Cinematic Era: 1930 Vintage

The young married couple Sigvard and Isabella Löfgren are constantly being sought by different companies where they are trading on the bill. Sigvard is a traveling salesman and Isabella works as a secretary at a theatre agency seeking artists for a revue.

A description of the prevailing deplorable conditions in coal mines, as well as the burial of deceased miners following a mining accident in the Silesian town of Neurode.

Lighthouse keeper Uwe Bull lives with his wife Hanne and the silent assistant Jens in a secluded, small world. When the only survivor from a shipwreck, young Margot from Reeperbahn, is washed up on the island, Uwe's feelings arouses. But dark clouds appear in the sky.

The Thanet coast featuring boat rides, horses and family outings.

Screen adaptation of the ancient legend 'The Story of Pak Mun-su'.

An American couple, Douglas and Mary, are in the nightclub 'La Vache Rose'. When Julot and Nini are performing 'La Danse Apache', Douglas thinks that Nini is being abused and he comes to her defense. He doesn't know that it's all part of the dance. "Chiqué" is the first French talking picture produced in France.

A film by Vsevolod Pudovkin. Experimental reel later worked into "A Simple Case (1930)"

It's a straight musical involving a barbershop quartet of alley cats and some dogs summoned from the pound to quiet them to little success. The animation and visual gags are simple and old fashioned, but the aural gags are nicely done and even if there's little coordination between the animation and the music.

Matej Krópal and his wife farm on a Haná farm. Their niece Vera is coming to stay with them for the holidays. In a small traffic accident, Vera meets her acquaintance, the engineer Peters, who is engaged to the emancipated Olga. However, he is so tempted by Vera's wealth that he begins to court her.

German silent film

Edward William returns to the Dutch Indies after his stay in Europe to manage a plantation in Banten area. He is accompanied by his daughter from Dasima, Nancy. Upon his arrival in Batavia, she receives news that Samiun (Dasima's murderer) has served his sentence and is coming back. Nancy dreams of meeting Dasima who asks her to take revenge on Samiun and his wife, Hayati. Eventually, Samiun falls over a cliff and Hayati is stabbed by her own knife.

A cat and mouse are out together when the cat tries to steal his mouse companions girlfriend. The mice escape to a club where they go dancing, only to be pursued by the cat again. But they eventually escape and fly off into the sunset.

The Glasgow Orpheus Choir sings 'Isle of Mull', 'The Campbells Are Coming', a Purcell arrangement, and 'Down in a Flowery Vale'.

An Italian immigrant discovers his wife is a hootchy-kootchy dancer. Later, the audience is invited to follow the bouncing ball and sing along to "Mariutch Down at Coney Island.

Sings a song he and five others wrote, 'You Want Lovin', and I Want Love.' Does a comedy skit. Then he sings another song he says he wrote, 'Can't You Understand?'

Spellbinding images of Birmingham between the wars.

For his first feature-length documentary, Bek-Nazarian uses both archival footage and re-enacted scenes to create a historical and poetic fresco about the transformation of the Nairi province into a flourishing Soviet republic.

Carlos Gardel and guitars performing "Canchero", tango composed by Arturo De Bassi and written by Celedonio Flores.

German silent drama

Harry Richman stars in this bizarre comedy musical short. I say bizarre because he is a door-to-door broom salesman who sings to make sales. However, his potential sale (June O'Dea) is not an easy one, as she complains that the previous door-to-door salesman was more impressive...so Richman brings out a trio to accompany him. But this lady is no pushover...so what will he need to do to clinch the sale?

It concerns a person (who's either a dog-an early version of Bimbo, perhaps-or a bear-he sorta resembles Van Beuren's Cubby Bear), who goes to a bar and picks up a girl despite her being with someone. In fact, they perform an Apache dance before she chases him to a boat which is when the title song gets performed with the Famous Bouncing Ball before the characters start stepping on the last verses.

The Matica slovenská (a mostly government-sponsored cultural, academic, and archival institution) employed Karol Plicka (1894-1987) as its ethnographer, who was able to make documentary shorts from about 1926. He obtained funding from the President’s Office in 1928 to produce an hour-long documentary about village life, Through Mountains and Valleys (Po horách, po dolách). It was awarded a Gold Medal at the International Exposition of Photographic Art in Florence and received an Honorable Mention at the International Venice Film Festival in 1932.

In the French consulate in China, Claude Varville declares his love to the consul's wife.

A heated sporting rivalry divides Giorgio Roberti and Fausto Renzi, both capable marathon runners. After a defeat the latter contemplates abandoning competitive sports, but is convinced by Silvia Delotti, daughter of the sports organizer of the "Aurora", to return to his father's "stable". The rivalry thus also becomes sentimental between Giorgio, already in love with Silvia, and Fausto.

Bingo, a cartoon dog, joins the circus.

A busker confesses to shooting a seducer to save his amnesiac film-star daughter.

The first Studies were synchronized with records (Fischinger made a total of 13 Studies all without sound). It was only with the introduction of sound, beginning with Study No 6 that the films did full justice to this musical principle. The play of the white lines, the arcs, and the upside-down U’s running hither and thither like ballet dancers was brought into perfect synchronization with the music, and thus the films offered an abstract illustration of the melodies. Study No 6 is certainly the best of his films in terms of forms. - Hans Scheugl and Ernst Schmidt, Jr. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2001.

A lot terrier saves a man's daughter and finds his tramp master,

Husband and wife decide to carry on their arguing by red-light-green-light traffic lights.

A young couple in an Egyptian cafe become irritated with each other, but make up again with some song and dance.

Documentary about life and struggle of the people on the lonely island of Stora Dimun in the Faroe Islands.

In this one, we get simple variations of people heading off to a May Day celebration, carrying a Maypole and a hippopotamus to serve as the Queen of the May.

Walter, the son of a shipowner, tries to seduce Rika, engaged to the rough fisherman Wan. When Wan sees Walter kiss her, he leaves in anger, only to be caught in a storm at sea. Believed dead, Rika refuses Walter’s proposal. Wan is rescued by Icelandic fishermen and returns months later to marry Rika. Later, the shipowner schemes to commit insurance fraud, but Wan is killed trying to stop a fire. Grief drives Rika mad, until a new storm strands Walter on the shore. Rika revives him with a kiss, healing herself, and a new romance begins between them.

Documentary about the Protestant Church

Piecemeal, chaotic slapstick comedy revolving around honeymooners and various misunderstandings.

The Norvegia expedition of 1929-30 was the third in a series of expeditions organized by Consul Lars Christensen of Sandefjord for the purpose of conducting practical scientific research in Antarctica. Its task was, in addition to carrying out certain work related to whaling, to establish a depot on Bouvet Island and to take aerial photographs of this new Norwegian possession. The expedition would then attempt to reach new land in the vast and unknown areas between Enderby Land and the Weddell Sea.

An abstract ballet set to "I've Never Seen a Smile Like Yours".

In the 19th century, Polish patriots rise up in Warsaw against domination by the Czar of Russia.

Anti-Congress propaganda film made by a District Officer in India.

Opens and closes with a tune. Says he had only one customer in the last three years. Turns out he was a Scottish man with a lot of stories and some son bits.

A ladybug lives in a pumpkin house and is aimed at by a dragonfly.

Due to an intrigue spun by his grandmother and two cousins, the engagement between the officer Hans and his fiancée Traute breaks up. His fiancée is said to have been unfaithful during his 4-week absence on official business. The fabricated rumors allege an affair between Traute and Oberleutnant Grobitzsch.

Short comedy vehicle for performer Petrolini, about a blind man who sings in the streets and courtyards of Rome and who tries to score a kiss as a favor from a woman whose beauty he can only sense, not actually see.

On the proletarian solidarity of the French navy with the revolutionary people of Russia. The action takes place in the early years of Soviet power in the coastal city of Russia. The French cruiser Mirabeau threatens the city from the sea.

Michael saves his little girlfriend from drowning. He wants to marry his childhood friend.

A carpenter who specializes in building outhouses becomes successful, but then things take a turn for the worse when his name becomes synonymous with "toilet".

An Old Flame is a 1930 Krazy Kat short directed by Manny Gould and Ben Harrison. Lost Cartoon

The second entry in the Believe It or Not series of shorts begins with Robert Ripley in his office sorting his mail. At the time he received about one million pieces of mail per year, more than any other individual. He shows the audience several of the more oddly addressed envelopes. These include one addressed in Morse code; one in Hebrew, one using the naval flag code; and one with a small tear to the left of a picture of Robert E. Lee (i.e., "Rip + Lee" = Ripley). A U.S. marshal then enters the office and arrests Ripley. Vitaphone No. 1038.

An irascible retired old lawyer exposes a diamond thief.

One of Carlos Gardel's singing short films.