All Films

Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1

1930 • 9 min • United States of America

Mickey's Warriors

1930 • 18 min

A high society lady tries to bring peace between the Mickey's Scorpions and Stinky Davis' gang.

Oceantics

1930 • 9 min • United States of America

Oceantics starts with Felix walking while whistling. He sees a monkey playing a harmonica. After finishing, the monkey gets showered with coins. Felix then comes upon a billboard of a player piano.

Mickey's Whirlwinds

1930 • 17 min • United States of America

Mickey Rooney -- credited as McGuire, as he would be through the run of the series -- inducts a new member into the gang, tries to put little brother Billy Barty to bed for a nap, and wins a basketball game against Stinky Davis' team in this episode of the series.

Lilies of the Field

1930 • 60 min • United States of America

Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.

Code of Honor

1930 • 55 min • United States of America

Cardsharp Jack Cardigan decides to go straight when he meets Doris Bradfield, but is forced to use his talents on behalf of her dad, whose land-grant title has fallen into the hands of Jed Harden through the gambling weakness of Bradfield's son Tom.

An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee

1930 • 11 min • United States of America

Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, attended by most of the major players and song writers under contract to WB at that time.

Hard Times

1930 • 27 min • Japan

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Phantom of the Desert

1930 • 58 min

Horses are being stolen by a white stallion known as "The Phantom of the Desert." A cowboy sets out to find who's behind it.

Darktown Follies

1930 • 18 min • United States of America

Musical short starring Buck & Bubbles.

Mickey's Champs

1930 • 18 min

Mickey and the kids befriend a couple of tramps. But when the tramps are accused of stealing, Mickey and Hambone find themselves trying to expose who they think is the real crook: a doctor in a spooky house.

Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5

1930 • 9 min • United States of America

Andy Clyde plays football with the Sennett girls; Mary Pickford's miniature golf course is shown.

Mickey's Luck

1930 • 18 min

Mickey and the gang become fire fighters. Features ridiculous stunts (including a car getting hit by a train, and Spencer Bell sharing a scene with a live lion).

The Detective

1930 • 6 min • United States of America

Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released September 22, 1930.

Western Knights

1930 • 18 min • United States of America

Western Slapstick. A good chance to see Al St. John moving into the western comedy sidekick that would be his bread and butter role for the next twenty years. Also, it's a rare screen opportunity for Addie McPhail, Roscoe Arbuckle's wife and therefore Al's aunt.

Temple Tower

1930 • 58 min • United States of America

The film depicts the character of Bulldog Drummond, a British adventurer and is based on the novel Temple Tower by Herman Cyril McNeile. Bulldog Drummond goes up against a group of jewel thieves led by Blackton and a Masked Strangler they double-crossed who wants revenge.

Sinister Harvest

1930 • 9 min • United States of America

Early "shockumentary", apparently shot in Egypt, which documents the habits of opium addicts. The interiors of drug dens are shown, and at the conclusion the film an addict is shown collapsing on a sand dune; the booming voice of the narrator informs us that the addict has perished. Footage used is from the silent film Dope Fiends.

Pioneer Days

1930 • 8 min • United States of America

Mickey and Minnie are on a wagon train; they camp for the night, unaware that Indians have spotted them and are doing a war dance. The attack comes, and Minnie is captured.

Midnight Daddies

1930 • 59 min • United States of America

Midnight Daddies is a black-and-white comedy short.

Wolves

1930 • 57 min • United Kingdom

An outlaw leader fakes a draw for a sick girl so he can help her escape

Tee Time

1930 • 9 min • United States of America

Felix tricks his father into thinking that he's practicing the piano, then escapes to play golf with Skidoo the mouse. After raising the ire of the local fire department, he's shot overseas on a jet of water and lands in Africa, where jungle cannibals try to devour him.

The Sea of Ravens

1930 • 25 min • France

Jean Epstein’s short documentary filmed on the Breton island of Sein, which film preservationist and cinephile Henri Langlois called “one of the most beautiful documentaries in the history of French film, a true poem about Brittany and the sea."

Trailing Trouble

1930 • 58 min • United States of America

Ed King travels east to sell Pop Blake's cattle. While there Buck, another of Blake's hands, plans to rob Ed by using a local girl Ming Toy as a decoy. Ming Toy gets the money and returning empty handed, and before the other hands arrive, Ed is surprised to find Ming Toy return with the men.

Back Pay

1930 • 56 min • United States of America

Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.