1929 Movies

Mice sold into slavery and driven to pick cotton by whip-cracking cats plot their escape to freedom.

Giuditta e Oloferne is a 1929 Italian silent historical film directed by Baldassarre Negroni and starring Bartolomeo Pagano, Jia Ruskaja and Franz Sala. It was the final film of Pagano, who had been famous during the silent era for his portrayals of Maciste....

Farmer Alfalfa and his cat are having a wash day and mice starts a soap war.

Drawn with steaming ink, Koko and Fitz try to cool off.

"When the Paramount movie people decided to make "Night Club"...they took a lot of stage names, let some of them do their specialties, wound a thin, unpleasant story around the whole, and called it a day." - Kansas City Times, 02/18/1929

A short film made by Medvedkin, documenting the lack of hygiene in the Red Army.

Four young women change a flat tire and, feeling hot and bothered, leave their car to go take a swim in the ocean..... and their underwear is less revealing than one-piece bathing suits. While they are frolicking in the surf, a young Black girl comes by and st...

Antonio Moreira's textile factory owed much of its success to worker Harry Lage, who had established new operating guidelines. Lage sought out Moreira, hoping to be rewarded for his efforts, but he received no response; a heated argument ensued between the two...

One is the quarterback and mute. The other comes up with poor comic excuses for his bad play, and then oppresses his partner.

The movie begins with a mysterious murder and Umon Kondo, a Doshin, so called drag-ass Umon, who dallies away lying sprawled all day long, launches an investigation.

A travelogue showing the beauty of the state of West Virginia in 1929.

Japanese silent film from 1929.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit goes to an Amateur Nite show, where he sees the "Hippy Hippos", "St. Louie Blues", and "Quacky Quacks". His reaction is usually opposite the other members of the audience, who force him to react the same way as them.

With the screen split asymmetrically, one part in positive, the other negative, the film documents the evolution of simple celled organic forms into chains of cells then more complex images from tribal cultures and contemporary modernist concepts. The images r...

The Line-Up (1929)

A silent short film showcasing the tensions and disparities between different social classes within an Armenian rural community.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.