Movies 1929 Page 49

A wealthy man pretends to be a starving artist to gain the affections of a young painter.

These documentary sketches were made when the famed novelist was an anthropology student seeking to preserve a record of African American life in the...

This film revolves around Election Day, a day on which Jay R. and Joe are fighting to get votes. They warn the kids that they'll be socked in the jaw...

A musical Vitaphone short by Larry Ceballos. The songs include "Over the Garden Wall", It Was the Dawn of Love", and Baily and Barnum singing "Pretty...

German silent film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Marcella Albani, Ralph Arthur Roberts and Curt Bois.

Nightclub hostess Sophie Leonard educates her daughter Beth abroad and keeps her life secret for her. But suddenly the daughter shows up.

The gang are all orphans, hoping to be adopted by nice families where "spinach is not on the menu". Wheezer, the youngest child, gets adopted by a...

A train conductor goes about his duty. All the characters are animals in human form. Hippo ladies in dresses try to jam into cars and other...

The Hottentot is a lost 1929 American pre-Code film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Edward Everett Horton and Patsy Ruth Miller. It is based on...

An early impressionist short featuring a woman who dreams of, and escapes into, an autumn forest.

This film tells the story of Gonthramm, a young knight who sought in vain for the Holy Grail and, on the way back to join his bride, Galeswithe, is...

A well-dressed but inebriated man decides to attend a variety show at the Palace Theatre. During the show, both he and the performers are continually...

On the struggle of the Caucasian mountaineers against the tsarist autocracy.

When his ne'er-do-well brother embezzles the commissary funds of their cavalry unit stationed in the Sudan, a British soldier takes the blame for...

Sweat (1929) is a slapstick riff on tendency-film themes, as a bored young millionaire has his clothes stolen by a tramp; dressed in the tramp’s...

Gwen Farrar and Billy Mayerl sing two comic songs: 'The Old Fashioned Girl' and 'He's a Dangerous Man'.

Arguing for communal harmony and filial piety, the film tells of Madhumal (Dave), a rich zamindar, his beloved son Shashibhushan (Yusuf), his loving...

A physician's wife becomes violently jealous of her husband when he receives a late-night call from a female patient.

Glimpses of Iceland at the end of the 1920s.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

A Van Beuren cartoon set in a night club with cabaret musical numbers and a drunken brawl.

Take a tour de France as cyclists double up for a tandem race through Paris's Bois de Boulogne.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

This is a very early Lantz sound cartoon, so early that it merely makes use of simple synchronization, matching the music and tempo to the action at...

An Aesop’s Film Fables 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...

An American of generous girth, Teddy Brown (born Abraham Himmelbrand, 1900-1946) also played saxophone and drums, and worked with the New York...

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

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

The film was reedited in the United States in 1938 by Kalyna Film Company of Mykola Novak, using very unique special effects.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

The Fly's Bride was produced in 1929, one year following Van Beuren's edict that all cartoons would be produced in sound. The RCA Photophone System...

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

Gymnasts marching under the direction of the band on the North Esplanade. Opening ceremony, speeches, with St. John's Church in the background....

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