1929 Movies

Opera sings Richard Bonelli performs for us.

Josetxu, the farmhouse mayoraz, leaves the farm and wants to go to the sea. His sister, Mirentxu Txomin, has fallen in love with the town's main dance...

Early silent Western from Ecuador.

Gwen Farrar and Billy Mayerl sing two comic songs: 'The Old Fashioned Girl' and 'He's a Dangerous Man'.

In the garden of a convent, Mme. Frances Alda enters, prays before a statue of the Virgin Mary, and sings "Ave Maria" from Otello (Verdi).

Contains: Lima-Guayaquil raid; the coal man; our cartoonists in action; artistic photography; social album, Mrs. Lola Leguía de Martínez Molins; inaug...

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

Snap the Gingerbread Man

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

Arguing for communal harmony and filial piety, the film tells of Madhumal (Dave),a rich zamindar, his beloved son Shashibhushan (Yusuf),his loving d...

A Aesop's Fables cartoon with dogs raiding the butcher.

'Variety artists Patricia Rossborough and Bobbie Alderson perform Walking with Susie, You Can't Make Me Feel Blue, She's Gotta Have Me and She's Funny...

A silent religious drama from Venezuela.

Children playing

Colonial films showing the work of Africans are rare. Here the exploitation system is precisely exposed. Deportees (from Angola) disembark from a boat...

Professional bullfight Plaza Belmonte

A young, upstanding lumberjack heads to college, where he quickly becomes introduced to a world of hazing, pranks, and class camaraderie. Will his mor...

An impression of the harsh winter of 1929 - one of the harshest of the last century. Van der Wel was director of the Rotterdamse Gemeentelijke Schoolb...