1930 Movies

Carlos Gardel and guitars performing "Yira, yira", tango composed and written by Enrique Santos Discépolo.

Henry Santry's band is comprised of self-proclaimed soldiers of fortune. Within their concert set includes the opening declaration of them being soldi...

The young poets, a nucleus of the dada art movement and pioneers of surrealist poetry, sit in a corner reading their works and ringing a bell.

German silent film

Early Vitaphone-Warner Bros. short film introduced as part of the Vitaphone Varieties series featuring Jack Buchanan who announces to the audience tha...

In the French consulate in China, Claude Varville declares his love to the consul's wife.

The optical company Bausch & Lomb of Rochester, New York, contracted Watson and Webber to create this corporate industrial film to showcase the compan...

Polish war film.

A stoker, dissatisfied with his job, escapes from his ship to an island where he lives with a native girl. Eventually he is picked up by a passing ste...

The first year of Terrytoons were cartoons all based around food titles – Swiss Cheese taking place in Switzerland, Hawaiian Pineapple is set in Hawai...

'Scotland. Man recites poem in village inn.' (British Film Catalogue)

A film by Vsevolod Pudovkin. Experimental reel later worked into "A Simple Case (1930)"

Early MGM sound short featuring vaudeville acts George Dewey Washington, The Ponce Sisters, Joseph Regan, Ella Shields, and Jack Pepper.

Everyday drama from the life of the Svans.