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Drăguș, viața unui sat românesc

1929 • 45 min • Romania

One of the first sociological and ethnographic documentary films worldwide, made by the team of sociologists and students of Professor Dimitrie Gusti (1880-1955) in the village of Drăguş, Făgăraş County, Romania.

The Overland Telegraph

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

At the beginning of the Civil War, as federal troops start to build the first overland telegraph, Indians, who fear the wires, kill some of the linesmen. In response, Major Hammond, who oversees the troops, requests that President Abraham Lincoln send twenty thousand more soldiers to come to his aid. Lincoln grants Hammond's request, and sends along Capt. Allen, who is knowledgeable about Indians. At his new post, Allen discovers that a Confederate spy has been fomenting trouble with the Indians. Allen eventually uncovers the spy, makes peace with the Indians and wins the love of Dorothy, a young woman who lives at the post.

Down in Mexico

1929 • 3 min • United States of America

One of the rarest of the "Kinex" Studio shorts.

Sernache do Bom Jardim

1929 • 11 min

Film by Brazilian director Silvino Santos

A Day on the Broads

1929 • 18 min • United Kingdom

With their gramophone perched on the back of their launch, the family set off for a day of rest and relaxation on the Broads and Suffolk coast.

Ko-Ko's Reward

1929 • 8 min

Thanks to Magic Ink, a live-action girl joins Koko in a haunted house.

The Cross of an Angel

1929 • 41 min • Venezuela

A silent religious drama from Venezuela.

The Gotham Rhythm Boys

1929 • 7 min • United States of America

The Gotham Rhythm Boys perform a few of their songs.

Corrida

1929 • 5 min • France

A Man Ray documentary short on bullfighting.

Hilda

1929 • 9 min • United States of America

Billie 'Swede' Hall & Company in the comedy short 'Hilda'.

Yamamoto Senji Watanabe Masanosuke Worker-Farmer Funeral

1929 • 11 min • Japan

After his Tokyo farewell ceremony, Yamamoto's ashes were sent to Kyoto on March 9. Many friends and citizens gathered at his home in Uji. On the 15th a worker-farmer funeral was held at the Sanjo YMCA. Prokino's Kyoto Branch shot these five days of activities. The long line of cars is filled with taxis, whose drivers deeply admired Yamamoto. The Watanabe in the title refers to the head of the Communist Party of Japan. Watanabe was returning to Japan from Taiwan when he was stopped by authorities. He committed suicide in their custody. Yamamoto and Watanabe were mourned together.

A Musicale Melange

1929 • 7 min • United States of America

This Vitaphone short features the Kjerulf Mayfair Quintette in their only film performance. Their act is basically five women, three on a harp, one on a violin and another that does the singing. The songs performed are "Sextette," "Neapolitan Night" and "Lonely Little Bluebird".

Chinese Entertainers

1929 • 6 min

From the Fox Movietone News Collection, three Chinese singers and musicians perform a song about the Ming Dynasty, then storytellers tell a story about bargaining at the market. Fox Movietone News Story 4-866.

Snappy Sneezer

1929 • 19 min • United States of America

Charley falls in love with Mary, but his attack of hay fever alienates her father.

Mode Reville

1929 • 29 min • France

Silent documentary short showcasing a fashion show in the late twenties set at the Côte d'Azur.

Montparnasse

1929 • 17 min • France

Come take an avant-garde walk in the Montparnasse of the late 1920's. This district of Paris, filmed in a most unusual way, shows how dedicated it is to art. Visit its art galleries and exhibitions, take a glimpse of famous painter Fujita, of Luis Buñuel eyeing the legs of beautiful Parisian passing the terrace of the café where he sits, of Italian futurists Marinetti, Prampolini and Russolo.

Metro Movietone Revue #1

1929 • 13 min • United States of America

Early MGM sound short featuring vaudeville acts Van and Schenck, The Capitolians, Grace Rogers, and Harry Rose.

Mount Fuji – The Movement of Clouds

1929 • 17 min • Japan

In 1927, meteorologist Masanao Abe (1891-1966) established the Abe Cloud Air Current Research Observatory on the heights of Gotemba in Shizuoka Prefecture. Until 1942, through his contributions to research magazines and publications, he worked on elucidating the formation process of clouds above Mount Fuji. He left a colossal archive representative of modern meteorology, including pictorial records of every kind-- this one an early success, artistically.

At the Last Hour

1929 • 45 min • Soviet Union

1918 year. One of the southern cities is captured by the Whites. An underground Bolshevik committee is preparing an armed uprising in the city.

Rhythms in Blue

1929 • 7 min

Bobbe Arnst accompanied by Peggy Ellis on piano plays us a few songs.

After the Ball

1929 • 5 min • United States of America

This one covers the 19th century ballad in a very respectful manner: although the written reprise is gagged up, the song is introduced very respectfully by an unshown Irish tenor and then offered for the audience's singing without any voice-over to lead them.

High on the Range

1929 • 2 min

Years before "Reefer Madness" brought hysterical misunderstandings of marijuana to mainstream America, audiences were treated to "High on the Range," a silent short film from 1929. The story features Dave, a naive rancher who becomes a murderer after smoking less than a full joint.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

1929 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Cartoon based on Rudolph Erich Raspe's stories about Baron Münchhausen.

Barco pesquero

1929 • 1 min • Ecuador

Fishing boat