Cinematic Era: 1937 Vintage

Hong Kong comedy based on the Mr. Wang comic.

Having finished his film Jánošík (1935), Plicka embarks on the journey of a lifetime. Accompanied by a Slovak-Czech delegation of politicians, inventors, and cultural representatives, he is particularly interested in the life of Slovaks in America. He observes the towns and the architecture, and remarkably documents their old as well as new customs and skills. During his trip, he visited nearly more than eighteen major American cities, as well as Lake Ontario and Niagara Falls.

A mermaid emerges from the sea, dances with a faun, and leaves behind a veil for the faun's masturbatory fantasies. Possibly unfinished.

Short film about a princess being kidnapped.

An accurate and suggestive view of The Venetian Lagoon through the shootings of Luis Bogino, an expert photographer and able amateur filmmaker from Torino.

Bournemouth Orchestra perform a piece of music - Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2".

To resolve a feud between two villages over a horse, the burgomasters propose that a man from one town marry a woman from the other.

A Brazilian documentary short from Alberto Botelho about the first railway battalion.

A voyage from Stornoway to Castlebay in the Outer Hebrides.

In this surrealist piece of avant-garde generation of Belgian cinema, French masked master of crime Fantômas travels through the world seeking his beloved Elvire. He destroys all decency in his trip, as a great mischief-maker.

Kiko the Kangaroo has problems with his house cleaning when Ozzie the Ostrich keeps getting in his way...

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Educational short that demonstrates how human beings have benefited from animals throughout the ages, from their many uses to the variety of products they produce.

Procession surrounding the urn with the ashes of Sergo Ordzhonikidze. Red Army honours, grieving family, and wreaths decorate the scenes.

Promotional film for the efficient organization of German transportation: Reichsbahn, inland waterway transport, East Prussia maritime service, Rügendamm, transatlantic transport, Central European Travel Agency, Zeppelin travel service, Reichsautobahn, Zugspitzbahn, and Lufthansa.

Steve the Horse cartoon

Skeleton In The Closet by Nat Gonella & His Georgians (1937) edited with clips from Pennies from Heaven (1936) and two DVD extras from Monsters Crash the Pajama Party (1965).

A close-up on Somerset's changing milk and cheese industry

Second adaptation of Teuvo Pakkala's popular play about Finnish lumberjacks.

Based on the famous Layla and Majnun story.

A map that leads to treasure and trouble: John, Mary and Anne go in search of Jack Mundy's loot only to find that his map wasn't quite complete. Not content with the typical family holiday bucket and spade film, Herbert Arundel from Longsdon in Staffordshire recorded his three children in a tense drama during a pre-war holiday in Cornwall. Its youthful protagonists and smugglers' treasure plot pre-dates the Famous Five by a good few years and culminates in a splendidly tense finale. Will the Arundel children return from the adventure victorious or will the evil local put a stop to their ways?

Short documentary about the Belgian leather industry.

A bumbling sound effects technician ruins a radio broadcast.

A Swiss railway documentary short.

A young girl loses her mind when her long-absent father tries to separate her from her mother. During the attempted kidnapping, the father kills the mother, which traumatizes the girl. After her father is imprisoned, the girl is cared for by neighbors who are unable to prevent a wicked man named Karkow from kidnapping her and taking her to a remote location. The girl grows up with a mental disturbance and becomes an accomplished dancer. One day, she is seen by a doctor of fortune, Dr. Zevallos, who decides to cure her, despite Karkow's opposition. Dr. Zevallos manages to heal the girl, but a physical confrontation with Karkow ensues, similar to the one between her parents. The shock of the experience restores her sanity, and the dancer begins a new life.

“How many are we?” (as written, with only a single question mark at the end and without the accent mark prescribed by the Academy) is a short promotional and educational sound film that sought to prepare the population for what would become the 1938 census, known as the “first modern census” of Colombia. The images of Bogotá, Medellín, Barranquilla, Cali, Cartagena, and Quibdó reaffirm the quality of framing and composition that the Acevedo family left as the hallmark and legacy of their cinematic work. This short film is not referenced in the publications that have been produced about these pioneers of national cinema; it was only rediscovered in 2012 thanks to the work carried out by the Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano within the framework of the Colombian Audiovisual Heritage Strengthening Program.

A short film filmed by Uno Pihlström and narrated by Topo Leistelä about the work and activities of the Finnish police force in 1937.

Educational film commissioned by the United Fruit Company to showcase the production process of bananas, from the plantation setting in Central America to its export to the United States.

This film consists predominantly of scenic footage, mostly in colour, of various European locales, including the Gota Canal, the Rhine River, Lake Lucerne, and Venice. The film opens with footage shot on an ocean liner during the voyage to Europe. Also includes footage of women weaving and tending gardens in a small village. Excellent camera work and editing for an amateur film, with title cards introducing each location.

Documentary about agar production.

Drought conditions in the Great Plains during the 1930s, known as the "Dust Bowl".

André de la Varre takes us to the French Riviera.

Steve's master leaves him in the pasture and takes his sisters to the horse show. Of course a fairy godmother shows up and arranges for the cart horse to go to the show, with the usual restrictions, and results.

Steve the Horse cartoon

A stark warning about Britain’s coal-fired smog, charting its damage to health, buildings, and the economy while advocating cleaner gas/electric power, processed smokeless fuels, and better housing—presaging the Great Smog of 1952 and the Clean Air Act of 1956.

Short animated film of the dairy Bolle.

Peter Alexander, interviewed in Sydney, born and brought up as Mavis Higgins in New Zealand, speaks of his sex change from female to male. He discusses the aspects of his personality when younger which influenced his decision, his view of women in society and his plans for the future. Although Peter talks about shaving it is not clear if any medical intervention had assisted his sex change. The predominant voice in this clip is that of Alexander, dressed in jacket and tie, talking cheerily about his interest in sport, his awareness that his "male side and personality" were always dominant, his desire to marry and continue with his musical career. The story was sensationalised in the tabloid newspaper of the day "The Truth".

He behaved recklessly during the first days of the Republican troops' entry, before the conquest of the city was complete.

Documentary on the rich historical past of Belgium, concerning its processions and its carnivals.

Part of the film Lviv Speaks (1958) edited by Bohdan Soluk. The traditional Jordanian blessing of water takes place on Rynok Square near the well opposite Terletsky's pharmacy with the participation of UGCC Bishop Ivan Buchko, surrounded by members of the Lviv chapter and clergy. Among many others, the film shows the famous Ukrainian statesman Kost Levytskyi (in 1918 he was the Prime Minister of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic), Volodymyr Tselevych, a lawyer, ambassador to the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic of the II, IV, and V cadences, a member of the Ukrainian National Democratic Union (UNDO), and Stepan Bilyak, a lawyer and secretary of the Ukrainian National Council (1918-1919).

A film illustration of the work of the great textual critic Sergei Mikhailovich Bondi, a Pushkinist, who said that Pushkin's drafts cannot be read and printed sequentially, from top to bottom. This is because Pushkin added to the line more than once, crossed out, changed something, and if we want to understand how Pushkin worked on the verse, we need to get into his psychology and sequentially remove layer after layer. The film uses animation techniques to analyze the Russian poet's writing process.

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A picture filmed in China showing the graphic details of the authentic execution of condemned Chinese drug peddlers.

Meany, Miny & Moe chop some wood.

Five goatlings face-off against a wolf while their mom is away. Animated short film by Mexico's first animation studio: Producciones AVA.

The first Colombian film with synchronous optical sound.

Reginald Foort introduces and performs four numbers on the Compton organ at the Ambassador Cinema, Hounslow.

A pro-Republican propaganda documentary made during the Spanish Civil War. In it, we see General Sebastián Pozas Perea visiting the area of ​​action of the old Durruti Column, part of the Regular People's Army 26th division.

An advertisement for Evian brand mineral water.

An Oswald Rabbit cartoon.

Lumiere Lumicolor

A young man on horseback approaches Sarajevo, on his lips a sevdalinka, a traditional song of love. He meets a girl fetching water from a well, falls in love with her, and slowly makes his way home.