All Films

Kitty from Kansas City

1931 • 8 min • United States of America

Sun bonneted Betty Boop takes a train to "Rudy Valley" where she gains weight and Rudy Vallee performs the title song with Bouncing Ball.

A Man's a Man

1931 • 52 min • Germany

About a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the perfect soldier.

Dumb Patrol

1931 • 7 min • United States of America

During the Great War, Bosko and a fearsome beast are in a dogfight. Bosko loses, but that's only the first battle.

Land of the Maharajahs

1931 • 49 min • United States of America

This travel film takes the viewer to the northern part of Rajasthan. After a quick day tour in New Delhi and its surroundings we visit the magnificently painted havelis of Shekhawati, in Jhunjhunu, Mandawa and Fatehpur, an area that used to be one of the most prosperous parts of India. From there we visit Bikaner with its impressive fort, maybe the most beautiful in Rajasthan, and the city's Jain temples ending the tour with remarkable traditional music and dance in Kuri village right outside of Jaisalmer.

Goofy Goat Antics

1931 • 8 min • United States of America

A goat is driving his car but he is blocked off by a road hog. When he finally passes the road hog up the road hog quotes "D***!" The goat runs into some pretty weird antics. But he comes out in the end.

Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!

1931 • 8 min

Snippets of Greta Garbo movies interspersed with provincial gigs of girls resembling Garbo. The film begins with one of the aspirants reading an issue of the newspaper Stockholms-Tidningen.

Buenos Aires Dolls

1931 • 49 min • Argentina

A girl who sometimes mistreats her father, leaves her home and leaves her boyfriend, seduced by an adventurer who starts her as a tango singer. The father is jailed after shooting the seducer and she tries to commit suicide but her old boyfriend saves her, starting a more successful way.

Siam to Korea

1931 • 9 min

This Traveltalk entry first visits Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, when the country's name was still Siam. Then it's off to Seoul, South Korea. When the visit was made in the early 1930s, Korea was not yet divided and was a province administered by Japan. The film emphasized the deep influence of Buddhism on the daily life of the peoples in both countries.

The Sultan's Cat

1931 • 6 min • United States of America

A Farmer Alfalfa Cartoon.

Madeira: A Garden in the Sea

1931 • 8 min • Portugal, United States of America

A Traveltalk visit to Portugal's autonomous island group in the Atlantic Ocean. We learn that many of the things associated with the islands were actually instituted by British explorers who visited the island several hundred years before the Portuguese. This includes embroidered fabrics, wicker chairs, and the islands' world famous wine.

So This Is Arizona

1931 • 55 min • United States of America

An Arizona Ranger's investigation results in his having to arrest the brother of the girl he loves.

Java the Fragrant Isle

1931 • 7 min

Fitzpatrick Traveltalks

Peace on the Western Front

1931 • 33 min

A moving anti-war drama in which a father explains the futility of war to his young son. The film includes flashbacks from the father’s own nightmare experiences alongside documentary footage from Verdun, Arras and Ypres with the message that War is not a glorious adventure but ‘“a hideous ugly thing, involving sacrifices on the part of the finest manhood of every combatant nation”.

Let's Do Things

1931 • 27 min • United States of America

Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.

The Wizard of Athens

1931 • 48 min • Greece

A musician-magician of noble heritage wins the hearts of women. When his darling leaves him for a rich man, he does everything in his power to win her back.

Bric a Brac and Company

1931 • 48 min

If Fernandel did not appear in a supporting part ,another short (by E.Chotin who made dozens of them)which would not have been restored.But Fernandel is here ,playing a street pedlar selling luxury (sic) clothes on the flea market with a gorgeous girl as a model.This is a rather desultory script but Fernandel's presence makes the short worthwhile.He sings one song: "le Père Lapuce". A wealthy antique dealer, having started in the flea market in the past, settles his son there, an unrepentant nuke, to teach him how to work. There he meets a treasure: his future wife.

Koina no Ginpei, Migratory Snowbird

1931 • 59 min • Japan

Based on the original story of a wandering gambler written by the popular author Shin Hasegawa. This is the first film adaptation of his story, which later inspired many filmmakers to create further adaptations of his work. The first half of the movie depicts a man's jealousy of his best friend and the woman he loves. The second part depicts a hero who is ready to put the past behind him and risk his life for his friend.

Two-Gun Caballero

1931 • 58 min • United States of America

A cowhand named Bob Blake visits with Sally Thompson and her kid-brother, Jimmy, on their hard-scrabble homestead adjoining the Steele Ranch where Bob works. He learns that their father just died, and he plans on seeing if he can make things a bit easier for them.

By the Sea

1931 • 6 min • United States of America

Tale of a romantic rivalry with a lot of personality humor...and a Betty Boop voice!

The Disaster in Oaxaca

1931 • 12 min • Mexico

Footage of the aftermath of the January 14 1931 earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico.

The Panic Is On

1931 • 20 min • United States of America

Charley's in love with the daughter of a financier who wants her to insist that Chas have a pile of cash before she marries him. But, the Depression is everywhere: Charley's behind on his rent and nearly everyone he meets is down on their luck. After reading a "how to" book on the power of a forceful will, Charley applies the lessons with mixed results, but he does land a job that includes delivering a shake-down letter to his girlfriend's father. Is the naïve Charley going to end up in jail?

Beneath Red Banners

1931 • 60 min • Sweden

The labor movement's emerging in Sweden. Welfare evolving. A young couple rents a modern apartment.

Jack and the Beanstalk

1931 • 7 min • United States of America

A Max & Dave Fleischer cartoon from 1931. Bimbo climbs a beanstalk to find Betty Boop enslaved by the giant.

The Séance Is Over

1931 • 3 min • France