All Films

Suburban Districts

1930 • 60 min • Soviet Union

In the late 1920s Jewish girl Dora falls in love with a young Russian Komsomol member. His parents,who are captive to religious superstitions, don't like Dora. She still goes to live with him and will find herself facing those superstitions in her husband home too.

Poor Aubrey

1930 • 15 min • United States of America

A poor clerk pretends that he has lots of money.

Arietta antica

1930 • 5 min • Italy

A musical short based on Bernardo Pasquini's Arietta antica. The film debut of Lia Franca.

Rough Waters

1930 • 53 min • United States of America

A police dog helps to track down two payroll robbers.

The Big Dog House

1930 • 17 min • United States of America

In this MGM Dogville series short, an all-dog cast play out a story of jealousy, murder and justice thwarted.

Five Brides

1930 • 57 min • Soviet Union

A Soviet propaganda film based on material from the Bolshevik coup. During the Russian civil war, the Whites, that anti-Communist force that fought against the Bolsheviks during that period, capture a Jewish Ukranian village; the gang commander threatens a pogrom, and will kill everyone in the village unless the inhabitants agree to give to the White Officers five virgin girls in wedding dresses. Under such terrible pressure, the Jewish council of the town decides, full of sorrow and despair, to sacrifice their daughters to the drunken officers but fortunately and just in time, a detachment of partisans that belong to the Red Army, comes and frees the village.

The place is good!

1930 • 39 min • France

A maid applies to a good position at the Dutilleul's, but she wouldn't know how good it was to be until people starts taking her for the lady of the house...

Grand Uproar

1930 • 6 min • United States of America

Bimbo sings a funny take-off of "Gay Caballero" and the comedy construction is adequate to the situation.

Hell-Bound Train

1930 • 51 min • United States of America

A jeremiad against intemperance, jazz music, and abortion, set on a train filled with unrepentant sinners hurtling toward damnation.

Up to Mars

1930 • 6 min • United States of America

In this one, Bimbo is playing fireworks in an abandoned yard except for a mouse (who suspiciously looks like Mickey in one close-up scene) who laughs derisively at him.

Not So Quiet on the Western Front

1930 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A musical comedy directed by Monty Banks. A cook recalls a night spent in a French estaminet in 1915.

The Night Porter

1930 • 45 min • United Kingdom

George, the inebriate night porter at the Hotel Splendide, develops a series of increasingly outlandish suspicions about Billy and Percy, two guests who have arrived separately yet claim to be a married couple and demand to share a room together.

A Private Engagement

1930 • 9 min

The Yacht Club Boys sing at a private party for George Mellon and his daughter. There are four of them, one of whom plays the piano, two play the guitar, and fourth plays the violin.

The Glow Worm

1930 • 7 min • United States of America

A Screen Song of the old standard.

Rough Romance

1930 • 55 min • United States of America

Love and logging in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon.

Padrino Pelao

1930 • 2 min • Argentina

Carlos Gardel performing "Padrino pelao", tango composed and written by Enrique Delfino.

Evelyn Nesbit: Live at Bilgray's Garden

1930 • 13 min

A short film of Evelyn Nesbit singing Jack Yellen and Lew Pollack's song "No Man's Mama" at Bilgray's Garden in Panama, June 1930. She performs the song twice.

Meet Me Down at Coney Isle

1930 • 8 min • United States of America

A tour of famed Brooklyn amusement park Coney Island, focusing on the brightly-lit rides and attractions and the people who flock to the park during the summer. A Fox Movietone featurette.

A gray in the air

1930 • 41 min • United States of America

This here is the four-reel Spanish version of Charley Chase's Looser Than Loose.

She Who Gets Slapped

1930 • 8 min • United States of America

A meek husband takes lessons on how to take control of his dominating wife.

Our Dumb Friend

1930 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Marionette parody of Charlie Chaplin.

Peace and Harmony

1930 • 18 min • United States of America

1930 Comedy short

Real Life

1930 • 40 min • Soviet Union

Rural Life in Maine

1930 • 12 min • United States of America

This 12-minute silent film was an amateur film, which seems to have been made just so people would know how hard the folks in Maine work. The film starts off in the morning as these people raise the American flag and then head out to work where they do that all day. By the time the sun goes down we see how hard they work, what they eat and of course the few breaks they get with grandpa on the fiddle. I'm sure many people would be left scratching their heads as to what the point of this film was but it's also important to remember that traveling around wasn't as easy in 1930 as it is today and back then people didn't have two-hundred different television stations. So, in many ways this is an important film because it gives people the chance to see what it was really like working on a farm back in the day.