Short Movies

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

Joseph Vallot and his team of guides and porters climb Mont Blanc in 1906. Their ascent will take three days. They spent their nights at the Grands...

In this ten-minute documentary experiment, director Herz Frank films a group of children watching a puppet show, keeping the camera fixed on their...

An official training film from the War department. In April 1942, a detail of five enlisted men and two officers, Capt. Paul Lafferty and Lt. John...

"An early color film presented as 'Ascent to the Bernina Massif'. Two mountaineers break from the Forno hut and first climb the Punta Rasica and then...

A young sailor, after returning from a long voyage, remembers his homeland, now dry and empty, just as it once was: with ponds full of water and a...

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

Lisa witnesses a mysterious man leave an envelope on a bridge, soon picked up by a woman. The next day the story repeats, but the woman doesn't show....

Documentary on alpine refuges and the life of mountaineers. The film begins with images recreating vintage mountain climbers that end up spending a...

The film is a kind of docu-fiction about a boy who enrolls in a battalion of young mountain troops. The film follows his daily life in the military...

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

"Great Maia" is an extra-special film of the "Dinosauria Animated Series", it is set in the Two Medicine Formation during the Late Cretaceous and...

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

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

After seemingly ordinary night of recreational drug use triggers a prolonged episode of derealization, Jordan's perception of reality unravels....

As a burdened teen girl’s hallucinations intensify, she confides in her devout mother, unaware of a buried truth resurfacing to fracture the...

After months of silence, two old friends reunite for an overdue game of basketball.

A short film by Jenny Longworth.

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

A Fox Movietone comedy short released in 1929.