1929 Movies

Retelling of the classic Japanese ghost story.

Footage of the city of Berlin, accompanied by intertitles crafted for the purposes of NSDAP propaganda.

The film shows the Joseon countryside and farmers devastated by the protracted agricultural crisis of the late 1920s.

A life history of the Frog. Released in a silent (1929) and sound (1930) version.

How the Lupino's spent their summer. Slapstick comedy.

A documentary about the farm where the best Yugoslav butter was once made.

An educational film on hygiene, made in the "shadow play" technique.

A city symphony about Kharkiv, the capital of the Ukrainian SSR in the 1920s.

The clip is from Lahyn-Film's 11-minute sound film, which was inspected on 31 October 1929. In this little sensation in film history, the legendary Ra...

Okay, this is an entry in the "Aesop's Sound Fables" and is a version of the little-black-duck and the wolf-in-sheep's clothing fables about the sibli...

Snap the Gingerbread Man and his dog take a tumble before summiting the Alps.

Willi goes to sleep and dreams of being a boy more than 1500 years in the future, where he travels by airplane, servants have been replaced by mechani...

A lost Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

'Performances from The Charlot Girls, The Kasbecks, The Balalaika Choral Orchestra, and Teddy Brown and his Orchestra.' (British Film Institute)

A 1929 Silent western

For his initial Lantz entry, Oswald enters his horse in the race as he tries to get him in shape doing exercises with the accompaniment of a pianist.

Archive footage from the 1920s juxtaposed against a film-within-a-film parodying the melodramatic excesses of popular cinema of the day.

After the fire of the Imatra cinema in Tampere in 1927, the Finnish film industry worked together to produce an educational film about a cinema that w...

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