All Films

Whoopee!

1929 • 2 min • Germany

Short film from the British Pathé collection about an amusement park in Germany - various rides are seen, including a Helter Skelter. Was an item in Eve's Film Review issue number 459.

The Return of the 6th KLM Mail Plane from 'The East'

1929 • 3 min • Netherlands

The return of the Fokker postal aeroplane the “PH-AEN”, which took place on 22 January, 1929 at Schiphol airport, Netherlands. The pilots Duimelaar and Frijns and the mechanic Bruinesteyn are received by a large group of people, and Duimelaar winks at the camera.

Quirky Fridolf

1929 • 8 min • Sweden

Early sound film. Quirky Fridolf, with the benevolent help of an "amateur singer", prefers a couple of accordion couplets.

Bird's Eye View of New York

1929 • 7 min

Documentary about New York with aerial shots of the city, the Manhattan skyline and the Brooklyn Bridge.

From the Athens of the Northlands to the City of River Banks

1929 • 15 min • Sweden

A trip from Harnosand to Sollefteå.

R101's Maiden Flight

1929 • 2 min • United Kingdom

First outing for an imperial airship, traveling from Bedfordshire to London and back again.

Glimpses in Colour from the Whole World - Chamonix, Crimea, Split, Switzerland

1929 • 11 min

Coloured nature shots from all over the world.

Machynlleth

1929 • 2 min • United Kingdom

A beautiful, Pathécolor vision of the Powys market town of Machynlleth, famous as the location where the rebellious Owen Glendower was crowned Prince of Wales in 1404 (Cambria is the classical name for Wales).

Hop Picking In Kent

1929 • 2 min • United Kingdom

The Kent workers busily stripping vines in the hop gardens.

Slagruta

1929 • 3 min

Dowsing is the wand that shows in the hands of the right man where water is found and the well can be dug.

Sketches of a Soviet City

1929 • 29 min • Soviet Union

A "city symphony" about Kharkiv, the capital of the Ukrainian SSR in the 1920s, is interesting not only because of its avant-garde form, dynamic editing, and successful cinematography, but also because of its unique shots of the urban space and everyday life of the time. "Sketches of a Soviet City" is an important document of early Soviet urbanism, featuring the famous Gosprom building, the Palace of Labor, the Berezil theater, shops and factories, and cinemas. The documentary was filmed in the spring and summer of 1929. The film was shot by the graduates of the Odesa State Film College and was announced as a "great cultural film that will comprehensively show the life of Kharkiv."

1929 Copenhagen; Greenland

1929 • 6 min

Some Copenhagen street scenes followed by various unidentified rural scenes.

Everything Turns, Everything Revolves

1929 • 3 min • Germany

A day at the carnival — sensational tent shows where miracles can be seen for the price of admission, boisterous noise of crowds and barkers, shrill and gaudy circus music, the violence of the street ten-fold. This is the substance of Everything Turns, Richter’s first sound film. At its premier at Baden-Baden Richter got into a fight with two Nazi officials who disliked the film's ‘modernism.’ Yet in 1936 it was awarded first prize for artistic merit by the Nazis, with Richter’s name suppressed from the credits. He had long since left Germany.

Ratskin

1929 • 8 min • United States of America

While George Herriman is credited as Kat's creator here, Krazy in this short bears little resemblance to the original comic strip character. In fact, instead of pining for Ignaz Mouse, this Kat is hunting American Indians, what we call Native Americans today, as he gets almost burned at the stake by them (it should be noted that the fire, like in many animated shorts made during this time, has a personality of his own here!).

The Game of Haxey Hood

1929 • 1 min • United Kingdom

In North Lincolnshire the villagers of Haxey and Westwoodside tussle with one another whilst pursuing the 'hood'.

Pigskin Troubles

1929 • 8 min

One is the quarterback and mute. The other comes up with poor comic excuses for his bad play, and then oppresses his partner.

Frivolities

1929 • 11 min • France

An ironic look at what it is like to be beautiful for a woman (and handsome for a few men) in the Paris of the late twenties.

Guido Deiro: World's Foremost Piano-Accordionist

1929 • 6 min

His right hand virtually flies over the keyboard on the accordion. No announcement of tunes are made before playing them.

Pack Up Your Troubles

1929 • 8 min • United States of America

Douglas Stanbury & The Lyric Quartet sing a few songs.

Dooley's the Name

1929 • 8 min • United States of America

Dooley and Sales vaudeville act 'Dooley's the Name'.

Playing in the Park

1929 • 1 min • United States of America

This 1929 home movie, shot by longtime Corpus Christi resident Antonio Rodríguez Fuentes, may well represent some of the earliest produced by a Mexican-American filmmaker about the Mexican-American community in Texas. In the footage, Fuentes captures his wife Josefina and four of their children playing in a park in Corpus Christi. Josefina also takes a turn behind the camera to document her husband with the children.

Some Pumpkins

1929 • 9 min • United States of America

Short musical comedy.

Del pingo al volante

1929 • 45 min • Uruguay

Branding

1929 • 33 min

Between documentary and fiction, "Branding" (also know as "Breakers") stars an unemployed sailor from Katwijk, a land that sparked Ivens’ interest in the movement of the big waves crashing on the rocks. Determined to film them, he faced them with his camera and the result is staggering.