1931 Movies

A Toby the Pup short.

A Max Fleischer Screen Songs cartoon with part of it devoted to cartoon animation and the other part to Arthur Treacy, radio's Street Singer, doing th...

A well composed series of gags run from ones involving simply frame composition all the way out to Keaton-like surrealism in this well-ordered and exe...

A grand Mahabharata adaptation, this film focuses on Duryodhana's plot to usurp the Pandavas' kingdom. It culminates in the infamous dice game where Y...

A smart young manicurist works in a hotel where she earns big money by tricking businessmen by persuading them to do certain deals where she has a com...

The film tells you how to protect yourself from a gas threat or a gas attack.

A silent, black and white, 1930s advertisement film for CUF fertilizers, starring the legendary Vasco Santana in a story where the dissatisfied Manuel...

Bill Parker, a sailor in the English Merchant Navy faces rudeness from the ship captain and is kicked off. However, he finds solace in a Soviet loggin...

Scrappy tries to rescue his dog, Yippy from a mean dog catcher.

A Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released April 20, 1931.

Late night in the toy shop. The toymaker goes up to bed, leaving his wind-up policeman to guard the shop, and the other toys come to life. First order...

Krazy Kat is playing a viola (and doing so badly) as the short opens. He's playing so poorly that all the musical instruments behind him razz him abou...

A Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released February 9, 1931.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is a clown in Pete's circus. He's also fired from the cannon. Pete wants gymnast Kitty to sign a contract, but Oswald warns he...

A filmed adaptation of Through the Looking-Glass performed at the Kitsap Forest Theater in Washington.

A Japanese legend about a fisherman who rescues a turtle and is rewarded for this with a visit to Ryūgū-jō, the palace of Ryūjin, the Dragon God, unde...

Documentary film about life in a mission station in the jungle of Cameroon with insights into the animal and plant world and the life of the natives.

A young inventor has constructed a television set. His landlady has become very skeptical of both him and his invention, perhaps mainly due to the fac...