1915 Matches Found
'The Glanhowy Singers perform several Irish songs to a backdrop of Irish country scenes and images. Songs include: Young May Noon, The Harp that Once Thro' Tara's Halls, Cruiskeen Lawn, Celtic Lament, Killarney, The Minstrel Boy.' (British Film Institute)
Expeditions in the Western Canadian Arctic
A comedy film directed by Harry Revier.
The Duc de Latour-Maubert falls in love with an intriguer when he had better think about the business of the ruined family, by marrying a rich American!
'Rich man suspects wife loves poet.' (British Film Catalogue)
Egyptian film directed by Muhammad Karim.
A Traveltalk visit to Portugal's autonomous island group in the Atlantic Ocean. We learn that many of the things associated with the islands were actually instituted by British explorers who visited the island several hundred years before the Portuguese. This includes embroidered fabrics, wicker chairs, and the islands' world famous wine.
A carnival barker convinces a rube to take part in the baseball pitching game.
A young inventor has constructed a television set. His landlady has become very skeptical of both him and his invention, perhaps mainly due to the fact that he is constantly broke and hasn't paid the rent in months. Adding to the irritation is that the hostess's daughter loves the young man and is trying to convince her employer, the director, to finance the whole thing. The director wants both her and the television set, but his evil investment doesn't come to fruition thanks to the latter.
A Jose Nepomuceno Creation Real Moro Actors and Thousands of Extras
A 1931 silent melodrama, completely pro-military, filmed in real locations, with actors mixed in with sailors. The mere fact that it documented the army, which at the time ruled Argentina, being its first military coup, gives the film an even more cinematic value.
Ronny is a young designer on her way to the capital of the Ruritanian Kingdom of Perusa with the costumes she has created for the operetta written by the Prince. On her journey, she meets the prince and is persuaded to take the place of the star who had just walked out. The prince falls for Ronny but how can he marry a commoner?
This short entry in Ted Husing's "Sport Slants" series covers fencing, track and field, and rowing. Vitaphone Release 1264.
A wealthy, beautiful, and divorced countess pretends to be a laborer in front of a conservatory student, who pretends to her that he is the lord of the castle. However, he is the nephew of countess' own castle manager.
A short series of vignettes synchronized to Mendelssohn's "Spring Song" from animator Cy Young (here credited as "Sy Young").
On a cloud, the storks that deliver babies also manufacture them with a machine. We see it stamp out several. The noon whistle sounds in the dispatch room, and only clerk Krazy is still on duty when a rush job is ordered.
An idealistic youth finds sincere love after having been toyed with by several frivolous women who were not serious.
This film, recovered in 2022, captures the first visit of Paraguayan schoolchildren from the Artigas School in Asunción to Uruguay in December 1930.
A demobilized Red Army soldier from Gogoturi encourages his fellow villagers to join the neighboring agricultural commune. Village representatives claim the superiority of collective farming, but are opposed by rich local peasants. They decide to exterminate their fellow villagers who preach the new cause, but in the mountain where the kulaks gather to plan their evil plans, an avalanche descends and sweeps them into the abyss.
A Terrytoons cartoon released 22 February 1931.
Follow-up to "What Made Her Do It?"
A Terrytoons short.
A short documentary about Thailand, formerly known as Siam.
Early sound film documentary about the Utterström brothers' expedition in British Columbia, Canada. In search of grizzly bears, the brothers meet a number of other animals that they film and shoot.
A story set during the peasant uprising of 1923 in Bulgaria.
A Terrytoons cartoon released 11 January 1931.
14-15 year old orphan girl Tanya works as a domestic servant for a kulak. Her hard work is witnessed by pioneers who are camping near the kulak's house. They advise Tanya to join the pioneer squad, but before being accepted into the pioneer ranks, they give her a task: Tanya must deliver a package to the pioneer camp. After many fathers, Tanya reaches her destination safely. She is solemnly accepted into the pioneer ranks.
A Secrets of Nature short.
Karl Dane's restaurant patron and George K. Arthur's waiter drunkenly trade places.
At one of those typical movie colleges where there are no classes, the co-eds are parading around in their bathing suits, while the freshmen and sophmores concentrate on higher things, like the motorboat race. So fierce is their rivalry that dean Jack Duffy decrees that the winner of the race and his classmates get to go to the dance, while the losers are barred. To prevent Carlyle Moore Jr. From winning, the sophmores force him to torment beat cop Vernon Dent and get thrown in jail. Will their perfidy prevail, and 30-year-old student Vera Steadman have to dance with a sophmore?
A woman, who already has a lover, is forced to marry someone else. Tragedy then piles up when the husband has an affair, their baby dies and her former lover goes to prison. The woman falls ill due to her suffering and yearning for her former lover. When she is about to die, the lover that she has been longing for appears. This gripping moment is interrupted by jokes made by Oemar, the comedian. The woman's illness is cured when she hears actor M.S. Ferry sing keroncong songs. The film ends with a scene of Oemar courting the maid on top of a rubber tree.
Errant Husbands (German: Kyritz - Pyritz) is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Carl Heinz Wolff and starring Max Adalbert, Hansi Arnstaedt and Henry Bender.
"The fate of a beautiful woman" tells a story of Erika Dankwarth that reflects herself in a multitude of men.
The film tells the story of the removal of Laguna in the Paraguayan War. The nonlinear storyline starts showing the military visiting the graveyard of heroes of the battle. Then, a flashback shows the hardships they have endured Brazilian forces that strategic withdrawal. It is the first film entirely national historical reenactment with sound in Brazil.
Flip is a jail warden who has to deal with an escaped convict. Working with his horse, who seems almost as intelligent as he is, it has some amazing moments. Look in the background for two goats playing horseshoes, using their wooden legs as the pegs- not quite politically correct today. It even includes a scene where the convict is hiding as a store dummy, a routine lifted from Buster Keaton, and later used by the Three Stooges, although not quite as "rubbery" as Flip does it.
A painter lives with his patron (soon to be lover) in her fairytale-like Château. But it's 1914, and duty calls. Jacques becomes a hero, and gets married with another girl ,Louise Liègeois; his former mistress is not prepared to accept it and interferes in the couple's life, demanding a portrait of her as a Valkyrie.
A moving anti-war drama in which a father explains the futility of war to his young son. The film includes flashbacks from the father’s own nightmare experiences alongside documentary footage from Verdun, Arras and Ypres with the message that War is not a glorious adventure but ‘“a hideous ugly thing, involving sacrifices on the part of the finest manhood of every combatant nation”.
Svengarlic is a short animated film distributed by Columbia Pictures, and one of the many cartoons featuring the comic strip character Krazy Kat.
During the Great War, Bosko and a fearsome beast are in a dogfight. Bosko loses, but that's only the first battle.
Spanish-language version of Pardon Us (1931)
A propaganda film shown at New Party political meetings.
A silent short with Albert Einstein and his wife
Love triangle in an acrobatic trapeze act results in a missed catch and a death, but was it on purpose?
Three distinct segments: 1) A dog is taking a music lesson from a lion when a mouse starts playing as well. 2) The "Bouncing Ball" segment, consisting of the words to the title song. 3) Some kooky animation of an "Instrument Orchestra," in which the instruments are playing themselves, and a whole cast of animals march to the last chorus.
Jean Larivière receives an impromptu visit from his future father-in-law while Lina, his mistress, learning of his marriage, has come to make a scene. The baron is seduced by Lina, and Jean, noticing that Angélique, his fiancée, is not so bad after all, is very happy to marry her.
Ted Husing visits various branches of athletics: Frank Judson and Clevio Massimo show off their wrestling moves; Lester Patrick coaches the New York Rangers during hockey practice; gymnasts Al Jochim and Adelaide Meyers practice their moves; and Buck Freeman coaches the St. John's College men's basketball team during practice.
In this one, Oswald, his girlfriend Kitty, and Pete are working on a farm.
The film is dedicated to eradicating illiteracy in rural areas. Urban pioneers teach rural people to read and write.
Heinrich Hauser, born 1901 in Prussia, filmed Chicago long before Hollywood discovered the authentic showplace. He went there at the height of the Great Depression, in 1931. It was only him and his camera. He manages without stars. He is not interested in the world of make-believe: no impressionist images, no experimental city poem, no travelogue or image film, no posed footage, certainly not one of the usual culture fi lms. The city was all that counted: the Naked City and the people living here. Hauser was obliged to Neue Sachlichkeit: New Objectivity – and to his aspirations and ambition as an artist.
In 1932 Hammid bought a handheld camera Bell-Howell and made his second film, Na Pražském hradě [Prague Castle], in close collaboration with the composer of the sound track, striving for an organic intertwining of image and music.
Franka, a Warsaw prostitute, is wounded with a knife by a pimp. She ends up in the hospital, where the doctor caring for her, who wants to help her break with her past, offers her a job as a maid in the countryside. Desiring to forget the torments of her past life, the girl agrees. In the countryside she meets Pawel, a simple country boy whom she seduces. The infatuated Pawel, to whom Franka reveals her past, marries her. However, the monotonous rural life bores Franka, longing for a big-city life, and when Pawel leaves for a few days, she escapes with a man she meets casually to Warsaw, where she leads the life of a cabaret chansonist. After a few years she returns, bringing with her an illegitimate child. Pawel forgives her and takes her back under his roof. But this is not the end of Pawel's ordeal....