All Films

Kfar Yeladim

1930 • 9 min • Palestinian Territory

The film depicts a day in the life of the children's village, Kfar Yeladim near Afula. The children write letters describing their daily routine.

Tropical Breezes

1930 • 11 min • United Kingdom

The humorous exploits of two sailors on a remote tropical island.

A Soccer Match

1930 • 2 min • Yugoslavia

Short silent film.

Redeemed Homeland

1930 • 49 min • Brazil

Irish Songs

1930 • 10 min

A little bit of Irish laughter, where you'll enjoy a selection of periodic Irish songs in the form of a short film.

The Vagrant

1930 • 49 min • Austria

Approximately half a million vagabonds were roaming Austria and Germany in the late 1920s. The film addresses their social exclusion and depicts the harsh reality of living on the fringes of society.

Leiba Zibal

1930 • 49 min

A loose adaptation of one of I.L. Caragiale’s short stories. The life of a Jew in the context of Romanian interwar society. The focus was on the financial rise of Leiba Zibal, on his love for Maria and on the love intrigue that makes the argot Gheorghe a competitor of Leiba Zibal.

Home Clavilux 'Junior' #86

1930 • 10 min

Metal, glass, electrical and lighting elements, and an illustration-board screen in a wood cabinet

Ten Minutes In The Morning

1930 • 30 min • Soviet Union

Prolific labor combined with gymnastics represents the basic means of increasing public productiveness and one of the major forms of creation of New Man. Moreover, physical strength will assist the young Socialist Republics in fighting against their enemy.

Governor C.C. Young Hails Greater Talkie Season

1930 • 3 min

Ronald Colman introduces the governor of California, who urges moviegoers to attend the cleaner, wholesome talkie films, rather than those that show the seamy side of life. Doing this will show movie company executives that the public prefers them, and more of them will be produced.

Expedición al Caquetá

1930 • 6 min • Colombia

Record showing an expedition to the banks of the Ortegaza and Caquetá rivers in Colombia, with a view of Cayetano Mora's San Pedro Cayetano hacienda and the indigenous communities settled on the banks.

Don't Delay Traffic

1930 • 50 min • Soviet Union

Tram conductor Nadya Savitskaya went to study for tram driver courses. Her boss believes that women are not capable of such work and will only delay traffic. However, on her very first flight, Nadya Savitskaya prevents an accident and saves lives. The film was shot as part of a program to encourage women to study male professions, because in Soviet Union the rights of women and men were equalized: now they could do the same work and receive the same salary for it.

Lace

1930 • 6 min • United Kingdom

An excellent example of an 'industrial', showing lace-making processes in a huge Nottingham factory with intertitles explaining the various stages of lace production.

Mooi Amsterdam

1930 • 16 min

Focus on the picturesque character of the city of Amsterdam, with alternating images of ancient and modern architecture.

The Temptation

1930 • 27 min • Denmark

A young man finds employment as an apprentice in a grocery store. As he is short of money for his sick mother’s medicine and furthermore is eager to ask a charming girl out, he succumbs to temptation and steals from the till. Caught red-handed, he is sentenced to two years in a correctional institution. By the time he is released, his old mother has died of grief and poverty, and he is reduced to begging passers-by for alms. While begging, he becomes involved in a tragic incident that once again sends him fleeing through the city. (Stumfilm.dk)

Good Morning Sheriff

1930 • 19 min • United States of America

When the mayor fires the lazy sheriff, lucky Lloyd happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and ends up with a star badge on his chest. He takes the job to impress the mayor's comely daughter.

A Daughter for the 'Dainty Duchess'

1930 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Announcement of the birth of a second daughter (Margaret Rose) to the Duke and Duchess of York.

Foster-father

1930 • 60 min • Soviet Union

Sergo and his wife Maro do not spare their care for Alyosha, who was taken out of an orphanage. The family's peace is disturbed by the arrival of an old friend, Sandro. As it turns out, Alyosha was the son of Maro and Sandro. Whether he finds out or not, Sergo leaves home and takes Alyosha with him. Maro is acutely aware of his guilt. At a gathering of the pioneer squad, Alyosha tells the children about his family drama. The pioneers reconcile Alyosha's parents.

Snow Time

1930 • 7 min • United States of America

A Van Beuren cartoon where the animals go skiing, ice skating, eat hot dogs and get drunk.

The Kidnappers Foil

1930 • 20 min

The Kidnappers Foil was an American short film. It was made by Melton Barker numerous times between the 1930s to 1970s. Each iteration featured small-town children as actors (a different small-town in each iteration), the parents of whom paid Barker a fee in exchange for appearing in the film. The plot of the film centered on a well-to-do girl being kidnapped, and then escaping, a pair of hoodlums.

Monkey Meat

1930 • 5 min • United States of America

A Terrytoons cartoon released 10 August 1930.

Abi and Rabi

1930 • 60 min • Iran

The story is about a leggy-man and a short-man producing funny performs.

The New Apartment

1930 • 24 min • Switzerland

A commissioned film for Schweizerischer Werkbund (SWB), Die neue Wohnung was produced for the Basel architectural and interior design exhibition, WOBA, to demonstrate innovative aspects of modern architecture and highlight their differences from the event’s highly conservative approach. Despite its ad campaign roots, Richter's touch is not absent; The surviving version, aimed at a "bourgeois" Swiss public, presents decluttered, functional architecture and decor as superior to the traditional and luxurious "ancient" ways of living.

A Movietone Divertissement

1930 • 8 min • United States of America

Early MGM sound short featuring vaudeville acts Tom Waring, Johnny Marvin, Yvette Rugel, and The Happiness Boys (Billy Jones and Ernie Hare).