1930 Movies

'Romantic story of a gallant adventurer at the Court of Maria Teresa.' (The Bioscope)

In this one, we get simple variations of people heading off to a May Day celebration, carrying a Maypole and a hippopotamus to serve as the Queen of t...

A schoolboy falls in love with his teacher's young wife.

There's no real plot here: just a string of gags on the theme of sleep, or trying to get to sleep. First, Felix and a quartet of feline Felix clones a...

A film by Vsevolod Pudovkin. Experimental reel later worked into "A Simple Case (1930)"

Two hotel guests are told the hotel is on fire, but the other guests and firefighters seem unconcerned.

In this color short, Albert Conti brings Mary Carlisle inside a studio to see some new outfits available at J.J. Haggarty’s, Los Angeles.

In this parody of Sherlock Holmes, the Great Detective goes to an opium den of inequity in the dangerous London district of London and challenges Tong...

The 1890s. One of the cities on the Volga River. The young wife of a merchant falls in love with Artem, a “Volga bogatyr,” a man of enormous strength...

A worker sees his friend's wife, admires her, and tries to seduce her, but she rejects him. He is not convinced, but he shows this to the wife. His ha...

A Dave Fleischer's Talkartoon Sound Cartoon Featuring Bimbo. As work begins on a high-rise building, Bimbo is too lazy, and all he thinks about is get...

The story, such as it is, concerns a cat and mouse going off to War -- looking a lot like World War One, down to the artillery and tanks. It looks ins...

Undercover police officer Dan Hogan infiltrates a ruthless gangster mob. Hogan’s main objective is to identify the real criminals responsible for the...

An all-dog cast (with human voiceovers) recreates famous scenes from early musical films, particularly The Broadway Melody. The finale is a chorus lin...

Western Slapstick. A good chance to see Al St. John moving into the western comedy sidekick that would be his bread and butter role for the next twent...

A real estate salesman who loses both his job and his girl, masquerades as a female singer at a dance for prospective customers in order to win them b...

New Moon is the name of the ship crossing the Caspian Sea. A young Lt. Petroff meets the Princess Tanya and they have a ship board romance. Upon arriv...