1929 Movies

Part of Aesop's Fables from Van Beuren Studios

When Oscar is left in charge of his younger siblings for the day, his curiosity gets the better of him. Longing to explore the world beyond home, he s...

A simple story of a woman being courted by two beaux.

A Van Beuren cartoon set in a night club with cabaret musical numbers and a drunken brawl.

Valentin Vaala's (and Teuvo Tulio's) first film. Only fragments survive.

Delinquent since he was a little boy, Tjonat runs away to Batavia (Jakarta) after murdering his friend. In the city, he becomes a servant working for...

Glimpses of Iceland at the end of the 1920s.

Chip the Wooden Man down on the farm

With their gramophone perched on the back of their launch, the family set off for a day of rest and relaxation on the Broads and Suffolk coast.

1929 Western

One of the first to use the techniques of cinematography to study biological phenomena, Comandon accelerated his films, originally shot frame by frame...

Water in the Landscape. An idyllic forest lake; a light mist or fog rises from the water.

One of the rarest of the "Kinex" Studio shorts.

1929 silent Western film

This Vitaphone short features the Kjerulf Mayfair Quintette in their only film performance. Their act is basically five women, three on a harp, one on...

Country singing star Jimmie Rodgers sings three songs in this short: "Waiting for a Train", "Daddy and Home", and "T for Texas", all his own compositi...

This beautifully-shot edition of the longrunning Pathe Pictorial series takes a whistle-stop tour of England's most historic and picturesque beauty sp...