High Waters

A Vitaphone musical performance featuring Xavier Cugat and his ensemble.

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

Sound short featuring comedian Benny Rubin.

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

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

A fictional boy aims to become a non-fictional rapper. His label has other plans.

When a surly bachelor arrives at his stag do in Alicante, he discovers that no one has turned up apart from one estranged university friend. Will his ego get in the way of salvaging the weekend along with their friendship?

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 a rock climbing ascent of the southeast face of The Tooth, near Snoqualmie Pass, Washington. At the summit, the climbers find a brass tube with a Mountaineers register book inside. Illustrates Cascade Mountains climbing just before World War II. The leader never places any protection such as pitons or slings. The film focuses on the climbers' hand and foot work intermixed with mountain views.

A Vitaphone dramatic playlet featuring Irene Rich and company.

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

An early Tri-Ergon sound film depicting an idealized day in German village life through bells, animal calls, dialogue, music and a wandering singer.

A Fox Movietone comedy short released in 1929.

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.

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

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

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

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

A Yiddish-language sound, two-reel filmed stage revue featuring comic performers Marty Baratz and Goldie Eisenman.

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 & Howell. It shows a drive up to the Logan Pass in Glacier National Park, and a two-day ascent to Mount Rainier through Nisqually Glacier by two men and a woman. This Filmosound Library series produced in the early 1940s initially included thirty-seven single reels, for the most part silent, bringing beauty spots and wildlife of America and the world to the school screen in full natural color.