| Year |
Film |
Director |
Cast |
Notes |
Ref |
| 1930 |
An Elastic Affair |
Alfred Hitchcock |
|
Short film made by Hitchcock for awards ceremony at the London Palladium in January 1930. |
[56] |
| The Big Party |
John G. Blystone |
Sue Carol, Dixie Lee |
|
[41] |
| Bride of the Regiment |
John Francis Dillon |
Vivienne Segal, Walter Pidgeon |
All Technicolor musical drama, only the soundtrack survives on Vitaphone discs. |
[41] |
| Cameo Kirby |
Irving Cummings |
J. Harold Murray, Norma Terris |
|
[41] |
| The Cave of the Silken Web II |
Dan Duyu |
Yin Mingzhu |
Silent. Chinese film. Original title: 续盘丝洞. 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 |
[41] |
| Fellers |
Austin Fay, Arthur Higgins |
Arthur Tauchert, Les Coney |
An Australian comedy. |
[57] |
| Hold Everything |
Roy Del Ruth |
Winnie Lightner, Joe E. Brown |
All Technicolor musical comedy. The complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs. |
[41] |
| 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. |
[58] |
| Let's Go Places |
Frank R. Strayer |
Frank Richardson, Dixie Lee |
|
[41] |
| Lilies of the Field |
Alexander Korda |
Corinne Griffith, Ralph Forbes |
|
[41] |
| Lord Richard in the Pantry |
Walter Forde |
Richard Cooper, Dorothy Seacombe |
Included on the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" list of missing British feature films. |
[59] |
| One Mad Kiss |
Marcel Silver |
José Mojica, Antonio Moreno |
|
[41] |
| No, No, Nanette |
Clarence G. Badger |
Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray |
Part Technicolor musical comedy. The soundtrack discs survive. Trailer survives. |
[41][60] |
| Song of the Flame |
Alan Crosland |
Bernice Claire, Noah Beery |
All Technicolor musical drama, the first color film featuring wide screen, and Academy Award nominee for Best Sound. Sound discs for five of the nine reels exist. |
[41] |
| 1931 |
Alam Ara |
Ardeshir Irani |
Master Vithal, Zubeida, Jilloo, Sushila, Prithviraj Kapoor |
The first Indian sound film. |
[61] |
| Charlie Chan Carries On |
|
Warner Oland, Hamilton MacFadden |
An alternate Spanish-language version, featuring a different cast, exists. |
[62] |
| Deadlock |
George King |
Stewart Rome, Marjorie Hume, Warwick Ward |
On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. |
[63] |
| Fanny Foley Herself |
|
Edna May Oliver |
All-color film photographed in Technicolor. |
[41] |
| Hobson's Choice |
Thomas Bentley |
James Harcourt, Viola Lyel, Frank Pettingell |
On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. |
[64] |
| Kalidas |
H. M. Reddy |
T. P. Rajalakshmi, P. G. Venkatesan, L. V. Prasad |
First sound film in Tamil cinema, as well as South Indian cinema |
[65][66] |
| Peludópolis |
Quirino Cristiani |
|
Argentine production; the world's first animated feature film with sound, using a primitive sound-on-disc system. |
[67] |
| Two Crowded Hours |
Michael Powell |
John Longden, Jane Welsh, Jerry Verno |
Powell's directorial debut. |
[68] |
| 1932 |
Charlie Chan's Chance |
John G. Blystone |
Warner Oland |
Sixth film of the Charlie Chan series and third with Warner Oland. |
[69] |
| Men of Tomorrow |
Zoltan Korda, Leontine Sagan |
Maurice Braddell, Joan Gardner |
Robert Donat's film debut. The film is on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. |
[70] |
| The Missing Rembrandt |
|
Arthur Wontner |
Second film in the Sherlock Holmes series. |
[71][72] |
| Tonendes ABC |
László Moholy-Nagy |
|
Experimental film, the negative was scratched by hand. Seen by Norman McLaren in the 1930s. |
[73] |
| 1933 |
Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka |
Kenzō Masaoka |
|
First sound anime. |
[74] |
| Convention City |
Archie Mayo |
Joan Blondell
Dick Powell
Adolphe Menjou
Mary Astor |
A pre-Code film produced by First National–Warner Bros. |
[41] |
| Night in the City |
Fei Mu |
Ruan Lingyu
Jin Yan |
Fei Mu's debut. |
|
| Two Minutes Silence |
Paulette McDonagh |
Frank Bradley, Campbell Copelin, Marie Lorraine |
Australia's first anti-war movie. |
[57] |
| Wasei Kingu Kongu |
Torajiro Saito |
Isamu Yamaguchi |
Japanese short based on King Kong, and the first Kaiju film, preceding Godzilla by 21 years. |
[75] |
| 1934 |
Jail Birds of Paradise |
Al Boasberg |
Dorothy Appleby, Moe Howard, Curly Howard |
The only lost Stooges film. |
|
| Murder at Monte Carlo |
|
Errol Flynn |
Flynn's debut film in the UK. |
[76] |
| Ragazzo |
Ivo Perilli |
Costantino Frasca, Isa Pola, Osvaldo Valenti |
Screening was banned by Fascist authorities before the premiere, and subsequently stored at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. During the Germans' retreat in 1944, the centre was looted and set on fire. |
[77][78] |
| The Scarab Murder Case |
|
Wilfrid Hyde-White |
A Philo Vance film. |
[79] |
| 1935 |
The Magic Shoes |
|
Peter Finch |
Completed but never released. |
[57] |
| 1936 |
The Oregon Trail |
|
John Wayne |
Lost film, but in 2013 stills were found |
[80] |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio |
Raoul Verdini, Umberto Spano |
|
It was intended to be the first animated feature film from Italy, but is now considered lost, only the original script and a couple of still frames are all that survived of the film |
[81] |
| 1937 |
Terang Boelan |
Albert Balink |
Rd. Mochtar, Roekiah |
Romance film from the Dutch East Indies; the colony's biggest commercial success |
[82] |
| 1938 |
King Kong Appears in Edo |
Sōya Kumagai |
Eizaburo Matsumoto |
A Japanese kaiju (giant monster) film which preceded Godzilla by sixteen years. It was likely lost during World War II. |
[83] |
| 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 5 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. |
[84] |
| Secreto de confesión |
|
|
It was lost during the bombing of Manila during World War II. |
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