All Films

La Tendresse

1930 • 56 min • France

A famous academic, very in love with his much younger wife, has every reason to believe that his love is reciprocated. He learns that he is being cheated on and falls seriously ill. His wife cares for him tirelessly and he understands that she has always given him the best of herself.

Little Red Riding Hood

1930 • 60 min • France

This is 1929: the little red riding hood is still with us and her life is more complicated than ever. She still has to go through the forest and she once again comes up against a wolf. This time around the big bad wolf has become a lecherous tramp who keeps stalking the girl trying to wolf her down ... in his own way of course.

Toby the Fiddler

1930 • 7 min

A Toby the Pup short.

Bowery Bimbos

1930 • 10 min • United States of America

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

A Soldier's Plaything

1930 • 56 min • United States of America

A pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after WW I.

Firebrand Jordan

1930 • 55 min • United States of America

'Firebrand' Jordan is a ranger sent into the high Sierras to assist the local Sheriff Ed Burns in capturing a mysterious band of counterfeiters.

Night of Goblins

1930 • 47 min • United States of America

Spanish version of The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case and Berth Marks.

I Love You... But Why?

1930 • 40 min

Yira, yira

1930 • 3 min • Argentina

Carlos Gardel and guitars performing "Yira, yira", tango composed and written by Enrique Santos Discépolo.

Tengo miedo

1930 • 3 min • Argentina

Carlos Gardel performing "Tengo miedo", tango composed by José María Aguilar and written by Celedonio Flores.

The Man Hunter

1930 • 60 min • United States of America

Rin-Tin-Tin leaves his usual far north and ranch settings for Africa.

What a Life

1930 • 10 min • United States of America

A musical parody on prison reform in which a prison warden gives his cellblocks the look of a summer resort in order to stave off reformers.

Westward Bound

1930 • 55 min

After Bob Lansing (Jay Wilsey as Buffalo Bill Jr). is involved in a nightclub scrape, where he meets Montana rancher Madge Holt (Allene Ray)), his father sends him out west with his chauffeur Ben (Ben Corbett). In Montana, they are mistaken for rustlers Dick (Tom London) and Jim (Yakima Canutt), and Bob again meets Madge, who recognizes him but wishes to make things difficult for him.

Idle Chatter

1930 • 10 min

Says how much he likes ballet. He wonders why the girls are always running with no one chasing them. And the male dancers are always running to the female dancers. Then he does an amalgam of nursery rhyme lines in a long dissertation.

Forty Winks

1930 • 8 min • United States of America

There's no real plot here: just a string of gags on the theme of sleep, or trying to get to sleep. First, Felix and a quartet of feline Felix clones are yowling while a man is trying to sleep; then Felix encounters various obstacles in his own attempts to tryst with Morpheus.

Revival Day

1930 • 9 min • United States of America

A black-face minstrel preacher motivates his congregation in song. Gags include a stockpile of guns outside the church and stolen chickens.

Scotch

1930 • 22 min • United States of America

Scotch is a 1930 comedy short.

The Old Farm

1930 • 50 min • Sweden

A feature length movie made by Allmänna valmansförbundet (today known as Moderaterna) for the Swedish elections. Illustrates how a young peasant whose father and forefathers strived hard for their farm.

Burning Up

1930 • 60 min • United States of America

Racecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love with Ruth Morgan, whose father is marked as a victim by the gang.

Midnight

1930 • 7 min • United States of America

It's a straight musical involving a barbershop quartet of alley cats and some dogs summoned from the pound to quiet them to little success. The animation and visual gags are simple and old fashioned, but the aural gags are nicely done and even if there's little coordination between the animation and the music.

Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay

1930 • 21 min • Japan

Silent comedic short by Mikio Naruse

Infatuation

1930 • 35 min • United Kingdom

A youth falls for an ageing actress and discovers she is his mother.

Kuster Beaton

1930 • 11 min

Marionette parody of Buster Keaton.

Beyond the Rio Grande

1930 • 50 min • United States of America

Having quit their old gang and gone straight, Bert Allen and Joe Kemp finally own their own ranch after three years, but Joe robs the Riverton bank of the Green River Dam payroll - using Bert's horse, gun and gloves and leaving behind Bert's hat.