1930 Movies

A young man finds employment as an apprentice in a grocery store. As he is short of money for his sick mother’s medicine and furthermore is eager to a...

Short film about light and weather phenomena

The female vocal ensemble Singing Babies, founded by Edmund Fritz, puts on a gig.

A 35mm short silent.

Short comedy vehicle for performer Petrolini, about a blind man who sings in the streets and courtyards of Rome and who tries to score a kiss as a fav...

Time lapse photography of roots growing underground. Part of the “Secrets of Nature” series.

Time-lapse footage of growth processes in nature.

This edited section of unreleased footage records an expedition in the forests of eastern Bolivia in 1928 made by Mamerto Urriolagoitia, Alejandro Sie...

In 1897, an expedition led by the engineer S. A. Andrée attempted to travel across the Arctic with the hydrogen balloon Örnen. Andrée and the other pa...

Incredible scenes as an estimated one million people descend on the airport at Croydon to witness the return of pioneering pilot Amy Johnson from Aust...

An excellent example of an 'industrial', showing lace-making processes in a huge Nottingham factory with intertitles explaining the various stages of...

Christmas is coming and the Norfolk turkey's getting fat...

Filmed during the Brooklyn Museum's Peruvian Littoral Expedition, 1919-1920. Robert Cushman Murphy, who was then a curator of the Department of Natura...

Silent film portraying daily life in Jiron de la Union, Lima, Peru.