All Films

Radiomanía

1930 • 20 min • United States of America

Laurel and Hardy attempt to put up an aerial with disastrous results. Spanish language version of Hog Wild (1930).

Canyon Hawks

1930 • 57 min

Cattleman Benson finds Mildred and her brother George living in one of his cabins and their sheep are on his land. Attracted to Mildred, he not only lets her stay, he deeds part of his land to her. This leads to trouble with the other cattlemen.

Dangerous Paradise

1930 • 58 min • United States of America

Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms...

The Picnic

1930 • 7 min • United States of America

Summertime, and Mickey takes Minnie on a picnic. While Pluto is chasing a rabbit, and Mickey and Minnie are doing a courtship dance, every animal in the woods is busy making off with their picnic food. And then the rain comes.

Sinners' Holiday

1930 • 60 min • United States of America

Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.

Strictly Unconventional

1930 • 55 min • United States of America

An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian. However her mother-in-law, who did something similar thirty years before, tries to prevent her.

Hide-Out

1930 • 59 min

A bootlegger on the run from the law hides out on a college campus. He disguises himself as a student and soon becomes the school's star athlete and the most popular man on campus.

Exhibition Reel of Two Color Film

1929 • 4 min

Intended as an exhibition to filmmakers of the 1920's designed to illustrate the diverse uses for Brewster Color (such as for cartoons, advertising spots in theaters and location shootings).

White Gold

1929 • 41 min • Soviet Union

This film deals with the struggle for effective cotton production during the years of collectivization

Prater

1929 • 14 min

The experimental short Prater by Friedrich Kuplent can be considered as a pioneering work of Austrian avant-garde film and a city symphony. His film portrays Vienna through a day at the city's famous Prater fairground.

The Two College Nuts

1929 • 8 min • United States of America

Two college boys have a flat tire. They proceed to play music on a tire, a bassoon, a balloon and an umbrella.

Oklahoma Bob Albright and His Rodeo Do Flappers

1929 • 8 min • United States of America

Vitaphone short in which Oklahoma Bob and his two "daughters" perform a series of musical numbers, including an exciting new dance craze.

The Arctic Patrol

1929 • 40 min • Canada

A documentary of the voyage of the "CGS Beothic" as it sails to various northern Canadian territories.

Charles C. Peterson: Billiard Champion of Fancy Shots

1929 • 9 min • United States of America

Vitaphone short in which Charles C. Peterson performs a number of challenging billiard trick shots.

Ecuador Noticiero Ocaña Film

1929 • 23 min • Ecuador

Reception with Ambassadors to Ecuador when President Isidro Ayora took office. Aspects of Public Administration in education and health.

Open-Air Market in Berlin

1929 • 18 min • Germany

The weekly market at Wittenbergplatz, from the vendor set-up in the early morning hours to the clean-up in the afternoon, provides an opportunity for sympathetic observation of the customers. The city of market stalls in Berlin’s centre becomes a place where urban and rural intersect. Housewives in a rush meet feisty female farmers, chic ladies, butchers in shirtsleeves, and travelling hawkers.

Telling the World

1929 • 10 min

As the title suggests, ‘Telling The World’ was made for an overseas audience as was much of the Government film unit’s output. It covers the roles and functions of the Cinema and Photographic Branch and shows Bert Ive filming some of the iconic images he would capture of important Australian events and places. The opening sequence shows a meeting between the Cinema Branch’s Officer-in-Charge Lyn Maplestone and Bert Ive, who appear periodically throughout the film. Ive continued to work for the branch until his death in 1939. The film has been sepia toned, a specialised chemical treatment enhancing black and white film with a warmer tone. Some scenes in the processing laboratory are tinted red. An excellent example of the period’s documentary and innovative filmmaking techniques.

Woman Warrior White Rose

1929 • 29 min

Bai Suying, a talented athlete from a women’s sports academy, gives a stand-out performance at a school demonstration and is awarded “the outfit of a heroine.” Donning the swashbuckling costume, and pasting on a moustache, she hones her talents at archery and swordplay. Soon, a summons addressed to “my son Tiemin” arrives from her father, asking for help in reclaiming the Gongbao Herding Ground, which has been seized by the gang of Pan Debiao.

Dos mujeres en el parque

1929 • 1 min • Ecuador

Ladies acting and blowing kisses.

La electricidad

1929 • 21 min • Argentina

Documentary made by Federico Valle for C.H.A.D.E. (Compañia Hispano-Americana de Electricidad).

Japan. To Rid Their Souls of Evil

1929 • 1 min • Japan

Footage from a religious cleansing ceremony in Japan, dated back to 1929.

Why Flux is Happy ! ...

1929 • 4 min • Netherlands

Short silent Dutch animation film.

The Little Swiss Woodcarver

1929 • 10 min • United States of America

A Swiss boy tries to deliver a carved wooden dog. A short exploration of Switzerland ensues. Missing some footage at the head. Harvard Film Archive #21029, reformatted from 16mm silent print.

The Hague Electric Company

1929 • 23 min • Netherlands

Dutch promotional film showing shots of cables being laid in a busy street. The film also shows the convenience that electricity brings to household chores, such as ironing and vacuuming. Many devices are filmed in close-up. In this film, Otto van Neijenhoff employs more of an avant-garde style than he typically does in his other films. Atmospheric images of trams and trains, with much use of dissolves, as well as evening and night shots in the illuminated city.