Cinematic Era: 1934 Vintage

Lost movie.

On Christmas Eve in 1818, parish assistant Joseph Mohr is on the road. Despite the freezing cold, he has just blessed a poor farming family and is now on his way back to Oberndorf near Salzburg. Once home, the assistant pastor puts his thoughts into a poem on this quiet night. His friend, the teacher and organist Gruber, is asked to compose a melody for it. The birth of the world's most famous Christmas carol.

Krazy Kat and his girlfriend are surrounded by their insect friends. After they dance around the forest, Krazy's girlfriend gets kidnapped, but is rescued by Krazy Kat and the insects.

A film starring Karl Valentin

The great capital of São Paulo in motion, from the first dawn until the end of the night, in magnificent corners.

This short film “Children of the Nile” is part of the Port O’Call series produced by Deane H. Dickason and presented by William Pizor; these consisted of short films featuring foreign countries and exotic places. This film focuses on life and customs of Egyptians living in Kerdasa, Egypt which is less than a mile away from the Sahara Desert and close to the Pyramids of Giza. It was filmed in 1934, when Egypt was occupied by the British, and thus the film reflects colonialist views and stereotypes present at that time.

James A. FitzPatrick takes a look at the continent of Africa.

Documentary footage of indigenous Pacific islanders.

The Comedian Harmonists sing various German folk songs in a picturesque landscape.

A family of tanuki dig for food in the snow. They find bamboo shoots and bring them home only to find them empty after peeling them. The bamboo shoots turn into spirits and curse the tanuki family, turning them into snow.

A display what Vaudeville had to offer, with the likes of Carl Emmy and His Mad Wags, The Three Queens, Jack Pepper and His Society Pets and little people Olive & George performing for us.

An animated corpulent man comes to life

A Screen Song from the Fleischer Studios with the song "Lazybones".

film about the preparation for the anniversary and its celebration in Rapla on June 17, 1934. The creators of the community. The first store buildings. A diagram of the emergence of department stores. Bakers making bread, tasting cookies. Young people fishing. People gathering for the celebration. Commemoration of community figures at the cemetery. Anniversary ceremony in the garden of the Rapla community center, speakers, choir, orchestra.

A spy story set in the future year 1950, about a detective on the trail of a spy. The League of Nations threatens the Netherlands with a blockade if secret arms deliveries to a warring country, Paruma, do not cease. After a long chase, the head of the Dutch secret service manages to unmask the arms smuggler, Consul Charkuf of Paruma. The film was made by students of the Film-Technische Leergang, a film course that originated from the Studio Joris Ivens and was influenced by foreign avant-garde film. Only a few scenes have been preserved.

Documentary film about Argentine landscapes with a title unrelated to the content and released as a complement to the main film.

Billed as New Zealand's first "talking picture comedy", 'Hamilton talks' was made in the early 1930s. Shot in Hamilton, it is a typical comedy of the time involving many local scenes and local people in its making.

Introduced as "a Film-rhapsody of manufacture", this documentary short shows how the road infrastructure is built up, through untouched forests, to the pulp plant of "Tempo".

James A. FitzPatrick tour through the South Sea islands of Hawaii, Tahiti, Rarotonga, and Sydney, Australia.

Willie is shining the shoes of a man reading the newspaper. The cover story features a wrestler, inspiring Willie to tell a whopper about fighting the man and winning.

A man is accused of stealing from a store when the real perpetrator is his girlfriend's brother.

Amateur film by German ethnographer, church historian, and icon collector Martin Winkler, taken on several trips to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s.

Images from the visit of Iranian Shah Pahlavi to Turkey in 1934. https://filmmirasim.ktb.gov.tr/tr/film/iran-sahinin-turkiye-ziyareti

A silent film hagiography of the Grand Pré region of Nova Scotia. Title cards illuminate the historical plight of the Arcadians in the time of the Great Upheaval. An unknown actress portrays Longfellow's Evangeline.

The plane of a military man falls in an isolated area of the forest and, in time, he becomes a man-beast, a troglodyte. He is found by a scientist who turns him into a guinea pig for an experimental potion. The experiment fails and the troglodyte becomes a satyr who attacks and kidnaps maidens to take them to a cave where he subjects them to atrocities.

This is the first feature, as well as the first sound film made in Yugoslavia. It is a collection of vignettes made for tourism purposes showing the most beautiful parts of the country.

Phil Spitalny and His All-Girl Orchestra, the females who are all clad in white gowns, perform a few musical numbers cabaret style in front of an appreciative audience. The multi-talented orchestra members not only play musical instruments, but also sing. In one number, one of their own is featured as a tap dancer. In another number, a dueling piano duet is featured.

Fleischer Studios Screen Song. At a super-automated theatre, the Eton Boys (in live-action insert) sing the title song aided by the Bouncing Ball.

Contained in the "Music" section of the "Rivista Luce n. 2", it's the most experimental film by Corrado D’Errico, certified as a “work of visualized music” created on the notes of the overture of La Gazza Ladra (1817) by Gioacchino Rossini.

As the orchards come alive with berries, cherries, apples and plums, a Kentish summer blossoms on film.

Clara Gibbings discovers she is the legitimate but abandoned daughter of the Earl of Drumoor. She becomes a member of high society but soon becomes disillusioned with their morals. She falls in love with a young aristocrat, Errol Kerr.

Love triangle in Chile

Maître Bolbec is a famous lawyer but the dress she is wearing is not the one her husband would like her to see. When she realizes that he is cheating on her, she gives up the bar, but she is even more taken up by her friends. Mr. Bolbec then begs her to resume her job and asks for the position of secretary.

The Hon. Montmoroncy Ralston (Frank Leighton) is a monocled Englishman of the old school, with valet and plus fours, who sails for Australia after an argument with his father. In a Sydney two-up school, he makes friends with Jim McBride (Frank Bradley), a dinkum grazier, who invites Monty out to his station, where he meets the Reverend Stanhope (Eric Colman), a "flying padre" who uses a plane to tour his parish. Monty persuades his father to buy a new plane and enters it in the Centenary Air Race from London to Melbourne. But as he gets into the racing, Monty hears that Stanhope's old plane has crashed in remote country, and he gives up the race to fly to his rescue.

In a musical parody of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", slaves pick cotton by the ton, Simon LeGree threatens Uncle Tom with a whip, and Krazy helps Little Eva run away on ice floes created by dumping out the blocks from an ice truck. When she dies and goes to heaven, Krazy attempts to trick St. Peter into letting him in too, but he falls earthward in time to wake up, it's all a nightmare he's been having at the theatre putting on a "Tommer" show.

How news of a general reduction in GPO charges was finally brought to parliament and the people, despite attempts by the country's enemies to prevent the announcement...

This Traveltalk short visits three African locations on the Indian Ocean that used to be administered by Great Britain. The first stop is the Seychelles island group. Then it's on to the island of Zanzibar. The final stop is Mombasa, Kenya, where efforts are underway to save the elephants from extinction by ivory hunters.

Film by Seitz.

Watson’s avant-garde film is a unique example of dadaist aesthetics in early sound cinema. A minimalist and virtually expressionless acting style on a claustrophobic set characterizes the melodramatic love triangle. Watson considered the film a failure, though it appears extremely modern today, and suppressed its existence. - Jan-Christopher Horak

A signal from Buddy Deering on Mars warns Earth that the Tiger Men of Mars and their cruel king have broken their treaty and are attacking. Buck Rogers and Wilma Deering go to rendezvous with the Earth battlefleet before setting off to fight the tigerships. Baldpated genius inventor Dr. Huer uses the "cosmic radiotelevision" to watch the space battle. Which side will be victorious? The tigerships and their paralysis ray? Or our Earth forces, armed with the flash ray and Dr. Huer's new magnetic ray?

At the Carlssons hotel in Stockholm we find unemployed actor Gunnar Berg, whose father owns Sundsvalls Steel mill and wants the son to enter the company. But the son prefers to sit and wait for roles together with his friend Jan Jansson.

Krazy Kat takes a girl to the circus. She is swept off her feet by the man on the flying trapeze. Krazy gets jealous and injures the dashing young man. He ends up in court, pleading his case.

Oswald and Annie are set to be married, but Pete steals Annie away momentarily by pretending to be a "handsome gentleman" who will fetch her to Oswald.

In the province of Bullvania, the President loses important papers and war is almost declared. Detective Shemp Howard and his partner come to the rescue.

A film of ethnographic nature portraying the journey of the River Gauja from its upper reaches to the estuary leading to the sea. Directed by Kristaps Linde of the Riga National Theatre.

The history, development and uses of the oscillograph.

A documentary film about Istanbul.

A recounting of the social, economic and political conditions in Germany up until the Nazi takeover in 1933.

Directed by Marion Grierson, who ran the film unit of the Travel and Industrial Development Association (TIDA), this short film contains some fine photography of the delights on offer to Edinburgh visitors - including trams, bustling streets, restful parks and some familiar tourist sights.

Short Dutch animation film.