It's the Mickey Mouse short where he drinks and smokes.

Famed director Cecil B Demile's first talkie, and it's a real Kitchen Sink kind of film. The plot is about a love triangle with the addition of a condemned man and a wealthy woman who Has To Get Married or She'll Lose It All! And then it's a family drama, and then a comedy, and then a disaster film in a mine shaft??

CW for the threat of sexual assault.

It's an early talkie drama about some circus performers starring, among others Clara Bow.

Clara Bow was the first "It" girl, having starred in the film It. She was one of the most popular performers of the silent era, and is widely regarded as the leading sex symbol of the 1920s.

This is Bow's second talkie, of 11. (She also starred in 46 silent films.)

It's a murder mystery! It's an early talkie! Bela is here, and he's an investigator!

Stan and Ollie find themselves incarcerated. Hi-jinx ensue.

The first Philo Vance film. Originally released in 1929. It was produced as a silent film, and then converted to a sound film. Famously, Louise Brooks, who played "The Canary", refused to participate in the re-shoots and dubbing required to convert the film from silent to sound. This was later used by the studio as an excuse to effectively end her career. Margaret Livingston dubbed all The Canary's lines and served as a body double for reshoots as required.

Contemporary reviews basically held that it would have been a great silent film, and that it didn't work as a sound picture. I think they're wrong! It would have been a fine sound picture if they'd gotten Louise Brooks back in the studio, or just shot it as a sound picture from the beginning, but it suffers from some weak and awkward dubbing. (In fairness, it's no less watchable than any 60s Italian flick.)

It's good fun, and William Powell makes a better Philo Vance than Basil Rathbone (although neither really stands up to Basil's turn as Holmes.)

This film was followed up by The Greene Murder Case also starring Powell a little later in 1929. It was a Talkie from the start, and benefits strongly from that, so that's one to look forward to if you like your murder mysteries with a trans-Atlantic accent.

A family melodrama with a missing zeppelin released in 1929. It's a talkie. Several second or third generation copies are in circulation. This is the best copy we've found so far, but I'd love a better one.

Last year, I released a new synchronized score for Plane Crazy, because the animation was in the public domain but the score was under copyright. You can watch that version if you'd like. Now Disney's 1929 score for the film is also in the public domain. You can listen to it here and compare it to my efforts.

Stan and Ollie get up to hijinx on a train in their second sound film.

A romantic melodrama that oozes with atmosphere in a way that makes it seem like it's also a horror film. The Man Who Laughs was the direct inspiration for The Joker. Synchronized score, but no dialog.