All Films

Stage Struck Susie

1929 • 12 min • United States of America

Eddie Barry bewilders himself backstage at a show.

Bride Of The Desert

1929 • 57 min

Calhoun is the Miner's wife being driven frantic by husband Mason when Laidlaw staggers into her cabin seeking refuge from a posse on his trail.

Fire Proof

1929 • 18 min • United States of America

After losing his job as a firefighter, Lupino decides to start his own station.

Carolina Segrera, 'The Cuban Nightingale'

1929 • 8 min

Opera singer Carolina Segrera belts out a couple tunes in this early Vitaphone short that has her being backed by don Alberto and His Argentines.

The Harvest of Hate

1929 • 50 min • United States of America

Purchasing the Carney Carnival and Road Show, unscrupulous sportsman Martin Trask assumes he has ownership of Rex, the world's greatest trained horse, and its rider, Margie Smith. The girl releases Rex, flees from Trask in a runaway wagon, and finds shelter with young cowboy farmer Jack Merritt, with whom she falls in love.

At the Party

1929 • 7 min • United States of America

Buddy Harris and Frank Radcliffe crack some jokes, play craps, and sing a song.

The Witch's Cat

1929 • 3 min • United States of America

Snap the Gingerbread Man attracts some unwanted attention from an enchanted cat.

Ko-Ko's Conquest

1929 • 8 min • United States of America

Ko-Ko the Clown thinks being a hero is easy, but his animator tries to prove him otherwise

Songology

1929 • 9 min • United States of America

Coletta Ryan and Duke Yellman singing a few of their songs in 'Songology'.

A Texas Cowboy

1929 • 58 min • United States of America

Dick Carlysle returns home to find that his mother has married Brute Kettle who is really out to get the Carlysle ranch. First Kettle gets Bennett to forge a letter saying Dick relinquishes his inheritance in the ranch and then he tries to get Dick's mother to relinquish hers.

A Bird in the Hand

1929 • 9 min • United States of America

Frank Orth strikes a conversation with a lady feeding imaginary birds.

Don't Get Nervous

1929 • 8 min • United States of America

Georgie Price tells Bryan Foy, who is to direct his short film, that he is nervous about performing to a camera and microphone instead of an audience. He then sings a couple songs, in an Al Jolson/Eddie Cantor style.

After the Round-Up

1929 • 8 min

The Rounders, an 11-man band, are the act here as they perform three stars in a gimmick that is meant to have them as cowboys who are gathered around after a hard days work to cut loose and sing some songs.

Richmond Historical Pageant

1929 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Druids, Romans and Norman knights return to Richmond for the 600th anniversary of the Yorkshire town's charter.

Below the Deadline

1929 • 57 min • United States of America

Beau Nash is a "gentleman crook" who headquarters his gang of jewel thieves in a run-down boardinghouse. When one of his gang, Mike, gets arrested, his sister Claire--aka "Lady Byron"--swears to get revenge. The gang frames Donald, the best friend of the detective who arrested Mike, for a jewelry store robbery. The detective gives Donald--and his new love, Claire--a short time to find the thieves and clear his name before he takes him in.

Mickey's Great Idea

1929 • 18 min • United States of America

The gang build their own airplane, and Mickey and Hambone go for a high-flying adventure when the plane supposedly starts to work.

Faro Nell

1929 • 20 min • United States of America

Sweet Nell is the jewel of Dry Gulch and all of the eligible bachelors seek her hand. The townsfolk are willing to shoot any stranger who casts aspersions on her honor - and rule it a legal suicide. The men are crestfallen when she chooses Dick to be her beau. A jealous suitor frames the lucky cowpoke for murder.

Burning the Wind

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

Two ranchers get together to fight a common enemy and fall in love.

Silks and Saddles

1929 • 59 min • United States of America

Jockey Johnny Spencer loses his job with Mrs. Calhoun for throwing a race. An adventuress named Sybil, who made Johnny hold back Mrs. Calhoun's horse, Lady, leaves him, and he becomes a racetrack bum. Johnny returns to Mrs. Calhoun's stable when the new jockey proves unable to manage Lady. Johnny wins the next race, thereby regaining Mrs. Calhoun's confidence and winning the love of her attractive daughter, Lucy.

Fifty Miles from Broadway

1929 • 17 min • United States of America

A vaudeville style comedy/musical short about a couple that gets engaged and their fighting families.

King of the Rodeo

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

A Montana cowboy battles lowlifes while preparing for a competition in Chicago.

The Black Cat

1929 • 3 min • Japan

A black cat sings and dances, animated using cut-outs.

The Prince of Wails

1929 • 9 min • United States of America

Mel Klee performs his black-face vaudeville act in 'The Prince of Wails'.

China Town, My China Town

1929 • 6 min • United States of America

In this one, there are two Chinese men on screen. One is eating and the one to the right of him is ironing. The one eating seems to be so dumb as to accidentally swallow a shirt that was just ironed in front of him.