disease, but is reluctant to seek medical help - until a no-nonsense lecture about the risks he is taking forces him to change his mind.

Jean-Pierre is in love with Jeannette, the sister of his friend Paul. Although he is a good student, he has to quit school and work to help out his poor mother. As Paul finds a better job, his parents forbid him to see Jean-Pierre. As Jean-Pierre's hard work is rewarded with a raise, Paul is fired and turns to alcohol. He eventually ends up in the same factory where Jean-Pierre works. His former friend helps him and builds a house for his mother, Jeannette and him.

The surprising story of the scandalous Empress of Rome, Messalina.

About the peasant uprising in the Poltava region in 1905.

El quinielero is a musical short film based on the song "El quinielero" with music by Luis Cluzeau Mortet and lyrics by Roberto Aubriot Barboza, performed by Carlos Gardel accompanied by his guitarists. Due to technical problems, it was never released.

On the rocky coast of Western Britain, there still remain a few Peregrine Falcons for the Naturalist to observe.

A wealthy young club man is engaged to a senator’s daughter but becomes involved with a gang of blackmailers.

The female vocal ensemble Singing Babies, founded by Edmund Fritz, puts on a gig.

A beauty salon owner puts on a cabaret.

A pretty dance hall girl is looking for the right guy.

Beatrice Lillie shines in disguise as a private detective.

Country girl Helena falls in love with an artist painting the local village scenery and one evening she lets herself be seduced by him. The artists leaves but soon invites Helena to Prague where they make love again. Helena then returns home to her sick father and refuses the constant attentions of the gamekeeper Rýza. After some time she realizes that she is pregnant. Since she knows that the artist will not marry her, she goes to visit her aunt who takes her to an abortionist. When the girl returns home after the abortion she discovers her father has died. The opportunist aunt sees her chance and moves in with Helena and persuades her to marry Rýza.

An elegant young idler, vacationing in a port in the South of France where he is stopping over, sets the hearts of two young women aflame: a simple ironer and a wealthy bourgeois woman. The two rivals clash, until the day the handsome prince charming leaves, leaving two broken hearts behind.

A baritone mountain climber visits a Swiss inn, where he sings to raise money for an aging singer.

"A woman arrives terribly late for a date with her husband in a small café. He has given up, so – as bad luck would have it – the two pass each other in the revolving door. When they do actually meet up, she has a lovely surprise for her husband ... Structured like a theatrical sketch, this comical commercial for a Dortmund fashion boutique uses puns and situation comedy to document the first stirrings of the consumer society in Germany." - Berlinale 2018

The original screenplay told the story of a young man from the countryside with a city education: a boorish, violent character filled with a desperate, purely urban unease. Dekeukeleire transformed him into a butcher who commits an act of rebellion during a political demonstration at the foot of the Yser Tower (with authentic images of the 1930 meeting) which is being suppressed brutally by the authorities. White Flame secretes a drifting air of unreality straight out of Buñuel, born out of 'carnal' close-ups and an editing style which owes a great deal to Soviet films of that period.

A store owner, faking injuries after an auto accident, is rehearsed for court by his shady lawyer.

The prelude to our picture is the record of an intimate conversation between Mr. D. W. Griffith and his friend Mr. Walter Huston, which occured on an evening in the Spring of 1930. Here for the first time, Mr. Griffith relates the colorful childhood experiences which led him to the making of "The Birth of a Nation."

The last work of Junichi Kouchi, a pioneer of Japanese animation.

A girl singer makes good when the star is too drunk to appear.

A musical cartoon where we are in Hawaii with planes and flying elephants....

Short film about Indian people

German crime film

Persuading his newlywed friends, Jerry and Marian Townsend, to take him along on their European honeymoon as guide, Lester Aloysius Sebastian Brown launches the threesome on a series of comic adventures, beginning in a Paris nightclub, where Lester is roughed up by two husbands who mistake his companions for their wives. Then on to Switzerland and a forced landing near a wedding festival; to Cairo, where Jerry is abducted and found by Marian in a harem; and back to New York.

Musical short focusing on the American Indians of New York before the city's founding.