1930 Movies

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

Another sing-a-long Fleischer cartoon, this time starring Rudy Vallee

The Fowler Studio Varieties shorts were a series of one-reel musical shorts shot in Los Angeles that featured vaudeville acts and musical artists.

One Kuleshov film that might be of great interest to scholars is The Breakthrough (Proryv, 1930). It was made in 48 hours. Naturally, such an unusual...

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

President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge visit Jack L. Warner and Mary Pickford in Hollywood; various players are glimpsed at work on the Columbia lot; star...

Farmer/Captain Alfalfa on a ship with his animals.

Ted is riding for Pa Martin against Cooper in the big race. When Cooper has his men capture Ted, Peggy overhears them and sets out to free Ted in time...

An Italian immigrant discovers his wife is a hootchy-kootchy dancer. Later, the audience is invited to follow the bouncing ball and sing along to "Mar...

Terrytoons animated short film directed by Frank Moser

A commissioned film for Schweizerischer Werkbund (SWB),Die neue Wohnung was produced for the Basel architectural and interior design exhibition, WOBA...

Documentary shot on the Faroe Islands

An elderly survivor of World War 1 is fed up with the situation in Germany so he tries to take it down. But he can't do it alone.

Silent animation of the classical story.

Jack King plays the piano and also asks some questions. Josephine Harmon goes through some songs and quips with vocal harmonizing.

A documentary record of a large convoy of Škoda tractors travelling from Plzeň to Prague for the 1930 agricultural exhibition, capturing their arrival...

The film camera is used to great effect here to trick and treat its audience, injecting fun into the otherwise mundane London commute, slum demolition...

Waffles the Cat and Don Dog set out on an adventure to find the North Pole.

A cave man gets up in the morning to walk around hitting things with his club. After knocking a huge dinosaur out cold, he uses the stiff dino's body...