"1929"
Meurtre à Hollywood
Situé à Hollywood à la fin des années 1920 durant la transition du cinéma muet au cinéma sonore, le réalisateur, producteur et directeur du studio Alfie Alperin veut produire un grand Western sur Wyatt Earp. Tom Mix obtient le rôle du marshal et le vrai Earp est sur le plateau en tant que conseiller technique. Mais avant qu'Earp et Mix puis..
Noix de coco
Un agent immobilier malhonnête et ses deux complices sèment le désordre à Cocoanut Grove en essayant de vendre des terrains marécageux.
Farewell
Recently widowed from a man 50 years her senior and bored to tears with covering ladies fashion, Lady Grace leaped at the chance to be the only woman onboard one of the media sensations of the decade. At journey's end she returned to America a star, thanks to her good looks and gutsy charm. But her reports on the ship's travels for the front pages ..
A Lad and His Lamp
Another Van Beuren's mouse cartoon variation of Aladdin's lamp, with a soundtrack added in the late 1940s.
Ethnographic Films
These documentary sketches were made when the famed novelist was an anthropology student seeking to preserve a record of African American life in the rural South. Includes Children's games and baptism - Miami, Aug. 1929; Children's games and man with ax - April 1928; Children dancing and girl rocking on porch - Jan/Feb 1929; Baseball crowd and boy ..
People and Monuments
The pathos of universal unity against the backdrop of the overthrown imperial monuments triumphs on the Russian screen with the arrival of the cinema youth. But the closer we get to the "year of the great turning point", the more palpable this pathos is replaced by the pathos of the class struggle. New monuments appear in place of the dropped ones...
Cold House
The era of "agitpropfilm" is coming in the domestic cinema. The private life of an individual is declared a fiction. He is either expelled or dissolves into the orderly ranks of the working masses. Modern reality is presented on the screen as a field of incessant class battles. And only the arrival of sound in the early 30s gradually returns Soviet..
Hans Westmar
Nazi film about the story of a Nazi Storm Trooper named Horst Wessel--here called "Hans Westmar"--who took part in street brawls and assassinations in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s against Communists and other opponents of the Nazis, and was killed by Communists not long before this film came out.
Der Nürnberger Parteitag der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei
A film about the Nuremberg Party Congress of the NSDAP in 1929.
