Cinematic Era: 1933 Vintage

A rather wild tale of gypsy-loves-princess. Features the first use of the song "Gypsy Life", heard later in the Mighty Mouse cartoon.

A silent documentary about the Long Beach earthquake of March 10, 1933, which had a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. Forty million dollars property damage resulted, and 115 lives were lost. Many of these fatalities occurred as people ran out of buildings and were hit by falling debris.

Romeo and Juliet romance on great Lake Balaton, where rival families each control half the fishing rights.When the girl is suspected of being with the wrong boy, she is set on a boat in a storm to be judged in a trial of survival.

A Lancashire family watch a series of variety acts on their dodgy new television set. Inspired, they put on a few numbers of their own at home.

About how Native Americans used acorns to make bread.

A wife is caught between her drunken husband and her love-starved daughter.

A lazy farmer Tit takes the only job he can do: being a scarecrow in a field. Original movie is lost but in 2000 it was reconstructed by Nikolay Izvolov based on Medvedkin's script and drawings.

Street brawlers pursue Terry mice in the big, bad city. Some animators: Bill Tytla (scenes with crooner), Jerry Shields, Frank Moser.

A documentary on agriculture by Raffaello Matarazzo.

Another FitzPatrick TravelTalk, taking us to the titular islands.

Foto Wong Studios.

A lesson in Japanese culture.

The launching of the destroyer ‘Tejo’ in the river Tagus – shipyard Rocha de Conde d'Óbidos, Lisbon, with the presence of the President of the Ministers Council.

A female correspondent of the newspaper Pravda Vostoka in the family of locomotive engineer G. Ya. Lukov; viewing family photos of the Lukov family. G. Ya. Lukov's son, who works at a factory in another city, writes a letter to his father. A group of men repairing the locomotive. A poster: 'Lukovets is a locomotive engineer who mastered the highest wisdom of locomotive work.' Young locomotive engineers, Komsomol members, competing in labor with G. Ya. Lukov.

Ella Bergmann-Michel aborted her last film "Wahlkampf 1932 (Letzte Wahl)" about the election campaign in Frankfurt because of political reasons. During the shooting of the film Bergmann-Michel was arrested und parts of the films were destroyed. The film only exists as a fragment.

Amina gets involved with a young man she loved, but he deceives her and abandons her. She gives birth to her son Murad, who is raised by her friend Umm Ibrahim. Amina marries Hashem, who knows nothing about her past. Murad is ten years old when his mother's friend Umm Ibrahim sends him to Europe. Years later, Murad returns to Egypt and meets Nadia, a con girl on board a ship who shares her brother Ramzy's crimes.

Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released February 7, 1933.

At a baseball game, the frustrated manager of the losing team overhears spectator Willie Whopper bragging to his girl that he (Willie) could beat the opposing team...

Quirky animation predicting all sorts of bizarre hat contraptions that will exist by 1950.

Guatemala and ancient Mayan cultural sites.

A promotional film extolling the benefits of flying on the young American Airways (later Airlines), showing the different destinations served, and follows a Curtiss Condor's flight from Chicago to New York City.

A tour of the Island of Java in Indonesia in 1933.

A visit to the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago in 1933.

“Simple harmonic motion by animated diagrams; photographs of experiments with pendulums and vibrating cords.” - BFI. “ “A scientific film explaining the movement of the Sinusoidal Pendulum.” - The [London] Film Society, 1938.

Life on a farm at springtime, including blossom, piglets and ducklings.

The penultimate Secrets of Nature short.

An Imperial Films Production

An Eurocentric travelogue highlighting New Zealand's people, culture and natural beauty.

Based on the homonym play, this film is the first talking one to be filmed in Catalan.

A timid man - worker Anokha is being promoted to the foreman of the foundry. He challenges another team to the competition, led by Ryabov, a man of great character,

50 successive phases of bursting 50 primers.

The Green Turtle (Chelonia Midas) is found in tropical and subtropical seas.

Animal life in the American desert is depicted with an emphasis on the battles between various combatants in the struggle to either eat or be eaten.

To restore health to their little boy, the Henry couple decided to live in Brittany. The child has a cult of the sea. One day, he follows a band of little Bretons to the high seas and the children would all be drowned if their fathers had not arrived in time.

Film by Franz Seitz.

Görk, the hardworking son of a heathland farmer, meets Nelly, the daughter of a traveling merchant, by chance and falls in love at first sight. However, his carefree brother Lutz, who has just returned from military service, soon sets his sights on her as well—and Nelly doesn't seem entirely averse to him. Finally, hoping to win her completely, Görk goes to their father and asks for her hand in marriage. He receives his father's blessing, but soon discovers that Lutz, despite his plea to leave Nelly alone, continues to try to seduce her.

Short animated film by Yasuji Murata

A Terrytoons cartoon released 3 November 1933.

A Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released April 18, 1933.

Experimental film showing a day's activities at the Glasgow College of Art.

This early Japanese animation opens with a festival of sorts...

Pooch and his ladyfriend are harassed by a whip-wielding lumberjack. Strange humor 'neath the tall timber. (The 'thinking out loud' device is unique, thank goodness!) Woodchoppers' theme: "Nola".

This Traveltalk entry visits a Djuka tribal village in Dutch Guiana, which would later be called Suriname. The Djuka are descendants of west Africans who escaped from ships that were taking them to slave markets in America in the 16th century.

Willie tells his friends that he was once a pilot in an air race.

A day in the life of a sentinel, with some modernistic musical accompaniment.

Educated in the Catholic mission school Kinghill, the chief's daughter, suspected by intrigue of poisoning on her wedding night and sentenced to death, becomes a nun after her escape and sacrifices herself as a nurse during a malaria epidemic in her tribal area.

One of Spain's earliest sound film successes. Now considered lost.

A commercial promoting Šotek Hellada [Goblin Hellada] washing powder. In a laundry room, a washing boiler blows out steam and a washboard and a brush lie in the trough. The two washing tools then come alive - the washboard turns into a laundress and the brush into a man. The two begin dancing together while the brush plays harmonica and sings: "What a misery in this world, no one fears us any more, we are useless, everybody deserted us." The washboard and the brush die, and the trough serves them as a coffin. There appears a sign "Here rest the scrubbing brush and the washboard", followed by a view of a box of Šotek Hellada [Goblin Hellada] washing powder, the musical score to the song "This is our Goblin, washing with Goblin is just playing" and the Hellada trademark.