Cinematic Era: 1931 Vintage

A woman is packing her kids and belongings for a trip to the country. Dad will miss her it seems, but once they are gone Dad goes crazy partying.

The film mocks the stereotypical image of Caucasians and Georgians. False representations of the Caucasus are satirized: Kakhuri wine flows like a spring on a narrow street of Tbilisi, which is drunk with wine glasses; Barbers shave their clients with a dagger, and if something offends them, they cut them with the same dagger; And A dancing Georgian woman dancing is observing all these without any emotion.

The plot centers on Ignaz Fischbein, a bullied employee at Strohbach's fashion house, who encounters misfortune at a fairground where he quarrels with Mizzi, who is awaiting her fiancé. A hypnotist named Brahmaputra, played by Albert Paulig, places the pair in a trance for his audience's amusement, causing them to believe they are a newlywed couple. Unable to reverse the hypnosis immediately, Ignaz and Mizzi head to the "Villa Waldfrieden" pension, where chaotic interactions unfold involving Strohbach, Mizzi's jealous fiancé Paul Kasulke (Paul Westermeier), and a retired Russian anarchist (Karl Huszar-Puffy)

John Moon is a businessman interested in ghosts. He decides to spend the night in a barn hoping to see the ghost of the bushranger Sturdy who died there when betrayed to the police by his friend Rogan.

This is the story of the unhappy maid Lena, who falls in love with the furniture mover Franz. But Franz' former girlfriend Karla is jealous of Lena and starts an intrigue against the couple, suggesting that Franz would leave Lena because of her poverty and shabby clothes. So Lena steals a ring and brings it to the pawnshop in order to get some money to buy something more attractive.

Short film about cheap housing

Simon the Monk(ey) terrorizes a weird-looking dog, which plays the part of his slave - takes any order from the “master” and gets beaten from time to time. They run through the jungle, meet a monkey-jazz-band, then escape from a tiger and nothing really happens...

Pepper the Pup must fight the villain for his girl in this stop motion film.

A fighter goes to great lengths to defeat the terrible champion, all to win the love of the businessman's gallant daughter.

Two young workmen's teams are finishing a newly completed oil pipeline. A defect is discovered, which is blamed on one of the team members, Lado, and he is taken to the blacksmith shop. There is another socialist competition between the teams. A machine tool part suddenly goes missing from the first team, which will disrupt the entire work. The head of the second team is accused of stealing the part, but it soon turns out that he stole it from Lado in order to take revenge. At the general meeting, they demand Lado's dismissal, but the young worker's foreman intervenes and, at his request, Lado remains in the factory. The teams involved in the competition complete the plan ahead of schedule, their pictures are posted on the red board.

Snowy landscape; children playing at the table; a woman brings cookies and drinks; woman tells the story of St. Nicholas; St. Nicholas with his rod in the snow, frightened children in bed; St. Nicholas and Christmas customs: lighting fires, torches, and making noise; December 21 is the winter solstice; driving away evil spirits and goblins before Christmas; pagan origins of the Christmas tree; gift-giving, children find toys under the tree; Christmas story in brief; sleeping children's faces; Christmas tree with decorations.

During harsh winter, two sweethearts dream about moving to the city to look for an easier job, and get away from a poor rural life.

Based on a hit song by child star Hideko Hirai from 1929, this gem -- a real historical curiosity -- provides glimpses of 1930s popular culture through introducing the typical life of a bright, energetic young girl. It contains an early product placement (for Lion Toothpaste), educational content and newsreel footage of Japan’s first woman Olympic medalist, Kinue Hitomi.

After some slapstick mountain climbing, the title song is sung with the Bouncing Ball, then spoofed with humorous images. All animated.

Arrival in the Bronx is shown with a view from an elevated train as it enters the city. Then follows a montage of sights from the Bronx. Many typical neighborhood activities are shown, along with scenes from many local businesses.

The courtship rituals of animals and plants are compared to those of contemporary society, with educational and frequently humorous results.

"Promotional material for the lost film 'Coisas Nossas' (Our Things), one of the first sound films in Brazil, considered by researchers like Suzana Reck Miranda to be 'the first Brazilian feature film 'entirely synchronized' using the Vitaphone system to contain not only music, but also voices and noises.' The promotional material shows behind-the-scenes footage of the recording and synchronization process of the discs with the film. The preparations for the spectacular sound cinema. Artists and technicians in action behind the scenes of a Brazilian production, sung and spoken in Portuguese. The recording of the sound on the 'Columbia' discs, the projection on the 'Fonocinex' equipment and, finally, synchronized image and sound in the cinema." (Brazilian Cinematheque)

Another entry in Robert L. Ripley's series. This time we also get to see Dan Edwards, the most decorated U.S. Veteran who is also missing a hand. For some reason we are introduced to another man missing a hand and then Ripley gets into the "believe it or not" stories. Included here is a woman married twelve times before her sixteenth birthday, a King who was married to a woman for twenty-eight years and only saw her twice; once when they were married and the other when she died.

A travelogue with focus Haiti.

Carmen, a poor and beautiful woman, lives in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro. All men desire her, including her stepfather, but she only has eyes for her boyfriend, Milton. After being expelled from home, she finds out her lover is married. Unhappy with her life, she finds a place in a boarding house and tries to find a job, with no success. Tired and starving, she ends up passing out in the street, being helped by a passer-by, who leaves her at writer Flávio Martins's house, a man torn between the proposal of an arranged marriage, an old flame, and the new guest.

Lucien asks his father for money to support his girlfriend. The father refuses. Lucien's GodMother is found dead.

How To Tell was produced to advise parents on how to equip their children with the truth about reproduction, without the worry of putting the family off their dinner. The title cards encourage parents to explain the process openly and scientifically by reinforcing the school's biology lessons with the assistance of plants and pet rabbits.

An engineer steals the the sketches of a new device from a worker.

The labor movement's emerging in Sweden. Welfare evolving. A young couple rents a modern apartment.

Leon lives with Gaby. One of their friends, Xavier, is determined to kill himself. But Leon will inherit several millions if he marries a widow, so he gives Gaby in marriage to Xavier.

Bouboule, a shoeshine boy at a Parisian train station, is about to discover a revolutionary shoe polish. Unfortunately, due to a series of misunderstandings, he loses his job. But at the same time, he wins a fabulous sum in the lottery. From then on, shoe polish is back in the spotlight…

A Toby the Pup short.

A mountain railroad is to be built in a previously untouched mountain region in the Alps, bringing tourists and big money with them. But an accident occurs during the construction of the cable car.

Goffredo Alessandrini bridges four Disney cartoons (Mickey's Picnic, The Cactus Kid, The Gorilla Mystery, and The Fire Fighters) with live action comedy sequences featuring performers in character costume.

Explorer Edward Salisbury takes an expedition across the Pacific Ocean to such exotic locales as Fiji, Samoa, Papua New Guinea and the New Hebrides Islands, and record the lives of the various natives they encounter there.

The film tells the story of how the participants of Alexander Litvinov's film expedition spent a year and a half in Kamchatka, covered about 8,000 kilometers along a difficult route and captured the unique way of life of the indigenous population and the life of the new, Soviet Kamchatka.

Devon fisherman loves girl but marries injured sister.

Traveling to North Africa, Ripley offers views of The Meeting Place of the Dead in Morocco, a jail for nagging wives, a village with houses made of tin cans, and a sultan with many wives and children.

In this entry, passengers enter a mockup of an airplane. During the flight, Robert Ripley shows the "passengers" several oddities across the United States. They include the town with the smallest population (of one) in the 1930 census, a father and son who can rest their shoulders on their chest, and an armless trombone player who uses his foot to move the instrument's slide.

Ripley shows a chair of growing trees, the narrowest street in the world, a city of wine cask dwellers and a bungalow of 144 rooms.

Ripley shows unusual athletic feats, a boy born with "clock" eyes, and a blind French monk who invented navigation laws.

Fox Movietone newsreel featuring the first ever sound film footage of 'Mahatma Gandhi' ever recorded.

Veteran vaudevillian regales the audience with highlights from his comedy travel monologue and introduces "His Modern Art Choir," A Russian group he met while traveling in the Soviet Union who sing a traditional Russian song and an American standard.

How do you preserve part of the heritage sung in cafés where singers entertain customers? By bringing them to the screen of course! And here’s how La boiteuse du regiment, La femme du roulier and Tout l’pays l’a su, famous songs from the popular French repertoire are to be found at the cinema on film and set to music. La boiteuse du régiment belongs to barrack-room comedy where a soldier pines for a beautiful lame woman who prefers to visit the officers rather than the soldiers, the la femme du roulier is desperately looking for the latter in all of the town’s taverns; in tout l’pays l’a su you have a whole village gossiping, always on the lookout for spicy, malicious bits of gossip.

Mystery short by William J Burns

From the Melody Masters short series (1931-1932 Season).

This Spanish lost film showed various episodes where several Spanish try to achieve their dream about going to Hollywood.

German language version of The Virtuous Sin (1930).

A young inventor who has developed a television set falls in love. Early sound version of this film made in various languages (a not uncommon practice at the time) by Paramount Pictures , all now apparently lost.

Ramon Novarro starred and directed this French remake of Call of the Flesh as he studios feared subtitles and dubbing techniques were primitive at the time. A student nun falls in love with a singer performing in the cafe next door to her convent.

The son and a daughter from very conservative families fall in love and when their parents oppose their relationship, the two come up with a scheme. The girl dies and her ghost appears in front of each family every night to beg for their parents' consents for their marriage. Frightened senseless, the parents decide to marry the son and the deceased daughter's ghost. On the day of the meeting, the numerous guests seem uneasy. But the bride who steps down the aisle is not a ghost - their daughter is still alive.

This anime shows a mission commanded by the Lord of the Rats to bring food, but a cat is watching the mice, so the Lord of the Rats orders them to kill the Cat so that the mission is successful.