All Films

The Best Lord in Japan

1937 • 60 min • Japan

At the residence of a feudal lord in a mountain province, a young lord, accompanied by his vassals and courtiers, listens to the rokyoku singer Toraizo at a leisurely pace. The title of the play is "Notes of Lord Mito's Travels. This play caused great turmoil in the feudal lord's house. The young lord was more impressed than anyone else by Lord Mito's benevolent management and actions, but he made the mistake of trying to follow in his footsteps...

Hinter den Kulissen des Bahnhofs

1937 • 18 min • Germany

A film with a short storyline showing how locomotives and carriages are handled at stations from the arrival of a D-train until its next departure. The son of a train driver, who has to write an essay at school entitled "What I saw at the station," learns about the technical facilities of the marshalling yard along with the viewers: coal loading, water extraction, slag removal, work in the locomotive shed, cleaning the boilers, and maintaining the passenger cars. From the arrival of a train at the platform to its departure, the focus is on operational safety, cleanliness, and passenger comfort.

Around Snowdonia

1937 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A timeless landscape steeped in history that is little changed today, but was surely made to be filmed!

An Autumn Song

1937 • 3 min

Cinderella Steve

1937 • 9 min • United Kingdom

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.

Around the Corner

1937 • 9 min • United States of America

Short film detailing the workings of the rear-axle differential and how this new system makes driving smoother and more comfortable.

The Hare-Tailor

1937 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The Hare-Tailor has made an unforgivable mistake. In the spring, he took the measurements from his customers, but by the time fall comes, the sheep are trimmed and the bears have grown-up! How will the clothes fit?

Madrid, Tomb of Fascism: Day Five (Documentary 9)

1937 • 10 min • Spain

A pro-Republican documentary short made during the Spanish Civil War.

Picturesque South Africa

1937 • 9 min

South Africa has a long history of colonialism by among others the Portuguese, French, Dutch and British. This travelogue begins in Cape Town, one of the most important ports in the world. It is located at the meeting of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Table Mountain overlooks the city. At the peak's summit, one can get a magnificent view of the city and surrounding coastline below. Diamond miner and Englishman Cecil John Rhodes, known for the scholarship named after him, bequeathed a house to the state to be used as the home for the prime minister, this house which is the most colorful building in Cape Town. There is also a memorial to Rhodes at the side of Table Mountain. The next stop on the journey is the city of Durban, which has grown from a small native town to one of the largest and most important cities in South Africa.

20th of November

1937 • 8 min • Spain

Documentary about Spanish anarchist revolutionary José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange.

Chief Guide at Hyderabad Rally

1937 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Girl guides on parade at a rally in southern India attended by Olave Baden-Powell.

Rescue Brigade

1937 • 6 min

A Puppetoon by George Pal

The Last

1937 • 15 min • Spain

A social drama about alcoholism.

Victória Régia: Horto Botânico do Museu Nacional

1937 • 7 min • Brazil

The Battle for Miggershausen

1937 • 13 min • Germany

This technically quite well-made cartoon from pre-war Nazi Germany is a commercial (or propaganda piece) for Volksempfänger ("people's receiver"), inexpensive radios. First we see agricultural statistics: the far-away village of Miggershausen is quite below standards in milk and egg production. An anthropomorphic radio undertakes the long voyage by express train, steam train, hay carriage to Miggershausen to advertise its services. It is not well received. Then, it collects and leads an army of radios to try again. They flood all the farmhouses and seem to be more convincing that way - at day, they spread agricultural knowledge to bring milk and egg production up to standards; later, they just play music and illustrate how various people enjoy various kinds of music.

Did You Know That? Third Edition

1937 • 11 min • Canada

This documentary is a compilation of unusual facts about Canada. It includes trains which travel in air, eels which swim to the market, and a ship that keeps afloat with its bottom and sides full of holes. Narrator Corey Thomson gives explanations in this educational short.

Picking Locks

1937 • 10 min

Canadian non-fiction film depicting the operation and purposes of five canals.

The Country and It's People

1937 • 21 min • Sweden

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

Pérola do Atlântico

1937 • 15 min

Short film narrating the luxuries of Madeira.

MGM Christmas Trailer

1937 • 2 min • United States of America

In November 1937, Judy Garland sang "Silent Night, Holy Night" with the St. Luke's Episcopal Church Choristers of Long Beach, California. MGM filmed the event in color for use in their 1937 Christmas trailer. The trailer opens with a shot of a small rural church in the snow, lighted up in the dark of night - a Christmas card effect. The camera then moves inside where we see Judy singing at the front of the choir.

Everybody Sing

1937 • 7 min • United States of America

Oswald is the conductor of an orchestra composed of several birds. Things are going well until three crows ransack their place.

The Playful Pup

1937 • 6 min • United States of America

Oswald's dogs do dog things.

Whoops! I'm a Cowboy

1937 • 7 min • United States of America

Betty Boop's runt of a suitor thinks he'll have better luck if he takes cowboy lessons at a dude ranch; slapstick results.

Silver Rain

1937 • 13 min • Soviet Union

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