All Films

Metro Movietone Revue #4

1930 • 19 min • United States of America

Early MGM sound short featuring vaudeville acts George Dewey Washington, The Ponce Sisters, Joseph Regan, Ella Shields, and Jack Pepper.

The Cursed Village

1930 • 57 min • Spain

Region of Castilla La Vieja, Spain, early 20th century. In Luján, a village ravaged by drought, Juan, a humble farmer who survives with his wife and son, confronts a local loan shark and is imprisoned as a result.

Pleasure Trips

1930 • 6 min • Belgium

The beach and the bathers, poses and gestures. A series of sketches and portraits, little touches that build up into a wry, affectionate portrait of a Sunday at the beach.

Hatred

1930 • 26 min • Soviet Union

The end of the 1920s. Polish Diet a bill discusses the War Ministry to increase the production of weapons and oil for the needs of the army. Occur violent clashes between right-wing forces and the Communist faction, opposed the war with the USSR. The leader of the Social Democrats Staszewski asks to project that a heavy burden will fall on the budget for improvements to the commission. At this time, in oilfield Bohuslav strike, caused by hard labor working conditions, starvation wages and anti-Soviet policy of the government.

Ladies Last

1930 • 21 min

The boys boycott the girls when they insist that the boys wear tuxedos to a big dance.

Caprelles et Pantopodes

1930 • 9 min • France

Metro Movietone Revue #3

1930 • 14 min • United States of America

Early MGM sound short featuring vaudeville acts Frances White, The Ponce Sisters, The Reynold Sisters, Joseph Regan, and Jack Pepper.

Shivering and Shaking

1930 • 27 min • United States of America

Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.

1930 Prelude to "The Birth of a Nation"

1930 • 6 min • United States of America

The prelude to our picture is the record of an intimate conversation between Mr. D. W. Griffith and his friend Mr. Walter Huston, which occured on an evening in the Spring of 1930. Here for the first time, Mr. Griffith relates the colorful childhood experiences which led him to the making of "The Birth of a Nation."

Peas and Cues

1930 • 9 min • United Kingdom

The film shows the birth, life and reproduction of sweet peas, a familiar and well loved plant of British gardeners.

The Cuckoo Murder Case

1930 • 8 min • United States of America

The Cuckoo Bird residing in an old clock in a creepy old mansion is shot dead by an unknown assailant; Flip the Frog is called in to investigate (and finds more than he bargained for).

Niagara Falls

1930 • 9 min • United States of America

A short drama about a married couple planning to go to Niagara Falls.

Under Montana Skies

1930 • 58 min • United States of America

Clay gets a musical troop out af jail and helps raise money so they can put on their show. During the performance Blake and his men rob the box office. The townsmen give chase and Clay goes after Blake.

Crabs and Shrimp

1930 • 14 min • France

Jean Painlevé is interested here, with the help of Eli Lotar, in crabs and shrimps. He is particularly interested in detailing their anatomy and observing their mating and fighting behavior.

London Melody

1930 • 58 min • United Kingdom

A film musical directed by Geoffrey Malins.

The Concentratin' Kid

1930 • 57 min • United States of America

A cowboy who loves a radio singer he's never met makes a bet that he can meet and win her.

Chad Gadjo - A Lamb

1930 • 5 min • Germany

Short film by Julius Pinschewer and Rudi Klemm.

Under Texas Skies

1930 • 57 min • United States of America

Three cowboys try to stop a crook from defrauding an orphan girl out of her money.

The Apache Kid's Escape

1930 • 47 min • United States of America

A former outlaw eludes the authorities by masquerading as a cowboy.

Behold This Mother

1930 • 60 min • Japan

Directed by Tomotaka Tasaka.

The Strangler

1930 • 11 min • United Kingdom

The Strangler shows the life history of dodder, from its earliest stage as a seedling, to its parasitic stage feeding off its host.

Plastered

1930 • 10 min • United States of America

Slapstick comics Willie West and McGinty cause havoc at a construction site as they attempt to "work."

Barnacle Bill

1930 • 8 min • United States of America

Sailor Bimbo (as Barnacle Bill) jumps ship with his little black book and visits his lady friend, Betty Boop (with dog's ears).

Hot-Toe Mollie

1930 • 7 min • United States of America

This jazzy short was one of two efforts in the very brief "Binko the Bear Cub" series. Completed in 1930 yet never exhibited in theaters. Created by a team of future animation stars including Preston Blair and brothers Bob and Tom McKimson, this fragmentary short of Binko haunting a run-down Mexican cantina whizzes along with funky, freaky visuals and fluid movement.