1931 Movies

Amateur shots of pilgrims and temples at Haridwar, followed by rural scenes and the Gorrie family at home.

Detailed explanation of various Ainu people of Northern Japan words and customs.

Haru is a Japanese word that means spring (season). A lighthearted anime about spring time. It was originally set to an elementary school song. The fi...

Documentary film about life in a mission station in the jungle of Cameroon with insights into the animal and plant world and the life of the natives.

A camera conception of New York, the city of inconceivable contrasts.

A musical cartoon with a grandfather clock theme.

The film tells the story of the removal of Laguna in the Paraguayan War. The nonlinear storyline starts showing the military visiting the graveyard of...

The first Estonian experimental animated short film written and directed by Voldemar Päts, produced by Aleksaner Teppor and animation by cartoonist El...

Scenes of thronging street life and market trading along Tower Bridge Road, Bermondsey Street and Southwark Park Road.

Oh Ay Cheng, who works on a plantation, has to turn away Marsiti, his faithful lover, for the sake of following his father’s command that he marries G...

Silent film about elephants in India.

This film, recovered in 2022, captures the first visit of Paraguayan schoolchildren from the Artigas School in Asunción to Uruguay in December 1930.

The mortgage is due by 6 p.m. or Grandma and Oswald will lose the homestead. Oswald is forced to take the beloved old milk cow to market. On the way,...

Time lapse photography

This handsome local newsreel is an accomplished and charming record of Chertsey crowds gathering for the announcement of the 1931 election result - wh...

Filmed by Ernesto Calvo.

This fatal love story is about a girl, Giok Eng Tay and a young man, Nio Sam Pek. Eng Tay's father, Giok Kong Wan is an official whose position has le...

This Barnes Brothers film starts with a trio of young bandits, with false beards, boozing in a chalk cliff cave and sharpening knives. One of them eme...

The Unlucky Butterfly. A early Japanese animation short.