Cinematic Era: 1935 Vintage

Nana, Balkya and Balakram use a number of ploys to arrange the marriage of Thaki, the virtually unmarriageable daughter of Timbunana.

Tigers in the Himalayan foothills, filmed by famous hunter and conservationist Jim Corbett.

George Pal cel-animated hand-drawn commercial for The Philips Company 1930s 335 Shortwave Radio.

While on an adventure, Prince Athiroopan falls in love with Amaravathi, a princess.

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. It features the original song Take Me Home to the Mountain by Loesser & Herscher.

A 1935 Bengali Film directed by Jyotish Bandyopadhyay.

Early Korean short.

An experimental silent film directed by the great Peruvian poet.

Mixture of amateur and newsreel footage of George V's silver jubilee. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

A reconstructed version of the sound film "Hebräische Melodie," in which violinist Andreas Weissgerber plays Joseph Achron's piece of the same title in Jerusalem, commissioned by the Jüdischer Kulturbund. The outdoor shots were taken in the Old City of Jerusalem in the winter of 1934-35 and the music was recorded in Berlin in 1935. The film was considered lost for years.

This 1935 film, produced by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago under the supervision of Dr. James Henry Breasted was written and told by his son, Charles Breasted. Though we no longer think about archaeology in the same way, this film gives us insight into the early days of the field.

A character with an overactive imagination witnesses strange events. Reality or fiction? Dive into the worrying universe of film noir.

A production by Chevrolet from 1935 on safety around trains

Lieutenant Niko’s family insists he marry a chosen fiancée, but he falls for a beautiful baroness and travels to meet “his betrothed” disguised as his orderly, who impersonates him, only to discover that the baroness is in fact the intended bride. Meanwhile, the baroness and her maid swap identities in turn, leading to a cascade of mistaken identities and a lighthearted resolution when true matches are revealed.

A silent short documentary produced by Weid-Film.

Charley Chase movie where Charley wants to go out to have a poker night with the boys but much to his chagrin his wife won't let him.

The dilemma of a young woman between the old man who protects her and the boy who loves her.

Millions of Us (1935) is an early example of American labor-left filmmaking that experiments with enacted forms, anticipating Frontier Films’s renowned People of the Cumberland (1938) and Native Land (1942). Produced surreptitiously in Hollywood in 1934-5, the film dramatizes the plight of millions of unemployed workers amidst the Depression. This message is filtered through the story of a single “forgotten man” who walks the streets in desperate search of a job. Driven by hunger, he contemplates becoming a scab. A union man intervenes, coaching him to recognize common interests with his brethren. He is ultimately converted to the cause of trade unionism.

A bucolic route along the banks of the Llobregat River, the natural boundary of the city of Barcelon

This travelogue film shows Finland the 1930’s. It was presented by Joseph Harris and Martin Ross. Finland is in northern Europe bordering Sweden, Norway and Russia. The capitol city of Helsinki as well as the Arctic Ocean Highway running to the port of Liinakhamari which once touched the Arctic Ocean will be shown.

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

A hat advertisement for Sools by animators Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff.

The maid and the driver of Sidonie de Valpurgis have the absurd idea of ​​subletting the hotel of their boss during her absence, and precisely to Sidonie's ex-friend, who wants to spend his wedding night there.

There is peace in the forest and among all of the animals there, including a pair of ducks who befriend Molly Moo-Cow. A pair of hunters come on the scene, go hunting and hurt the ducks, so it's Molly to the rescue.

In Bali, a young woman falls for a musician, but he may have eyes for her half sister.

First film shot in Peru with the optical sound system. Short documentary about the First National Eucharistic Congress.

Sound waves fill the space around the globe. We watch them as they wander and spread throughout the country. The radio lamps, produced by the Telefunken company, capture them and transform them into perfect tones.

Women sit over tea and chat about the proper way to make tea.

A compilation of Christmas footage from Paris, the Provence and Bavaria compiled by distribution company Express Film. Luxury and prosperity contrast with the food distribution for the homeless and the traditional celebrations in the countryside.

"Brisas del Atlántico" is part of the series "Viajes Argentinos," one of the many works attributed to the great pioneer of Argentine cinema, Federico Valle. The short depicts places and activities developed in the late 1920s and early 1930s in Mar del Plata and its surroundings.

In the midst of picturesque rural settings, a troupe of dancers in regional costumes dance the kujawiak. The filmmaker, Eugeniusz Cękalski, was associated with the environment of the film avant-garde, hence the use of treatments unusual for a documentary film. "Kujawiak" is not only a recording of a folk dance, but above all an artistic reportage, showing the dancers from different perspectives in a rural setting, using close-ups and slow-motion shots. The film featured the Folk Theater Association's Dance Ensemble. "Kujawiak" is one of the films comprising the famous "Polish Dances" series (along with "Highland Dances," "Cracow Dances" and "Silesian Dances"). The entire series made its way to Great Britain before the war (for foreign distribution it was prepared in an English-language version), thanks to which it has been preserved until our times.

A Secrets of Life short about feeding time at the zoo. The film was registered on the Board of Trade's official list under Section 6 of the Films Act as 922ft long (roughly 10 minutes if projected at 24 frames per second)

Technical process of transmitting a television picture Comparison of a newspaper picture and the raster recording of television pictures. Creation of the television picture through lines and pixels. Explanation of the recording process. Function of the Braun tube receiver. In a television studio. Television announcer. Test broadcasts. Auditorium. Demonstration shows. Imaging equipment.

Aspects of the life of the Bororo Indians of the Kejara village. Fire-making, crafts, weaving, hunting, fishing and sunset in the village.

A Fleischer Studios, Inc short.

Promotional film for the Farmall F-12 agricultural tractor, aimed at farmers in the southern USA.

News on one big baby.

Glimpses of Hong Kong, Macau, Canton and Shanghai long ago.

The film is based on the motifs of Azerbaijani folk tales.

A film about the landscape of northern Germany and its people. Between the Geest and the marshes, the 200-kilometer-long Marschbahn railway takes viewers through Holstein, across the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal and the Eider River to North Frisia. From Dagebüll, take the mudflat steamer via Amrum, Hallig Hooge, and Föhr to Sylt. Lonely farms and quiet Frisian villages, the Hindenburg Dam, and the sparkling sea greet visitors.

Captures the consumption of gas by various large kitchens in London, during a particular dinner hour.

The film was made in 1935 in what is now Inner Mongolia, but which was then part of Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo or Manchuria, explaining the presence of Manchu officials sporting queues and pointed tasselled hats, both of which had disappeared by this time in the rest of republican China.

Amateur footage of the devastation caused by one of South Asia's worst earthquakes.

Bearing witness to the wretched living conditions of Harlem’s black population during the Great Depression, this short film was shot in the same year as the first race riot in that neighbourhood, now regarded as a distant ancestor of the “Black Lives Matter” movement.

The missionary father O'Reilly was in the Solomon Islands, South Pacific, in 1934-1935. He filmed the daily life, customs and traditions of the people of Bougainville.

A RKO/Van Beuren comedy short featuring the stars of Radio's "The Easy Aces."

Hong Kong drama

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. Al Shayne sings the Loesser & Hersher song Don't Grow Any Older.

Alf Garrard, carpenter and amateur filmmaker, shot this film, combining undercover footage of men working on a building site with a re-enactment of a strike which took place there in October 1934. Garrard’s maintenance job on the building site allowed him to move about easily with his camera concealed behind his apron - into which he had cut a hole. This ingenious shooting style results in images combining imaginative angles with a not infrequent lack of focus.

This is the second part with Runje Shaw directing.

The life of Józef Klemens Piłsudski.

A Tory MP and his wife meet their female battalions in a tour of Southampton's wards - while Stanley Baldwin lends his own support at an outdoor fete