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Laughing Gravy

Laughing Gravy

1931 • 30 min • United States of America
Stan and Ollie try to hide their pet dog Laughing Gravy from their exasperated, mean tempered landlord, who has a "No Pets" policy.
The Cisco Kid

The Cisco Kid

1931 • 60 min • United States of America
The Cisco Kid rides again! This time, he robs a bank to save pretty widow Sally Benton and her ranch. After developing a good relationship with Sally’s children, he risks life and limb in order to save her little one.
Immediate Possession

Immediate Possession

1931 • 42 min • United Kingdom
A haunted house is put up for sale, who will be the buyer?
Riders of the North

Riders of the North

1931 • 59 min
In a trapper's cabin, Sergeant Stone finds a fellow Mountie murdered and is given the assignment of locating the killer.
Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter

Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter

1931 • 60 min • Japan
The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its heroine, Yumie Sone. Over two hours long, Seven Seas was released theatrically in two parts, with the first part entitled "Virginity Chapter" coming out in December 1931, while the second part, "Chastity Chapter," followed in March 1932. Near the beginning of the narrative, at a garden party given by the wealthy Yagibashi family in Tokyo, Yumie meets Takehiko, the Yagibashis' playboy son and the brother of Yumie's fiancé, Yuzuru. Yumie, a young middle-class woman, lives with her ailing father, a retired ministry official, an older sister, and a younger sister still a child (played by a very young Hideko Takamine). Takehiko, who has just returned from a trip to Europe, is attracted to Yumie and contrives to have her stay overnight at his family's mansion where he takes advantage of her.
Hot Sands

Hot Sands

1931 • 10 min • United States of America
In this short film, a newlywed couple drive into Death Valley and wind up gambling for their life.
In Conference

In Conference

1931 • 20 min • United States of America
Walter MacIntosh and Abe Salisbury are filmmakers in the process of viewing their swashbuckling romance epic, 'The Loves of LaVorees', starring silent screen idol, Romaine Salisbury, hotly contested within Hollywood and part of an expensive silent film production, only for Bovine Productions to switch to sound production and reveal to them for the first time, Romaine's real all-talking, all-singing voice.
Silence

Silence

1931 • 60 min • United States of America
A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.
Brothers

Brothers

1931 • 60 min • United States of America
Young orphaned brothers Tom and Bob are separated when Bob is taken to an orphan asylum by the authorities and Tom escapes. As time goes by Tom takes to a life of crime, but uses the proceeds to contribute to Bob's education. Years later the brothers meet again when Tom tries to involve Bob in a con game--and neither one knows that the other is his brother. Complications ensue.
Wicked

Wicked

1931 • 57 min • United States of America
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.
Shadows

Shadows

1931 • 57 min • United Kingdom
The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.
High Gear

High Gear

1931 • 25 min
The gang is out for a drive on a Sunday afternoon. When it starts to rain, they take shelter in an abandoned building. Unbeknownst to them, it is actually a gangster's hideout.
The Spider

The Spider

1931 • 59 min • United States of America
Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe’s clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant? After the police restrain the audience from leaving, Lowe uses his magical powers to help expose the killer. Watch for the terrific séance scene where weird ghost-like creatures float above the stage.
Success

Success

1931 • 17 min • United States of America
Elmer proposes to Molly, but she says he needs her fathers permission. He wants Elmer to become a ballplayer, but his eyesight keeps getting him into trouble. Elmer also needs a new pair of glasses.
Trapped

Trapped

1931 • 23 min
The Shadow's second movie short, an adaptation from a Ray Humphreys story, "The Cat's Paw," from Detective Story Magazine.
Dragnet Patrol

Dragnet Patrol

1931 • 55 min • United States of America
A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime.
Listen To Some Words of Wisdom

Listen To Some Words of Wisdom

1930 • 2 min • United States of America
Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression.
George Eastman Greeting SMPE

George Eastman Greeting SMPE

1930 • 1 min
Eastman's remote greeting for the Society of Motion Picture Engineers meeting in 1930, demonstrating the enduring technology of sound on film.
Alfama, the Old Lisbon

Alfama, the Old Lisbon

1930 • 25 min • Portugal
A documentary on a neighborhood shouldn't limit itself to the coldness of the houses; but reveal the human realism of its life, with all its defects and virtues.
Filmclub Newsreel

Filmclub Newsreel

1930 • 11 min
Petaluma Chicken

Petaluma Chicken

1930 • 4 min • United States of America
Early promotional film for Sonoma County poultry industry featuring young women making an extremely large omelet.
The tragedy of Xirobio

The tragedy of Xirobio

1930 • 50 min
The film is based on one of the forty-four small pieces that make up the book, in particular: "They are going back many years now and still today I have remorse. There was no reason to stop coming to my house two masked crashers, always the same two coffins, with the same things, with the same gods. They knew a secret of my girlfriend's love and every year I saw you vineyards in the face with the same words, with the same laughter of paifocas ... "
Clara Barry and Orval Whitledge in 'Jest for a While'

Clara Barry and Orval Whitledge in 'Jest for a While'

1930 • 8 min
Clara Barry & Orval Whitledge dry comedy routine.
Tinus On the Move

Tinus On the Move

1930 • 28 min • Netherlands
People in his village have made the gullible farmer Tinus de Schel believe that he has won the first prize in the lottery, ten thousand guilders. He goes to collect his money, but learns from the local police constable that it will be a couple of hours before the office opens. He falls asleep and dreams about how he will spend his prize, deciding first of all to make a gentleman of himself. He starts by visiting shops in Helmond (their names and what they sell are mentioned in rhyming couplets in the inter-titles), where he buys himself a new suit, a vacuum-cleaner, a radio, a Chevrolet, a bicycle, cigars, medicine, caramels and also gets his hair cut. When he wakes up and realizes that he has won nothing at all, he contents himself with the thought that if ever he does win the first prize in the lottery he will know in which Helmond shops he is going to spend the money.