1929 Movies

The first Tajik film in history. Camera operators Kuzin, Shevich and Gezulin recorded the arrival of the first train to Stalinabad (present-day Dushan...

One of the Fitzpatrick traveltalks, this film begins in Valencia. We travel down the Spanish coast, visiting the people who live in caves. We end up i...

A short silent film portraying Grey Owl, the famous conservationist, and a family of beavers who would come when he called and take food from his hand...

Craft demonstration - how to make butterfly hair accessories from beads. (British Pathé)

Die Wunder des Films is one of several German films from the 1920s that thematized filmmaking through the re-use of existing archival footage. Other t...

Collection of everyday scenes in Kyoto, Japan in the year 1929. These films were taken with the early Movietone sound cameras.

This short, Cave of the Wobbly Wizard, was made directly after the much more common The Land of the Wooden Soldiers, and explains why Chip the Wooden...

Drifters Tom Williams and Joe Morgan have a chance meeting with the sheriff's daughter and learn that her brother Jim is being held prisoner in Line H...

Shadow Games presents objects whose recognition is made difficult by fragmentation, which gives them a kaleidoscopic appearance. We see rosette window...

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

Record of the activities of the Fernández y Sust cigarette factory. Detailed description of the cigarette assembly, packaging and distribution process...

Years before "Reefer Madness" brought hysterical misunderstandings of marijuana to mainstream America, audiences were treated to "High on the Range,"...

A Morrocan sheik's love for a French colonist leads him to leave his native country for France.