All Films

The Workshop of the World: Birmingham

1930 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Spellbinding images of Birmingham between the wars.

Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 18

1930 • 9 min • United States of America

Players Aileen Pringle and Grant Withers are seen working on the set of Soldiers and Women at Columbia; Bessie Love and John Miljan are seen at MGM; Walt Disney is shown drawing Mickey Mouse; Eddie Cantor and his family arrive in Hollywood in preparation for his work in Samuel Goldwyn's Whoopee.

Self-Portrait or What We All Miss

1930 • 6 min • France

Mix of surrealist images of bubbles and smoke with some documentation of the world lived by Man Ray and Lee Miller.

Festive Funeral of Late Viceroy Matko Laginja, Father of Istria, in Zagreb

1930 • 7 min • Yugoslavia

Short documentary.

The film of the great newspaper of Argentina

1930 • 22 min • Argentina

Short documentary made by Federico Valle and produced by Visugraphic Pictures for Argentinian newspaper La Nacion.

Sinners

1930 • 52 min • Yugoslavia

An educational film on abortion.

Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 11

1930 • 9 min • United States of America

Eddie Lambert leads the tour; Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Joan Crawford return from their honeymoon trip; Carl Laemmle, Jr. welcomes Paul Whiteman to Hollywood; Edward Everett shows off his menagerie; Eddie Quillan displays his saxophone skills; other players are glimpsed.

Harmonizing Songs

1930 • 8 min • United States of America

Jack King plays the piano and also asks some questions. Josephine Harmon goes through some songs and quips with vocal harmonizing.

The City of Tomorrow

1930 • 33 min • Germany

Educational film about urban planning.

Frivolous

1930 • 3 min • Brazil

A young woman faces several obstacles to sleep.

Going Places

1930 • 7 min • United States of America

Two bums manage to get into a restaurant. They admit that they are a couple of self made men. A couple of comics they are.

Ban Josip Šilović

1930 • 2 min • Yugoslavia

One of the oldest preserved sound film recordings shot in Croatia is a short speech by Ban of the Sava Banovina Josip Šilović.

Kounty Fair

1930 • 7 min • United States of America

Oswald the Rabbit and Kitty go to the county fair where they enter a dance contest and clash with an accordion-playing mouse.

Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 14

1930 • 9 min • United States of America

President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge visit Jack L. Warner and Mary Pickford in Hollywood; various players are glimpsed at work on the Columbia lot; stars turn out for a Hollywood Premiere.

Fickle Fortune

1930 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Dramatised film of an incident in the life of Rob Roy MacGregor, set in the Trossachs. Entered in the Scottish Amateur Film Festival 1933. Roy Roy has been outlawed and is in hiding in the Trossachs. His band is suprised by a party of redcoats. Rob Roy escapes and the outlaws get away taking a red coat officer prisoner. The redcoat is freed by one of the clanswomen who is his lover. The outlaws discover her treachery and plan to drown her but Rob Roy arrives and saves her from her fate.

The Bearded Heart

1930 • 22 min

The young poets, a nucleus of the dada art movement and pioneers of surrealist poetry, sit in a corner reading their works and ringing a bell.

Ben Bernie and His Orchestra

1930 • 9 min • United States of America

Ben Bernie and his orchestra play a few songs for a vitaphone recording.

Ecaterina Teodoroiu

1930 • 42 min • Romania

A romantically embellished biopic of Ecaterina Teodoroiu, a Romanian woman who fought and died in World War I.

All Stuck Up

1930 • 22 min

When the paperhangers go on strike, guests at a newlyweds' housewarming party try to finish the job with disastrous results.

Earth

1930 • 53 min • Bulgaria

The rich and grasping peasant Enya likes the beautiful Tsveta. He is engaged to her with the consent of his elder brother Ivan and his wife Ana. Stanka is a sick, hunchbacked girl, but her father is the richest man in the village. Stanka is secretly in love with Enya. Enyu is obsessed with thoughts about the earth.

Any Evening After Work

1930 • 27 min • United Kingdom

A man contracts a sexually transmitted disease, but is reluctant to seek medical help - until a no-nonsense lecture about the risks he is taking forces him to change his mind.

On a Sunday Afternoon

1930 • 6 min • United States of America

Fleischer Studios giving "On a Sunday Afternoon" the bouncing ball 'Screen Song' treatment.

From Stump to Ship

1930 • 30 min

The long log drive: a spring journey down icy streams and rivers moving logs from the forest to the mill for sawing into boards, laths, and clapboards. For more than 150 years, logging techniques remained the same. Men cut trees by hand and loaded them on horse-drawn sleds to be hauled over snow to the river. Skilled river drivers maneuvered the logs downstream, risking their limbs and lives every day. This film survives as a record of the long log business.

Bob from Höganäs

1930 • 23 min • Sweden

About a panther named Bob