1929 Movies

Possibly lost film

A glorious glimpse of mirth and merriment. (Topical Budget 944-2)

Commissioned by the National Confectioners’ Association (NCA),the industrial film tells the fictional story of a track coach who, wanting the best pe...

Hermann Hähnle demonstrates some of his camera techniques for capturing wild life at the Federsee lake in Southern Germany.

A small sawmill owner competes against a large timber company in hopes of winning a railway tie contract.

Suresh Chabria writes: ‘Continuing Jamai Babu’s association of the city with sexual exploits and licence, this one-reel comedy is about ‘a gentleman r...

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

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...

Documentary.

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