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El terror de la frontera

1929 • 5 min • Ecuador

Early silent Western from Ecuador.

Nogent, Eldorado du dimanche

1929 • 16 min • France

A short, early travel documentary about Nogent. The film starts with images of trains, buses, and railway tracks, which are juxtaposed to shots of deserted Paris streets, empty factories, and typewriters packed in slipcovers. It is a natural landscape organized by industrial infrastructure and populated by the urban crowds who are swimming, rowing, canoeing, sailing, fishing, or biking.

Two Good Boys Gone Wrong

1929 • 10 min • United States of America

This brash comedy team toured extensively in vaudeville, and even made a Victor 78 of much of the material contained in this short.

Carlena Diamond: Harpist Supreme

1929 • 6 min • United States of America

Carlena Diamond plays her harp for this Vitaphone production reel #864.

The Big Scare

1929 • 6 min • United States of America

Newspaper claims "The End of the World is Near". Farmer Al Falfa tries to help animals get away.

Roy Fox, the Whispering Cornetist, and His Orchestra

1929 • 7 min

The Whispering Coronetist, Roy Fox and His Orchestra are broadcasting from Warner Bros. Studios and perform these three musical numbers: 1. 'Sally Of My Dreams,' 2. 'My Window of Dreams,' and 3. 'Louisiana.'

Aviadores y amigos en la Hacienda San Carlos

1929 • 1 min • Ecuador

Airmen and friends at Hacienda San Carlos

Yamamoto Senji's Farewell Ceremony

1929 • 2 min • Japan

Yamamoto Senji fought against the Peace Preservation Law in the Diet. On March 5, 1929 he was assassinated by the right wing. A farewell ceremony was held near the University of Tokyo. Prokino's Tokyo Branch shot the procession.

Parisian Pedallers

1929 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Take a tour de France as cyclists double up for a tandem race through Paris's Bois de Boulogne.

Ko-Ko's Big Sale

1929 • 8 min

Koko the Clown and his dog try to become salesmen.

Harlem-Mania

1929 • 9 min • United States of America

The Norman Thomas Quintet performs "Sleep Baby Sleep," "Listen to the Mockingbird," and "Melody in F," with quite a flair for comedy mixed in.

The Irresponsibles

1929 • 39 min • United Kingdom

'An unwary young woman led astray by a grinning gentleman on a motorcycle ends up with a sexually transmitted disease in this straight-talking female-focused silent public information film drama. Her doctor recounts - in a series of ominous flashbacks - sad tales of other women in similar situations who foolhardily let gonorrhoea and syphilis go untreated.' (BFI Player)

Vamos Fallá do Norte

1929 • 3 min • Brazil

Two Pence Magic

1929 • 4 min • Germany

Two Penny Magic (Zweigroschenzauber) starting off with a little magic trick. It then presents an array of images from swimmers, bicyclers, murderers, airplanes in flight, boxers, lovers, runners, becoming in the end a collection of images in a magazine.

'Neath Western Skies

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

Ranch owner Tex McCloud is convinced there is oil under his property and brings in a drilling rig and equipment to drill for it. But a gang who wants the property wage a sabotage and theft war against him.

Astero

1929 • 57 min • Greece

In a village in the Peloponnese, on the slopes of Mt. Chelmos, lives rich sheep owner Mitros with his wife Asimina, his son Thymios and adopted daughter Astero. The children love each other, but Mitros betroths Astero to Stamos, another rich sheep owner. When Stamos is killed and Astero loses her mind, Mitros, watching his son wither away, tells him that his entire fortune is Astero's and urges him to marry her.

Fishing Around

1929 • 9 min • United States of America

Anderson and Graves vaudeville act 'Fishing Around'.

The Big Paraders

1929 • 11 min • United States of America

An energetic "heavyweight" song and dance troupe of six performs with gusto.

Planty krakowskie

1929 • 9 min • Poland

Join us for a 9-minute walk through the city and its main park, Planty, caught by the eye of Mysłowicz, founder of the Lumen Film Institute. Unlike most major Polish cities, Kraków wasn’t destroyed during the Second World War, which means Planty krakowskie gives you a splendid opportunity to almost feel like you’re there today.

Corrida profesional Plaza Belmonte

1929 • 1 min • Ecuador

Professional bullfight Plaza Belmonte

Hardboiled Rose

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

A Southern Belle must work in a gambling house to pay off her father's debts, which drove him to suicide. She then meets a man who sweeps her off her feet and takes her away from it all.

While the Fallas Burn

1929 • 39 min • Spain

Film directed by Miguel Monleón with plot and signs by Valencian journalists José Fernández Caireles and Federico Miñana. It is a fictionalized documentary on Valencia's festivity that takes a fictional story as its common thread, the journey of a jealous husband, Chordi, from Alcoi to the city looking for his wife, Riteta, who is gone with a friend to see the Fallas after arguing with his man about his new film-inspired haircut.

Old Man Trouble

1929 • 7 min

The Columbia-Victor Gems series was Columbia’s answer to Warner Bros.’ Vitaphone shorts, often featuring vaudevillians or musical performers in a short sketch or musical number. Old Man Trouble stars concert singer Jules Bledsoe, best-known for creating the role of Joe in Kern and Hammerstein’s Showboat, which had just concluded its Broadway run at the time this film was made.

Dr Turner's Mental Home

1929 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A wicked doctor experiments on the inmates of his mental home