1929 Movies

Chip the Wooden Man in the Scarecrow's Ride

An old man with a huge lump on his face encounters a band of Tengu in the mountains.

Shanghai Rose is the proprietress of a gin mill which doubles as a bordello. A murder occurs, and she is put on trial for her life. A series of flashb...

The comedy team of Jack Born and Elmer Lawrence perform their vaudeville act.

Silent military propaganda film by Erkki Karu, later followed by the musical revue film Meidän poikamme merellä ("Our Boys at Sea", 1933) and Meidän p...

Two college boys have a flat tire. They proceed to play music on a tire, a bassoon, a balloon and an umbrella.

Mr. and Mrs. Boul go separately to the spa town of Vittel to experience the waters. Without knowing it they are lodged next door to one another in the...

A 1929 Fox newsreel interview with the author and spiritualist, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He speaks about his greatest literary creation, Sherlock Holme...

Water in the Landscape. An idyllic forest lake; a light mist or fog rises from the water.

Country singing star Jimmie Rodgers sings three songs in this short: "Waiting for a Train", "Daddy and Home", and "T for Texas", all his own compositi...

An impression of the state of the world in 1929, contrasting similarities and differences in religion, customs, art and entertainment from all over th...

A Mandarin hypnotises his partner's daughter to locate hidden bonds.

"Pour vos beaux yeux" (For Your Beautiful Eyes) is an eight-minute surrealist short by Henri Storck, conceived from an idea by Félix Labisse. In just...

A vaudeville act. Trixie Friganza performs first a story and then a song. For the story, she wears a wide-brimmed had and a matching diaphanous shawl....

Directed by Abdul Rashid Kardar.

A series of animated short subjects created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.

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

Drawn with steaming ink, Koko and Fitz try to cool off.