Cinematic Era: 1936 Vintage

King Gustav V of Sweden visits Kultaranta.

Jazz, jazz! The Rytmi-Pojat, led by Eugen Malmsténin (1907-1993), perform 1930s hits in Suomi-Film's excellent musical film, including the tango Vain tämä yö on meyän, written by Veikko Virmajoki, which was once banned from being performed on Yleisradio. The Rytmi-Pojat's repertoire was particularly popular with urban youth in the 1930s. The film is accompanied by hidden advertising of sheet music and records. The phenomenon that led to the end of the tax reduction system for Finnish short films in the mid-1960s was therefore already present early on.

Heikinkatu, now Mannerheimintie, was the main traffic artery of Helsinki in the 1930s, "the street that would never be completed". Already in the 1930s, it became clear that Heikinkatu, due to its unfavorable cross-section, was unable to absorb the ever-increasing traffic. The film follows the renovation of Heikinkatu, which was eventually completed, thus providing a major thoroughfare to the capital.

1936 Tamil Film

Drama set in Norfolk in which a girl adopted by fishermen saves a lord from drowning and marries a poor seaman.

A home movie documenting an interracial Filipino American family’s life on a farm in rural Ohio.

The plot involves Mac McDermott who is wrongly accused of theft and imprisoned, but is finally vindicated and cleared.

The report shows places connected with the life of the writer Stefan Żeromski: the cemetery where his parents are buried, the ruins of his family estate. Views from the village of Leszczyny in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains are interspersed with panels featuring quotations from "Puszcza jodłowa".

This footage is a record of Katsumi Komatsu’s visit to urban and rural areas in Taiwan, specifically Taipei and Tainan, in April 1936 (Showa 11), conducted as a preliminary survey for the comprehensive research project by the Attic Museum. The footage is silent.

Sixteen year old Robbins Barstow, an Amateur Cinema League member and a fan of Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan movies, rounded up his siblings and friends and led them into the wilds of Granby, Connecticut for this epic tale of a journey into Edgar Rice Burroughs' Africa.

Andre de la Varre's Screen Traveler series takes us o Damascus and Jerusalem, showing us these ancient cities in workmanlike black and white.

Meshmesh Effendi (1936) The first animated film made in Egypt is about the character Meshmesh Effendi, who loves music, works in one of the clubs, and loves Bahia, the beautiful dancer who works with him in the same club.

Made by the Polish Telegraphic Agency, this reportage shows the construction and operation of the modern cargo port in Gdynia and its facilities. It is a typical example of a propaganda film of the second half of the 1930s, showing the rapid development of the young country and its growing economic power. The film has been digitised based on a copy imported from the Soviet Union in 1980.

Swans, ducks and countless other birds in Lillfjärden, Sweden.

In the world of fashion, banking, and the glamour of a luxury hotel, a man seeks the attention of a beautiful woman.

An American woman lands in jail while visiting Germany.

Queen Mary Lou's minister gives a speech that sends the courtiers to sleep. This allows the Queen to sneak out, where she finds people holding a party with entertainment.

Sociological documentary presenting various aspects of a village in Northern Romania in the 1930s.

Documentary about the Virginio F. Grego International Automobile Grand Prix.

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A wife is confused after her husband turns into two indistinguishable persons. Which one is the real husband? One of her husbands is actually the manifestation of the rat demon. Luckily, the God Djie Lay steps in by sending a magic cat in the size of a tiger to wipe of all of the five rat demons.

An educational film on proper hygiene and healthcare, aimed at peasant women in Yugoslavia.

Two crows do not want to work and prepare for winter.

As the start credits indicate, the film is a tentative edit of shots from 1936. After showing a car ride across the dunes and the fierce waves of the sea, this unfinished film shows the pleasure at the beach on a sunny day. On the seashore, young and old enjoy the sun, sand and sea. In a quick succession of images with sometimes surprising camera angles and movements, the film shows the seaside fun. At some moments, the filmmaker makes links by using evocative cuts. For example, recumbent seaside visitors are linked with basking pigs and a dangerously swirling sea displays a skull.

Amateur film by Lewis Rosenberg showing large crowds during the clash of demonstrators and protesters amid a heavy police presence in Cable Street, London. The film then shows Besque refugee children at a fund raising event, and young communists at a summer camp in Kent.

During some military maneuvers, the lives of the soldiers are altered due to the multiple incidents caused by the presence of a beautiful woman.

3D film on the basque traditions and culture.

Director: George Debels | Production Country: The Netherlands | Production Year: 1935 | Production Company: Rex Film Bureau voor Filmreclame (Amsterdam) | FLM3818 | Film from the collection of EYE (Amsterdam)

An educational documentary short, commissioned by the Chevrolet Motor Company, explaining a manual car transmission works.

Film by Seitz.

Documentary about skilled blacksmiths.

This documentary is the first of a series that dedicated 4 issues to the activity of the Durruti column in Aragon.

In Hell, Satan appears to tell us that rhythm is coming to life again, then we're taken to a sound stage where Jimmie Lunceford conducts his dance orchestra. He's in black tie and a tuxedo of white tales and black trousers. He announces that rhythm is our business, and that's the orchestra's first number, with vocal, sax, bass, and trumpet solos. Myra Johnson sings "You Can't Pull the Wool Over My Eyes" in her animated style, the Three Brown Jacks tap dance, and the short closes with two up-tempo numbers with two sax players tap dancing and the horn players taking off their tux coats to start a make-shift percussion section.

Shows the facilities and techniques of the FBI and its agent training and dramatizes apprehensions. Reel 1, J. Edgar Hoover introduces the film. Fingerprints and criminal files are shown and explained. Dramatizes events in the capture of John Dillinger. Personages, Homer S. Cummings, John Dillinger. Reel 2 shows prominent persons, places, and objects in the Urschell kidnapping case, dramatizing the apprehension. Shows classroom and field training of FBI agents. Reel 3 shows scientific methods used to gather clues and evidence from murder weapons, clothing, and objects that reveal physical characteristics.

A home movie made by a passenger on the zeppelin 'Hindenburg' as it flew from Frankfurt am Main, Germany to Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA starting on 17 September 1936.

Seeking oblivion incorporated optical sound (sound on film) into Peruvian narrative cinema in the Movietone system, which was a patent of the Western Electric company.

The first Peruvian film shot in color, made in the Amazon.

"I knew Ovady Julber very well in the 1960s and still have many memories of his recounting of the making of the 8mm film LA MER in or around 1932 using 'cutting in the camera' techniques. The music was taken from the 78s of conductor Coppola." - Donald Morris "Ovady Julber's film LA MER, dating from 1936-38, typifies early American experimental filmmaking." - MoMA

An ethnographic film about tar burning.

Pictures from Paltamo, Kajaani and Oulu.

An architectural survey featuring sweeping views of downtown Chicago, Garfield Park Conservatory, University of Chicago, and Lincoln Park Zoo.

Promotional film for the Farmall F-12 agricultural tractor, demonstrating how easy and fast its implements can be attached and removed.

Propaganda for the care of the eyesight. Diagrams are used to demonstrate the structure and function of the eye. Eye conditions that can affect the sight are also illustrated.

Images of 1930s Stockholm.

At the head of the brig-schooner Lili, Captain Mario “Droit-devant” finds himself involved in marijuana trafficking led by an aristocrat nicknamed “The Countess Hachisch"

Travelogue of the capital of Sweden, Stockholm.