All Films

The Sky Raiders

1931 • 59 min • United States of America

Bob Rogers ('Lloyd Hughes'), a former World War One flying ace, loses his license after crashing an airplane while drunk. He works his way back into the commercial airline service by tracking down the bandits who have been robbing the Air Express.

The Dog Snatcher

1931 • 7 min • United States of America

Scrappy tries to rescue his dog, Yippy from a mean dog catcher.

Nicholas Fair in Ljubljana

1931 • 5 min • Yugoslavia

Scenes of the St. Nicholas Fair in the centre of Ljubljana, capturing the winter atmosphere.

The House of Wonders

1931 • 23 min

Industrial or sponsored film made about, and presumably by, the Elgin National Watch Company.

Alice Adventuring in Wonderland

1931 • 10 min • United States of America

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

The Adventures of Gadi Ben Sussi

1931 • 8 min • Palestinian Territory

The adventures of a Yemenite immigrant in Tel Aviv.

Buster Bear

1931 • 7 min • United States of America

Buster Bear puts on a show.

Kikos

1931 • 53 min • Soviet Union

A naive peasant appears by turns during the Civil War in two hostile camps and finally chooses the Red Army.

Tower Bridge Road Market

1931 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Scenes of thronging street life and market trading along Tower Bridge Road, Bermondsey Street and Southwark Park Road.

The Frog

1931 • 9 min

An educational film about frogs produced by Encyclopædia Britannica Films, an educational film production company in the 20th century owned by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.

The New Car

1931 • 7 min • United States of America

Flip The Frog goes out to buy a new car.

A Via Áurea

1931 • 10 min • Portugal

A silent, black and white, 1930s advertisement film for CUF fertilizers, starring the legendary Vasco Santana in a story where the dissatisfied Manuel wonders why he doesn’t get rich just from the efforts of his work.

The Forgotten Frontier

1931 • 59 min • United States of America

The Forgotten Frontier (1931) is a documentary film about the Frontier Nursing Service, nurses on horseback, who traveled the back roads of the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States.

The Adventures of Juku the Dog

1931 • 4 min

The first Estonian experimental animated short film written and directed by Voldemar Päts, produced by Aleksaner Teppor and animation by cartoonist Elmar Jaanimägi. Known to be the first animation of Estonia. Juku the Dog wanders around in a forest, finding abandoned weapons and forgotten skeletons.

Pasifik 231

1931 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The film is a visual accompaniment to Honegger's music representing the progress of a transcontinental locomotive. The superimposed orchestra rhythmically reinforces the music.

Aladdin's Lamp

1931 • 6 min • United States of America

A Terrytoons cartoon released 27 December 1931.

The Haunted Barn

1931 • 45 min • Australia

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.

Electrical Telegraphy, Electric Bells and Telephones

1931 • 11 min • Japan

When copper wire is wrapped around an iron rod and connected to a battery, it becomes an electromagnet. A science teaching material movie that explains the principle and structure of electric bells and telephones by applying the principle of an electromagnet through a fusion of live action and animation.

Believe It or Not (Second Series) #1

1931 • 8 min • United States of America

This first entry in the "Believe It Or Not" series of shorts visits northern Africa. Included are a look at the Tuareg people of the Sahara Desert, a waterfall whose under-surface builds up because of lime deposits, a clock that strikes 13, and the Tree of Abraham, estimated to be 3500 years old. Vitaphone No. 1282.

Fatal Shot

1931 • 7 min

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...

At the Circus

1931 • 2 min • Japan

Two girls were watching a street performer. The girls sang out loud and the performer brought them up front so that they could sing for the audience. (Source: MyAnimeList.net)

Theft in the Express

1931 • 43 min • Bulgaria

In a large European city the newspaper sellers are setting the latest news. "A Mysterious Theft" and "Buddha's Statue Missing" are some of the headlines. The news is also broadcast on the radio and spreads fast. A masked man enters a lawyer's office. He picks the lock in the desk with a skeleton key and takes out an envelope with the note: "Lord Herbert's Last Will and Testament. To be opened on September 1, 1930 in the presence of my daughter Mary." The layer walks nervously in front of the burgled desk. He brings out a revolver and points it in his head. At this very moment the detective Chante Coq, a Lord Herbert's friend, enters the room. He undertakes to find both thief and the will. The wealthy heiress travels from France to East on the Orient Express. The international criminal carrying the envelope with inheritance papers is also in the train. After series of adventures the will is retrieved.

Caesar among the Gauls

1931 • 10 min

Vercingétorix and Caesar meet again...

Keeping The Hair Clean

1931 • 6 min

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