Cinematic Era: 1937 Vintage

The history of Germany is retold using stamp motifs.

The film presents SOK's bakeries and factory production in Turku, Vyborg, Jyväskylä and Kuopio.

The icebreaker Aranda travels from Turku to Mariehamn in winter conditions, with herring crates and passengers loaded onto the ship directly from the ice along the way.

This silent footage documents the survey conducted between March and April 1937 (Showa 12) by Keitaro Miyamoto, Toru Ogawa, and Tadao Kano in the mountainous regions of southern Taiwan, home to the Paiwan people. Compiled and edited by the Attic Museum, the film includes intertitles and was completed as a finished work. The cinematographer was Keitaro Miyamoto.

Tells the story of Cyrus McCormick inventing the reaper.

A stuntman plans to launch a small plane o0ff the roof of a speeding car. The local newspaper sends a photographer to cover thee event, but also sends a truck with a new technological device that will enable the photographer to send his photos to the newspaper almost immediately: device that can transmit photos over telephone wire. The mechanics of that process are then explained to the viewer.

An overview of aviation development to 1937.

A railway employee in conversation with another man. The former presents two instruments used to test locomotives (test bench, measuring car). When asked, he emphatically explains that despite modern machines, people are indispensable for the operation of the Reichsbahn. The film then shows various Reichsbahn employees at their workplaces, engaged in staged dialogues with each other and with railway customers. Locomotive drivers and stokers, conductors, shunters at a station, signal box employees, and track workers are shown. Finally, railway workers are seen in their free time and socializing at a colleague's birthday party.

Swimwear show at the Molitor swimming pool in June 1937.

A henpecked husband takes the opportunity to start a new life in a different city, when a corpse that resembles him is found in his hometown.Will he be able to get away with the ruse?

A perfect marketing film from the 1930s. The short film is an advertisement for Baťa's new products, presented through the traditional celebration of the end of winter – the carrying of a lighted Marzanna into a stream. Plicka once again stylistically outdoes himself in his search for perfection in natural compositions, Moravian costumes, and traditional songs.

Marquis de Wavrin embarked on a journey down the Orinoco River to reach his birth, yet to be discovered.

A record of measures taken against an outbreak of plague in Lagos, followed by footage of welfare exhibitions in Lagos in 1937

A cartoon parody of Sanders of the River, placing the horse and his rider from the Sunday Express comic strip "Come On Steve" in Africa, where they must escape local cannibals

The continuing adventure of Lantz' three monkeys, Meany, Miny and Moe, finds them operating an air-transport company in the outback of Australia, with Moe, the junior member of the trio, as the pilot. They are carrying a cargo of valuable diamonds and a crate containing a young and highly excitable ostrich. The latter has designs on swallowing the diamonds.

A film telling people to be safe in their work practices.

Singer-dancer Ina Ray Hutton started out on Broadway at age 8 and performed with the big bands of Harry James and Artie Shaw, but it was as a pioneering band leader herself in the 1930s that she made her name. Hutton organized her first all-women big band, Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears, in 1935. A few film appearances for the band and a starring role for Hutton in Ever Since Venus (1944), along with endless national touring, eventually led her to NBC and a musical variety show in 1956. In this Paramount short, one of a series directed by Fred Waller who went on to invent Cinerama, Hutton—grooving up front in her standard sheer evening dress—and the original Melodears, perform “Organ Grinder’s Swing Overture” followed by The Winstead Trio doing “The Bugle Call Rag.”

Home movie of a winter sport & theatrics event at Chicago’s Soldier Field. Includes scenes of automobile theatrics, people skiing down a constructed ramp and ice skaters skating on an ice rink.

This silent b&w film has intertitles in gothic script (in German). The film features cineradiography of x-rays of the chest shot full-on and side-on. The sequences are listed (in English) on the box on the negative copy 'Respiration (undecipherable)' and 'Deep Child frontal and lateral views', 'Adult frontal and lateral views' 'Adult diaphragm'.

This documentary offers a look at the activities of the Works Progress Administration and examines and work being done on various types of projects.

In The Call of the Mountain (L’appel de la montagne) a couple are childhood sweethearts who are separated, she marries a rich man and he becomes an alpine guide. The woman’s husband dies, and she returns home to Switzerland, her wealth and beauty drawing interest from a foreign rake, rogue, and roué named Billinsky. He talks her into a mountain ascension that meets with disaster when some of the climbers fall to their deaths. Her loyal friend the alpine guide rescues his sweetheart, and saves her again.

Shiny cars, trams and people on a sunny summer day in Helsinki in 1937.

A Finnish documentary on dogs.

Portrays the life of a family of rabbits. Relates the adventures of young Bunny who, visiting a nearby farm in search of lettuce, encounters a frog, a squirrel, some cows, baby chickens, and other barnyard animals.