All Films - Short Movie Database

Ko-Ko's Hot Ink

1929 • 8 min

Drawn with steaming ink, Koko and Fitz try to cool off.

Monkey's Moon

1929 • 6 min • Switzerland, United Kingdom

Experimental short.

The Golden Flower

1929 • 17 min • Japan

A man has a strange adventure on a hill as he returns from the village festival.

Grace Johnston and the Indiana Five

1929 • 7 min

Grace starts the film by singing 'That's My Baby.' The five band members do an instrumental, then Grace sings 'Glad Rag Doll.'

The Country Gentlemen

1929 • 7 min • United States of America

The comedy team of Jack Born and Elmer Lawrence perform their vaudeville act.

Fourth of July Parade

1929 • 1 min • United States of America

This home movie, shot by longtime Corpus Christi resident Antonio Rodríguez Fuentes, captures the Fourth of July parade through downtown Corpus Christi in 1929. The footage provides insight into the early construction of parade floats, with many adopting a boxy appearance and featuring limited decoration. Fuentes and his wife Josefina were active members of the city's Mexican-American society, participating in several community organizations.

Little Miss Everybody

1929 • 8 min • United States of America

A musical short starring, Zelda Santley and Victor Pelle.

The Estate of Basterretxe

1929 • 53 min • Spain

Josetxu, the farmhouse mayoraz, leaves the farm and wants to go to the sea. His sister, Mirentxu Txomin, has fallen in love with the town's main dancer.Don Timoteo is trying to endanger the happiness of the three, the Indian who wants to take possession of Basterretxetetan coastline. Lizard, an evil citizen, has spread concerns among the Basterretxetans, with the help of Don Timoteo and Pakito, who is pursuing Mirentxu.

Early Sound Footage of Kyoto, Japan

1929 • 15 min

Collection of everyday scenes in Kyoto, Japan in the year 1929. These films were taken with the early Movietone sound cameras.

The Arrival of First Train to Dushanbe

1929 • 1 min • Soviet Union

The first Tajik film in history. Camera operators Kuzin, Shevich and Gezulin recorded the arrival of the first train to Stalinabad (present-day Dushanbe).

The Polite Burglar

1929 • 10 min • United Kingdom

A comedy full of continuity, editing, script and direction errors, produced for a meeting of the London Amateur Cinematographers' Association and the basis of a competition for the club members. A married woman, her husband, a pianist and a burglar have a "money-go-round" as they steal, hide and return the husband's cash.

Hal Roach Presents Harry Langdon

1929 • 7 min

Hal Roach produced this short to introduce Harry Langdon to his comic line-up.

Kaya Palat

1929 • 7 min

Suresh Chabria writes: ‘Continuing Jamai Babu’s association of the city with sexual exploits and licence, this one-reel comedy is about ‘a gentleman recently turned a loafer’ or a would-be Lothario at large. On the look-out for a female companion in a park, he is involved in various clumsily executed gags. In one of them a dog rips out the seat of his new trousers. But ever resourceful, he gets the patch painted by a man who is nonchalantly painting a nearby fence. Pursuing the damsel he fancies, he manages to kidnap the wrong woman who is also dressed in a black veil. The shotgun marriage ends mortifyingly for the hero—he has married an ugly hag’

Over Besseggen with a Motorcycle

1929 • 3 min • Norway

Rostros de paseantes en el Parque de la Alameda

1929 • 1 min • Ecuador

Faces of walkers in Alameda Park

Paseo de las banderillas anunciando los toros

1929 • 1 min • Ecuador

Paseo de las banderillas announcing the bulls

Glimpses of the Culion Leper Colony and of Culion Life

1929 • 36 min • Philippines

This is one of the earliest representations of the Philippines in moving images. Stored in the British Film Institute archives, this administrative reconnaissance film exhibits the Culion leper colony in the province of Palawan and is being shown for the first time in the country.

Five Minutes

1929 • 48 min • Soviet Union

The news of the death of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin shocked the whole world. The working people of England and France, Spain and China, Africa and America in the great sorrows bowed their heads. January 27, 1924 at four o'clock in the afternoon, when in Moscow, on Red Square, the Soviet people buried Lenin, in everything work stopped for five minutes. Plants and factories stopped, stopped the movement of trains, ships and cars. This day is large American concessionaire should have made a good deal with a representative of one of the countries of the East. On the way, the Chinese driver stopped his car for five minutes. These minutes decided the success of the millionth deal. But no persuasion, bribery and threats to the concessionaire could force the driver to continue driving.