Cinematic Era: 1937 Vintage

The second short in Symphony of Lianhua. Two women dream of the devil.

A marriage ban for employees! This rumor causes turmoil among the staff at the Arcadia toy factory in Budapest. Misunderstandings, suspicions, wicked jokes ensue – and a happy ending. The exterior shots were filmed in and around Naples, with the Italian Navy making a curious contribution by providing a warship and a submarine for the shoot.

This Traveltalk series short visits Copenhagen.

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

A pro-Republican documentary made during the Spanish Civil War. It details the offensives of the Durruti Column and the Ascaso Division on the Huesca front between March and April 1937.

An early social drama produced and directed by Sohrab Modi

To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is the foreground. Behind the lines, a triangle appears, then patterns of multiple triangles. Their movements reflect the music's rhythm. Behind the barrier of the black lines, the triangle moves, jumps, and takes on multiple shapes. In contrast with the blue and the black, the triangles are warm: orange, red, yellow. The black lines bend, swirl into a vortex, then disappear. The triangle pulsates and a set of many of them rises.

Here is the Land: A film of land settlement for the unemployed. Filmed in 1937.

Romance of Radium is a 1937 American short film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This short film tells the story of the discovery of radium and how it is used in medicine. In 1937, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (One-Reel) at the 10th Academy Awards

Part of Paramount/Fleischer Novelty-Cartoon shorts which featured animation in part of it and live-action in th other half. The cartoon half of this entry has a slot-machine player cheating the machines in a penny-arcade by tying a string to the coin and pulling it out again. The machines get rather animated about being cheated and the petty-gambler receives some rough treatment. The second half is about four minutes of music from Jay Freeman and his band, featuring Johnny Russell as the vocalist.

The only film written and directed by Run Run Shaw.

Purandaradasa is a 1937 Indian Kannada-language film, directed by B. Chawan

A documentary made by Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War about the battle for Madrid in the Winter of 1937-38.

Indian horror movie from 1937.

Contrasts traditional and modern village life, as changes occur with better transport and as country estates are sold off for housing.

Three fellows dream of prize money and a chance for a real Hollywood contract by winning the Liberty-Pete Smith amateur movie contest. They work on a script, as their wastebasket and ashtrays fill. They head outside to shoot: down a manhole, up a telephone pole, through a keyhole, and at night using binoculars. Next they must edit their film, then it's time for a first screening of their product, "The Afternoon of a Rubberband." It's a montage of experimental images, including a razor blade cutting various objects, a baby in a cooking pot, and a snail in the path of a steamroller. After the screening, the boys wonder if that was their only shot at Hollywood fame. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

Based on the novel by P.A. Pavlenko "In the Far East". Centering on the construction of an important border road in the Far East, which should cross the Golden Pass.

A blackmailer is murdered. Vauzelle, the lover of the beautiful Michelle Korany, is suspected because he was the one who was being blackmailed.

Staying at a fancy resort, Wladyslawa Majewska is mistaken as a male guest when she is dressed in a skiing outfit. The manager offers her, thinking she is a he, a job as a dancer to entertain the unescorted ladies who frequent the hotel. Wladyslawa goes along with the offer, and keeps the old ladies dancing but falls in love with the best-looking male guest in the process, who thinks she is a man.

Betty Boop is so delighted with her new fox fur that Pudgy the Pup grows jealous, then thinks he's killed it...

A working class young woman disregards the wishes of her father to stay in her place, and marries higher in society by wooing a wealthy car manufacturer.

1937 Indian film (Tamil Version)

Kanhopatra, a courtesan goes through many struggles as she rebels against tradition and people. She fights to retain her individuality and dignity while she has encounters with multiple men.

A war documentary from the Spanish Civil War.

Amusing 1937 musical short film produced by the weirdly-named "Educational Films Corporation of America".

Harold Lasseter claims he knows the location of a gold reef and in 1930 manages to raise funds for an expedition to discover it. He discovers the reef but dies of thirst.

New Year's fairy tale about a hare who deceived a wolf.

An advertisement made for Balatum brand linoleum.

The romantic story between a young employee and the seller of a bookstore whose father wishes to marry her with an older man.

Mexican Revolution: a small squadron of insurgents are chosen to trek to US border and pick up an arms shipment.

A wealthy sugar mill owner, widowed and living with his only son, suffers from profound melancholy. To alleviate his suffering, he seeks entertainment in the form of any jerk willing to lend a hand. Among the many candidates his secretary presents to fill the "position", a certain "Penguin", who along with his sister "Picolé" lives on the favela hill under the protection of a kind Portuguese shopkeeper, completely pleases the "sovereign" of sugar. With "Penguin"'s entry into the court as the sugar king's "fool", great transformations take place in the home of the wealthy misanthrope.

Cantonese opera.

Dufaycolor record of King George VI's coronation procession. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

An Oswald Rabbit cartoon.

In this musical comedy, the comic duo Dzigan and Shumacher play two small town "entrepreneurs" who believe they have struck oil in a local field. Thus begins a comedy of errors, including millionaire investors, American schemers, and insane asylums, with a little matchmaking on the side.

A portrait of Swedish life and landscapes, filmed in 1936.

A social drama about alcoholism.

The achievements of the Reichspost in the motor transport service are presented in the form of a story (a student has to write a dissertation on the achievements of the Reichspost in the motor transport service, and his friend introduces him to a postmaster who is related to him and explains everything he needs to know).

Ulla takes the train to Stockholm to try her luck in the big city.

“Where are tomorrow’s opportunities? What’s ahead in America for you and your children?” asks narrator Lowell Thomas. Looking into the future, Thomas predicts economic revitalization made possible through industrial research. The “frontiers” are emerging fields such as aviation and television broadcasting that will create new opportunities and products for Americans.

An all-girl band under the direction of Phil Spitalny play us a bunch of tunes.

The love story from the 'Mahabharata'. Savitri, a heroine born through divine benediction to Ashwapati, marries Satyavan, the son of an exiled and blinded hermit, although he is scheduled to die soon.

Kisan Kanya is a 1937 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Moti Gidwani and produced by Ardeshir Irani under the banner of Imperial Pictures. Made using Cinecolor, the film is based on a novel by Saadat Hasan Manto that highlights the struggles of poor farmers. The film is historically significant as India’s first indigenously made colour film. While V. Shantaram's Sairandhri (1933) featured scenes in colour, it was processed and printed in Germany, distinguishing Kisan Kanya as the first colour film entirely produced within India.

Short documentary about orchids.

"Všechno pro trhanec animates a recipe with anthropomorphic ingredients. Gasparcolor, introduced to the Dodals by experimental animator Oskar Fischinger, is briefly on display. Though Gasparcolor added a new dimension to IRE-Film’s already vibrant animation, the complicated—and expensive—color process brought with it a host of challenges. Because the process required repeated exposures, the workflow had to be altered to allow three color records to be made for each frame. It is easy to see why color was often reserved for a film’s final shot." — Kirk McDowell

A lyrical B&W tone poem of the pre-WWII Czech countryside: athletic young men and women canoeing down the River Lužnice, passing medieval castles and sleepy half-forgotten villages. Silent with music.

A booking agent attempts to sell his clients. Performing acts include Eileen Barton, The Big Apple Dancers, the Paul Florenz Girls, dancers Richards and Adrienne, the Fashionaires, Flash and Dash, and the Royal Duo.

Oswald, along with his animated car and trailer, go into a rough and troublesome journey.

Promotional short film to reveal the potential of the new Paillard-Bolex camera.

A documentary, with some fictionalized images, about the operations and combat that took place near Huesca in the first months of 1937 during the Spanish Civil War.