1930 Movies

In a wordless story with semi-surreal stage sets, a poor black man ventures from his ramshackle rural home to the big city, where a dancing girl in a...

A Toby the Pup short. Lost Cartoon

Set in the 16th century, a peaceful Inca community is massacred by a group of conquistadors, and the survivors including Wara Wara flee into the mount...

Strange doings in a Chinese laundry with outrageous Oriental and Yiddish stereotypes.

Educational film about urban planning.

Experimental short film by Oskar Fischinger

While waiting for her prince, a princess waits by the Buddha statue. Lurching from behind it, however, is a fearsome dragon, who kidnaps the princess....

George is a shiftless father and husband, who lets his wife and old mother in law do all the work at his tumbledown farm, preferring to sleep under a...

This film about agricultural advances in the USSR was meant to serve as a teaching aid. Featuring documentary footage and animation.

Con artists try to trick an old man out of his life savings.

A record of Emperor Showa's tour of the rebuilt imperial capital on March 24, 1930. The film opens with shots of the Eitai Bridge and Kiyosu Bridge, w...

An Old Flame is a 1930 Krazy Kat short directed by Manny Gould and Ben Harrison. Lost Cartoon

A French documentary short.

Carlos Gardel and guitars performing "Canchero", tango composed by Arturo De Bassi and written by Celedonio Flores.

A Terrytoons cartoon released November 30, 1930.

After his wife deserts him, a doctor is obliged to abandon his practice in order to care for his infant son and ends up working as a janitor. This wa...

Matej Krópal and his wife farm on a Haná farm. Their niece Vera is coming to stay with them for the holidays. In a small traffic accident, Vera meets...

Ethnological documentary about the life in a remote village in Togo.

Directed by Kalle Kaarna and produced by Oy. Filmi Kotka, the documentary is a strongly charged propaganda film. It begins in the open fields of smoke...

Maritsa is a lively girl who finds it difficult to live in the village, with her uncle, who is also the President of the community. The son of a major...