1930 Movies

Farmer Al Falfa goes to Paris along with a flapper who turns out to be some crook.

Compilation of Max Skladanowsky's films, magic lanterns, and flip books.

Forever Yours (1930) was an aborted film project starring and produced by silent-film legend Mary Pickford.

During the Russian occupation of Chełmno Land, Colonel Gubaniew rules with an iron fist. The soldier takes a liking to a local girl, Basia (Lili Lyana),but she pays no attention to his advances, as she is in love with a student, Janek, and he reciprocates her...

Ina Bourskaya and Giovanni Martinelli in "The Temple" scene from Verdi's opera Aida. Made by The Vitaphone Corporation.

Conscript Fridolf and his sergeant, Göransson, both try to win the love of sweet Mary. According to an older relative's last will, she will inherit a fortune if she marries the unfortunate Dick Carter. A con man comes to the little town, claiming to be the leg...

Directed by Kalle Kaarna and produced by Oy. Filmi Kotka, the documentary is a strongly charged propaganda film. It begins in the open fields of smoke "by the bleached bones of fallen clubmen" and presents the birthplaces of the Lapua movement with their monum...

This film presented a fictionalized biography of its maker. One of the major characters is a producer modeled on Kohinoor's proprietor, D.N. Sampat, including a reference to the real life occasion when the studio, on the verge of bankruptcy, survived only beca...

Terrytoons animated short film directed by Frank Moser

Oswald just wants to get to the show.

Felix tricks his father into thinking that he's practicing the piano, then escapes to play golf with Skidoo the mouse. After raising the ire of the local fire department, he's shot overseas on a jet of water and lands in Africa, where jungle cannibals try to d...

The Glasgow Orpheus Choir sings 'Isle of Mull', 'The Campbells Are Coming', a Purcell arrangement, and 'Down in a Flowery Vale'.

A man and his young son travel through the countryside to take their donkey to a horse auction. Unfortunately every person they pass has a different opinion on how this should be accomplished, leading to disastrous results when the dim-witted father abandons c...

In this cartoon, Oswald and Pete are two hobos traveling across the country during the Depression.

In a small village, two very close brothers turn into sworn enemies over the hand of a beautiful Gypsy girl - and confront each other - with tragic consequences.

A demonstration on the process of sheep farming in 1930s Australia.

A bovine John Bull rouses patriotism and some more disturbing emotions whilst protesting the importing of foreign meat. Though the message is basically one of “Buy British” to help farmers suffering in the year after the Wall Street Crash, the comic license of...

The preparations and evacuation of the island of St. Kilda which lies 50 miles off the Western Isles. Dated 27th August 1930. Filmed by John P. Ritchie, amateur cine enthusiast and ornithologist, during egg-collecting expedition to St. Kilda. This is unique f...

Con artists try to trick an old man out of his life savings.