Short Movies

Sound and shortened version of 'Im Kampf mit dem Berge', Arnold Fanck's second major mountaineering film, from 1921. The film follows two mountain...

Mara and Juno are trying to save their favorite punk bar, The Rusty Needle, only to discover that the real enemy isn't a villain; it's apathy.

An early silent color film of Glacier National Park and Mount Rainier. The film is part of the 'Our Colorful World' series, produced by Bell &...

Cimes is a drama about alpinism that takes place in Mont Pelvoux. It was directed by Jean Vernet in 1941 and produced by Films de Cavaignac. It...

An early sound musical short featuring blues singer Mamie Smith, produced in association with RLA Talking Picture Corporation.

A Fox Movietone short featuring vaudeville monologist Charles "Chic" Sale in a filmed comedy routine.

An experimental Paramount sound short combining construction imagery and industrial noises with words by poet Edgar A. Guest.

Sound short featuring comedian Benny Rubin.

An early De Forest Phonofilm performance short exhibited as part of a sound-film presentation at Riesenfeld's Rivoli Theatre in New York.

An early Vitaphone sound short featuring comedian Polly Moran as the Movie Chatterbox.

A two-reel synchronized-sound dramatic playlet starring Una Merkel, made using the De Forest Phonofilm system.

A sound dramatic playlet in which a son confesses to the killing of his abusive father to protect his mother.

A Fox Movietone comedy short released in 1929.

An early Tri-Ergon sound film depicting an idealized day in German village life through bells, animal calls, dialogue, music and a wandering singer.

A Vitaphone musical performance featuring Xavier Cugat and his ensemble.

A Yiddish-language sound, two-reel filmed stage revue featuring comic performers Marty Baratz and Goldie Eisenman.

A Yiddish-language short comedy directed by Sidney M. Goldin and starring Joseph Buloff.

A ten-minute musical Movietone short featuring dancer Ruby Keeler.

A musical sound short featuring Guy Robertson and imagery related to the Mississippi River floods.

A short early-sound comedy featuring the character Cohen speaking over the telephone.