All Films

Tokyo March

1929 • 24 min • Japan

A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable visual experience set against the background of the title song, "Tokyo March." (Sadly, less than a half hour of the footage has been recovered and restored.)

Laughing at Death

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

One of the doubles is the prince of the mythical country of Libania, while the other is a down-to-earth college student, working his way through school as a ship's stoker. Inevitably, the stoker poses as the prince to save the latter from political assassins

Men O' War

1929 • 19 min • United States of America

Sailors Stan and Ollie offer to buy sodas for two women they meet in a park, even though they are short on cash. Luckily Stan wins the jackpot on a slot machine and the boys have enough money to rent a boat to cruise on a lake. They soon tangle with other boaters and everyone ends up in the water.

Points West

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

Cole Lawson Jr. goes undercover as a bandit to infiltrate the gang responsible for his father's death.

Queen of the Night Clubs

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.

Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid

1929 • 5 min • United States of America

Original short that introduced Bosko, never released. Producer-directors Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising showed it to various studio executives as a pilot for the Bosko character.

She Goes to War

1929 • 50 min • United States of America

A young woman disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancéé into the trenches during World War I to find out what war is really like.

The Song Writers' Revue

1929 • 20 min • United States of America

This short showcases composers and lyricists of songs that are now considered standards of American popular music. For several of these song writers, this is their only known appearance in a theatrically released film.

Red Hot Speed

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

A newspaper publisher's daughter is arrested for speeding. In order to avoid embarrassing her father, since his newspaper is in the midst of an anti-speeding campaign, she uses an assumed name. She is paroled into the custody of an assistant district attorney, who doesn't know who she really is.

Morgan's Last Raid

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

Dan Claibourne refuses to fight against his state when Tennessee secedes during the Civil War preliminaries. His sweetheart brands him a traitor. Dan joins Morgan's raiders of the Confederate Army and gets an opportunity to rescue the girl during a raid.

Dance Hall

1929 • 59 min • United States of America

A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he's in love with her.

Un Chien Andalou

1929 • 16 min • France

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

The Drifter

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

Silent cowboy western starring Tom Mix, Bernard Bolden, Dorothy Dwan, Barney Furey, Albert J. Smith, and Ernest Wilson. Also, note that this is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.

His Head

1929 • 36 min • France

Jean Bonnard, clean-cut industrialist and the only son of a widow, goes to visit his mother in the small village where she lives. However, early in the morning the police arrive to arrest him, accusing the man of having murdered the old banker who'd made advances towards his girlfriend. Jean's mother is eager to aid her son, whom she believes is innocent. Said Epstein of his film: "I shot small landscapes in Livilliers which seemed to me-- in their reality, I mean-- very large".

The Amazing Vagabond

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

A wealthy scion toughens up in a rough-and-tumble lumber camp when he is forced to defend Phil Dunning and his daughter from the brutal George Hobbs

Every Day

1929 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Experimental documentary focusing on a day in the life of city workers, featuring montage sequences and repetition to emphasise the monotony of routine office work.

Custard Pies

1929 • 6 min • United States of America

Animals take on human characteristics in this good-natured comedy.

The Eternal Woman

1929 • 60 min

Olive Borden returns home to Buenos Aires and discovers her father has been murdered and her sister has been attacked by an American.

Finders Keepers

1929 • 20 min • United States of America

This Vitaphone one-reel short, written by the author of "Show-Off", George Kelly

Fighting Friends

1929 • 15 min • Japan

Two friends accidentally run into a young, homeless woman, so they take her in.

Man-Slashing Horse-Piercing Sword

1929 • 25 min • Japan

In medieval Japan, a brutal and corrupt magistrate is planning to kill the child who is about to become the heir to the estate and position of the local lord and substitute his own "heir", an orphan, in order to get control of the late lord's estate and rule as the impostor's "regent". However, a mysterious stranger appears and sets out to thwart the magistrate's plans and free the people from his oppressive rule.

Calling Hubby's Bluff

1929 • 20 min • United States of America

Late silent short with a Hal Roach approach to situational comedy. Bevan is battling a widow and his wife, Carmelita Geraghty and Vernon Dent making it tricky

Amature Nite

1929 • 7 min • United States of America

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit goes to an Amateur Nite show, where he sees the "Hippy Hippos", "St. Louie Blues", and "Quacky Quacks". His reaction is usually opposite the other members of the audience, who force him to react the same way as them.

The California Mail

1929 • 60 min • United States of America

During the darkest hour of the American Civil War, the Union desperately needs gold to keep its armies in the field and its credit good. Federal Agent Bob Scott is therefore instructed to clean out the bandit gangs that have been stopping the vital California gold shipments.