All Films

The Devil Bear

1929 • 60 min • Canada

A ship's captain keeps a tame gorilla as a pet. During a mutiny the captain is injured by a blow and the gorilla saves him by hiding him in a cave. As others try to get close things get heated.

A Straightforward Boy

1929 • 14 min • Japan

A kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle.

Liebfraumilch

1929 • 4 min • Germany

Fragment of "Our Lady's Milk" (Liebfraumilch German wine)

The Peacock Fan

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

A bumbling detective sent to investigate a murder at a wealth home is replaced by a sneering second investigator of mixed racial ancestry in this mystery involving an ancient Asian fan.

Overland Bound

1929 • 58 min • United States of America

Trying to trick Ma (Lydia Knott) and Mary Winters (Allene Ray) into selling their rundown ranch, which will be in the path of a future railroad, Underwood (Charles K.French) hires Keno Creager (Albert Smith) to impersonate Jimmy Winters, not seen by his mother and sister for many years.

Come and Get It!

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

When Breezy's father is accused of murdering his neighbor, the former Navy boxing champ takes to the street to clear his name.

The Morning Sun Shines

1929 • 25 min • Japan

The Morning Sun Shines is a fiction-documentary film by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina. The film is a combination of a drama about a reporter, and documentary footage about newspaper production. Only 25 minutes of footage has survived.

An Affair of the Clasps

1929 • 40 min • Soviet Union

The Wheel of Life

1929 • 55 min • United States of America

British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat is at present on leave in London. Falling in love with Ruth Dangan, the wife of his commanding officer, Yeullat does the gentlemanly thing by suppressing his own emotions for the sake of the Regiment. He goes so far as to resign from his commission and returns to India as a civilian.

Why Is a Plumber?

1929 • 20 min • United States of America

“This hilarious bit of foolishness has for its theme the gradual rise of a hard-working plumber and his wife, who, after years of struggle, find themselves with a lovely home. The wife who has social aspirations and a desire to entertain people of wealth and note, invites a millionaire couple to dinner. She hires a caterer to help her with the serving and they send a butler who turns out to be a truck driver with whom her husband has had a collision, a short time before, which resulted in a street fight. What these two do when they recognize each other and what happened to the millionaire couple has to be seen to be appreciated.”

The Life of an Office Worker

1929 • 57 min • Japan

When Tsukamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates other employment opportunities. Considered to be a lost film.

Rain

1929 • 16 min • Netherlands

A lyrical portrait of Amsterdam and its changing appearance during a rain-shower.

Drifters

1929 • 49 min • United Kingdom

A silent film by John Grierson. It tells the story of Britain's North Sea herring fishery.

Baby Talks

1929 • 20 min • United States of America

First Episode in the Sunny Jim 2-reel sound comedy series. A young couple have an argument on the way to a party. A Magician played by Charles King entertains but the tricks are duplicated/exposed by Sunny Jim.

The White Outlaw

1929 • 56 min • United States of America

Known as the White Outlaw for the kerchief he wears, Johnny Douglas decides to go straight. Getting a job as a cowhand he gives the kerchief to his new friend Ted Williams. When the rancher's daughter, the girl friend of Ted, agrees to marry the man holding the note on the ranch so he won't foreclose, Ted uses the kerchief when he robs the stage. When Ted is spotted and jailed, Johnny has a plan to return the money and clear Ted.

The Devil's Chaplain

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

Escaping from a revolution, the King of a mythical Balkan country heads to the United States. Here he finds a friend in the form of dashing secret service agent Yorke Norray.

The Lady from the Sea

1929 • 57 min • United Kingdom

Handsome young fisherman Tom Roberts is among the crew of a lifeboat that rescues Frenchwoman Claire le Grange, sole survivor of a shipwreck on the treacherous Goodwin Sands. Tom's marriage to his own sweetheart, Mary, is postponed owing to injuries he sustained in the dramatic rescue, and during his convalescence he falls for the charms of the flirtatious Claire.

The Ridin' Demon

1929 • 50 min • United States of America

The Ridin' Demon is a 1929 American Western film directed by Ray Taylor.

The Exalted Flapper

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

Princess Cecelie of Capra, a small Alpine nation, visits the U.S. with her mother, Queen Charlotte, and becomes enamored with Jazz Age culture. The princess refuses an arranged marriage with Prince Boris of Dacia, unaware that they have already fallen in love during a chance meeting.

Mickey's Big Moment

1929 • 18 min

The film finds Mickey and Hambone trying to dig up some dirt on Stinky Davis' father.

Mickey's Midnite Follies

1929 • 18 min • United States of America

Part of the Mickey McGuire short series starring Mickey Rooney. Currently only reel #2 has been found.

Code of the West

1929 • 53 min

Leary is using the Express Agent's liking for alcohol to enable his men to steal insured packages. Then he claims the insurance. Railroad Agent Hartley is sent to investigate and suspecting Leary, he and the Sheriff plan to trap them the next time they try their scheme.

His Lucky Day

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

When a young man acts foolish, he's either insane, in debt or in love, and there's not much difference! Real estate agent Charles Blaydon is in love and in order to get the father of his sweetheart Kay Weaver to purchase a nearby property he is must fill the vacant house next door. So he does something foolish when he offers a few months rent free to the first group of prospective buyer he finds. However in his eagerness he doesn't suspect that this peculiar group isn't a family looking for a home but actually a gang of robbers on the lam!

One Stolen Night

1929 • 58 min • United States of America

When his ne'er-do-well brother embezzles the commissary funds of their cavalry unit stationed in the Sudan, a British soldier takes the blame for him. He winds up deserting his post and joining up with a traveling vaudeville troupe. He falls in love with a pretty young woman in one of the show's acts but finds that a local Arab sheik has his own plans for the young girl.