1930 Movies

In this spoof of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," featuring cartoon animals, a slave auction becomes a musical audition, and the chase over the ice floes is an op...

Recreational activities, family, fashion shows, and swimming – plus nature footage and dance: short two-colour films (red/green) made by Sirius Kleure...

Scott Nixon, a traveling salesman based in Augusta, Ga., was an avid member of the Amateur Cinema League who enjoyed recording his travels on film. In...

Ina Bourskaya and Giovanni Martinelli in "The Temple" scene from Verdi's opera Aida. Made by The Vitaphone Corporation.

An actor tells and demonstrates what it was like to work on a film set in the silent era, while a sound recordist shows how much things have changed w...

Experimental short by Heinrich Brocksieper.

Count Étienne Louis Philippe Ścibor-Rylski, a member of the European community in Singapore, demonstrates the proper way to wear a monocle and explain...

A pastiche of scenes from Metropolis - Sammy and Sausage perform some experiments.

The film, by its industrial and advertising aspect, presents chronologically various stages of making household products from varnish, all done at the...

Forever Yours (1930) was an aborted film project starring and produced by silent-film legend Mary Pickford.

Focusing on the health risks of modern urban life, this film foreshadows several major themes that would become closely associated with Nazi public he...

In 1930, the 225-meter-long airship D-LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin visited Finland. It was supposed to land in Viikki, but strong winds prevented the attempt....

This animated film was made for the washing powder "Famos" produced at soap factories in Riesa-Gröba and Düsseldorf. We see a German housewife doing t...

Found-footage film about Italy’s involvement in the First World War. This is the version edited by the Società Italiana Pathé Baby, issued three years...

A entry in the 'Kiddie Trouper' series, set backstage at a theatre.

Felix tricks his father into thinking that he's practicing the piano, then escapes to play golf with Skidoo the mouse. After raising the ire of the lo...

Giribala explores the life of a neglected wife who finds liberation and success through the world of theatre. Based on a Rabindranath Tagore short sto...

The long log drive: a spring journey down icy streams and rivers moving logs from the forest to the mill for sawing into boards, laths, and clapboards...

This short, silent film captures one of Britain's minor little railways: the Leek and Manifold Light Railway on the Staffordshire Moorlands. The railw...

Boris and Nina are in love. He is the son of a wealthy merchant, she - just an ordinary seamstress. Boris's Father opposes their love.