All Films

Sugar Plum Papa

1930 • 21 min • United States of America

Wealthy Andy marries a young girl, who has an ulterior motive.

Wings of Adventure

1930 • 53 min • United States of America

Dave Kent, a commercial aviator, and his mechanic, Skeets Smith, are forced to make an emergency landing in Mexico and find themselves in the hands of La Panthera, a notorious bandit who wishes to overthrow the government and become president of a new republic. Manuel, his chief henchman, obliges them to collect the booty in a robbery, but Kent manages to meet María Valdez, a prisoner--held for marriage to the insurgent leader--who implores his aid. Kent and Skeets are arrested for the robbery and sentenced to death.

Study No. 5

1930 • 3 min • Germany

An abstract ballet set to "I've Never Seen a Smile Like Yours".

Surprise

1930 • 11 min • United States of America

Tom Dugan trying to go on a date behind his wife's back gets a surprise.

Tee Dance

1930 • 5 min • Germany

A bunch of cartoon animals are having a tee dance, listening to songs on their Telefunken radio.

Study No. 6

1930 • 2 min • Germany

The first Studies were synchronized with records (Fischinger made a total of 13 Studies all without sound). It was only with the introduction of sound, beginning with Study No 6 that the films did full justice to this musical principle. The play of the white lines, the arcs, and the upside-down U’s running hither and thither like ballet dancers was brought into perfect synchronization with the music, and thus the films offered an abstract illustration of the melodies. Study No 6 is certainly the best of his films in terms of forms. - Hans Scheugl and Ernst Schmidt, Jr. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2001.

Those Who Worry

1930 • 6 min • France

A destitute, drunk woman appears to yearn for the life of a streetwalker.

The belly of a store

1930 • 10 min

Sleep-Inn Beauty

1930 • 39 min • Canada

a comedy situated around a bathing beauty contest

The Secret of Rapid

1930 • 56 min • Soviet Union

Lazar, an old worker, does not want to share the secret of hardening rapid, a high-quality steel. The workers have no choice but to find their own original way to harden steel that is as good as rapid...

In the Bryansk Polesie

1930 • 22 min • Soviet Union

An exciting journey through the picturesque expanses of the Bryansk region, exploring the unique culture and traditions of the area.

Deep South

1930 • 11 min • United States of America

Short subject from Pathe based on the writings of Grantland Rice, primarily remembered for his elegant approach to sportswriting. This was one of the last of the Van Beuren Corporation’s “Song Sketches,” along with another “The Voice of the Sea.”

Latif

1930 • 49 min • Soviet Union

Latif a seven year old boy living during the collectivization policy in USSR.

Pharmacy

1930 • 3 min

A photogram, used previously only within art photography, is adapted to create abstract moving patterns.

Talking It Over

1930 • 8 min

Sings a song he and five others wrote, 'You Want Lovin', and I Want Love.' Does a comedy skit. Then he sings another song he says he wrote, 'Can't You Understand?'

Buba

1930 • 37 min • Soviet Union

This documentary film is about one of Georgia's regions - Racha. The title of the film is taken from the name of one of Racha's high mountain villages. It tells about the poorest in society living in the mountains and the rise of the SSSR. The product of a remarkable collaboration between the first Georgian female filmmaker and the leading Georgian avant-garde artist David Kakabadze.

Esencia de verbena

1930 • 12 min • Spain

Uninhibited description of what Spanish verbenas are and what their essence is, and of what nourishes and constitutes them both in recreational and popular territory and in a traditional institution.

Minnie's Yoo Hoo

1930 • 5 min • United States of America

In this sing-along trailer, Mickey sings "Minnie's Yoo Hoo" while the audiences sing along to the words on the screen.

Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 21

1930 • 9 min • United States of America

Buster Keaton plays in a celebrity baseball game.

Zuiderzee works

1930 • 26 min • Netherlands

A commissioned documentary short showing the effort over several years to close off a shallow bay in the northwest Netherlands from the rest of the North Sea by engineering a dyke, with an area later turned into land after drainage.

Chimney Sweep Pero

1930 • 23 min • Japan

An anti-war tale of the chimney sweep, Peroo , who led his country to victory by using "Eggs from Soldiers". He makes a triumphant return to his hometown, but the way is lined with rubble, corpses, and brand new grave markers.. Approximately 20,000 frames of shadow puppet animation produced independently by "Doeisha", which is organized by 10 amateurs, mainly Doshisha University students.

Cross Roads

1930 • 59 min • United Kingdom

'Mother thwarts daughter's elopement with story of how wife shot her errant husband.' (British Film Catalogue)

The Stein Song

1930 • 6 min • United States of America

Another sing-a-long Fleischer cartoon, this time starring Rudy Vallee

The country of nakhcho

1930 • 38 min

The film, shot by the Sovkino group during the 1929 scientific-cinematic expedition to the Caucasus, focuses on the traditions of the Chechen ethnic community, as well as their transformation under socialism.