Cinematic Era: 1933 Vintage

South African Movie

A poetic, experimental, industrial documentary.

In 1950, an astronomer discovers that a comet is going to destroy Earth. He warns the world, but nobody believes him. His engineer friend is building a spaceship, and they go on a space mission with the engineer's bride to save Earth.

'Scots widower woos poor spinster, believing her to be wealthy.' (British Film Catalogue)

Since 1928, the School of Public Health has been organizing its own film service, which started producing films aimed to educate the village. This is an animated fragment from an educational-propaganda film about malaria, created in a photo-film laboratory. The film was shot by engineer Aleksandar Gerasimov, head of the laboratory, edited by dr. Dragutin Chloupek, and the cartoonist was academic painter Vilko Šeferov.

Reportage about the salvage operation for the 18th-century shipwreck the Lutine, which sank in the North Sea.

A crow dances and sings.

An early documentary by Raffaello Matarazzo.

Edited footage from the Socialist Film Council

Highlights include China's Pearl River, Temple of 500 Buddhas and Siam's palaces.

A lively City Symphony showing daily life in the lost city center of inter-war Rotterdam, alternating the poor life in the slums with the rapid, modern, and rich city life that lies beyond the end of the alley.

The fourth and final game in the 1933 playoffs for the Stanley Cup played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. The match, between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the New York Rangers, is described by the well-known sports commentator Foster Hewitt. Hewitt also interviews the players and coaches of both teams in their respective dressing rooms. Scoreless at the end of regulation time, the game goes into overtime: now the first goal scored will decide the game. The Rangers score to take the Cup.

The end of the 1920s. Lumbermen of small American village begin a strike. The strike committee included communists, the Smith brothers and the black lumberjack Murray. The fascist Dan dismisses rumors about a affair between Murray and a white girl, Gladys, the sister of the Smith brothers…

Ethnographic depiction of everyday village life and the social relations in the period before socialist modernisation.

Documentary on the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay from the recruitment of troops to the battle front.

Abstract animation in color.

A Walter Lantz Pooch the Pup cartoon released June 5, 1933.

A Walter Lantz Pooch the Pup cartoon released July 3, 1933.

Tom and Jerry play with a bratty baby.