1931 Movies

Bingo, a cartoon dog, lands in the jungle after a hot-air balloon accident.

Toby the Pup is a milkman and a partyman in this silly cartoon with everything you need from the '30s animation.

The first film made by Jenny Gilbertson (nee Brown),with a second hand 16mm cine camera on which she taught herself the rudiments of photography and editing. She stayed with crofter friends in Shetland while shooting scenes through the changing seasons during...

Krazy sends off for mail-order music lessons; he gets back a saxophone and an instruction book (we actually follow the mail going both ways) . His first attempts are so bad the saxophone tears up his diploma. He pours honey into the sax, and it improves, barel...

A silent short with Albert Einstein and his wife

1931 film

Taxi dancer Marjorie Beebe has just gotten engaged to jealous Harry Gribbon. She's taking a week at the beach, and off she goes, to meet wealthy Frank Eastman. But Gribbon haunts her, and she tries to preserve her honor, and indeed her life.

A one-reel comedy short starring Tom Howard as a janitor who has to pick up a vase and not break it,

When a young musician is abandoned by his fiancée, who chooses a richer man instead, his world comes crashing down. To forget this painful loss and start a new life, he sets out on a journey. His destination is Paris—a city that offers him the perfect backdrop...

Simon the Monk(ey) terrorizes a weird-looking dog, which plays the part of his slave - takes any order from the “master” and gets beaten from time to time. They run through the jungle, meet a monkey-jazz-band, then escape from a tiger and nothing really happen...

A portrait of New York during the depression, with views of Manhattan from boats and scenes of the lights of Broadway and what goes on in nightclubs.

1931 film

In the first RKO Short featuring the comedy team of Clark & McCullough, Clark (Bobby Clark) and Grustark (Paul McCullough) seek refuge in the boarding house owned by Finlayson (James Finlayson)after wrecking the car owned by Morgan (Kewpie Morgan). Finlayson,...

Travelogue of Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. Sailing distance to Glacier National Park, Montana. Vimy Mountain overlooks National Parks on both sides of the international line. Hikers hiking through the mountains.

Pitoeng is the original Batavian champion whose popularity draws from lenong folk performances. People believe that the Rawabelong champion has the ability to “disappear” because he always manages to escape the pursuit of Dutch police. He is perceived as the l...

While staying at a reportedly haunted inn a traveller discovers that the 'ghost' is a thief.

Film reconstructed in the same places where prisoners were tortured. F. Oliva.

The concept of machine-made knit was known as early as the 1850s, but it was only during the 1920s that the quality of the material had improved. When the plant known as "Atlas" was introduced in 1931, the shop windows drew a lot of attention, and Aho & So...