Cinematic Era: 1932 Vintage

Stars Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier and Ken Maynard.

Images of the traditional celebrations of the "Semana Santa" (The Holy Week) in the small basque town of Azkoitia.

A larrikin is reformed due to the love of a good woman.

Oswald is driven out of his store by mice, so he turns to a cat for help in this Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from Walter Lantz.

A Walter Lantz Pooch the Pup cartoon released November 7, 1932.

When his boss goes out of town on a big deal and leaves important securities behind, it's up to office boy Ray Cooke to get them to him tout suite.

Japanese film from 1932.

A comedy film directed by J. O. C. Orton.

It shows the Olympic Games on Dankichi Island, where humans and animals compete against each other, in the categories: relay race, tug-of-war and tree-changing race. Who will be the champion?

Dramatization of the time around the first Danish Social Democrats and the Battle of Fælleden. A social blockbuster produced for AOF.

This short comedy often was shown in conjunction with Razzia in a single program.

A British crime film directed by William C. McGann

You shall not commit adultery. Also known as Sins of Love.

Despite a strong storm, Kurt crosses the English Channel, celebrates with his girlfriend Inge and club mates, leads a paddling adventure on the Enns river, encounters Viennese kayaker Gustl and his girlfriend Gisel, reconciles with Gustl during a rescue mission for a child, and ultimately reunites with Inge.

Bimbo leads an awful German street band to serenade Betty Boop, but she prefers Arthur Tracy, 'Street Singer of the Air,' who in live- action sings several old-fashioned songs with a Bouncing Ball.

A collection of comedy sketches with Helle Winther as presenter.

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

Short film by Ludwig Beck

This film is about Chandidas, a legendary 15th-C. Bengali Vaishnavite poet whose biography remains obscure but was an influence on the better documented Chaitanya (1486-1533), a school teacher who promoted the Vaishnavite ideology in Bengal, mostly through hymns about the Radha-Krishna legend.

A novelist uses all means to curry favor with a particularly cantankerous engineer. After believing her to be selfish and despicable, the young man finally decides to marry her.

A young lady is wooed by two men

What we got here is a re-telling of Uncle Tom's Cabin (as if no one could guess) with a lot of music and dancing.

'Ex-pilot bandleader helps starving composer regain memory.' (British Film Catalogue)

The end of the 1920s. The capitalist world is in crisis. The fascists unleash war against the Soviet Union. The enemy attack interrupts the peaceful labor of Soviet people. Hundreds of production workers join the Red Army. At the front go Red Army units, columns of tanks, units of the people's militia. Enemy airplanes appear over the Soviet city, black bomb bursts are rising. The streets are moving mournful funeral processions of the first victims of the war. At the end of the movie, a worker appears on the screen, appealing to the audience to be ready for the war, which has not yet come, but will come “maybe tomorrow"

Jimmy finds an abandoned baby while motorcycling in the country.

Ruth Eton (Ruth Etting), a singer with a traveling show troupe, is engaged to the troupe manager, Joe Grant (Edward Leiter), but when Ruth's younger sister, Laura (Wanda Perry) arrives, fickle Joe transfers his attentions and intentions to her. For the sake of her sister and the show, Ruth accepts her tough break philosophically, and sings "Why Did It Have To Be Me?"...because she is a real trouper.

Stop-motion animated short, with sound by Rudolf Pfenninger.

A scientist seeks to transplant the brain of a young girl into his apeman.

About a gentle young man, a misunderstood poet whose printed poems the ruffians use to wrap sausages. His misfortune is that he falls in love with an independent young athlete, with a modern worldview, who is interested in sports rather than poetry. Amadeus follows the young woman, brings her flowers and gives her one of his poems, at which point she, instead of offering tenderness, challenges him to a boxing match.

The lazy Tompei is still asleep past 10 o'clock and even at 11 o'clock. He finally wakes up at 12 o'clock at the deafening sound of the angry clock. Hungry, Tompei walks to Sarukichi's house and grabs food Sarukichi has harvested. The next day, while Sarukichi is working in the hills, Tompei beats Sarukichi's two children who are staying at home and tries to steal things from Sarukichi's house. Sarukichi, who is alerted of the situation via telephone from his children races home, is infuriated at the cruel Tompei and punches him so hard he falls down.

Babe Ruth teaches babes how to play baseball.....

It seems that Zarre (Guido Celano), the man chosen to be the jockey for the Lupa contrada, and fiance' to Fiora (Leda Gloria), becomes enamored of a cafe' chanteuse. Bachicche, the jockey of a rival neighborhood, wants to get even with Zarre for a past offense and enlists the help of the chanteuse, Liliana (Laura Nucci).

General Jinjur approaches Mombi for aid in conquering the Scarecrow king of the Emerald City. Meanwhile, the Soldier with the Green Whiskers does cartwheels prior to the annunciation of the return of Dorothy. Several dances later, Dorothy notices a miniature statue of Nick Chopper. Wishing he were present, she uses the powder of life, and with the magic words, "Wogglebug! Whimsy!" transforms the statue into the real Nick Chopper, who thanks her for bringing him to the city. They do more dances as General Jinjur summons her all-girl army by tap dancing on a drum. At this point the sound drops out on the existing print as they raid the city, leaving Scarecrow and Nick on the run, Jellia disguised as the SGW, and taking Dorothy to Mombi, who imprisons her on a flaming table, with slave boy Tip trying to rescue her.

A drunken husband tries to sneak in but his wife catches him... and that means trouble!

A combination feature-animation advertisement promoting Schicht's legendary "soap with the deer" [the image of the deer is pressed into the surface of the soap]. A laundrywoman washes white linen on a washboard. She cannot get rid of the dirt in the form of little black devils who cheerily romp on the laundry. A white deer rushes to help her, giving her a bar of Schicht's soap with the deer. The animated, revived bar of soap then disarms all the devils and the laundry is white again. The commercial for the Czechoslovak-based Schicht company (Jiří Schicht a. s.) was filmed abroad.

A musical-comedy by Conrad Wiene

The owner of a fairground shooting gallery, haunted by the crime he committed ten years before with the complicity of his friend and associate, is ridden with guilt. One day, as he is under the influence of alcohol, he confesses his crime. In vain, for nobody, including the police, wants to believe him...

It seems that Zarre (Guido Celano), the man chosen to be the jockey for the Lupa contrada, and fiance' to Fiora (Leda Gloria), becomes enamored of a cafe' chanteuse. Bachicche, the jockey of a rival neighborhood, wants to get even with Zarre for a past offense and enlists the help of the chanteuse, Liliana (Laura Nucci).

Having fallen madly in love with the daughter of a prison guard, Guignolet climbs the wall to free her. He falls into this prison yard where he ends up being a prisoner in the heart of the delicious daughter of the guard.

Stagecoach driver Flip must deal with a holdup and an abduction.

A youth and an elderly libertine aristocrat vie for the favors of a beautiful woman, amid the setting of Rapallo.

Fischinger's abstract designs accompanied by Gitta Alpar singing. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

The many difficulties of a couple to harmonize, between the need for independence of one and the brutality of the other...

A poor boy lives in the attic of a luxury house. During a party, he pays court to an elegant young woman who, without warning him, surprises him at his home.

The old Lion King, oblivious to the fact that he has become the laughing stock of his Royal household, dreams of more heroic days. Meanwhile, his ministers have plans of their own. A short animation by Wladyslaw Starewicz, part of a series of two based on the fables of La Fontaine known as Deux fables de La Fontaine.

An insurance agent poses as a king's double and saves him from anarchists.

A British submarine on patrol is accidentally rammed by a merchant ship, that tears a big hole in in sub which sinks trapping the crew.

A film about the Balkan metropolis during interwar period.

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

In this 1932 short film produced by the Bournemouth Cine Society, a gallant lover rescues his girl from gypsy kidnappers; the bizarre plot device of a swastika pendant offering a chilling reminder of the symbol's pre-war acceptance. This film opens when Ann’s swastika necklace arrives back from the jewelers. Next we see Jim and Ann spoon at a beach party, until a jealous tiff causes her to walk off into the arms of a car-owning Lothario. On a nearby heath, Ann escapes from her randy driver and walks off alone. Next day, Jim, learning that Ann is missing, grabs his pistol. On the heath, he finds Ann's swastika on the ground and sees her bound and gagged by gypsies. They get their comeuppance and Jim gets his Ann. Robert G Torrens, the producer, makes a cameo appearance as a gypsy kidnapper in the latter part of this film.

When the husband of a rich lady is unfaithful, she plays the role of a chambermaid to a less prominent man.

A Columbia Scrappy cartoon released May 31, 1932.

It's a snowy day, Krazy Kat takes a sled over to Kitty's house to invite her to go skating.

Christian mission propaganda film about 'a slice of heathen life, with the bamboo bush people of Borado-Likowali'. Keli is forced to marry Wesa but has a lover in another village. This causes war to break out between the two villages and Wesa is killed. Wesa's father Meo now wants Keli to marry his other son. Keli refuses and the hostilities continue. Just when the authorities have locked up a number of troublemakers, Father Jacobs arrives. The missionary tries to win the confidence of the locals but becomes embroiled in the conflict. An assault by Meo's men leaves him dangerously wounded. The villagers stop fighting and Meo asks the dying missionary's forgiveness.