| Year |
Film |
Director |
Cast |
Notes |
Ref |
| 1911 |
The Immortal Alamo |
William F. Haddock |
Francis Ford |
Earliest film of the Alamo Battle, shot at the Alamo itself. |
[5] |
| 1912 |
The Honor of the Family |
|
Lon Chaney, Sr. |
Chaney's on-screen debut. |
[6] |
| Saved from the Titanic |
Étienne Arnaud |
Dorothy Gibson |
First film about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Gibson was an actual Titanic survivor. |
[7] |
| 1913 |
The Battle of Gettysburg |
Charles Giblyn, Thomas H. Ince |
Willard Mack, Charles K. French |
The film was reported to have been screened in France in 1973. |
[8] |
| The Vampire |
|
|
Britain's first feature-length horror film. |
[9] |
| The Werewolf |
Henry MacRae |
Clarence Burton, Marie Walcamp |
The first werewolf film, but destroyed in a fire in 1924. |
[10] |
| 1914 |
Absinthe |
Herbert Brenon & George Edwardes-Hall |
King Baggot, Leah Baird |
|
|
| The Battle of the Sexes |
D. W. Griffith |
Lillian Gish |
|
[11] |
| The World, the Flesh and the Devil |
Floyd Martin Thornton |
Frank Esmond |
First dramatic feature film made in color (Kinemacolor). |
|
| The Escape |
D. W. Griffith |
Donald Crisp |
|
[12] |
| Her Friend the Bandit |
Charlie Chaplin |
Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand |
The only lost film starring Chaplin. |
[13] |
| Hearts Adrift |
Edwin Stanton Porter |
Mary Pickford |
A film similar in theme to Henry De Vere Stacpoole's The Blue Lagoon. |
[14] |
| The Life of General Villa |
Christy Cabanne |
Pancho Villa |
A film about Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, starring Villa as himself. |
[15] |
| The Indian Wars |
|
William F. Cody |
William F. Cody stars as himself in this early movie version of the Indian Wars; also stars Nelson Appleton Miles and Black Elk; reportedly only part of last reel survives; released 1917. |
[16] |
| Damaged Goods |
|
Thomas Ricketts |
Richard Bennett |
|
| The Siege and Fall of the Alamo |
Ray Myers |
Four production stills and a review are held at the Library of Congress. |
|
|
| A Study in Scarlet |
George Pearson |
James Bragington |
The first feature-length adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes story. |
[17] |
| The Jungle |
|
|
The only film version to date of Upton Sinclair's book of the same name. |
|
| The Crucible |
Edwin Stanton Porter, Hugh Ford |
Marguerite Clark |
Clark's second feature, based on the play by Mark Lee Luther. Re-released in 1919, but still lost. |
[18] |
| Such a Little Queen |
Edwin S. Porter, Hugh Ford |
Mary Pickford |
Based on a play by Channing Pollock. |
[19] |
| 1915 |
The Eternal City |
Edwin Stanton Porter, Hugh Ford |
Pauline Frederick |
One of the first American productions filmed in Rome. |
[20] |
| Anna Karenina |
J. Gordon Edwards |
Betty Nansen, Edward José |
The first American adaptation of the novel. |
[21] |
| The Romance of Elaine |
George B. Seitz |
Pearl White |
Serial starring Pearl White. |
|
| Life Without Soul |
Joseph W. Smiley |
Percy Standing |
The second film based upon the novel Frankenstein. |
[22] |
| The Last Night of the Barbary Coast |
Hal Mohr, Sol Lesser |
|
Early example of an exploitation film, purportedly showing the last night of the Barbary Coast red-light district of San Francisco. |
|
| The Two Orphans |
Herbert Brenon |
Theda Bara |
Later remade by D. W. Griffith as Orphans of the Storm, starring Dorothy Gish and Lillian Gish. |
[23] |
| The Pretty Sister of Jose |
Allan Dwan |
Marguerite Clark, Jack Pickford, Rupert Julian |
Clark's second film directed by Allan Dwan. |
[24] |
| A Girl of Yesterday |
Allan Dwan |
Mary Pickford, Frances Marion, Glenn L. Martin |
Real-life aviation pioneer Glenn L. Martin flies Mary in his biplane and refuses to kiss pretty Frances Marion because his real-life mother Minta objected to the kissing. |
[25] |
| The Valley of Lost Hope |
Romaine Fielding |
Romaine Fielding, Mildred Gregory. Peter Lang |
Western involving a crashing locomotive. |
|
| The Battle Cry of Peace |
J. Stuart Blackton |
Charles Richman, L. Rogers Lytton, Mary Maurice |
Anti-war epic and the most expensive production undertaken by Vitagraph. One reel reported in Europe; fragments of battle scenes, culled from stock shot libraries, reside at G.E.H. |
[27][28] |
| 1916 |
McTeague |
Barry O'Neal |
Holbrook Blinn
Fania Marinoff |
The first filming of the novel McTeague, this film was apparently known as Life's a Whirlpool (not to be confused with the 1917 film of the same name). |
[29] |
| The Serpent |
Raoul Walsh |
Theda Bara |
One of Theda Bara's many lost films |
[30] |
| A Daughter of the Gods |
Herbert Brenon |
Annette Kellerman |
A few feet were held in the Cinema Museum of London, but are now lost. |
[31] |
| Das Phantom der Oper |
Ernst Matray |
Nils Olaf Chrisander, Aud Egede-Nissen |
|
[32] |
| Romeo and Juliet |
J. Gordon Edwards |
Theda Bara |
|
[33] |
| The Fall of a Nation |
Thomas Dixon |
Lorraine Huling |
A few frames survive. Sequel to The Birth of a Nation (1915). |
[34] |
| 1917 |
Camille |
J. Gordon Edwards |
Theda Bara |
A reel was rumored to be found in a Russian archive, but was actually mislabelled. The film is still lost. |
[35] |
| Brčko u Zagrebu (Brčko in Zagreb) |
Arsen Maas |
Stjepan Bojničić |
First Croatian roleplay movie. Only some shots remain. |
|
| A Country Hero |
Roscoe Arbuckle |
Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton |
|
[36] |
| El Apóstol |
Quirino Cristiani |
|
Argentine production believed to be the world's first animated feature film. |
[37] |
| Der Golem und die Tänzerin |
Paul Wegener |
|
First sequel to a horror film. |
[38] |
| The Honor System |
Raoul Walsh |
|
One of Walsh's first features, and one of his most successful. |
[39] |
| The Gulf Between |
Wray Bartlett Physioc |
Grace Darmond, Niles Welch |
The first Technicolor film, a few frames of which survive. |
[40] |
| Life's Whirlpool |
Lionel Barrymore |
Ethel Barrymore |
Not based on Frank Norris' novel McTeague, but a typical melodrama of the time. Lionel Barrymore's last directed silent film until talkies in 1929, and the only directing of his sister in a film. |
[41] |
| Magda |
Emile Chautard |
Clara Kimball Young, Valda Valkyrien |
|
[42] |
| The Spirit of '76 |
Frank Montgomery |
John Big Tree, William Beery (brother of Wallace Beery and Noah Beery) |
Seized because it showed British Army "atrocities" during the American Revolution and was deemed to be detrimental to American support for England during World War I. |
[43] |
| Imokawa Mukuzo Genkanban no Maki |
|
|
|
|
| 1918 |
Bound in Morocco |
|
Douglas Fairbanks |
|
[44] |
| The Great Love |
D. W. Griffith |
Lillian Gish |
This melodrama incorporated actual footage of England and France under World War I conditions, including an air raid and a battle. |
[45] |
| The Greatest Thing in Life |
D. W. Griffith |
Lillian Gish |
|
[46] |
| The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin |
Rupert Julian |
Rupert Julian |
Early World War I propaganda film. |
[47] |
| The Prussian Cur |
Raoul Walsh |
Miriam Cooper |
Early World War I propaganda film. |
[48] |
| Salomé |
J. Gordon Edwards |
Theda Bara |
|
[49] |
| The Savage Woman |
Edmund Mortimer |
Clara Kimball Young, Milton Sills |
|
[50] |
| The Romance of Tarzan |
Scott Sidney |
Elmo Lincoln |
The second Tarzan film produced. |
[51] |
| That Devil, Bateese |
William Wolbert |
Lon Chaney, Sr. |
Chaney's final film in his first stint at Universal. |
[52] |
| The Woman and the Law |
Raoul Walsh |
|
Based on the Blanca de Saulles trial starring Miriam Cooper. |
[53] |
| 1919 |
Anne of Green Gables |
William Desmond Taylor |
Mary Miles Minter |
|
[54] |
| The Boy in Blue |
F. W. Murnau |
Blandine Ebinger |
Murnau's debut film. |
[55] |
| The Homesteader |
Oscar Micheaux |
Evelyn Preer |
Believed to be the first feature-length "race film" made with a black cast and crew, for a black audience. |
|
| The Knickerbocker Buckaroo |
Albert Parker |
Douglas Fairbanks |
|
[56] |
| Evangeline |
Raoul Walsh |
|
One of Walsh's most successful silents up to that time, one of Miriam Cooper's most successful. |
[57] |
| Marked Men |
John Ford |
Harry Carey |
|
[58] |
| A Fight for Love |
John Ford |
Harry Carey, John Big Tree |
|
[59] |
| The Test of Honor |
John S. Robertson |
John Barrymore |
Barrymore's first dramatic role in a film. |
[60] |
| Der Herr der Liebe |
Fritz Lang |
Carl de Vogt |
This is the only film in which director Fritz Lang had an acting role. |
[61] |
| The Misleading Widow |
John S. Robertson |
Billie Burke |
|
[62] |
| The Avalanche |
George Fitzmaurice |
Elsie Ferguson |
|
[63] |
| A Society Exile |
George Fitzmaurice |
Elsie Ferguson |
|
[64] |
| Counterfeit |
George Fitzmaurice |
Elsie Ferguson |
|
[65] |
| The First Men in the Moon |
J.L.V. Leigh |
Hector Abbas, Lionel D'Aragon |
First film adapted directly from a work by H.G. Wells |
[66] |
| Year |
Film |
Director |
Cast |
Notes |
Ref |
| 1920 |
The Prince of Avenue A |
John Ford |
James J. Corbett
Richard Cummings |
|
[67] |
| Abend - Nacht - Morgen |
F. W. Murnau |
Conrad Veidt, Gertrude Welcker, Bruno Ziener, Otto Gebühr, Carl von Balla |
|
|
| Sehnsucht |
F. W. Murnau |
Conrad Veidt |
|
|
| The Revenge of Tarzan |
Harry Revier
George M. Merrick |
Gene Pollar |
The third Tarzan film produced |
[68] |
| The Devil's Pass Key |
Erich von Stroheim |
Leo White, Mae Busch |
negative depiction of Americans led some to suggest Stroheim be deported. |
[69] |
| Treasure Island |
Maurice Tourneur |
Shirley Mason, Charles Ogle, Lon Chaney, Sr. |
A lavish production of the Stevenson novel, reportedly with some color sequences |
[70][71] |
| Lady Rose's Daughter |
Hugh Ford |
Elsie Ferguson |
|
[72] |
| 1921 |
Disraeli |
Henry Kolker |
George Arliss |
The entire film was screened at the MOMA in 1947. In the sixty years since only reel 3 survives at George Eastman House. |
[73] |
| The Gunsaulus Mystery |
Oscar Micheaux |
Evelyn Preer |
Inspired by the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan. |
[74] |
| Humor Risk |
Richard Smith |
Marx Brothers |
The first Marx Brothers film. It is not clear whether this film was ever shown theatrically. |
[75] |
| The Lotus Eater |
Marshall Neilan |
John Barrymore, Colleen Moore |
tropical scenes filmed partly on Catalina Island, and in Florida |
[76] |
| The Freeze-Out |
John Ford |
Harry Carey |
|
[77] |
| The Avenging Arrow |
William S. Bowman
W. S. Van Dyke |
John Big Tree |
|
|
| The Queen of Sheba |
J. Gordon Edwards |
Betty Blythe |
Only a few production stills remain. Elaborate chariot race staged by Tom Mix |
[78] |
| Sentimental Tommy |
John S. Robertson |
Gareth Hughes |
one of the biggest Paramount hits of 1921 |
[79] |
| Forever |
George Fitzmaurice |
Elsie Ferguson, Wallace Reid |
film version of George du Maurier play Peter Ibbetson |
[80] |
| Experience |
George Fitzmaurice |
Richard Barthelmess, Lilyan Tashman, Marjorie Daw |
allegory in which all the characters are named for a human emotion |
[81] |
| 1922 |
Clarence |
William C. deMille |
Wallace Reid
Adolphe Menjou |
|
[82] |
| Number 13 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Clare Greet
Ernest Thesiger |
What would have been Hitchcock's first film was uncompleted except for a few scenes, due to budget problems. |
[83] |
| The Beautiful and Damned |
William A. Seiter |
Kenneth Harlan
Marie Prevost |
F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, adapted and produced by Warner Bros. Six lobby cards extant. |
[84] |
| A Blind Bargain |
Wallace Worsley |
Lon Chaney, Sr. |
Negative destroyed by MGM in 1931. Last surviving print lost in 1967 MGM vault fire |
[85] |
| One Glorious Day |
James Cruze |
Will Rogers |
Possibility of a nitrate print surviving |
[86] |
| Uncle Jasper's Will |
Oscar Micheaux |
|
A sequel to the 1920 feature Within Our Gates |
[87] |
| The Power of Love |
Henry MacRae |
Elliot Sparling, Barbara Bedford, Noah Beery, Aileen Manning, Albert Prisco, John Herdman |
The first 3D film in the entire world. |
[88][89][90] |
| The Virgin of the Seminole |
Oscar Micheaux |
|
|
[91] |
| The Virgin of the Seminole |
Oscar Micheaux |
|
|
[92] |
| 1923 |
Human Wreckage |
John Griffith Wray |
Dorothy Davenport, Bessie Love |
Early portrayal of drug addiction, based on actor Wallace Reid, Davenport's husband |
[93] |
| The Daring Years |
Kenneth Webb |
Mildred Harris
Charles Emmett Mack
Clara Bow |
|
[94] |
| Drakula halála |
Károly Lajthay |
|
The first filmed version of the Dracula story. This Hungarian film preceded Nosferatu by over a year. |
[95] |
| Vanity Fair |
Hugo Ballin |
Mabel Ballin |
Film produced by Samuel Goldwyn with Prizmacolor sequence |
[96] |
| Flaming Youth |
John Francis Dillon |
Colleen Moore
Milton Sills |
One reel survives |
[97] |
| The Ghost City |
Jay Marchant |
Pete Morrison |
|
[98] |
| Hollywood |
James Cruze |
|
Contained cameos of many silent film stars playing themselves |
[99] |
| Where the Pavement Ends |
Rex Ingram |
Ramón Novarro
Alice Terry |
Filmed in Florida & Cuba. |
[100] |
| Hoodman Blind |
John Ford |
David Butler, Gladys Hulette |
|
[101] |
| The World's Applause |
William C. deMille |
Bebe Daniels |
|
[102] |
| The Eternal City |
George Fitzmaurice |
Lionel Barrymore, Barbara La Marr, Bert Lytell |
Partly shot in Rome. |
[103] |
| The Isle of Lost Ships |
Maurice Tourneur |
Anna Q. Nilsson, Milton Sills |
A story of ships caught, lost or missing in the Sargasso Sea; the area later became even more famous following the Bermuda Triangle disappearances. |
[104] |
| On the Banks of the Wabash |
J. Stuart Blackton |
Mary Carr, Madge Evans, Burr McIntosh |
Shot on location in the midwest and southern United States. |
[105] |
| The Courtship of Miles Standish |
Frederick Sullivan |
Charles Ray |
Production bankrupted actor Charles Ray and nearly ended his movie career. A full size replica of the Mayflower was built for this film. |
[106] |
| 1924 |
Feet of Clay |
Cecil B. DeMille |
Rod La Rocque |
Set design by Norman Bel Geddes |
[107] |
| Wanderer of the Wasteland |
Irvin Willat |
Billie Dove |
A Technicolor feature. Willat had only existing print which disintegrated by 1971 |
[108] |
| A Sainted Devil |
Joseph Henabery |
Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi |
Less than one reel has survived |
[109] |
| So Big |
Charles Brabin |
Colleen Moore |
|
[110] |
| Sinners in Heaven |
Alan Crosland |
Bebe Daniels, Richard Dix |
|
[111] |
| Merton of the Movies |
James Cruze |
Glenn Hunter |
Named by the New York Times as one of the ten best films of 1924 |
[112] |
| Babbitt |
Harry Beaumont |
Willard Louis, Mary Alden, Carmel Myers |
First film adaptation of Sinclair Lewis novel. |
[113] |
| Gold Heels |
W. S. Van Dyke |
Robert Agnew |
Partly inspired by the racehorse of the same name. |
[114] |
| 1925 |
Corazón Aymara |
Pedro Sambarino |
|
First Bolivian fiction feature film. |
|
| The Fighting Heart |
John Ford |
George O'Brien, Billie Dove |
|
[115] |
| The Dark Angel |
George Fitzmaurice |
Vilma Bánky, Ronald Colman |
Named by the New York Times as one of the ten best films of 1925. |
[116] |
| The Prophecy of the Lake |
José Maria Velasco Maidana |
|
Second completed Bolivian fiction feature film; banned and never released. |
|
| That Royle Girl |
D. W. Griffith |
W. C. Fields |
Griffith used 24 airplane propellers to create a tornado sequence. |
[117] |
| Madame Sans-Gêne |
Léonce Perret |
Gloria Swanson |
filmed by Swanson entirely in France |
[118] |
| The Coast of Folly |
Allan Dwan |
Gloria Swanson |
|
[119] |
| His Supreme Moment |
George Fitzmaurice |
Blanche Sweet, Ronald Colman, Anna May Wong |
some sequences had 2 strip Technicolor |
[120] |
| We Moderns |
John Francis Dillon |
Colleen Moore |
a sequel to Moore's Flaming Youth of 1923 |
[121] |
| 1926 |
Gwiaździsta eskadra |
Leonard Buczkowski |
Barbara Orwid, Jana Krysta, Jerzy Kobusz, Janusz Halny, Stefan Szwarc, Andrzej Karewicz, Barbara Ludwiżanka, Zygmunt Biesiadecki |
A story of American soldiers fighting in Polish 7th Air Escadrille fighting with Bolshevists during Polish-Soviet War in 1918–1920. All copies were stolen or destroyed by Soviet Army after 1945. |
[122] |
| Arirang |
Na Woon-gyu |
Na Woon-gyu |
Korean film; a copy of the film was rumored to be in the possession of Japanese collector, who died in February 2005. |
[123] |
| A Woman of the Sea |
Josef von Sternberg |
Edna Purviance |
Produced by Charlie Chaplin, destroyed by Chaplin himself in 1933 as a tax write-off {Production stills survive} |
[124] |
| The Cat's Pajamas |
William A. Wellman |
Betty Bronson |
|
[125] |
| The Great Gatsby |
Herbert Brenon |
Warner Baxter, Lois Wilson, William Powell |
The first filmed version of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. |
[126] |
| The Mountain Eagle |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Nita Naldi |
The only lost Hitchcock feature film. |
[127] |
| A Social Celebrity |
Malcolm St. Clair |
Adolphe Menjou, Louise Brooks |
In 1957 one print deteriorated, and later another was lost in a fire |
[128] |
| Just Another Blonde |
Alfred Santell |
Louise Brooks |
A fragmentary 20 minutes of this film has been found and is held at UCLA Film and Television Archive |
[129] |
| Aloma of the South Seas |
Maurice Tourneur |
Gilda Gray, William Powell |
filmed in Puerto Rico and Bermuda |
[130] |
| London |
Herbert Wilcox |
Dorothy Gish |
BFI Database |
|
| The Road to Glory |
Howard Hawks |
May McAvoy |
Hawks's first official film as a director |
[131] |
| 1927 |
The Masked Menace |
Arch Heath |
|
Filmed in Berlin, New Hampshire |
| Camille |
Fred Niblo |
Norma Talmadge |
|
[132][133] |
| London After Midnight |
Tod Browning |
Lon Chaney, Sr., Marceline Day |
Reconstructed in 2002 using stills and original script. Last known print destroyed in the 1967 MGM Vault fire. |
|
| The City Gone Wild |
James Cruze |
Louise Brooks |
Early gangster film directed by Cruze, with titles by Herman J. Mankiewicz |
|
| Babe Comes Home |
Ted Wilde |
Babe Ruth, Anna Q. Nilsson |
|
[134] |
| The Couple in Name |
|
Ruan Lingyu |
|
|
| Evening Clothes |
Luther Reed |
Adolphe Menjou, Louise Brooks |
|
[135] |
| For the Love of Mike |
Frank Capra |
Claudette Colbert |
Claudette Colbert's film debut |
[136] |
| Hats Off |
|
Laurel and Hardy |
|
|
| The House Behind the Cedars |
Oscar Micheaux |
|
Based on the novel by Charles W. Chesnutt |
|
| The Potters |
|
W. C. Fields |
|
|
| Rolled Stockings |
|
Louise Brooks |
The film features the Paramount Junior stars, and was filmed in Berkeley, California |
|
| Sword of Penitence |
Yasujirō Ozu |
Ozu's first film |
|
|
| Taxi! Taxi! |
|
Edward Everett Horton |
|
|
| The Way of All Flesh |
Victor Fleming |
Emil Jannings |
The only "lost" Academy Award-winning performance. Two fragments, totaling about 7 minutes, have been recovered. |
|
| Rough House Rosie |
Frank R. Strayer |
Clara Bow, Reed Howes |
|
[137] |
| 1928 |
The Big City |
Tod Browning |
Lon Chaney, Betty Compson |
story about criminals cheating criminals |
[138] |
| The Patriot |
Ernst Lubitsch |
Emil Jannings |
Won Best Writing Achievement at the 2nd Academy Awards. Nominated for Best Picture. The only Best Picture nominee to be lost |
|
| 4 Devils |
F. W. Murnau |
Janet Gaynor |
Named by the New York Times as one of the ten best films of 1928 |
[139] |
| Tenderloin |
Michael Curtiz |
Dolores Costello
Conrad Nagel |
Second feature film to have synchronized dialogue sequences |
|
| Alias Jimmy Valentine |
Jack Conway |
William Haines
Lionel Barrymore |
Released in silent and part-talkie versions |
[140] |
| Red Hair |
|
Clara Bow |
A part-color silent movie |
|
| Women They Talk About |
Lloyd Bacon |
Irene Rich |
An early all-talking picture |
|
| Thérèse Raquin |
Jacques Feyder |
|
|
|
| Ladies of the Mob |
William Wellman |
Clara Bow |
|
|
| The Last Moment |
Paul Fejos |
Georgia Hale, Otto Matieson |
Experimental silent film told without subtitles. |
|
| On Trial |
Archie Mayo |
Pauline Frederick
Lois Wilson |
|
|
| The Legion of the Condemned |
William A. Wellman |
Fay Wray, Gary Cooper |
|
|
| The Dragnet |
Josef von Sternberg |
William Powell, Evelyn Brent |
|
|
| Dry Martini |
|
Mary Astor |
|
|
| Manhattan Cocktail |
Dorothy Arzner |
Nancy Carroll |
A one-minute montage sequence from this film, Skyline Dance by Slavko Vorkapich, was released in October 2005 in the DVD collection Unseen Cinema |
|
| Take Me Home |
Marshall Neilan |
Bebe Daniels, Neil Hamilton |
|
|
| Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
|
Alice White, Ruth Taylor |
The first version of the Anita Loos story |
|
| Street of Sin |
Mauritz Stiller |
Emil Jannings, Fay Wray |
|
[141] |
| The White Cloud Pagoda |
|
Ruan Lingyu |
|
|
| Tarzan the Mighty |
Jack Nelson, Ray Taylor |
Frank Merrill |
The seventh Tarzan movie produced |
|
| The Divine Woman |
Victor Sjöström |
Greta Garbo |
A nine-minute fragment survives |
[133] |
| The Actress |
Sidney Franklin |
Norma Shearer |
based on the play Trelawney of the Wells |
[142] |
| The Air Circus |
Howard Hawks |
Arthur Lake |
Hawks's first aviation film |
[143] |
| 1929 |
Sonny Boy |
Archie Mayo |
Edward Everett Horton |
|
|
| The Case of Lena Smith |
Josef von Sternberg |
|
A four-minute segment was shown at the Giornate del cinema muto festival of Pordenone in 2003 |
|
| This Thing Called Love |
|
Constance Bennett |
Part-Technicolor film released by Pathé |
|
| Married in Hollywood |
|
Walter Catlett |
Part-Multicolor film. Final color reel at UCLA. |
|
| Smiling Irish Eyes |
William A. Seiter |
Colleen Moore |
Part-Technicolor. Vitaphone discs survive. |
|
| Footlights and Fools |
William A. Seiter |
Colleen Moore |
Part-Technicolor. Vitaphone discs survive. |
|
| Red Hot Rhythm |
Leo McCarey |
Alan Hale, Sr. |
Part-Technicolor film. Only the title song in color exists. |
|
| Strong Boy |
John Ford |
Victor McLaglen, Leatrice Joy |
|
|
| Fancy Baggage |
John G. Adolfi |
Audrey Ferris, Myrna Loy |
A part-talkie from Warner Brothers, no film elements survive. |
|
| The Cavalier |
|
Richard Talmadge |
Part-talkie released with music and sound effects by Tiffany Pictures |
|
| The Fatal Warning |
Richard Thorpe |
Ralph Graves, Helene Costello |
12-part mystery serial released by Mascot Pictures |
|
| Is Everybody Happy? |
Archie Mayo |
Ted Lewis |
Complete soundtrack survives, plus one reel of the picture |
|
| Queen of the Night Clubs |
Bryan Foy |
Texas Guinan |
One short clip included in Winner Take All (1932) with James Cagney |
|
| The Awful Truth |
Marshall Neilan |
Ina Claire |
remade in 1937 with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne |
|
| Hearts in Exile |
Michael Curtiz |
Dolores Costello, Grant Withers |
Part-Talkie |
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| Year |
Film |
Director |
Cast |
Notes |
Ref |
| 1930 |
Bride of the Regiment |
|
Vivienne Segal |
A Technicolor film, complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs |
|
| The Cat Creeps |
Rupert Julian |
Helen Twelvetrees |
Sound remake of The Cat and the Canary (1927). Short segment of The Cat Creeps included in short film Boo! (1932) is the only footage known to exist. |
|
| A Daughter of the Congo |
Oscar Micheaux |
Lorenzo Tucker |
The last silent film by Oscar Micheaux |
|
| An Elastic Affair |
Alfred Hitchcock |
|
Short film made by Hitchcock for awards ceremony at the London Palladium in January 1930 |
|
| Georgia Rose |
Harry Gant |
Evelyn Preer, Clarence Brooks |
Believed to be the first "race" feature made in direct sound |
|
| Hit the Deck |
|
Jack Oakie, Polly Walker |
Part Technicolor, only the soundtrack to one reel survives |
|
| Hold Everything |
|
Winnie Lightner, Joe E. Brown |
A Technicolor film, complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs |
|
| Kismet |
|
Loretta Young, Otis Skinner |
Complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs |
|
| Leathernecking |
|
Irene Dunne |
Dunne's film debut. |
|
| Lummox |
|
Ben Lyon, Winifred Westover |
|
|
| The Man from Blankley's |
|
John Barrymore, Loretta Young |
Complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs |
|
| Reminisces of Peking |
Sun Yu |
Ruan Lingyu |
|
|
| Song of the Flame |
|
Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray, Noah Beery |
Academy Award nominee for Best Sound. Sound discs for five of the nine reels exist |
|
| Song of the West |
|
John Boles, Vivienne Segal, Joe E. Brown |
All-color film made in Technicolor, complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs |
|
| What a Widow! |
|
Gloria Swanson |
|
|
| The Case of Sergeant Grischa |
Herbert Brenon |
Chester Morris |
Academy Award nominee for Best Sound |
|
| Wild Flowers |
Sun Yu |
Ruan Lingyu |
|
|
| 1931 |
Age for Love |
|
Billie Dove |
|
|
| Charlie Chan Carries On |
|
Warner Oland, Hamilton MacFadden |
An alternate Spanish-language version, featuring a different cast, exists. |
|
| Fanny Foley Herself |
|
Edna May Oliver |
All-color film made in Technicolor |
|
| Woman Hungry |
Clarence G. Badger |
Lila Lee |
All-color film made in Technicolor |
|
| Father's Son |
|
Leon Janney, Lewis Stone |
|
|
| Honor of the Family |
|
Warren William, Bebe Daniels |
|
|
| Peludópolis |
|
|
Argentine production; the world's first animated feature film with sound, using a primitive sound-on-disc system |
|
| Alam Ara |
|
|
First Indian sound film |
|
| Bhakta Prahlada |
|
|
First Telugu sound film |
[144] |
| 1932 |
The Missing Rembrandt |
|
Arthur Wontner |
Second film in the Sherlock Holmes series |
|
| Charlie Chan's Chance |
John G. Blystone |
Warner Oland |
Sixth film of the Charlie Chan series and third with Warner Oland |
[145] |
| Paprika |
|
Franciska Gaal |
|
|
| Walking Down Broadway (1932 film) |
Erich von Stroheim |
James Dunn, Boots Mallory, ZaSu Pitts |
Withheld from release and re-edited as Hello Sister!; original version remains lost |
[146] |
| 1933 |
Hello Pop! |
|
The Three Stooges |
A Technicolor film, and the Stooges' third film appearance. |
|
| Stop, Sadie, Stop |
|
Ted Healy |
Never released, only one print made |
|
| The Monkey's Paw |
Ernest B. Schoedsack |
|
Adaptation of the W. W. Jacobs horror story |
|
| Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka |
Kenzō Masaoka |
|
First sound anime |
|
| Night in the City |
Fei Mu |
Ruan Lingyu
Jin Yan |
The debut of Fei Mu, one of China's greatest filmmakers |
|
| Wasei Kingu Kongu |
Torajiro Saito |
Isamu Yamaguchi |
Japanese version of King Kong and the first Kaiju film, preceded Godzilla by 21 years |
[147] |
| Convention City |
|
Joan Blondell
Dick Powell |
A pre-Code film produced by First National–Warner Bros, the last lost feature by a major Hollywood studio and a risque and daring comedy for its time |
|
| 1934 |
Charlie Chan's Courage |
|
|
Second version of the Charlie Chan adventure. The 1927 version still exists. |
|
| Murder at Monte Carlo |
|
Errol Flynn |
Flynn's debut film in the UK |
|
| The Scarab Murder Case |
|
Wilfrid Hyde-White |
A Philo Vance film |
|
| White Heat (1934 film) |
Lois Weber |
Virginia Cherrill, Mona Maris, Hardie Albright |
The last film, and only talkie, directed by Lois Weber. |
[148] |
| 1935 |
The Magic Shoes |
|
Peter Finch |
Completed but never released |
|
| Dark World |
Bernard Vorhaus |
Tamara Desni, Leon Quartermaine, Googie Withers |
Released only in the UK |
|
| 1937 |
Bezhin Meadow |
Sergei Eisenstein |
|
Unreleased Soviet film. The unfinished and unreleased film reels were destroyed during a World War II bombing raid in 1941 |
|
| 1938 |
Too Much Johnson |
Orson Welles |
Joseph Cotten |
Never completed or publicly screened |
|
| King Kong Appears in Edo |
Sōya Kumagai |
Eizaburo Matsumoto |
A Japanese kaiju (giant monster) film preceded Godzilla by sixteen years. It was likely lost during World War II. |
[149] |
| On the Niemnem |
Wanda Jakubowska and Karol Szolowski |
|
New Nazi regime liked the artistic value of the movie, but could not allow for the screening of a picture so firmly rooted in Polish history. Germans decided to re-edit and dub the movie, changing it to pro-German propaganda. Stefan Dekierowski informed Polish underground and the remaining copies (out of 5 total, 2 of them destroyed) were hidden in winter 1939; the movie is believed to be lost |
[150] |
| 1939 |
Secreto de confesión |
|
|
It was lost during the bombing of Manila during World War II. |
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