Cinematic Era: 1931 Vintage

Industrial or sponsored film made about, and presumably by, the Elgin National Watch Company.

A group of Joe Penner's relatives get together to fix up a house for a pair of newlyweds. Coordination and planning is not the order of the day, so they eventually end up completely wrecking the house.

The innkeeper Schultze and his wife are broke and don't know how to pay their rent when a shipwrecked sailor shows up with a chest full of money. In despair the Schultze couple murders the sailor.

A Japanese legend about a fisherman who rescues a turtle and is rewarded for this with a visit to Ryūgū-jō, the palace of Ryūjin, the Dragon God, under the sea.

Atmospheric images of Vlissingen.

An itinerant medicine salesman sells joy in bottles with the aid of his band.

Marshal Jack is sent, undercover, into the bad lands to clean up a gang of Indians who have been terrorizing the local ranchers. Horses belonging to a ranch owner are stolen and the horse which was supposed to be in an endurance race is maimed. Jack is blamed for both deeds. He acquits himself and wins the race for The Colonel, after disclosing that the supposed band of Indians are a pack of white smugglers led by the ranch foreman.

Krazy Kat is playing a viola (and doing so badly) as the short opens. He's playing so poorly that all the musical instruments behind him razz him about his playing and his viola finally stops his playing.

The scientific theory of evolution is explained by Smith College Professor H.M. Parshley and famed attorney Clarence Darrow.

It's a shotgun wedding, a big boy fly to a little girl fly, with her bearded dad holding the shotgun. A wedding party ensues, with an energetic hoe-down involving lots of dancing and playing insects. The preacher-bug gorges himself on cake. The ball bounces over a live field of tall grass. A boy and girl bug smooch in the middle of a sunflower.

Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son.

A Max & Dave Fleischer cartoon from 1931. Bimbo climbs a beanstalk to find Betty Boop enslaved by the giant.

A young bachelor gets drunk on the eve of his wedding - and marries a dancer.

German-language version of "The Big House" (MGM, 1930), with Heinrich George in Wallace Beery's role, filmed by MGM parallel to the English-speaking version, at a time when good subtitles weren't yet in use.

Amateur travelogue of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.

Olivia and Charles Dangerfield are forced to rent their home to the newly rich widow, Mrs Falkner.

After the matriarch dies, an Italian immigrant family in America disintegrates. The son tries to steal their money, and the father yearns to return to a less stressful existence back in Naples.

Chester Conklin gets a job in the props department of a movie studio. Soon he gets into all sorts of trouble.

A Princess is tricked into marrying a naive and illiterate youth.

Alternate-language version of Rough Seas (1931)

Bimbo as a bullfighter.

Fleischer Studios giving "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" the bouncing ball 'Screen Song' treatment.

Propaganda - advertising. Animated titles spelling out the message - "Australian wines:- In the sunlit vineyards of Australia grow luscious grapes for wines, pressed and bottled into sweet, dry, or sparkling vintages. Stock your cellar with Australian wines because they are cheaper and best".

An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.

Japanese silent film from 1931.

From the Roman ruins to the Rows. Was King Harold smuggled up here to die after the Battle of Hastings? Did King Edgar build a palace here in the 10th century?

Fired from his job as office boy, Torchy gets involved with a phony gold mine promoter.

A musical film directed by Geoffrey Benstead

Anselmo works as the patron of a ranch and he is dating Elvira. One day, a visiting businessman from the city hears her sing and offers her a contract to work in Buenos Aires. She accepts and Anselmo is heartbroken.

Marty Monk and his Concert plays instruments then Marty meets a Girl Monkey named "Stacy" and Then they do a Water Competition

A man and a woman climb a ramp where they find two cars, which they will use to do somersaults.

A young woman accidentally becomes a movie star.

A thousand-franc bill passes from the pocket of an old rentier into the purse of an obscure star, then into the hand of a gigolo, back to its first owner, back to the star and ends its round in a dustbin, scorned by a beggar.

At a big party, Robert Felton, now a woman-hater, right to the core - this all due to a failed marriage and disastrous love affairs - talks to Heriberto Drake. Heriberto who is happily married, bets Felton that the next woman who walks into the room, whoever she is, won't let Felton kiss her for 48 hours. Felton takes the bet. Suddenly, a very beautiful and sexy woman walks in. It's Heriberto's wife, Laura Darke. Spanish language version of “Don’t Bet on Women”.

Billy Dooley is a suspicious husband who, as a private detective, takes a job from a woman who thinks her husband is running around with another woman. The latter is actually Billy's wife, who is buying a car from the man as a present for Billy. But Billy doesn't know that.

This Dogville short takes place at an outpost in the Dogville Foreign Legion. As the story opens, the soldiers watch a newsreel, which includes the opera singer Galli Cur (a spoof of Amelita Galli-Curci) sing an aria. After the show, they go to the local bar and tell each other the stories behind the reason they joined the legion. All the stories are about how women did them wrong in one way or another. They all agree that they are fed up with women, until a certain visitor shows up.

In Singapore , an English lady kills her lover, a fellow countryman, with a revolver out of jealousy towards a Chinese girl.

The story recounts the murder of an itinerant Jew (Jules Maurice)by the village Burgomaster (Harry Baur.) Years go by and Baur's crime does not weigh heavily on his conscience. But at a banquet one night, the subject of the killing comes up and he faints, and is haunted from that point onward by the vision of the man he killed and the sound of the sleigh bells that first accompanied the victim's arrival in the village. And, to complicate matters for Baur, the son of the victim arrives, and proceeds to fall in love with Baur's daughter.

Like most Fleischer cartoons from the early '30s, there are lots of stream-of-conscious gags here. They are related by Bimbo's adventures as a mailman.

Very early animated short from Japan featuring a cast of anthropomorphic animals.

Lost Japanese silent film from 1931.

Stars of Yesterday documentary film.

Made during the rapid industrialisation and collectivisation of Stalin’s Five-Year Plan. Kaufman countered the poverty of the villages with the geometrical rhythm of mechanised factories; militarisation is shown as the next step of the ‘unprecedented campaign’. "The proletariat, having become master of one sixth of the globe, frees the rural working people from the kulak oppression… THE PROLETARIAT …engages the peasantry in a joint campaign for Socialism. This is what the film speaks about".

Postman Brabec is a welcome guest of the revue theatre for his sense of humor, and he brings his director Holt letters from female admirers every day. Holt's fans include Brabec's sister Anny. The girl would like to join the theatre, but for the time being works as a maid for the actress Velden. A new revue is being rehearsed, the name of the author is secret. Veldenová will return the role just before the premiere because she doesn't like it. The quick-witted Brabec introduces the director to his sister, who knows all the parts by heart.

Young Scrappy tries to impress a girl by smoking a cigar made out of cabbage, but he only succeeds in accidentally swallowing the cigar and setting her panties on fire.

A mythological sound hit. A cosmic battle between gods and demons reaches stalemate when the sage Shukracharya (Adajania) instantly restores every fallen demon to life. The god Indra (Baburao), on advice from Brahaspati (Vyas), sends Kacha (Bhagwandas) to the sage to learn his magic secret. Shukracharya's daughter, Devayani (Gohar) likes Kacha and the latter is accepted as the sage's disciple. The demon Vrisha Parva (Thatte) tries to kill Kacha but the youth is rescued by Devayani until the demons succeed in dissolving Kacha's body in alcohol and make Shukracharya drink the brew. Shukracharya then teaches Kacha the secret chant so that when he dies and Kacha emerges from his stomach, Kacha may bring him back to life again. Kacha's duties now conflict with a love-triangle, as Devayani marries Yayati who lives Sharmistha (Kamala).

A Terrytoons cartoon released February 8, 1931.

Celebration of the Relief of Leiden on October 3rd with parades, street performers, a fair, and music. Herring with white bread is for sale at many stalls. Authorities watch the parades on the streets and on the water. Music band playing. Students applaud along the parade route for their society Minerva, for the floats. Operators film the festivities. Film posters. Overview of the fair.

A rich man's son has lived a dissipated life and has joined a circus where he shares the courageous and perilous lives of its artists. He falls in love with a young dancer and is loved in return by her. But their passion goes through many vicissitudes.

A compilation film produced by the American Museum of Natural History with footage from six major expeditions of the 20th-Century: the Stoll-McCracken Siberian Arctic expedition, for the American Museum of Natural History, on the schooner Effie M. Morrissey; the exploration of Borneo and Bali by Gene Lamb; an African expedition by James L. Clark, vice-director of the American Museum of Natural History; the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition under the guidance of Lieutenant Commander J. R. Stenhouse that made it to the Ross Sea; footage from the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, shot by Dr. Laurence E. Gould, geologist and second-in-command; and footage from the Tarlano Ethnological Expedition of the Amazon River by Harold Noice.

Al St. John is almost discouraged from marrying Aileen Cook, when her family turns out to be a bunch of noisy circus performers. At the wedding, even the minister joins the act, and barely has time to complete the ceremony.