All Films

The Feud Maker

1938 • 55 min • United States of America

When Tex is brought in to fight in a range war between the cowmen and the nesters, he meets his old outlaw boss Lassiter. He learns Lassiter is behind the feud when Lassiter asks him to join up with his gang. Tex refuses and instead sets out to stop the feud but no one will believe him that Lassiter is responsible.

Phantom Ranger

1938 • 53 min • United States of America

A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make counterfeit plates for them. A lawman is sent to rescue him.

Lawless Valley

1938 • 59 min • United States of America

After doing time for a crime he didn't commit, a cowboy tries to find the men who framed him.

Self Control

1938 • 9 min • United States of America

Donald hears a radio philosopher advise to laugh and count ten when he gets angry. He tries it successfully, then settles into his hammock for a nap. Between a caterpillar and the hen chasing it, he's soon tangled up and counting ten again. He also shrugs off a bird using his lemonade as a birdbath, but when a woodpecker attacks his apple tree, burying Donald in apples, he snaps.

Convicted

1938 • 58 min • United States of America, Canada

A nightclub dancer and a detective try and catch the gangster who framed her brother.

Gun Law

1938 • 60 min • United States of America

Finding a man alone in the desert, Marshal Tom is relieved - of his horse, clothes and water. When he catches up to Raven, he finds him dying from drinking bad water. When he gets to Gunsight, everyone thinks that he is the outlaw Raven and he plays it out so that he can end lawlessness.

Gun Packer

1938 • 51 min • United States of America

Jack has been called in to investigate stage robberies where the stolen gold bullion mysteriously disappears, He finds the Professor, an elderly ex-con, and convincing him they used to work together, gets the Professor to get him in to the gang. Now posing as an outlaw, he learns what the Professor does with the bullion, but he is in trouble when his true identity is revealed.

Hawaiian Buckaroo

1938 • 58 min • United States of America

Cowboys live amidst Hawaiian scenery and song.

Campus Cinderella

1938 • 19 min

This musical comedy has a popular basketball star playing for a different college than what his father wanted after he falls in love with a co-ed.

Utah Trail

1938 • 56 min • United States of America

Tex and his sidekicks arrive to help out his friend Jeffers, a railroad owner, only to find that he has been killed. They quickly run into trouble with an outlaw gang in their attempt to find the mysterious ghost train that supposedly runs on Jeffer's line.

Rollin' Plains

1938 • 56 min • United States of America

It's cattlemen versus sheepmen and Trigger Gargan appears to be the leader of the gang causing the trouble. But unknown to Ranger Tex Lawrence, the respected town citizen Barrow is the boss and is tipping off the gang as to the Ranger's activities.

What Ho, She Bumps

1937 • 8 min • Netherlands, United Kingdom

The H.M.S. Hopeless engages in a pirate ship battle and becomes the H.M.S. Hopeful.

Swing, Monkey, Swing

1937 • 7 min • United States of America

A scarce and seldom seen cartoon from 1937 with excellent hot jazz and containing caricatures of Cab Calloway, Ted Lewis and Bessie Smith.

The Front and the Rear

1937 • 21 min • Spain

A pro-Republican propaganda documentary from the Spanish Civil War that combines real images of industrial and agricultural production with fictionalized scenes of fighting on the Aragon front.

Trooping the Colour

1937 • 10 min • United Kingdom

George VI's first Trooping the Colour as King, and Princess Elizabeth's as heir presumptive. Despite the reference to Leslie Mitchell's describing of the event, the film is silent. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Steve's Cannon Crackers

1937 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Steve and his master hire an empty old sea fort for a holiday but cause chaos when they begin to mess around with the old cannons.

The Making of a Color Animation

1937 • 5 min • Japan

A short documentary on the making of Noburo Ofuji's Katsura-hime.

Find the Witness

1937 • 55 min • United States of America

A newspaper reporter covering a famous magician's eroding marriage must later prove that the subject was responsible for his wife's murder.

Roentgenfilm II

1937 • 5 min

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'.

Speed to Spare

1937 • 60 min • United States of America

The champion race car driver Tommy Morton is the eternal rival to less-ethical speed king Larry 'Skids' Brannigan. What no one knows is that Tommy and Skids are actually brothers, separated at birth. Driven by a filial devotion that he can't explain, Tommy tries to dissuade Skids from recklessness, only to be "repaid" when Skids tries to steal away Tommy's blond girl-friend Eileen Hart.

On the Air

1937 • 10 min

How radio broadcasting works.

A Safe Day

1937 • 9 min

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

Princess Katsura

1937 • 2 min • Japan

Short film about a princess being kidnapped.

General Pozas Visits the Aragon front

1937 • 4 min

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.