Cinematic Era: 1930 Vintage

A musical short with Rosita Moreno & Nino Martini singing us some love songs. An itinerant troubadour serenades the woman he loves.

This promotional film for the Royal National Lifeboat Association was assembled by B.I.P. studio manager Joe Grossman from silent footage taken from several of the company’s features, including Castleton Knight’s Goodwin Sands and its sound version The Lady from the Sea, Alfred Hitchcock’s The Manxman, and the pioneering multi-lingual talkie Atlantic, directed by E.A. Dupont.

A jealous wife helps a Chinaman kidnap a lieutenant's fiancée.

Documentary of the antarctic flights of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd in 1929. Narrated by Floyd Gibbons.

Japanese silent film from 1930 with an acclaimed performance by Sumiko Kurishima.

The magazine "Paintings of the People" initiates a contest to select the best watercolor painting of ethnic peoples and customs. A hungry bohemian painter invokes his muse to help him to produce the winning painting, and when he experiments with scenes set in Mexico, Argentina and Spain, his paintings come to life. In Xochimilco, Mexico, a young bachelor has a drunken dream that his girl friend is performing Josephine Baker's famous banana dance in a Parisian nightclub. In Buenos Aires, an Italian and a Galician are rivals for the affections of a Creole girl. At the other side of the Hispanic world, a Sevillian girl tells of her tragic romance with a matador, who obstinately continues to appear in the ring despite having been injured.

Early Vitaphone-Warner Bros. short film introduced as part of the Vitaphone Varieties series featuring Jack Buchanan who announces to the audience that he will be replacing a member of the Glee Quartet though he has had little time to rehearse. He doesn't know the lyrics, any of the coordinated movements and is generally out of sync with the others to the point of losing his shoes.

Short film about light and weather phenomena

This short features Judy Garland's very first film solo, Blue Butterfly. The film footage no longer exists.

Berlin, the center of pleasures and kingdom of small virtues. From all over Germany, young night owls come to burn themselves cheerfully in its lights, to drown in its champagne and fill its boxes and restaurants until dawn.

Betty Boop (with dog's ears) can't sleep on a scary night, so she sings the title song and meets the gentleman in question...a surreal version of Bimbo.

A poor woman poses as her rich twin to fool a mean landlady.

German drama

Slapstick comics Willie West and McGinty cause havoc at a construction site as they attempt to "work."

The origin of The Carnival of Love lies in the association of Pedro Sambarino and the writer and journalist Ángela Ramos de Rotalde, known for her chronicles of customs published in the main newspapers since 1919, when she collaborated with El Comercio.

A Krazy Kat short.

The romance between a female singer and a tango composer.

Focusing on the health risks of modern urban life, this film foreshadows several major themes that would become closely associated with Nazi public health policies. These include the importance of outdoor activities and healthy foods or campaigns against alcohol and tobacco. Coordinated mass exercise became a common feature of Nazi Party rallies, Nazi youth groups, and the regime’s “Strength through Joy” program, but these activities were all informed by pre-existing German traditions of gymnastics and outdoor recreation. “Born Out of Necessity” shows how many of the defining aspects of the Nazi regime’s public health policies were actually rooted in longstanding German traditions or the medical and cultural atmosphere of the Weimar Republic.

Cochu, a simple soldier, is mistakenly believed to be a rich heir which causes many problems.

A satire on an ultra-modern, jazz-mad office; staid stenographers turn to singing and dancing, and dictation is given in rhyme.

Eddie Lambert leads the tour; Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Joan Crawford return from their honeymoon trip; Carl Laemmle, Jr. welcomes Paul Whiteman to Hollywood; Edward Everett shows off his menagerie; Eddie Quillan displays his saxophone skills; other players are glimpsed.

A songwriter is mistaken for a convict.

A man and his young son travel through the countryside to take their donkey to a horse auction. Unfortunately every person they pass has a different opinion on how this should be accomplished, leading to disastrous results when the dim-witted father abandons common sense in an attempt to please everyone.

Comedy skit shown as part of a theatrical revue. 'The picture is supposed to be a Hollywood drama of English life, wildly burlesqued, and in the middle of projection Maisie Gay stands up in the stalls, protests, argues with the players on the screen, and then steps into the picture. Finally a chorus of duchesses steps from screen to stage and the revue becomes tri-dimensional.' (Kinematograph Weekly)

George is a shiftless father and husband, who lets his wife and old mother in law do all the work at his tumbledown farm, preferring to sleep under a tree. His wife finally threatens him into finding a job moving cartons in a warehouse.

Krazy and his girlfriend are dancing at a nightclub. In the blink of an eye, the girl gets kidnapped by a hoodlum on a horse.

This Terrytoon about golfing animals from 1930 is a synchronized sound film, with a decent sound track that could easily be omitted for a show in a theater which had not been wired for sound. There were still several thousand such theaters in the US in 1930.

A film about Germany in the 1930s. A grandiose mural depicting the life of the country before the Nazis came to power.

In this two-reel comic operetta, Nat Carr owns a gown shop in New York City and advertises for redheaded models--and is run over by a slew of redheaded applicants, including one who is a runaway heiress, who is followed by a short redheaded policewoman.

Fy and Bi have moved into a very "modern" apartment and they now want to make their careers on the sloping boards. The sidecar is an excellent shooter and his role model is Wilhelm Tell. He therefore gets a brilliant idea: The lighthouse must stand with an apple on its head, and the Beehive will then shoot it down.

Jack Coski (Jaakko Koski) returns to Helsinki and gets impressed by co-op Elanto.

Lelita, a rich young lady, is courted by Paulo, her cousin, but she starts to believe that he is also having an affair with her sister.

A boarding house maid is treated mean, until inheriting oil gives her a new gleam.

A variety-style short built around the eccentric comedy and piano-playing of Al Trahan, featuring supporting performances from Yukona Cameron and Helen Hawley.

A Terrytoon cartoon with a western flavor with cowboys and indians....

The Fowler Studio Varieties shorts were a series of one-reel musical shorts shot in Los Angeles that featured vaudeville acts and musical artists.

The young poets, a nucleus of the dada art movement and pioneers of surrealist poetry, sit in a corner reading their works and ringing a bell.

The story of Hills Bros. Coffee.

A college cheerleader is injured in an auto accident just before the Big Game.

The parents of Christian girl Ria Rago have arranged for her to marry Dapo, a Muslim. She refuses and, after a beating, flees to the mission sisters who offer her a safe haven. Her father and his cronies aren't long in finding her, however, and she is taken back into the kampong. After months of torture, Ria still won't give in. She escapes again and manages to reach the mission post where she collapses. On the brink of death, she is administered the last rites. Ria's father decides to call off the marriage and returns the dowry to Dapo. On her deathbed Rita forgives her parents.

In India, a British soldier saves the jeweled eye of a sacred idol.

'Innocent blacksmith hanged on circumstantial evidence.' (British Film Catalogue)

Slow-motion, reverse-motion, and trick photography adds extra amusement to scenes of galloping horses, leaping dogs, and various rodeo acts.

The world of fungi captured by micro-cinematography and time-lapse photography.

A short comedy film.

Wee Georgie Wood and his gang have their sights set on a notorious villain.

Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released June 19, 1930. A parade of various animals leads piano-playing Krazy and his likewise opponent, a Lion, to a large, crowded arena where they square off in the boxing ring to play a musical duel.

The Cuckoo Bird residing in an old clock in a creepy old mansion is shot dead by an unknown assailant; Flip the Frog is called in to investigate (and finds more than he bargained for).

A humanized dog comes from a bar and fights with his shadow in the dark just before a bouncing ball comes on and the singer warbles "I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark".