1931 Movies

Opens at the C. V. Whitney Farms (the future movie-producer) in the blue-grass area of Lexington, Kentucky and shows the new crop of colts that will b...

A three-reel collection of 16 mm home movies shot mostly in 1929, with a short section from January 1931, photographed and edited by inventor and entr...

"A wag once labelled water as the stuff they put under bridges." L/S of a barge travelling under one of the London bridges. "To Eve, water brings up b...

Amateur colour film of Java taken by E. Wilhelmina Ness showing Batavia (now Jakarta),Mount Papandayan, Kawah Kamojang and Borobodur temple.

Documents the most important ceremony of the Ainu people of northern Japan. For both the Ainu – and the peoples of the Amur river area on the mainland...

This silent film follows a freshman through the course of her first year at the college

From the Roman ruins to the Rows. Was King Harold smuggled up here to die after the Battle of Hastings? Did King Edgar build a palace here in the 10th...

The film is a brief account of a very successful Italian aviation .

Some men go fishing

Norwegian film documentary from 1931. It begins with the ship "Stavangersfjord"'s arrival in Brooklyn, followed by scenes from different streets and n...

A Secrets of Nature short.

A short from the Africa Laughs series.

Scenes of the St. Nicholas Fair in the centre of Ljubljana, capturing the winter atmosphere.

Four mischievous boys (a chimp, a bear cub, a wolf cub and a puppy) interrupt the lovemaking of a cat and his sweetheart.

Newsreel about the opening of the casina in Vina del Mar (Chile).

Commercial featuring an animated Karl Gerhard.

Amateur film by German ethnographer, church historian, and icon collector Martin Winkler, taken on several trips to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and...

This 10-minute short was produced by the Department of Water and Power, Los Angeles, CA. Basically what we have is a history lesson on everything to d...

A man and a woman climb a ramp where they find two cars, which they will use to do somersaults.