Cinematic Era: 1930 Vintage

A silent short film from artist Adaline Kent with moments captured from her wedding to Robert Boardman Howard and their subsequent honeymoon.

A clown of the street falls in love with a girl with tuberculosis, and, trying to find a way to cure her, he takes her to a monastery. The clown returns to the street performances with the dream of meeting with the girl again.

Con artists try to trick an old man out of his life savings.

Bingo, a cartoon dog, breaks out of prison.

One of the first sound films in Philippine cinema, achieved by etching a soundtrack on phonograph records and synchronizing with projected film.

A motorized trip through the Sahara desert.

Two golf pros challenge Andy and Marjorie to a game.

Ethnological documentary about the life in a remote village in Togo.

A Austrian propaganda film by the Social Democrats for the general election on 9 November 1930's.

At the request of a television experimenter who needed items to broadcast, Robert L. Ripley states unsubstantiated oddities including that a Spanish lady had her husband's portrait tattooed on her tongue as penance for nagging him to death. He also shows a house and the blind man who built it by himself in Wayne, New Jersey. The longest word in the world (184 letters, from a work by Aristophanes), is written on a blackboard and pronounced and translated by a professor....

Ina Bourskaya and Giovanni Martinelli in "The Temple" scene from Verdi's opera Aida. Made by The Vitaphone Corporation.

Traffic on a summer night on the roads of southern Finland, the highways are dusty, the convoys of cars are advancing towards Helsinki, handkerchiefs are flashing on the roadsides. Special trains arrive from the provinces at the Helsinki goods station. The Lotats are feeding the marchers with the help of sopa cannons. Organization on the football field, and then the march begins. A celebration at Senate Square and its highlight, a speech by farmer Vihtori Kosola to the 12,000 participants of the peasant march in front of the president, the government, Mannerheim and the top leadership of the army.

A young woman, the daughter of a farmhand, is in love with the farmer's son, a young student living in the capital who has no good intentions toward her. Carrapiche, a modest and crippled young man, is also in love with the girl, but he knows of the other's bad intentions.

Lost Dora Film production based on the hagiographical tale of Saint Pellegrino

A 1930 documentary short film.

Film about Ghost-Cat.

Adaptation of Teschner's own puppet theater performance of the same name.

The young front-line soldier Ando, who has just returned from World War I to his native village, inspires his villagers to fight against "class enemies."

A short film about microphotography and photomicroscopy showing the life and reproduction of single cell organisms, plants, and lower animals.

Henry Santry's band is comprised of self-proclaimed soldiers of fortune. Within their concert set includes the opening declaration of them being soldiers of fortune, Henry serenading a dancing girl he who wants a girl like her, Private Bell looking for a girl he could love tonight, a nimble female dancer performing a comic routine, and a friendly battle between the various instruments in the band.

The phenomenon of radio is hot, and everyone is listening, including an overambitious goldfish, a lazy spider and three terrified mouse-children.

When his mother is attacked and killed by a lion, infant boy Boru is adopted by a passing tribe and raised by the tribe's chief.

Goran and Kosan compete for the love of the beautiful peasant girl Lina. The more virtuous of two wins her heart.

'A silly ass deputises as pianist for a singer.' (British Film Institute)

Recreational activities, family, fashion shows, and swimming – plus nature footage and dance: short two-colour films (red/green) made by Sirius Kleuren Film Maatschappij, Utrecht, and its Berlin branch, Sirius Farben-Film-Gesellschaft.

British documentary.

A French documentary short.

A documentary on a neighborhood shouldn't limit itself to the coldness of the houses; but reveal the human realism of its life, with all its defects and virtues.

A Screen Song of the old standard.

Jazz session by a small group of musicians.

In 1430, Philip the Good founded the Order of the Golden Fleece, a prestigious order of knighthood, to celebrate his marriage to Isabella of Portugal and to boost his political power. Filmmakers Buyse and De Craeke built a story around this history, shooting parts of it in Bruges and around Tillegem Castle. They also managed to capture footage of the unique Golden Fleece procession, which marched through Bruges on July 13 and August 17, 1930, to mark the centenary of Belgian independence.

Lowieke is the clever accomplice of cooper Jef Van Vaten, who is being pursued by 'the Jew' Schraepmans over an outstanding (falsified) debt. Lowieke is able to help his boss by putting on a travesty act together with Jan Dop, misleading Schraepmans, and conning him out of a sum of money. This money is then handed over to the unsuspecting Van Vaten, allowing him to settle his debt with Schraepmans.

A film by Eiichi Koichi depicting peasant uprisings.

After running away from home and going to the big city, Eufêmia, a young girl, meets a scoundrel, who pretends to be good to her and gets her a job in a cabaret.

Agricultural machinery is being unloaded from a ship at the Batumi port. The chairman of the collective farm asks the loaders to unload them first, due to the need to carry out work in the countryside on time. The loaders demand additional pay. Angered by the behavior of their senior comrades, the Komsomol members, led by Beso, unload the machinery themselves. After that, the old loader, Sergo, becomes angry with Beso. His daughter Kato marries Beso against her father's will. But Beso, like Sergo, forbids Kato from getting involved in public life. He only wants his wife as a domestic servant. Kato returns to his father with his son. Meanwhile, there are changes at the port. Due to mechanization, the loaders' work is significantly lighter. Sergo reconciles with Beso. The young people also reconcile. Kato starts working at a public canteen.

Propaganda of child rearing in a nursery. Olga, a drummer in the Komsomol brigade, is going to become a mother and is thinking about raising a child... The film is considered lost.

Film about the snow problems on the Bergen Railway and a bit about the work behind it to keep the line open in winter. From the most serious snow obstacles that have occurred on the Bergen Railway in the last ten years. The footage was taken around Finse station, of the station building in full storm while work is being done to clear the line of snow. The large "Roteren" enters the station after it has cut the track for the train waiting at the station. The "scraper" is a device that is pulled behind the locomotives to make the track wider.

This edited section of unreleased footage records an expedition in the forests of eastern Bolivia in 1928 made by Mamerto Urriolagoitia, Alejandro Siemal, Julian Duguid, and cameraman JC Bee-Mason.

In 1897, an expedition led by the engineer S. A. Andrée attempted to travel across the Arctic with the hydrogen balloon Örnen. Andrée and the other participants, Knut Frænkel and Nils Strindberg, perished during the expedition and their bodies were only found in 1930 on Vitön. This film shows when the gunboat 'Svensksund' brings the bodies home to Stockholm.

Sound film with Karl Gerhard and music by Jules Sylvain.

A woman feels sad when she hears her boyfriend singing a duet on the radio with another woman. She decides to prank him with a staged suicide attempt that he quickly uncovers.

A Secrets of Nature short.

A young woman, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, and the young Rodolfo de Carvalho love each other intensely. The couple, along with other prominent figures in the Recife society, meet at the night gatherings of the Pernambuco Club. One night, a fierce fight breaks out between Rodolfo and a rival. Later, Rodolfo is wrongly convicted of a crime and is sentenced to serve time in Fernando de Noronha. However, he escapes from prison determined to seek revenge.

Based on Nikolai Lovtsov's story "The Contraband Trust". About events in the village of gold hunters in the Far East. The action takes place in 1923.

The film was supposed to be the first Greek-American movie, recounting a love story in Athens and America. Instead, it was an American film, enriched with minimal Greek scenes.

About the sufferings of the disabled, in a tone of intense social criticism.

Marionette parody of Cherry Kearton.

'Sing-song in village inn: The Barley Mow; London; Jolity Farm.' (British Film Catalogue)

One of the oldest preserved sound film recordings shot in Croatia is a short speech by Ban of the Sava Banovina Josip Šilović.

An educational film about tuberculosis, produced by the School of Public Health "Andrija Štampar".