Springtime is a Silly Symphonies animated Disney short film. It was released in 1929. It was the third Silly Symphonies film to be produced, just five days before the 1929 Stock Market Crash. The short entered the US public domain on January 1, 2025.
Private Snafu is the title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional adult animated shorts, ironic and humorous in tone, that were produced between 1943 and 1945 during World War II, and voiced by Mel Blanc. The films were designed to instruct service personnel about security, proper sanitation habits, booby traps and other military subjects, and to improve troop… Read more →
Half Way to Heaven is a 1929 American Pre-Code drama film directed by George Abbott and written by Abbott, Henry Leyford Gates, and Gerald Geraghty. The film stars Charles “Buddy” Rogers, Jean Arthur, Paul Lukas, Helen Ware, Oscar Apfel, and Irving Bacon. The film was released on December 14, 1929, by Paramount Pictures. As was common during the early years… Read more →
The Singing Fool is a 1928 American sound part-talkie musical drama motion picture directed by Lloyd Bacon which was released by Warner Bros. Pictures. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. The film stars… Read more →
Say It with Songs is a 1929 American sound (All-Talking) pre-Code musical drama film, directed by Lloyd Bacon and released by Warner Bros. The film stars Al Jolson and Davey Lee and was a follow-up to their previous film, The Singing Fool (1928). As per U.S. copyright law, the film entered the public domain on January 1, 2025.
Doughboys is a 1930 American Pre-Code comedy film starring Buster Keaton. It was Keaton’s second starring talkie vehicle and has been called Keaton’s “most successful sound Picture.” Keaton had creative input in Doughboys, which was partly inspired by his own experience in World War I. Although the writers kept inserting puns and verbal jokes into the script, Keaton insisted that… Read more →
Our Modern Maidens is a 1929 American synchronized sound comedy-drama film directed by Jack Conway. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The film stars Joan Crawford in her last film role without dialogue, the film also stars Rod La Rocque, Douglas… Read more →
Beau Bandit is a 1930 American Pre-Code Western film, directed by Lambert Hillyer, from a screenplay by Wallace Smith, based on his short story, “Strictly Business” which appeared in the April 1929 edition of Hearst’s International-Cosmopolitan. The film starred Rod La Rocque, Mitchell Lewis, Doris Kenyon, and Walter Long. The story is based loosely on the legend of Robin Hood.
Three Faces East is a 1930 American pre-Code spy drama film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Constance Bennett and Erich von Stroheim. Produced by Daryl Zanuck and released by Warner Bros. Pictures it is based on a 1918 Broadway play about World War I spies, Three Faces East, by Anthony Paul Kelly. It was filmed as a silent… Read more →
Street Angel is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film. Although the film contains no audible dialogue, it was released with a synchronized musical score and sound effects using the sound-on-film movietone process. Directed by Frank Borzage. As an early, transitional sound film, it used intertitles, recorded sound effects and musical selections, but did not include recorded dialogue. Street Angel… Read more →
