All Films

African Holiday

1937 • 60 min

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pearson tell their friend, the Major, that they are planning an expedition to Africa. They tell the Major that they are going to try and photograph many African rarities, including scarce animals and strange native tribes. After packing, the Pearsons travel by boat to England, where they board an Imperial Airways plane to Nairobi, in the British colony of Kenya. In Nairobi, they assemble their expedition force and head into the wild game country of the Serenageti Plains in the Tanganyika Territory. Once in the game country, the Pearsons find and shoot many different types of wild game, including lions, zebras, antelopes and cheetahs.

Chinese Justice

1937 • 5 min • United States of America

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

¡Criminales! Bombardeos sobre Barcelona

1937 • 9 min

Criminals! Bombardments on Barcelona (1937) reports on the naval bombardment suffered by the city of Barcelona.

The Dwarfs' Dilemma

1937 • 2 min

Snow white and the seven dwarves short film

Sweet Cake

1937 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Only professionals can do their job well, which the boastful jackdaw did not know.

A True Comrade

1937 • 10 min • Soviet Union

On the upbringing of a sense of camaraderie in Soviet schoolchildren.

The Fox and the Grapes

1937 • 7 min • Soviet Union

The fox saw a bunch of grapes and decided to enjoy them. However, her attempts to reach the vine proved futile. Then the fox resorted to cunning...

Republic Steel Strike Riots Newsreel Footage

1937 • 20 min

Newsreel footage of the 1937 steelworkers strikes

The Black Guard marches

1937 • 47 min

A film history sensation! A chance find in the city archives brings an almost forgotten chapter of St. Pölten's film history from 1937 to the big screen. The 16mm films survived the decades in tin cans. A remarkable contemporary document that shows the production and printing of the St. Pölten newspaper as well as rare moving images of the city shortly before the upheaval of the Nazi era.

Foxy Pup

1937 • 7 min • United States of America

The technicalities are topnotch, with some excellent Technicolor work, but this vaguely anti-foxhunting story has some basset pups winding up chasing a fox by accident, and one of them gets into all sorts of trouble when the fox captures him and takes him home to his kits in a sack.

Merry Mannequins

1937 • 8 min • United States of America

Told in a musical-comedy format, this cartoon is the story of two department store mannequins who fall in love, become engaged and plan to marry. When the other dummies/manikins/mannequins in the store learn this, they arrange surprises for the couple with nearly every piece of merchandise in the store coming to life.

Course landaise

1937 • 7 min • France

Short documentary by Man Ray on one his favorite subjects - bullfighting.

Madrid, Tomb of Fascism: Day Four (Documentary 8)

1937 • 9 min • Spain

A fragment of a pro-Republican documentary short made during the Spanish Civil War. It depicts fighting in and around Madrid in 1937.

Mr. Fantômas

1937 • 17 min • Belgium

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.

Hindenburg Explodes!

1937 • 5 min • United States of America

Dramatic Universal newsreel footage of the Hindenburg disaster which took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, when the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey. Of the 97 people on board (36 passengers, 61 crew), there were 35 fatalities; there was also one death among the ground crew. The actual cause of the fire remains unknown, although a variety of hypotheses have been put forward for both the cause of ignition and the initial fuel for the ensuing fire. The incident shattered public confidence in the giant, passenger-carrying rigid airship and marked the end of the airship era.

New Stars

1937 • 2 min • France

An animated short film by Alexandre Alexeieff.

Roentgenfilm V

1937 • 4 min

This silent b&w film has intertitles in gothic script (in German). The film features cineradiography of x-rays of the knee and foot.

Farm Animals

1937 • 11 min

Encyclopedia Britannica Films teaches us about the animals on Farmer Brown's farm.

Los Primeros Ensayos del Cine Parlante Nacional

1937 • 25 min

The first Colombian film with synchronous optical sound.

Kajeti

1937 • 30 min • Soviet Union

The film is based on Georgian medieval epic poem “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin” by Shota Rustaveli and depicts an episode of Nestan-Darejan’s release from Kajeti fortress.

Scrappy's News Flashes

1937 • 6 min

A gag reel in the form of a news reel.

The First Hunt

1937 • 7 min • Soviet Union

About a puppy's failed hunt for a butterfly, drink and hoopoe.

A Cunning Fox

1937 • 12 min • Soviet Union

A Cunning Fox helps out the Little Hare who is in trouble (not without his participation). Pretending to be toothless, he invites the grateful Hare and the bunnies to visit him.

Uncalled Guest

1937 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Brave Rooster fools a mischievous Fox who has tries to eat at his table.