1931 Movies

A documentary film about Finland commissioned by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and produced by Suomi-Filmi Oy.

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

Very early animated short from Japan featuring a cast of anthropomorphic animals.

Billy the pet seal adapts to village life in Wereham, Norfolk.

We see a lion at a piano, apparently trying to compose a melody. He gets frustrated, starts speaking vehemently in what sounds like German and begins...

Based on the German legends, there are visual references to the Ring cycle and to anything even vaguely Germanic, including Rip Van Winkle.

A duckling tries to save the animals when a storm hits their farm.

Within the context of America’s Depression, the Women’s Bureau of the US Department of Labor produced a unique film, Behind the Scenes in the Machine...

Short film about Mainz, Germany.

This film is an extra from Indonesia Malaise. Ida Schilling is a radio singer. She sings keroncong and stambul songs.

The Forgotten Frontier (1931) is a documentary film about the Frontier Nursing Service, nurses on horseback, who traveled the back roads of the Appala...

Halloween costume party made on the evening of October 31, 1931.

A miller and his son clumsily attempt to transport a donkey.

A portrait of New York during the depression, with views of Manhattan from boats and scenes of the lights of Broadway and what goes on in nightclubs.