Year
|
Film
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Notes
|
Ref
|
1930
|
An Elastic Affair
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
Short film made by Hitchcock for an awards ceremony at the
London Palladium
in January 1930
|
[64]
|
The Big Party
|
John G. Blystone
|
Sue Carol
,
Dixie Lee
|
|
[49]
|
Cock o' the Walk
|
Walter Lang
|
Joseph Schildkraut
,
Myrna Loy
|
|
|
Noli Me Tangere
|
Jose Nepumuceno
|
|
The 1930 version of Noli Me Tangere was directed by Jose Nepumuceno based on the
novel
written by Dr.
Jose Rizal
with a synchronized soundtrack.
|
|
Cameo Kirby
|
Irving Cummings
|
J. Harold Murray
,
Norma Terris
|
|
[49]
|
The Cave of the Silken Web II
|
Dan Duyu
|
Yin Mingzhu
|
Silent. Chinese film. Original title: ???洞 (
Xu pan x? dong
). Sequel to the 1927
The Cave of the Silken Web
(which itself had been thought to have been lost, but was rediscovered in 2013)
|
|
College Lovers
|
John G. Adolfi
|
Marion Nixon
,
Jack Whiting
|
Musical comedy. Six Vitaphone discs containing elements of the soundtrack are held at UCLA and were discovered in October 2023.
|
[49]
|
Fellers
|
Austin Fay,
Arthur Higgins
|
Arthur Tauchert
, Les Coney
|
An Australian comedy
|
[65]
|
Kismet
|
John Francis Dillon
|
Otis Skinner
,
Loretta Young
|
A lavish costume drama in the early widescreen process known as Vitascope. The complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs.
|
[66]
|
Let's Go Places
|
Frank R. Strayer
|
Frank Richardson
,
Dixie Lee
|
|
[49]
|
Lord Richard in the Pantry
|
Walter Forde
|
Richard Cooper
,
Dorothy Seacombe
|
Included on the
British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" list
of lost British feature films
|
[67]
|
One Mad Kiss
|
Marcel Silver
|
Jose Mojica
,
Antonio Moreno
|
|
[49]
|
Song of the Flame
|
Alan Crosland
|
Bernice Claire
,
Noah Beery
|
All-Technicolor musical drama, the first color film featuring widescreen, and Academy Award nominee for
Best Sound
. Sound discs for five of the nine reels exist.
|
[49]
|
1931
|
Alam Ara
|
Ardeshir Irani
|
Master Vithal
,
Zubeida
,
Jilloo
,
Sushila
,
Prithviraj Kapoor
|
The first Indian sound film
|
[68]
|
Deadlock
|
George King
|
Stewart Rome
,
Marjorie Hume
,
Warwick Ward
|
On the
BFI 75 Most Wanted
list
|
[69]
|
Hobson's Choice
|
Thomas Bentley
|
James Harcourt
,
Viola Lyel
,
Frank Pettingell
|
On the
BFI 75 Most Wanted
list of lost films
|
[70]
|
Kalidas
|
H. M. Reddy
|
T. P. Rajalakshmi
, P. G. Venkatesan,
L. V. Prasad
|
First sound film in
Telugu cinema
,
Tamil cinema
, as well as in
South Indian cinema
|
[71]
[72]
|
Peludopolis
|
Quirino Cristiani
|
|
Argentine production; the world's first animated feature film with sound, using a primitive
sound-on-disc
system
|
[73]
|
The Bells
|
Harcourt Templeman
|
Donald Calthrop
,
Jane Welsh
,
Edward Sinclair
,
O.B. Clarence
,
Wilfred Shine
,
Ralph Truman
,
Anita Sharp-Bolster
|
The film was originally released with a
film score
written by
Gustav Holst
, the only film score by Holst.
|
[74]
|
Two Crowded Hours
|
Michael Powell
|
John Longden
,
Jane Welsh
,
Jerry Verno
|
Powell's directorial debut
|
[75]
|
1932
|
Charlie Chan's Chance
|
John G. Blystone
|
Warner Oland
|
Sixth film of the
Charlie Chan
series and third with Warner Oland
|
[76]
|
Men of Tomorrow
|
Zoltan Korda
,
Leontine Sagan
|
Maurice Braddell,
Joan Gardner
|
Robert Donat
's film debut; on the
BFI 75 Most Wanted
list of lost films
|
[77]
|
The Night of Decision
|
Dimitri Buchowetzki
|
Conrad Veidt
,
Olga Chekhova
,
Peter Voß
|
|
|
The Missing Rembrandt
|
Leslie S. Hiscott
|
Arthur Wontner
|
Second film in the Sherlock Holmes series
|
[78]
[79]
|
Speed Demon
|
D. Ross Lederman
|
William Collier Jr.
|
|
|
1933
|
Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka
|
Kenz? Masaoka
|
|
First sound
anime
|
[80]
|
Ang Aswang
|
George Mauser
|
Celia Xerxes Burgos, Luis Ayesa, Arturo Sawanson
|
The first ever Filipino
talkie
film and an early example of horror genre movies based on
Philippine mythology
, featuring a creature called
Aswang
or a
Ghoul
. The film opened to acclaim at the Lyric on January 1, 1933, then at the Tivoli on January 4. Unfortunately, according to some observers, the sound was sometimes out of sync and inaudible.
|
[81]
|
The Big Brain
|
George Archainbaud
|
George E. Stone
Phillips Holmes
Fay Wray
|
|
|
Convention City
|
Archie Mayo
|
Joan Blondell
Dick Powell
Adolphe Menjou
Mary Astor
|
A
pre-Code
film produced by
First National
?
Warner Bros.
|
[49]
|
Hotel Variety
|
Raymond Cannon
|
Hal Skelly
Olive Borden
Charlotte Walker
|
|
|
Night in the City
|
Fei Mu
|
Ruan Lingyu
Jin Yan
|
Fei Mu's debut
|
|
Racetrack
|
James Cruze
|
Leo Carrillo
Junior Coughlan
Kay Hammond
|
|
|
Two Minutes Silence
|
Paulette McDonagh
|
Frank Bradley,
Campbell Copelin
,
Marie Lorraine
|
Australia's first anti-war movie
|
[65]
|
Wasei Kingu Kongu
|
Torajiro Saito
|
Isamu Yamaguchi
|
Japanese short film based on
King Kong
|
[82]
|
1934
|
Jail Birds of Paradise
|
Al Boasberg
|
Dorothy Appleby
,
Moe Howard
,
Curly Howard
|
The only lost
Three Stooges
film
|
[83]
|
Murder at Monte Carlo
|
Ralph Ince
|
Errol Flynn
|
Flynn's debut film in the UK
|
[84]
|
Ragazzo
|
Ivo Perilli
|
Costantino Frasca
,
Isa Pola
,
Osvaldo Valenti
|
Screening was banned by Fascist authorities before the premiere, and the film was subsequently stored at the
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
. During the Germans' retreat in 1944, the center was looted and set on fire.
|
[85]
[86]
|
The Scarab Murder Case
|
Michael Hankinson
|
Wilfrid Hyde-White
|
A
Philo Vance
film
|
[87]
|
1935
|
The Magic Shoes
|
Claude Flemming
|
Peter Finch
|
Completed, but never released
|
[65]
|
Obeah!
|
F. Herrick Herrick
|
Jean Brooks
,
Phillips Lord
|
Released in February 1935
|
[88]
|
1936
|
The Oregon Trail
|
Scott Pembroke
|
John Wayne
|
Stills were found in 2013
|
[89]
|
The Adventures of Pinocchio
|
Raoul Verdini
,
Umberto Spano
|
|
Unfinished film intended to be the first
animated feature film
from Italy. Only the original script and a couple of still frames survive.
|
[90]
|
1937
|
Terang Boelan
|
Albert Balink
|
Rd. Mochtar
,
Roekiah
|
Romance film from the
Dutch East Indies
; the colony's biggest commercial success
|
[91]
|
1938
|
The King Kong That Appeared in Edo
|
S?ya Kumagai
|
Eizaburo Matsumoto
|
Likely lost during World War II
|
[92]
|
Nad Niemnem
|
Wanda Jakubowska
and
Karol Szolowski
|
|
The Nazi regime liked the artistic value of the movie, but could not allow the screening of a picture so firmly rooted in Polish history. It was dubbed and re-edited, changing it to pro-German propaganda. Stefan Dekierowski informed the Polish underground, and the remaining three copies (out of five total) were hidden in winter 1939; the movie is believed to be lost.
|
|
1939
|
The Good Old Days
|
Roy William Neill
|
Max Miller
,
Hal Walters
,
Kathleen Gibson
|
On the
BFI 75 Most Wanted
list of lost films
|
[93]
|
Secreto de confesion
|
|
|
Lost during the bombing of
Manila
during World War II
|
|