Cinematic Era: 1931 Vintage

Some men go fishing

A dancer is jealous for her lover.

Norwegian film documentary from 1931. It begins with the ship "Stavangersfjord"'s arrival in Brooklyn, followed by scenes from different streets and neighborhoods, the Norwegian Consulate General and Consul General Wilhelm Thorleif von Munthe of Morgenstierne. Furthermore, the Holland Tunnel and chief engineer Singstad's home, and a number of Norwegian institutions. The Norwegian Seamen's Church and seamen's home. The Norwegian hospital, Norwegian newspapers and so on.

The story that resembles Romeo and Juliet takes place in West Sumatera. Norma's beauty has her known as Melati van Agam (the Jasmine of Agam). She falls in love with Idrus, and the feeling is mutual. Without any knowledge of the lovers, Norma’s parents accepts Nazarudin’s proposal for marriage. Nazarudin is a rich man. After she gets married, Norma is taken to Kota Raja (Banda Aceh). Sometime later, Idrus falls ill and passed away at Fort de Kock (Bukit Tinggi). But Nazarudin's suspicion does not end there. He alleges the baby that Norma is carrying is Idrus' child. This allegation makes Norma ashamed. She commits suicide and is laid to rest next to Idrus's grave.

A musical cartoon with a grandfather clock theme.

Rustic personality Trader Korn recounts his surreal adventures in darkest Africa, among the peculiar wildlife and the cannibals.

Silent. Charles and Eleanor wash their hair. Eleanor also washes her brushes and combs.

A Spanish Marquis tempts a young English wife he meets in Paris to come spend time with him in Spain while her husband is away. But her new lover is killed by the father of another young woman he has seduced.

Opens at the C. V. Whitney Farms (the future movie-producer) in the blue-grass area of Lexington, Kentucky and shows the new crop of colts that will be trained for horse racing. It then shows stock footage of some of the famed big-race winners of the past... Whichone, Upset, St. Germaine, others - and then cuts to the crowds in Louisville, Kentucky awaiting the annual running of the Kentucky Derby.

A story of three little bears going on an adventure to find the lost little duck.

Bimbo is out on the ocean, fishing in a lifeboat, when he catches a big one -- or it catches him and drags him down to the bottom of the ocean.

In Fischinger's study No. 7, the shapes of Study No. 6 move to the 5th Hungarian dance by Johannes Brahms.

Filmed by Ernesto Calvo.

Premiere March 23.

Filmed by Ernesto Calvo.

Reportage about the festivities that were held in connection with the 700th anniversary of the city of Harderwijk. On 9 September 1931, Prince Hendrik and the Minister of Defence L.N. Deckers visited the celebrating city of Harderwijk. We witness the historical parade, and see the locals who have dressed themselves up in historical clothing and costumes.

A film satire that exposes incompetence and bureaucracy. The plot revolves around the adventures of Ivan Ivanovich Duren, the head of a large construction project. The film is lost.

A young newlywed couple is having intercourse difficulties. They visit the doctors office and the doctor and office receptionist teach them about lovemaking.

WWI coverage showing French, Italian, Russian, English, and American troops in action. Emile Gauvreau and General John J. Bradley provide commentary.

Zezinho is a hillbilly soccer fan from the countryside. He's in love with a teacher and does everything he can to win her over, but nothing works. As a final plan, Zezinho pretends to be a great soccer champion.

With Bimbo- made for Texaco Motor Oil.

The film is a brief account of a very successful Italian aviation .

“Propaganda film outlining the achievements of the Weimar Republic” - BFI.

Buster Bear puts on a show.

Commercial featuring an animated Karl Gerhard.

A filmed adaptation of Through the Looking-Glass performed at the Kitsap Forest Theater in Washington.

A short from the Africa Laughs series.

Amateur film by German ethnographer, church historian, and icon collector Martin Winkler, taken on several trips to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s.

In the summer of 1931, Y. Dorosh shot the documentary ethnographic film "Rakovets" in the village of the same name.

This handsome local newsreel is an accomplished and charming record of Chertsey crowds gathering for the announcement of the 1931 election result - where National Government candidate Archibald Boyd-Carpenter wins a huge victory. With the occasion so well attended, it's no surprise that the camera focuses on the spectacle of the town's packed streets: almost every shot is crammed with local faces. The film was probably commissioned by local cinema director Clifford Spain, who produced and edited a number of local films to support his programmes at the Capitol cinema in Walton-on-Thames.

This fatal love story is about a girl, Giok Eng Tay and a young man, Nio Sam Pek. Eng Tay's father, Giok Kong Wan is an official whose position has led him to marry his daughter to Ma Bun Cai, the son of a rich regent. The romantic tie between Sam Pek and Eng Tay is severed. Then Sam Pek is abused by Kong Wan's men, and dies. On their way to Bun Cai's house, the bride's entourage makes a stopover at Sam Pek's grave. The grave suddenly opens, and Eng Tay jumps into Sam Pek's grave.

Oh Ay Cheng, who works on a plantation, has to turn away Marsiti, his faithful lover, for the sake of following his father’s command that he marries Gwat Nio, the daughter of his plantation boss. Marsiti herself persuades Ay Cheng to obey his father. Marsiti then leaves and passes away. Gwat Nio’s father reveals his secret; that Marsiti is his mistress's daughter. From Ay Cheng and Gwat Nio's marriage, Hoey Eng or Lily is born. She grows into a beautiful girl. She is engaged to Sim Bian Koen, the son of Tjikembang's plantation owner.

Black Saint, poor, healing simple people and others who traveled by car to their home in Coqueiros in 1931, rural area of João Ribeiro, former name of the city Entre Rios de Minas.

This silent film follows a freshman through the course of her first year at the college

This 10-minute short was produced by the Department of Water and Power, Los Angeles, CA. Basically what we have is a history lesson on everything to do with water. We learn how it comes from the clouds, what happens to the snow on the mountains, how streams keep flowing and other things including how it gets to the faucet for us to drink.

This Barnes Brothers film starts with a trio of young bandits, with false beards, boozing in a chalk cliff cave and sharpening knives. One of them emerges from the lair onto the beach where he sees a lone child whose mother has gone to fetch a book. After knocking the child out, he carries her back to the cave...

Four mischievous boys (a chimp, a bear cub, a wolf cub and a puppy) interrupt the lovemaking of a cat and his sweetheart.

Robert L. Ripley presents various oddities to members of the Believe-It-or-Not Club.

"A wag once labelled water as the stuff they put under bridges." L/S of a barge travelling under one of the London bridges. "To Eve, water brings up bright memories of beaches - and sunny days." M/S of woman in swimsuit and swimming hat posing by the edge of the sea. "But, water to a Chemist is just H2O." C/U of a chemist's bottle with an H2O label stuck on the side. "H2O means that water consists solely of 2 parts of hydrogen and 1 part of oxygen." Joe Noble dressed in a white lab coat measures out some liquid into a glass then pours it into a glass tube.

Elementary school-aged Bimbo is late to school, where he presents a note signed my father to his leonine bespectacled teacher.

Shoreline images: first small breakers and the swirls they leave, then water running up the shore on a sandy beech, then water hitting pebbles and rocks. The second half is a close look at a sluggish eddy of seaweed, moving to and fro on the surface, like sodden twigs. The ocean's tide creates patterns of small surges and circles. The music of the soundtrack is more dramatic than the more gentle movements of the seaweed. Final closeups show the bulbs and leaves of the plants, then the tide takes over.