1930 Movies

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

Although Marinetti wrote the Manifesto of Futurist Cinema, Velocità is seen by some as the only futuristic film in its own right. Beside a dense inter...

light animation by Thomas Wilfred

A Belgian documentary that offers an immersion into the daily life of the monks at Tongerlo Abbey, located in Belgium. This silent film, shot in black...

In a metaphor-laden look at Wall street, mobs of bulls compete with bears, worrying over stock tickers and fighting over bags of coins. Lambs come in...

A short film about microphotography and photomicroscopy showing the life and reproduction of single cell organisms, plants, and lower animals.

Adaptation of Teschner's own puppet theater performance of the same name.

Short documentary.

The distinguished explorer tells of recent expedition.

A musical revue contrasts the long ago graduation ceremonies of 1910 with their modern counterparts of 1930.

Krazy Kat is "Nanook Of The North" when he arrives in a bar. First, Krazy becomes smitten with a girl (who looks surprisingly like Minnie Mouse!) and...

In 1930, during what became known as the Industrial Party Trial, some members of the Soviet technical elite were tried for plotting to form a counter-...

An introduction regarding the history of man in Africa precedes the beginning of Dr. Cadle's Denver African Expedition at Cape Town, South Africa. The...

Anti-Congress propaganda film made by a District Officer in India.

In this spoof of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," featuring cartoon animals, a slave auction becomes a musical audition, and the chase over the ice floes is an op...

Fragmentary short by Heinrich Brocksieper.

A French documentary short.

In the early 1930s, Teófilo Mingueza carried out experiences of cinema in relief. To do this, he set up a 35mm camera, filming in a single frame, vert...