1929 Movies

A vibrant ‘city symphony’ showing a day in the life of Milan, from factories to farmers’ markets, skyscrapers, nightclubs, and beyond, with sound effects of human voices and machines.

A lost Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

A lost Screen Songs cartoon.

A colourised silent film about the massive construction site of the Hämeensilta bridge in Tampere in the years 1928–1929. The film offers a precise and at times a humorous image of the Tampere city centre from nearly a hundred years ago. The four sculptures on...

An energetic "heavyweight" song and dance troupe of six performs with gusto.

'Film star puppets, including Al Jolson.' (British Film Catalogue)

Armed with shields and adorned with ivory and copper, the Moï tribes begin a dance that reveals their warrior spirit.

An animated short subject created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.

Newspaper claims "The End of the World is Near". Farmer Al Falfa tries to help animals get away.

A propaganda film by the German Oriental Mission under Dr. Lepsius shows how relief supplies and fundraising campaigns for Armenian widows and orphans are organized from the central office in Potsdam. These supplies are transported via Aleppo and Miss Jeppe's...

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Miss Merrill wants to know how the lads got the ideas for some of their songs, so Dick and Larry proceed to offer some examples. Here, the film cuts to a series of flashbacks which are allegedly true incidents from Rodgers and Hart's scuffling days.

The experimental short Prater by Friedrich Kuplent can be considered as a pioneering work of Austrian avant-garde film and a city symphony. His film portrays Vienna through a day at the city's famous Prater fairground.

An educational film on hygiene, made in the "shadow play" technique.

A man has a strange adventure on a hill as he returns from the village festival.

First outing for an imperial airship, traveling from Bedfordshire to London and back again.

The Friday Morning Bird, Flower, & Bridge Whist Club has invited Donald Ogden Stewart to speak to them about the lives of birds. He explains that he has gotten to be close to birds because he treats them as equals. He starts with the experience that first...

A Yiddish-language American film adapted from a play by Abraham S. Schomer. Universal also circulated an English-language version.