Cinematic Era: 1932 Vintage

A British sports drama film directed by Charles Barnett

Independent film featuring modern dance in a forest, with the performers wearing white fabric costumes.

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.

In Robert L. Ripley's absence, Leo Donnelly acts as the guide to the unusual from around the world. A group of people in the Philippines are moving a house, foundation and all, six miles, by carrying it on their backs. A one-armed boat builder demonstrates the water crafts he has devised for his disability. A junk in China propelled by treadmill propeller. Dwarf trees in Japan, some as old as 700 years. Also in Japan, chickens are shown with tail feathers measuring up to twenty-five feet in length. A sun dial in Manila is the world's largest at 30 feet in height and 65 feet in length. A group of church goers in Luxembourg are dancing as a ritual toward good health. Livestock with unusual physical attributes are shown. Tree limbs are displayed in Tacoma, Washington that form an alphabet. The world's largest collection of the smallest books. And celebrity footprints displayed outside of Grauman's Chinese Theater. Vitaphone No. 1427.

Jimmy finds an abandoned baby while motorcycling in the country.

Based on Franz Lehar's operetta, about the first woman whom the great German writer Goethe fell in love with.

An ethnographic film resulting from a French anthropological expedition in the early 1930s to Africa.

Fire chief Bimbo is called to a house on fire, and rescues the Boswell Sisters and their piano, who start performing "When It's Sleepy Time Down South".

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.

Short film shown as part of THE COLOURS OF SMALL GAUGE CINEMA Strand at Cinema Ritrovato 2024. Edoardo Scotti coloured and toned his films after developing them and duplicated certain parts to create special effects. The colourants he used created a palette comparable to that used in dyeing fabrics - he was also a textile manufacturer.

A British crime drama film directed by Charles Barnett

What we would like to show a foreigner who wants to get to know Sweden. Silent travelogue.

A story about a young woman who always cries due to the wrongdoings of her parents. And due to her mother's great love and long-suffering, she wanted to die.

An ethnographic film by Milovan Gavazzi, the founder of Croatian ethnology. The films displays a practice that was already a rarity at the time.

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.

Animation with experimental sound painted by Rudolf Pfenninger.

Tourist film.

Flip is trying to impress a young lady but his face isn't right for that. He decides on better looks through surgery and gets turned into a pretty man.

Flip the Frog plays college football with wacky results.

Simultaneously filmed French language version of the Joe E Brown college comedy Local Boy Makes Good, in which Douglas Fairbanks Jr. stars instead.

A barber who mistakenly believes he has killed a burglar and seeks shelter in the home of a manicurist.

Movie star Krazy has his pick of beautiful girls, but one grotesque, huge snout faced gal must have him, so she goes through a grueling beautifying process that she hopes will make her look like Jean Harlow. When finished (better, but not Harlow!) she invites Krazy over to her house where she traps and chases him around.

British crime film directed by Reginald Fogwell

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.

On the eve of his wedding, patriot Jerzy Mirski undertakes a daring mission to steal vital military documents from the Russian headquarters, but is gravely wounded and finds refuge at his beloved Hanka’s estate. Pursued relentlessly by a Cossack patrol, he refuses to reveal the documents’ hiding place even at the cost of his own life.

Sophisticated romantic comedy of suspicious husbands, straying wives, handsome lovers, with various misunderstandings thrown in for good measure. (Including a gender-reversal of the old Pirandello plot twist from "The Late Mathias Pascal" of the protagonist changing identities after supposedly perishing in a train wreck.)

"He left on a long trip" - A young boy, fascinated by geography, leaves his homework for his interest in a pram lying nearby, about to leave on a long journey.

Krazy Kat is headed over to Kitty's house to hang wallpaper. He has the assistance of his dog and the animated objects like ladders, but will they help or hinder?

The son of a rich soap manufacturer gets himself in predicaments trying to prove to his father that he's responsible enough for marriage.

Monte is running for mayor of Hollywood against a crooked gang member. When the mob kidnaps Monte, it's up to the Hollywood Actors Club to save him.

A rich young man falls for a model, but his father is vehemently opposed to the relationship.

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy visit Scotland in the Summer of 1932

A condensed re-edit of Lois Weber's social drama Shoes (1916), with satirical narration.

A British film directed by Gustav A. Mindzenti

A film about the Adriatic sea.

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.

A documentary about unemployed people who bought fruit and vegetables at moderate prices at the wholesale market and sold these in the streets of Frankfurt. Since they had no permits they were constantly with their bulky carts on the run from the police. One part of the film was shot at the fairgrounds in front of the wholesale market. Newspaper and lottery ticket vendors, propagandists offering their ware for a few pfennigs, all convey the mood of a time when need made people inventive.

A Scrappy cartoon.

Historical drama from Hong Kong directed by Leung Siu-Bo.

American animal trapper Frank Buck travels with Ali, his "number one boy," on an expedition into the Malayan jungle. From their jungle headquarters just north of Singapore, Frank, Ali and a team of native helpers roam the area from Northern Johore to Perak in search of interesting wild animals, reptiles and birds. Hoping to find a tiger, Buck captures a monitor lizard and a black leopard, while another black leopard narrowly escapes an encounter with a giant python and then battles a bigger and stronger tiger. After trapping a spotted leopard, Frank adopts a baby honey bear and a baby elephant. The team catches an orangutan, but the tiger eludes their camouflaged pit. Meanwhile, Frank visits the "bathing festival" of a local tribe and watches as tribesmen kill an intruding spotted leopard with blow darts. The tiger then meets an enormous regal python, who has just crushed a crocodile, and fights to a draw with it.

A Secrets of Nature short.

The life of Rama, a legendary prince of Ayodhya in the kingdom of Kosala

This short subject shows excerpts from three unidentified silent films (although several stars are identified) with humorous commentary unrelated to the actual plots.

A mix-up in prison.

Bill Powers, who covers William H. Gardner's "Can't Yo Heah Me Callin'," has a nice baritone and chooses to go easy on the dialect-heavy stuff (as much as one can; the song was a hit in 1914, an era of not just common but GLEEFULLY common dialect songs). The Brown Sisters do "Underneath the Harlem Moon," which is of later vintage (1932) and solidly in the hi-de-ho tradition.

Fitzpatrick Traveltalks

Doctor Planturel who is leaving for a vacation, hires a new servant too hastily. Now, Victor, the alleged domestic, is in fact a robber whose only aim is to burglar the doctor's house. But when a client comes to consult Planturel, he must keep up the appearances. That is why he asks his accomplice Fanchonnet to play the role of the doctor.

This comedy pokes fun at the military exercises Germans were fond of doing in the lead up to the Great War.

Ethel Merman sings the title song with a Bouncing Ball. Animated sequence: a cat burglar, just out of jail, raids Betty Boop's icebox.

From a dark shot of the movie theater, a drunk (Boytler in person, flesh and blood) yelled "Dude, I do better than you!" While the audience of the cinema protested, of course, the image of Ruanova responded: "well, why don't you do it?" Boytler himself came out of the box and appeared in a photo, in the film; he fought with Ruanova, dominated her and ended up dancing with her, because, according to the song they both played, they wanted to “go to the Regis hotel to cocktail party”.

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...