Cinematic Era: 1932 Vintage

An animated short subject created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.

Is there any agreement between colour variation and sound rhythm? Flashes of colour, synchronously shot to a fragment from the ‘Bolero’ by Ravel’.

The rivalry between cats and dogs is in full swing. This is evidenced by all of the pranks played on each species, by the other.

A scullery maid manages to con her way into being adopted by a wealthy factory owner and frees his nephew from an expensive girlfriend.

Danish documentary filmed in Greenland. Shows a lot of Greenlanders, skiing, hunting for birds, seals and whales, and ice fishing. Filmed by Dr. Leif Folke.

As the guest of honor, Krazy plays music at a night club. Various celebrities are in attendance, finding ways to disturb the show.

Film produced for the Industrial Unemployment Commission by Associated Screen News, in 1932. It presents the various public works commissioned by the City of Montreal, under the mayorship of Camillien Houde, to provide work for the thousands of unemployed during the economic crisis.

"Dental Health" is a live-action educational film that uses animation to explain the importance of dental hygiene.

A silent film on the Czech hop-picking industry.

While at sea, a hobgoblin plays pranks on Priembacke.

Traces the development of voice switching methods from the first system that utilized the wires of a burglar alarm unit in Boston in 1877, to the "latest type" of switching in central offices, circa 1932. Along the way, we get the evolution of the Operator as well. Originally teenage boys were hired as operators, but it was quickly noted that they were not ideal due to being rambunctious and prone to pranks. Emma and her sister Stella Nutt were the first female operators, hired in 1878. They started a tradition that continued to the 1970s, when equal hiring practices made it possible for men to become operators as well, again.

A film by Hôtei Nomura.

A featurette documentary based on the life and works of Commander George Miller Dyott.

Amateur shots of pilgrims, temples and the bazaar at Haridwar, followed by rural scenes and the Gorrie family at home. This film is from the Gorrie collection of personal films in the BFI National Archive, a collection of amateur films shot by two generations of the Gorrie family in India from 1928-1960

Produced as a promotional film for "Elektrizität im Kochgerät".

An animation set to an electronic rendition of Prelude by Rachmaninov.

"Workers Rise up Against War" a banner proclaims, as crowds gather in central London on May Day 1932. After marching to Hyde Park and listening to speeches from (among others) communist leader Harry Pollitt, the marchers head to the Japanese Embassy in Portman Square to protest against Japan's attitude towards China.

This entry of the series does not feature Robert Ripley, who is away gathering material on his tours. Leo Donnelly narrates various odds and ends like a church service held on a river in boats, one of the largest sculptures in the world, sand art in bottles and a man who pulls cars with his hair. This episode also has a greater amount of "critter" material: chickens learn to be aquatic thanks to a training duck, another hen adopts puppies as her own, the Australian platypus is discussed and a motorized blacksmith and we see a horse with double-hoof. Vitaphone No. 1410.

Bed-ridden Krazy is sick with the hiccoughs. When his doctor tries to scare the hiccoughs out of the feline, he gives him a powerful medicine that send Krazy into dreamland. Krazy then dreams that he's the reigning hiccough champion of the world.

Highlights of the 1932 Winter Olympics held in Lake Placid, New York.

Archival film in which reunited Confederate veterans recite the famous battle cry of the South.

Bonus March shows unemployed WWI veterans marching on Washington, D.C., demanding their bonus money, and being forcefully evicted.

The only known film record of the mass march and meeting held in Detroit on Feb. 4, 1932, against hunger and unemployment. Also shows the dramatic demonstration by workers at the Ford auto plant in River Rouge, Michigan in March of 1932, which ended with a violent attack by Dearborn police and Ford Company guards on the crowd with clubs, tear gas and guns which killed four young men. These deaths set off a wave of protest across the country.

Trade union propaganda documentary about the lives of women doing both factory work and housework.

Two animated fables by La Fontaine "The Old Lion" ("Le lion devenu vieux") and "The Lion and the Gnat" ("Le Lion et le Moucheron").

A man tries desperately to make a phone call.

This entry in the "Magic Carpet of Movietone" series is a mostly wordless look at sailing on the high seas with the crew of the Polish sailing ship Dar Pomorza. The ship was an old-style ship with many large sails.

Ella Bergmann-Michel′s second movie "Erwerbslose kochen für Erwerbslose" was a assignment of the association of Frankfurt’s "Erwerblosenküchen" that during the world economy crisis could no longer serve meals for thousands of unemployed persons. The film was shown as a supporting film in many Frankfurt cinemas as well as in outdoor screenings at Frankfurt′s Hauptwache.

An evil spider who previously killed his wife summons his bats to attack a flea circus. When the populace flees, it’s up to the performers to save the day.

A short film of the Hitler Youth at a summer camp in the last days of the Weimar republic.

Directed by Gamal Madkoor.

Miha invites his fiancée Minka to the dance, but he's tempted by another big desire of his - climbing. Frustrated Minka insists on the festivity, where she finds herself in a company of older hiker. However, all ends happily, as Minka and Miha, after many smaller adventures, meet at the top of Mount Triglav, where they sign the marriage contract, but also confirming their love for the mountains. In addition to its charming story, the movie features footage of picturesque Slovenian mountains.

A Christmas cartoon from Terrytoons.

While listening to a tedious lecture on the Soviet threat, Wisconsin Dells’ Tuesday Club members fall asleep and find themselves laboring in an all-women collective in Russia under the unflinching eye of the Soviet special police

A crofter in the Shetland Isles demonstrates how to make a 'keshie' to carry home his peat. This is one of a number of films made by Jenny Brown and bought by the GPO Film Library in the 1930s. It's shows Gideon cutting corn and then working it into a keshie, a basket traditionally used in Shetland for carrying peat. Looking back this short now has something really charming about it. David leads this film on his Martin concert ukulele, with Ian on soprano uke, and Allan on classical guitar. Alyth disgraces herself on kazoo. We have to finish the tune at the same time Gideon finishes his keshie, and we could swear that sometimes he deliberately speeds up to try to catch us out.

Reverend Sensho Sasaki's home movie shows the people, places and activities near his Buddhist churches in Tacoma, Washington and Stockton, California.

WWI comes to a small Serbian village of Kumodraž , disturbing its residents' quiet life.

Excerpt from a short documentary film dedicated to the economic activity of Peru in the early thirties by the American company Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester filmed between 1930 and 1931 and disseminated in the educational circuit from 1932.

Peruvian documentary.

It contains: Aviation Day; the painter Foujita; football in Lima and Callao.

Footage of the daily goings-on at the Baju-Asih mission hospital and the associated outpatient clinics in Purwakarta. Featured are, among others, the players of a korfball match and the Medical Director, Dr. Bremmer, at work in his laboratory.

A parody on the wild African features, in the Organlogue series. Featuring the Eton Boys who put over the comedy, assisted by Lew White The comedy is put over with cartoon sequences and illustrations of the adventures of the two "explorers" in wild Africa. The song numbers are "Tiger Rag," "Down in Jungle Town," "Margie" and "I've Got Rings on My Fingers." Should make a great hit with the kids, for comedy animals and natives are featured all through.

Animated rabbit gives a performance lecture about the advantages of rabbit breeding.

The fight against prejudices and superstitions.

Illustrating all the different cuts of beef for benefit of newly-wed women.

Cines short-film shot at the shipyards in Monfalcone and in the foundries of Sant'Andrea in Trieste, by theorist and director Umberto Barbaro. It depicts the intense work of the docks where two submarines gradually take shape.