All Films

The Song of the Flute

1930 • 53 min • Greece

The love between the only daughter of a chief shepherd and a poor shepherd on the slopes of Mt. Olympus.

Faubourg Dreams

1930 • 9 min

A phonograph record inspires lyrical thoughts in a young man and woman in love.

L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui

1930 • 10 min

Regarding Le Corbusier: the man and his architecture

President Antonio Carlos in the Inauguration of a Dam

1930 • 7 min • Brazil

General hillside takes. The president of Minas Gerais, Antonio Carlos, is greeted by men. Authority speaks and the president of Minas Gerais cuts the inaugural ribbon. Antonio Carlos and his delegation visit the complex's facilities, pass through a dam, artificial canal, waterfall and floodgates. Cars from the delegation arrive at the scene and authorities greet each other. People applaud the entourage that, with guests, passes through different points of the dam.

Palembang. Towards the Upper Reaches of the Lematang

1930 • 8 min

Film from the collection of EYE (Amsterdam).

Serious Trouble

1930 • 43 min • Soviet Union

Fairy tales story about culture revolution in a small russian village. Two inventors head to propose a machine for easy soap packaging while evil capitalist tries to destroy the machine and gaslighting friends.

Stampede

1930 • 45 min

When his mother is attacked and killed by a lion, infant boy Boru is adopted by a passing tribe and raised by the tribe's chief.

The Last Grudge

1930 • 42 min • Soviet Union

Educational film on why corporal punishment is unacceptable in children's upbringing and is a relic of the past.

Kim on Duty

1930 • 28 min • Soviet Union

An agitation film about the proper upbringing of preschoolers. It is the first Armenian film for children.

Golf Nuts

1930 • 5 min • United States of America

This Terrytoon about golfing animals from 1930 is a synchronized sound film, with a decent sound track that could easily be omitted for a show in a theater which had not been wired for sound. There were still several thousand such theaters in the US in 1930.

Cocaine

1930 • 60 min • Egypt

A worker sees his friend's wife, admires her, and tries to seduce her, but she rejects him. He is not convinced, but he shows this to the wife. His hatred for the husband and desire for revenge on the wife drive him to plot to make the husband fall into the clutches of cocaine addiction. The husband begins to collapse, and then the whole family collapses, but the addicted husband does not stop until he reaches the point of killing his son.

The Eyes of Science

1930 • 15 min • United States of America

The optical company Bausch & Lomb of Rochester, New York, contracted Watson and Webber to create this corporate industrial film to showcase the company’s extensive catalog of lenses and other optical instruments, displaying their practical applications in industry and everyday life. The Eyes of Science easily straddles the fields of avant-garde and industrial filmmaking, making both a fascinating object of form and style, as well as a highly educational, entertaining, and informative piece of film and industrial history. Originally 45 minutes.

At the Border Checkpoint

1930 • 8 min • Japan

A film about traveling artists arriving from Mishima and Odawara.

A Visit to the Cristiani Studios

1930 • 4 min • Argentina

An inside look at Cristiani Studios during the making of Peludópolis. This making-of documentary contains the only known surviving footage of the now lost film

Igdenbu

1930 • 59 min • Soviet Union

Based on Nikolai Lovtsov's story "The Contraband Trust". About events in the village of gold hunters in the Far East. The action takes place in 1923.

The Augustas

1930 • 16 min

Scott Nixon, a traveling salesman based in Augusta, Ga., was an avid member of the Amateur Cinema League who enjoyed recording his travels on film. In this 16-minute silent film, Nixon documents some 38 streets, storefronts and cities named Augusta in such far-flung locales as Montana and Maine.

The Village Festival

1930 • 2 min • Japan

A Japanese equivalent of a Hollywood Screen Song.

I have something to tell you

1930 • 35 min • France

A man who claims to be the lover of a married woman goes to find the husband and reveals to him that the lady is giving her favors to a third thief. Now the lover got the wrong floor and apartment.

Believe It or Not #1

1930 • 9 min

Robert L. Ripley first shows the very first cartoon of his, published in newspapers 8 years earlier. He then proceeds with various oddities, first introducing a woman who can read aloud 8 words a second. He demonstrates this by giving her a 200-word tract she reads in 24 seconds. Next a woman telephones to question his assertion that you can walk through a hole in a cigarette paper, but he demonstrates how when she arrives. Other oddities follow. Vitaphone No. 1005.

The Fatal Flower

1930 • 42 min • Canada

The plot of The Fatal Flower revolves around a young couple whose budding romance coincides with a rash of bank heists in Northwestern Ontario.

Boy Scout Drill in Sombor

1930 • 3 min • Yugoslavia

Short silent film.

The Neglected Child

1930 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

An educational film about tuberculosis, produced by the School of Public Health "Andrija Štampar".

Rallye saharien

1930 • 35 min • Spain

A motorized trip through the Sahara desert.

Be Like This

1930 • 50 min • Soviet Union

Based on the story by Arkady Gaidar "R.V.S." The film is silent and black-and-white. It has not survived completely.