Short Movies

Sound short featuring comedian Benny Rubin.

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 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 short film by Jenny Longworth.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

A Fox Movietone comedy short released in 1929.

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

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....

Two best friends walk in the woods, discussing a mysterious stranger. When they encounter the subject of their conversation, they are forced to...

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

In 1941, under the Vichy regime, during the Nazi occupation, a team of six people crossed the Mont-Blanc massif. Leaving the Arve Valley with a month...

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