All Films

Strong and Willing

1930 • 6 min

Trixie does 'Rosie O'Kerry' in different voices and does a few nationality skits to the same tune.

Those Who Saw the Truth

1930 • 56 min • Soviet Union

The First World War, the Russian-Austrian front in March 1917. Hungarian soldier Janos becomes acquainted with Bolshevik ideas and helps a Russian prisoner of war escape.

Cruel Tale

1930 • 34 min • France

The escape of a man under Spanish inquisition rule.

It Never Really Happened

1930 • 4 min • United Kingdom

The film camera is used to great effect here to trick and treat its audience, injecting fun into the otherwise mundane London commute, slum demolition, Thames or London Bridge traffic.

The Donkey

1930 • 14 min • Japan

A man and his young son travel through the countryside to take their donkey to a horse auction. Unfortunately every person they pass has a different opinion on how this should be accomplished, leading to disastrous results when the dim-witted father abandons common sense in an attempt to please everyone.

Dancing Lines

1930 • 2 min • Germany

Dancing Lines, also called Study No. 2, is a piece of abstract animation. White lines dance upon a black background.

The Poor Fish

1930 • 6 min

Harry comes home unexpectedly and overhears his wife calling another man 'sweetheart' on the telephone. It turns out that both men are avid fishermen. They leave, so Daisy calls Mr. Gill at the Aquarium and asks if he likes fish. He doesn't, so she invites him over.

Scotch Taffy

1930 • 8 min

Opens and closes with a tune. Says he had only one customer in the last three years. Turns out he was a Scottish man with a lot of stories and some son bits.

The Emergency Case

1930 • 10 min • United States of America

In this comedic short, a man assumes his brother's identity as a doctor to avoid a speeding ticket. Complications ensue when the police officer later asks the "doctor" to examine his wife.

The Lone Rider

1930 • 57 min • United States of America

Lanning heads a vigilante group till Farrell digs up some dirt which turns the vigilantes on him. To save his own reputation, Lanning must bring Farrell to trial.

Black Sea Mutiny

1930 • 56 min • Soviet Union

On the proletarian solidarity of the French navy with the revolutionary people of Russia. The action takes place in the early years of Soviet power in the coastal city of Russia. The French cruiser Mirabeau threatens the city from the sea.

In the land of the Basques

1930 • 9 min • France

Short documentary on the Basque Country, its dances and its theatre.

Princess Lady Bug

1930 • 18 min • United States of America

A ladybug lives in a pumpkin house and is aimed at by a dragonfly.

The Office Scandal

1930 • 8 min

Charlie to be hired by Mr. Depew as an office boy. Julie is married to another man and to Mr. Depew. It doesn't take long before Charlie is fired. Who is the second husband?

Ceux qui ne s’en font pas

1930 • 5 min

Popular songs accompany two scenes of happiness: a jovial railway worker and a group of children dancing.

Yes! We Have No Bananas

1930 • 8 min • United States of America

A couple of very skinny rats steal some bananas from a costermonger. He pursues them and extracts some revenge, which leads into the title tune of this Fleischer Screen Song.

The Apache Kid

1930 • 7 min • United States of America

Krazy and his girlfriend are dancing at a nightclub. In the blink of an eye, the girl gets kidnapped by a hoodlum on a horse.

Mechanical Principles

1930 • 11 min • United States of America

Close up we see pistons move up and down or side to side. Pendulums sway, the small parts of machinery move. Gears drive larger wheels. Gears within gears spin. Shafts turn some mechanism that is out of sight. Screws revolve and move other gears; a bit rotates. More subtle mechanisms move other mechanical parts for unknown purposes. Weights rise and fall. The movements, underscored by sound, are rhythmic. Circles, squares, rods, and teeth are in constant and sometimes asymmetrical motion. These human-made mechanical bits seem benign and reassuring.

Bed Rock

1930 • 39 min • United Kingdom

A Canadian returns to find his fiancée is married and schemes revenge.

Perekop

1930 • 50 min • Soviet Union

This revolutionary epic likens the push for industrialization of Soviet Ukraine with the battle for Perekop during the Civil War. A missing plow blade is presented as a symbol of the country's backward peasant economy that needs to be transformed in the course of the industrial construction. In an onslaught of rapidly changing images, Ukrainian village with its peasants suspicious of everything new, dramatically collides with the frenzy of working factories, plants, and mines.

In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree

1930 • 8 min • United States of America

The clock and whistle above a factory door sound for lunch, and the workers run out. A bear tries to eat his sandwich, but it opens like a big mouth, when he opens...

La Paloma

1930 • 6 min • United States of America

The beginning has the main character wooing a woman on a balcony with the flower she sends down then putting the moves on him.

The stain on honor

1930 • 60 min • Germany

Kathleen Mavourneen

1930 • 55 min

Kathleen O'Connor, fresh off the boat from Ireland, must decide between the two men who love her - a poor plumber and a wealthy politician.