1930 Movies

Early documentary, slung together from footage depicting the first invasion of North America by Europeans, designed to show industrial technology's ro...

A Broadway star visits his playwright friend who's working out a scene for his new play.

Brief excerpts of raw footage from Eisenstein's time filming in Mexico.

A rare early forerunner of the music video, in which bass-baritone Jules Bledsoe is seen singing "Dear Old Southland", a song with new lyrics, but mel...

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...

Two male dolls compete to win the heart of female doll Dolly Daisy.

The film camera is used to great effect here to trick and treat its audience, injecting fun into the otherwise mundane London commute, slum demolition...

Time-lapse footage of growth processes in nature.

A Walter Lantz's Oswald cartoon where he's looking for gold but soon becomes a gag fest with a singing waiter who ends his verses with someone "who ca...

Singer Ruth Eton, of the singing team of Eton and Farrell, is told by her agents to get rid of her partner if she wants to advance her career. Instead...

The city, the heart of the capitalist world, the center of production and entertainment, and not far from it, exists at the very bottom of the city, w...

Christmas is coming and the Norfolk turkey's getting fat...

The Norvegia expedition of 1929-30 was the third in a series of expeditions organized by Consul Lars Christensen of Sandefjord for the purpose of cond...

Oswald just wants to get to the show.

It's the mice versus the cats in a football stadium.

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

An early Fleischer Screen Song, this time the bouncing ball follows Guy Massey's "The Prisoner's Song"