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The Fraeon Archive · The 1920s
19281930

1929

The silent summit — when film grammar was invented shot by shot and cinema first believed it was an art.

The films everyone saw

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Man with a Movie Camera

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

3.9

Man with a Movie Camera

1929

Un Chien Andalou

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

3.7

Un Chien Andalou

1929

Pandora's Box

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

3.7

Pandora's Box

1929

Arsenal

A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists. The story of the suppression of the Bolshevik uprising at the Arsenal factory in Kyiv by the Central Council troops.

3.4

Arsenal

1929

Perfect Day

Two families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic but manage to run into a variety of issues with their temperamental automobile. Each incident requires repeated exits and reboardings by Laurel, Hardy, their wives and grouchy, gout-ridden Uncle Edgar.

3.5

Perfect Day

1929

The Cocoanuts

During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.

3.2

The Cocoanuts

1929

Asphalt

Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of Berlin traffic.

3.6

Asphalt

1929

Blackmail

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.

3.3

Blackmail

1929

The Skeleton Dance

The clock strikes midnight, the bats fly from the belfry, a dog howls at the full moon, and two black cats fight in the cemetery: a perfect time for four skeletons to come out and dance a bit.

3.7

The Skeleton Dance

1929

The Broadway Melody

The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.

2.6

The Broadway Melody

1929

Woman in the Moon

A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.

3.6

Woman in the Moon

1929

Spite Marriage

An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.

3.3

Spite Marriage

1929

Queen Kelly

In Kronberg, Ruritania, the planned wedding of Queen Regina and Prince Wolfram is disrupted when the prince falls in love with Patricia Kelly, a beautiful orphan at the convent. The prince kidnaps Patricia and takes her to the palace, but the queen drives her out. After a botched suicide attempt, Patricia unwillingly allows her scurrilous aunt to marry her off to a decrepit scoundrel. Undaunted, Wolfram follows Patricia to her new home in East Africa.

3.3

Queen Kelly

1929

The Haunted House

Mickey seeks shelter from a storm in a house that turns out to be haunted. The skeletons command him to play the organ; they dance and play along.

3.3

The Haunted House

1929

Hell's Bells

The demons of hell play music for Satan, whose delight turns to wrath when an insubordinate refuses to become food for Cerberus.

3.3

Hell's Bells

1929

The Manxman

A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.

3.1

The Manxman

1929

Plane Crazy

Referred as the actual first Mickey Mouse short. Inspired by Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris, Mickey builds a plane to take Minnie for a trip.

3.2

Plane Crazy

1929

Diary of a Lost Girl

Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.

3.7

Diary of a Lost Girl

1929

Hidden gems of 1929loved by the few who found them

Liberty

While changing clothes in a getaway car, escaped convicts Stan and Ollie mistakenly put on each other's pants. They spend the rest of the film trying to exchange pants in various unlikely settings.

3.4

Liberty

1929

Big Business

Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an escalating feud with grumpy would-be customer James Finlayson, with his home and their car being destroyed in the melee.

3.3

Big Business

1929

The Barn Dance

Minnie Mouse has to choose between two dance partners, as clumsy Mickey competes with the more experienced Pete for the pleasure of her company.

3.0

The Barn Dance

1929

When the Cat's Away

While Tom Cat goes away hunting, Mickey, Minnie, and their mouse friends break into his house and perform music. They play various tunes on the piano while the other mice hit household objects in tune to the music.

3.0

When the Cat's Away

1929

The Karnival Kid

Mickey Mouse is working as a hot dog vendor at a carnival when he meets and quickly falls for Minnie the "Shimmy Dancer". That night, Mickey and a pair of alley cats serenade her by performing the song "Sweet Adeline", much to the dismay of Kat Nipp, who is trying to sleep. The short marks Mickey's first speaking appearance.

2.9

The Karnival Kid

1929

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A Room of One's Own

Authorship · Economic conditions

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

1929

A Farewell to Arms

Cuentos de guerra · World War I, 1914-1918

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

1929

A silent witness

Fiction, mystery & detective, general · Thorndyke, doctor (fictitious character), fiction

A silent witness

R. Austin Freeman

1929

The Maltese Falcon

Fiction, mystery & detective, general · San francisco (calif.), fiction

The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett

1929

The Sound and the Fury

American Manuscripts · Death

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

1929

Dodsworth

Fiction · Married people

Dodsworth

Sinclair Lewis

1929

Arizona Ames

Revenge · Westerns

Arizona Ames

Zane Grey

1929

Partners in Crime

English Detective and mystery stories · Fiction

Partners in Crime

Agatha Christie

1929

The black camel

Fiction · Charlie Chan (Fictitious character)

The black camel

Earl Derr Biggers

1929

Red aces

English Detective and mystery stories

Red aces

Edgar Wallace

1929

The Courts of the morning

Fiction in English · Richard Hannay (Fictitious character)

The Courts of the morning

John Buchan

1929

Passing

Fiction · Passing (Identity)

Passing

Nella Larsen

1929

Cup of Gold

Fiction · Morgan, Henry, in fiction

Cup of Gold

John Steinbeck

1929

Look Homeward, Angel

flashlightworthy · Fiction

Look Homeward, Angel

Thomas Wolfe

1929

La rebelión de las masas

Civilization · Proletariat

La rebelión de las masas

José Ortega y Gasset

1929

Cyrano De Bergerac

Rostand, edmond, 1864-1918 · French literature, history and criticism, 19th century

Cyrano De Bergerac

Edmond Rostand

1929

Berlin Alexanderplatz

German fiction · German language books

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Alfred Döblin

1929

Hans Frost

Hans Frost

Hugh Walpole

1929

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