1930 Movies

Sumiko's father sends her to live with her alcoholic uncle. He sells her to a circus, which is the start of a downward spiral in an unforgiving world.

Widower Robert Rossiter lives in New York with his two teenage children. When he visits a fashion house one day, he falls in love with the store clerk Joyce Roamer.

A boat sails the sea at night, with the moon watching from above. Bimbo-like sailors march around the deck, then fall through a trap door.

The last and only surviving (partially lost) silent film by director and actor Yevgeny Chervyakov. The film adaptation is distinguished by the accuracy of the psychological characteristics of the numerous characters, the detail of everyday sketches of life in...

Felix the Cat is walking along when he is abruptly blindfolded and subjected to an elaborate ordeal which turns out to be (as the title hints) a fraternal initiation.

Toby conducting an orchestra playing Irving Berlin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band" while that band is spitting tobacco in the spittoons nearby!

Experimental short film by Oskar Fischinger

A 1930 documentary short film.

'A silly ass deputises as pianist for a singer.' (British Film Institute)

An Italian immigrant discovers his wife is a hootchy-kootchy dancer. Later, the audience is invited to follow the bouncing ball and sing along to "Mariutch Down at Coney Island.

An American-made, Italian-language sound film that follows the story of three men who save a woman from committing suicide to see her afterwards become rich and successful.

Fleischer Studios giving "On a Sunday Afternoon" the bouncing ball 'Screen Song' treatment.

President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge visit Jack L. Warner and Mary Pickford in Hollywood; various players are glimpsed at work on the Columbia lot; stars turn out for a Hollywood Premiere.

During the First World War a British unit take up a new position in a trench unaware that the Germans are laying a mine underneath it.

Documentary about the production of a radio in the Saba factories.

A Van Beuren cartoon where the animals go skiing, ice skating, eat hot dogs and get drunk.

Berlin, the center of pleasures and kingdom of small virtues. From all over Germany, young night owls come to burn themselves cheerfully in its lights, to drown in its champagne and fill its boxes and restaurants until dawn.

An abstract ballet set to "I've Never Seen a Smile Like Yours".

The heir to a fortune will only receive his inheritance if he spends the night in a supposedly haunted house.