Cinematic Era: 1935 Vintage

The story of two friends Adam and Zygmunt, serving in the floatplanes escadrille of the Polish Navy.

A love story between a man and a woman unfolds in simply sequences. The man seduces the woman and she follows him, entranced...

The wild flowers and landscape of the Aleutian Islands taken from the vessel SS "Starr" on its voyage from Kodiak Island, Alaska. The lighthouse keeper's wife lands at Scotch Cap on Unimak Island.

Showcasing many songwriters of the 1890s, including William McKenna, Harry Armstrong, and eighty-six year old Theodore Metz (who wrote "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight"). For a special treat, we get to see Maude Lambert sing "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling."

Amateur footage filmed in Kodacolour, showing people and landscapes in Sikkim and Tibet. Scenes include children in traditional dress spinning cotton, musicians playing instruments, villagers gathered, animals grazing, milking goats, families in elaborate traditional dress and mountain views.

The crystallization processes of various chemicals which are visible only through the microscope are shown using time-lapse acceleration at times.

Oswald plays a dimwit who wants to be a cowboy. Everyone laughs at him until he tames a really obnoxious wild horse.

Londoners flock to the South Coast to enjoy themselves by the seaside during a heatwave.

A Conestoga Wagon leads Molly Moo-Cow and some ducks through the hills. The ducks stop for a swim by a tepee and go to explore the settlement. Molly misses her friends and goes to look for them; when she finds them she discovers they're behaving like Native Americans, and she joins in. Meanwhile, a Native woman downstream loses her baby in the stream and chases after her. Seeing the baby's in trouble, Molly pursues it as well, and eventually retrieves it.

A young boy finds a Scottish terrier who he tries to bring home. His mom refuses him a home, but when he saves the family from a wandering bum, it's the dog who saves the day.

This is a short film that, although a documentary in appearance, has very little to do with the generic conventions of that form. It would seem, then, that what we have here is the embryo of what he was subsequently to call the "elementary": an abstract or lyrical modality in the perception and exposition of the real.

An institution for the terminally mentally ill. It shows "mentally ill" people who need to be restrained and artificially fed, unaware of their surroundings, incapable of useful work. "The sins of the fathers are visited upon their children. Innocent themselves, broken in body and spirit, a burden to themselves and others!" People with bizarre, typically disturbed movements are shown.

The main character is Tadeusz Rosołek, an average civil servant who, unfortunately for him, falls in love with the beautiful Kazi. However, he does not have the courage to confess his feelings to her in person. He comes up with the idea of pretending to be her fictional brother Wacus. This is not easy, as he has to constantly change his clothes...

Here from 1935 is Gaumont British's documentary about the Royal Air Force, simply titled "R.A.F." and directed by John Betts. This film looks at the training of new recruits, and includes views of many (now rare) aircraft of the period.

An advertisement for Levitan brand furniture.

Despite the warnings from her conscience, Molly drinks the same brew that got poor Rip Van Winkle drunk and made him sleep for 20 years. The bizarre bovine has a close encounter with little men, throws her own private keg party, bowls against her ghostly double and awakens the famous Washington Irving character just in time for the iris out. Just plain weird!

The orphan Alfred lives with two ladies in an idyllic cottage near a private golf course.

Film by Hoffmann.

The story is a melodrama concerning a young woman, played by Yun Bong-choon, who is abused by her stepmother and half-sister. After her stepmother expels her from her home, she stabs her stepmother.

A wanted Pole arrives in Tsarist Russia and assumes the identity of a Police Chief.

From the arrival of a new viceroy to street markets, this amateur film captures the diversity of life in colonial India.

A British musical film directed by Herbert Smith.

Hei Tiki, also known as Primitive Passions and Hei Tiki: A Saga of the Maoris, is a 1935 American mock-documentary film made in New Zealand by the eccentric Alexander Markey and released (with sound added) in America. The film gained notoriety in America for having scenes of nudity cut in various states. It is one of four films (with The Devil's Pit, Down on the Farm, and On the Friendly Road) which claim to be the first "New Zealand talkie", although the claim is dubious in this case as the sound was added in America.

'Black beauty' must win a race against other toys in order to save the Old Plantation, a doll house.

Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Rabbit are preparing their summer home, confident that winter has ended. Professor Groundhog, unable to see his shadow, predicts several more weeks of cold weather. The rabbit-family and their woodland neighbors choose to disbelieve the groundhog's pessimistic forecast, until suddenly it begins to snow and the forest animals are driven back into hibernation.

The boozy mercenary of the title, based on the actual historical figure of Naoyuki Ban (1567-1615), attempts to rid a haunted castle of spooks.

Director Hugo Berner and Doctor Olof Mellgren have come out of the theater where they have just shown the classic play Pygmalion. Director Mellgren claims that, like Higgins in the play, he can turn a harbor worker into the gentleman.

As the representatives of all the world powers sit around the tables at the World Peace Conference, arguing and scrapping with each other, Krazy Kat introduces a happy note with his trick Comedy Gun, and everything winds up harmoniously...until the Nazis invade most of Europe a few years later.

This musical cartoon about three kittens who get into a spat with two small dogs over milk.Te technical competenceis good -- the dogs are well rotoscoped and there is some nice camera movement to maintain composition.

Three singing kettles go on a picnic.

Jed and his dog Lightning contend with the boy's abusive father.

A Secrets of Life short about a raven.

This visit to Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific Ocean shows that life for the residents has changed little in the years since Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers on HMS Bounty, along with several Tahitian natives, landed here. The island is self-sufficient and has few visitors. Among the islanders we see at work is Fletcher Christian's great-grandson.

1935 German film. Presumed lost.

Scenes of the International Film Congress held in Berlin in April-May 1935, with famous film actors from all over the world.

Scrappy and Oopy are on their way to Scrappy’s last day of class. Oopy’s distractions cause Scrappy to be late to graduation, so Oopy devises a plot to sneak into class so Scrappy can still graduate.

Lucy is a woman of shady past who convinces Argüello and Carlos to install an illegal gambling hall on a cabaret that worked legally. When Argüello is interested romantically in her, it rejects it because it is attracted by Carlos, a womanizer singer. The obsession for her leads Argüello to cheat in the game that he holds with Carlos and manages to ruin him, but finally both fight and Argüello dies stabbed but without denouncing his aggressor to recover his self-esteem as a professional player.

The notary Georg Edfeldt is in love with Dagny Anderberg. Dagny's father is the lawyer Harry Anderberg, who refuses to give his consent to Georg's marriage to Dagny.

Amateur general views of people outside, walking. blind man with white cane and dog. Also people using sign language in a garden (possibly Kirkcaldy).

A freedom-loving man has found a way in the midst of loan sharks and apaches to get it almost totally with a minimum of work, needs and connections. After a few misadventures, he continues to wander in Paris whose streets he loves more than anything in the world.

In a theme reminiscent of the classic Greek comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes, wives and sweethearts in a Bavarian village agree to withhold sex from their men, as long as the men keep spending time with a new waitress at the inn.

The experimental work consists of several fragments, demonstrating the use of color in film: showing paintings of Soviet art, photography parade on first of May on Red Square in 1934-1935, recording a working amateur and sketch of Soviet Georgia.

The life of the residents at Alpgatan 57 in Stockholm.

Tiny Barney Google sleeps under a tree. Along comes his enormous wife, who begins to do the washing. Six babies ranked in a tub persecute Barney.

Soldiers, Generals and elephants march into battle accompanied by different kinds of equipment, including cars, a train, tanks and planes with a dirigible.

A swing music short starring Ina Ray Hutton and her 'all-girl' band.

Inuit in their kayaks hunting for seals and collecting ice for drinking water.

A supper club in Harlem presents a variety show.

Collection of reports related to Rio de Janeiro.

Eskimoes in Greenland "rolling" their kayaks, Greenlanders in traditional dress dancing "reels" and Confirmation Sunday at Jakobshavn.

A reportage filmed for Pathé captures the inauguration of the second President of the Philippines, Manuel Luis Quezon, in the presence of members of the US Senate. The US allowed its colony to have its own president for an experimental period of ten years from 1935. Quezon fled to the US during World War II, where he led a government in exile.