Cinematic Era: 1932 Vintage

A Hearst Metrotone News reel.

Using the money she won in the lottery, kitchen maid Lalla checks in to an expensive hotel, pretending to be a consule.

A trio of former burlesque dancers now living in high society try to prevent their past occupation from being discovered.

Miss Inge Becker is a telephone operator. She makes an appointment with her unknown opera singer West. Simultaneously, Rainer, the young director of the telephone distribution, makes an appointment with him unknown Miss Lotte Schröder. The location of the meeting and sign of recognition of the two pairs are the same. An exchange with consequences cannot be avoided, as the next day the director wants to speak with Inge, because she neglects her service.

This horror spoof was the first film in which the future comedy duo Dixit and Ghory appeared together. They were often referred to as the Indian Laurel and Hardy.

A man tries to silence a radio and is taken for a robber.

Synced audio and video recording from Laurel & Hardy's 1932 visit to the UK for their comedy tour in Tynemouth

A short documentary film featuring Aleksander Lavrič.

By order of the Prime Minister, two hairdressers will serve as foreign diplomats for a while. Incredible adventures and fun are guaranteed.

The attempt of a young hairdresser to act in a serious film with his chosen co star , recognized during the shooting as inept, is mistakenly taken by the audience to be deliberately comic.

1932 Documentary showcasing the Ford V8 engine.

The Mills Brothers perform two songs with the Bouncing Ball.

Funny Joe Noble animation about men's fashion.

Øjvind, a smallholder's boy, is a close friend with Marit, a farmer's girl, throughout their entire childhood. As an adolescent he one day recognizes that she has become a maiden, and that he has fallen in love with her. When he sees Marit dancing with Jon Halten, a farmer's son, he gets sad, and notices that when you start loving someone, you are not cheerful any more. He senses the social distance between himself and Marit, and tries to compensate this by becoming the best pupil in the village. Øjvind wants to study at an agricultural college, and the old schoolmaster helps him to arrange this. When he some years later returns to the village as an agronomist, he and Marit resume their romance. Because of their different social status Marit's grandfather, Ola Nordistua, tries to stop the liaison. With new agricultural methods Øjvind helps his father to get better harvests. At the same time the old Ola Nordistua sees his farm going downhill as no one really cares for it.

The story of the friendship between Grey Owl and a beaver. Sheltered and fed by Grey Owl through babyhood, the little beaver is reluctant to return to his own people. But when he does, Grey Owl (Archie Belaney) is adopted by the entire beaver tribe. The film shows Grey Owl playing with his beaver friends and re-enacting the finding of the baby beaver.

A romantic comedy mostly set on skis: a girl tries to show her boyfriend that she is just as good at winter sports, and gets help from two other boys.

Story of salmon fishers and the methods they use; captures the migration of salmon up a Highland river for spawning.

Panurge, a poor laundress, breathes in the smell of fish glue all day long but grows a meager flower in a tin can. He falls in love with the washerwoman, whose virtue is threatened by Fred's feline seduction. But Panurge and his gentle melancholy disarm fate.

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"

Don't come home with the clap. John Smith does, and infects his unsuspecting wife with gonorrhea. Then their baby is born with it, leading to tragedy.

Aankhijal is a 1932 silent Bengali movie directed by Kalipada Das.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 2 October 1932.

Babe Ruth plays ball with some kids.

Footage of the seabirds found in the Shetland Isles. One of a group of films made by Jenny Brown and bought by John Grierson for the GPO Film Library in the 1930s.

Actors Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy visit Tynemouth in North East England.

Without knowing about each other, bachelors Salomon, Arvi, and Martti each hire a domestic helper for their shared apartment. The job goes to the energetic professional Manta and the modern young women Helvi and Aili, who are looking for a position to prove their point about the issue of domestic service.

'Man borrows service flat to impress girl's parents.' (British Film Catalogue)

Travelogue, following a journey from Mexico to Borneo, via Singapore, covering local flora, wildlife, peoples and customs.

A Paramount musical short in which the Vincent Lopez Orchestra performs "St. Louis Blues."

The cartoon characters only want one thing: a drink. Very funny situations, followed by a singalong to three drinking songs. In a live-action sequence in the middle of the cartoon, a drunk staggers around while the audience sings to him.

Inspired by the Cadeby Main pit disaster, this is former miner and amateur director Charles Hanmer's innovative and audaciously ambitious feature debut. It's the tale of brassy Yorkshireman John Morgan's (played by Dewsbury's Beckett Bould) quest to convince an MP to finance a film about pit life. Threading stories about safety and technology with sketches of miners' hobbies, it's a holistic portrait of Barnsley pitmen.

A Walter Lantz Pooch the Pup cartoon released October 24, 1932.

The brothers Österman have come to realize that they need a housekeeper on their farm. Big brother Kalle travels to town and returns with the young Anna.

A bank guard disappears from the elevator between the ground floor and the first floor. He was carrying a briefcase containing valuable documents. Tortoran, a young journalist, is responsible for following the case and unmask the ingenious acrobat who is the author.

An indigenous woman fell in love with Father Anchieta, and even though the priest reciprocated her love, he did not want to give in to the temptation of the flesh.

A commercial promoting products by the Schicht company – the soaking detergent The Housewife's Praise [Chvála hospodyňky] and Schichtal washing powder. Babies cry in a pram. Another baby rises up from a nearby pram, pulls off their dirty diapers and sets off for a ride through the streets in its own vehicle. It first snatches dirty laundry from the gossiping housewives and the curtains from the open windows, rushing with the armful of laundry to a billboard, which displays Schicht's washing and soaking detergents. There, it uses the help of a commercial mascot to demonstrate how to soak laundry in The Housewife's Praise and how to wash it in Schichtal powder. The commercial for the Czechoslovak-based Schicht company (Jiří Schicht a. s.) was filmed abroad.

After a woman dies in Oahu, her husband flees back to their Okinawan hometown—but her ghost follows.

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A story about is stock deals and land speculations in Stockholm. The happiness depends on a horseshoe a couple of gentlemen find in the street.

Pursued by a gang of bad hombres, Marty The Monk heads to a Mexican cantina. He is pursued by another villain, but is saved by an exotic dancer who is a big Marty fan. She gives him a private dance but the gang from before shows up and a rather graphic (for it's time) gun fight ensues. Who will be left standing?

Krazy Kat runs his own lighthouse and when rough seas take over, he has to save a damsel in distress.