1929

H₂O (1929) is a short silent film by photographer Ralph Steiner. It is a cinematic tone poem showing water in its many forms – ...

A village of dwarfs dance and play through their day. A blacksmith shoes a centipede, a street-cleaner sweeps, a marching-band strikes up and the ...

A lyrical portrait of Amsterdam and its changing appearance during a rain-shower.

After Tarzan’s estate is destroyed by Arabs Jane is sold into slavery by a man posing as a friendly scientist. Tarzan develops amnesia ...

With the screen split asymmetrically, one part in positive, the other negative, the film documents the evolution of simple celled organic forms ...

Phony spiritualists were given a good going-over in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms. Evelyn Brent stars as Ellen, a fraudulent medium ...

Mickey’s on African safari, riding on an elephant, but his shotgun disintegrates the first time he tries to use it. To sooth the vicious ...

A silent film by John Grierson. It tells the story of Britain’s North Sea herring fishery.

A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.

Bold and exhilarating documentary account of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, presented as a heroic triumph of Soviet progress ...

Horace pulls a wagon with a a small pipe organ, with Mickey at the keys; a sign on the side reads “Mickey’s Big Road Show.” ...

Mickey is a railroad engineer with an anthropomorphic locomotive. He feeds the train (coal), then feeds his dog, then makes lunch for himself. ...

In Woman Trap, Hal Skelly is hard-bitten police sergeant Dan Malone, whose mission in life is to rid his community of gangsters. The revelation ...

Mickey puts on a show in his barnyard. A short dramatic scene by a chicken and rooster; an operatic ode by Patricia Pig, and then the main ...

Mickey Mouse is working as a hot dog vendor at a carnival when he meets and quickly falls for Minnie the “Shimmy Dancer”. That night, ...