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...

Marshal Jack is sent, undercover, into the bad lands to clean up a gang of Indians who have been terrorizing the local ranchers. Horses belonging to a...

The poppy flower in its psychedelic glory.

Time lapse photography

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...

A Jewish tannery worker, Nahum Beychik, invents a machine that makes hard work easier in leather tanning. A private entrepreneur, former kulak Lopatin...

Telefunken commercial by Hans Fischerkoesen.

Vladimir Erofeev was a key figure in the development of the Soviet travelogue during the late 1920s. See for example Far Away in Asia [Daleko v Azii,...

A wealthy socialite, Claire Rutherford (Beatrice Touzeau),visits her former lover, Tony Iredale (James Alexander),one night. The next day Tony is ar...

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...

Cops on horses trying to keep order in town.

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

Ripley shows a chair of growing trees, the narrowest street in the world, a city of wine cask dwellers and a bungalow of 144 rooms.

Ripley shows unusual athletic feats, a boy born with "clock" eyes, and a blind French monk who invented navigation laws.

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 breeding cycle of the bittern, the cryptically plumaged relative of the herons.