Short Movies

An ascent of 'The Tooth' via the South-east Face. The film was made by Burge Bickford and Lyman Boyer. It features Jim Crooks leading Fred Beckey on...

An early sound musical short featuring blues singer Mamie Smith, produced in association with RLA Talking Picture Corporation.

Mara and Juno are trying to save their favorite punk bar, The Rusty Needle, only to discover that the real enemy isn't a villain; it's apathy.

An early silent color film of Glacier National Park and Mount Rainier. The film is part of the 'Our Colorful World' series, produced by Bell &...

Rare film about skiing, shot in the Nuria Valley in 1941, with the participation of the first company of skiers of Nuria. The documentary entitled...

An early Vitaphone sound short featuring comedian Polly Moran as the Movie Chatterbox.

A Vitaphone musical performance featuring Xavier Cugat and his ensemble.

Sound and shortened version of 'Im Kampf mit dem Berge', Arnold Fanck's second major mountaineering film, from 1921. The film follows two mountain...

A ten-minute musical Movietone short featuring dancer Ruby Keeler.

An early De Forest Phonofilm performance short exhibited as part of a sound-film presentation at Riesenfeld's Rivoli Theatre in New York.

A sound dramatic playlet in which a son confesses to the killing of his abusive father to protect his mother.

A two-reel synchronized-sound dramatic playlet starring Una Merkel, made using the De Forest Phonofilm system.

A Fox Movietone short featuring vaudeville monologist Charles "Chic" Sale in a filmed comedy routine.

Sound short featuring comedian Benny Rubin.

An experimental Paramount sound short combining construction imagery and industrial noises with words by poet Edgar A. Guest.

Cimes is a drama about alpinism that takes place in Mont Pelvoux. It was directed by Jean Vernet in 1941 and produced by Films de Cavaignac. It...

A Yiddish-language short comedy directed by Sidney M. Goldin and starring Joseph Buloff.

A short early-sound comedy featuring the character Cohen speaking over the telephone.

A Vitaphone dramatic playlet featuring Irene Rich and company.

A musical sound short featuring Guy Robertson and imagery related to the Mississippi River floods.