1931 Movies

The Van Beuren animals singing their way through college and then there is hippos vs mice for a college football match.

A main agenda of the prewar farmer's movement was struggle against landowners. Prokino also considered this as their prime concern. The main title seq...

Scrappy's dog, Yippy, isn't feeling well. Scrappy sees a sign for Dr. Woof's Dog Tonic and thinks that's just the thing...

During harsh winter, two sweethearts dream about moving to the city to look for an easier job, and get away from a poor rural life.

Black Saint, poor, healing simple people and others who traveled by car to their home in Coqueiros in 1931, rural area of João Ribeiro, former name of...

Very early animated short from Japan featuring a cast of anthropomorphic animals.

Aloha Baker goes on an expedition to Mato Grosso, Brazil and meets the Bororo people.

A Secrets of Nature short.

The desperate attempts of an Oxford undergraduate to gain a sporting 'blue' in order to win his beloved's affections.

On October 8, 1573, the Relief of Alkmaar took place. Alkmaar was one of the first Dutch cities to successfully withstand the Spanish siege. Alkmaar s...

Celebration of the Relief of Leiden on October 3rd with parades, street performers, a fair, and music. Herring with white bread is for sale at many st...

Silent film about elephants in India.

This handsome local newsreel is an accomplished and charming record of Chertsey crowds gathering for the announcement of the 1931 election result - wh...

This Barnes Brothers film starts with a trio of young bandits, with false beards, boozing in a chalk cliff cave and sharpening knives. One of them eme...

Launch of a competition, organized by the newspaper O Século, entitled Statues of Portugal.

This short ethnographic film is the first part of the series Through the Agricultural World intended to promote village life and the work of the peasa...