All Films

Saint Manoelina from Coqueiros

1931 • 23 min

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.

Believe It or Not (Second Series) #2

1931 • 8 min • United States of America

Ripley shows an aged Japanese statesman, a strange fish with legs, the 'Rubaiyat' in a finger ring, how a house of cards is torn up, and a giant typewriter in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Vitaphone No. 1294.

Albert Einstein Driving a Flying Car

1931 • 3 min

A silent short with Albert Einstein and his wife

Beavers in Ukraine

1931 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The oldest preserved Ukrainian nature film.

True Caucasian

1931 • 50 min • Soviet Union

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 Song of the Hoggar

1931 • 30 min • France

Le Chant du Hoggar, a fictionalized documentary directed by Pierre Ichac, which takes as its theme the adventurous life of the Tuaregs of yesteryear, the setting being the lesser-known mountains and valleys of the Hoggar, and the actors being the Tuaregs themselves. This production, of considerable interest, was filmed last year by Pierre Ichac, a project manager for the General Government of Algeria. For six months, the young director, who traveled more than 7,000 kilometers by car and about 1,000 kilometers by Méhari through the Hoggar mountains, recorded 8,000 meters of film. The beautiful Fatimata reigns over all hearts in the wandering Tuareg tribe, with her herds, in the high valleys of the Hoggar. But she loves The Lion, the bravest of the young warriors of an enemy tribe. And it is Fatimata's name that The Lion lovingly carves on the rocks of the mountain.

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 12: 'A Round of Golf'

1931 • 11 min • United States of America

Bobby Jones and narrator O.B. Keeler take viewers on a condensed round of golf.

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 5: 'The Medium Irons'

1931 • 10 min

Bobby Jones practices the fundamentals with a group of children in the wings.

Any Little Girl That's a Nice Little Girl

1931 • 7 min • United States of America

A Bouncing-Ball rendition of the title song features animated cats.

Heretic

1931 • 4 min

Heretic is a modern dance work by Martha Graham performed to Tetus Breton, an old folk tune from Brittany.

Spring Song

1931 • 3 min • Japan

Early Japanese anime. A stop-motion papercraft animation set to a song sung by Kikoku Inoue

Retribution

1931 • 17 min

Sheila sees the folly of her ways when husband, John, is to be hanged for murdering her paramour, but once trusty Bill from the CID is on the case, the real killer is soon unmasked

Visit of Paraguayan schoolchildren to Montevideo in 1930

1931 • 54 min • Uruguay, Paraguay

This film, recovered in 2022, captures the first visit of Paraguayan schoolchildren from the Artigas School in Asunción to Uruguay in December 1930.

Sunday Clothes

1931 • 7 min • United States of America

In this one, the boy character is getting ready to go to Sunday school with his dog. On the way, he encounters bullies not to mention a stereotypical Italian in a manhole.

Ragtime Romeo

1931 • 8 min • United States of America

Flip the Frog serenades his feline sweetheart to the delight of everyone in her building-- Everyone, that is, except a homely cow, who is trying to get some sleep.

City of Contrasts

1931 • 25 min

A portrait of New York during the depression, with views of Manhattan from boats and scenes of the lights of Broadway and what goes on in nightclubs.

Hopak

1931 • 11 min • Soviet Union

An experimental short comprising a few dance numbers.

Circus Time

1931 • 5 min • United States of America

Toby The Pup goes to the circus.

Intimate Interviews: Walter Huston

1931 • 9 min • United States of America

One of a series of short subjects created for movie theaters in the 1930s, each an interview with a popular actor of the time.

The River Dart

1931 • 16 min

Tracing the course of the river Dart, from its source on Dartmoor to Dartmouth. Made in 1931 by the pupils and teachers of Altrincham County High School, written and directed by their schoolmaster Ronald Gow.

Her Right

1931 • 51 min • Soviet Union

About the growth of social consciousness of an Uzbek woman.

Kagan Valley

1931 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Amateur travelogue of the Kagan Valley and Darband, Pakistan.

Twenty Legs Under the Sea

1931 • 6 min • United States of America

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.

Terra Incognita

1931 • 40 min

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.