Cinematic Era: 1932 Vintage

A film novella about a young dreamer in which the real world and the dream world are intertwined. After meeting a young lady in a park, but seeing her indifferent to his romantic overtures, the young man gets drunk and falls asleep. In his dreams he relives the meeting with the young women, which ends in his attempting to kiss her and subsequently falling of the bench. The fall is simultaneously the moment of awakening from his alcoholic stupor, which reveals the reality of his situation. The humor of the story stems from a formal reversal of the plot, a point at which a dream is unexpectedly separated from reality.

A British drama film directed by John Argyle

Momotaro takes to the ocean to fight a shark.

The early 1930s Lantz cartoons are sometimes exhausting to watch because the creators went out of their way to make every occurrence a funny, or, more often, weird one. Makes me wonder if anyone involved missed "the good old days" with the "literalization" of animation that took hold by 1935.

A Fleischer Studios cartoon....

The famed caricaturist critiques the newly installed government of Spain’s Second Republic.

1932 Indian film in Telugu

A short film about Rodga farm in Kolmården, presented by Prince Wilhelm.

Short film about Cologne Cathedral

Shopkeeper Bosko takes care of business.

Short documentary on an anual Belgian cycling race.

Commercial for zigarettes with animated sequences made by George Pal.

A Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

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

The first colour film made in Scotland; documents hillwalking as a popular part of 1930s Scottish life.

This Educational short features Tom Howard teamed with George Shelton.

P. C. Barua's directorial debut film.

In 1931, Henry Cushier Raven, the American Museum of Natural History’s Curator of Human and Comparative Anatomy, returned from West Africa to his home in Long Island with a baby chimpanzee named Meshie. Raven shot a home movie-style documentary of Meshie living, playing with, and taking care of his young kids Harry, Jane, and Mary.

After he is thought dead, a painter who had no success before suddenly becomes a man of repute, and a statue is even prepared in his honor.

The first Croatian sound feature film. Viennese painter, bound to an oath that will endure whole month without a woman, goes to Adriatic coast to paint, but in Trogir he sees beauty Mira and falls in love with her.

Maifestspiele 1932 documents the 'Maifestspiel der Wiener Arbeiterschaft' which took place on May 21-22, 1932 in the stadium in Vienna. After the historical revue, numerous delegation marched into the stadium to demonstrate the power and unity of Austrian Social Democracy. This is often wrongly attributed to Pál Fejös. Rather, it was directed by Stephan Hock. The confusion seems to arise from the film being included as a special feature of the Ö-Film / Edition Der Standard DVD release of Fejös' Sonnenstrahl.

About two neighboring houses on Södermalm in Stockholm and the people living in them.

A radio station catches fire, and the mouse-girl that does the exercise program is trapped on the studio's upper floor. A boy mouse listener pulls her to safety through his radio at home.

This film documents the daily lives of Roma in their winter quarters on the outskirts of Berlin, Germany. The film presents insights into the Roma’s complex and often tumultuous society.

"El infierno del Chaco" had another version in 1938, with the images of the last peace negociations.

The Boswell sisters are trying to improve agricultural production on a farm by singing.

Amateur filmmaker H.A.V. Bulleid spins a web of intrigue in a feature-length tale that pits British secret servicemen against Russian agents desperate to obtain a top secret document. When Agent Malloon (Michael Kitchin) is given the task of protecting top-secret plans of utmost international importance, Jim Weston (Stephen Bostock) and Vernon Stone (Sinclair Loutit) - Malloon's closest friends - are busy competing for the affections of his sister, Jill (Carrie Hopkinson). Seemingly a hapless idiot, Weston is in fact a secret service detective, acting the fool in order to dupe Stone, a Russian super-spy. And when Stone and his Russian associates beat Malloon unconscious and steal the documents, it is up to Weston to lead the charge as car chases and deadly fist fights ensue. But can Jim Weston retrieve the papers, save the nation and - most importantly - finally conquer Jill Malloon's heart?

Vienna in the year 2032: »Friendly greenish settlements line the city«, skyscrapers are growing in the city center, »but old Steffl is still there and takes on all the high-rise buildings«. In the archives of the City of Vienna, the old archivist tells his grandson how old Vienna tried to oppose the new era a hundred years ago. "Old Vienna" is a conservative, anti-progressive place here, from which social democracy has made a "red island in the sea of capitalism".

Babe Ruth plays ball with some kids.

Silhouette animation prepared to be shown during a scene change of the Fritz Kreisler operetta "Sissi".

Animated history of the River Thames.

Photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975) went to the South Seas on a sailing ship in 1931 and 1932. Travel Notes (1932), is a 12 minute long series of scenes from the ocean trip, including a stop in Tahiti. Using 35mm motion picture film, Evans creates abstract compositions out of sails, rigging, and crew.

Flip the Frog is working as a hot dog vendor at a circus. A thief steals a woman's purse and it's up to Flip to stop him.

His Royal Highness is a 1932 Australian musical film directed by F.W. Thring, also known as His Loyal Highness (Australia alternative title and title in the United Kingdom), starring George Wallace in his feature film debut.

In 1931, Titaÿna, a French journalist, accompanied by Robert Lugeon, went to China to report on the Yangtze River.

Venezuelan film directed by José Fernández.

A Secrets of Nature short.

Attempt to be the first Argentine feature film with sound recorded on tape - until then the Vitaphone system was used - but the experiment did not work and the dialogues were not understood. For this reason, it was never released.

Metal, glass, electrical and lighting elements, and a frosted-glass screen in a painted wood cabinet

Highlights of the X Olympiad in Los Angeles.

A short animated film featuring the comic strip character Krazy Kat, as well as some caricatures of well-known actors of the time. Here is the verified list of Hollywood actors portrayed in the cartoon in the order of their appearance courtesy of film historian David Ezell: Ben Turpin, Krazy Kat imitates Charlie Chaplin and then Groucho Marx, Eddie Cantor (he says his signature line “whoopee!), Laurel and Hardy, then Charlie Chaplin “really” appears (throwing pies) and finally, Joe E Brown is seen with a golf club.

A poetic sports documentary featurette on a French middle distance runner popular during the start of the Depression, who represented his country in the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam.

Directed by Ismail Anzour.

The Round Towners Quartet sings the title song with a Bouncing Ball. Cartoon sequence: Betty Boop and Bimbo go ice skating.

This 1932 Pooch the Pup entry is based on a very simple idea; Pooch gets a call from his girl -- who doesn't seem to have a name -- ordering one chicken, please. So Pooch goes to the back of his butcher shop and selects one, and understandably the chicken in question is less than cooperative in going along with the idea, but ends up in the basket. At Pooch's girl's house both Pooch and chicken face off with the pet cat, who is particularly conniving; the cat winds up running off with the chicken.

Fitzpatrick Traveltalks

Simple title cards link ten home movies shot at Maine's Windy Ledge Farm, at a neighbor's place, and visiting the Brownes in Chocorua, New Hampshire. We watch an uncle mow, farm hands haying with the White Mountains in the background, various young children playing, a lad holding his cat while carrying milk cans on a yoke, a pointer stalking a cat, the annual burning of brush and rubbish, and a montage of chores and relaxation on the farm. The last shot is of spring, a flag in the background. The films are sweet and straightforward, with clear black and white images.

“A documentary film illustrating and analysing the mediæval architecture and sculpture of the beautiful cathedral of Naumburg in Germany.” - The [London] Film Society, 1936.

The film was based on a play about Arjuna, one of the Pandavas.

This was the first indigenous Irish sound film. "The film is a close and expert study of the people of Ireland, completely devoid of anything that savours of the stage Irishman... [A] non-sectarian, non-political picture which comprises the art, commerce, industry, entertainment, sport, and scenic beauty of the Green Isle'.

Short commercial with animated sequences.

Bimbo is a mechanic whose girlfriend (not Betty) agrees to marry him if he wins a fight against "One-Round Mike." Quick as a wink, he transforms his car into a robot to help him in the ring!

Foto Wong Studios.