All Films

Ditto

1937 • 17 min • United States of America

Buster, an ice delivery man, falls for one of his customers, not knowing she has a twin sister living next door.

Porky's Hero Agency

1937 • 7 min • United States of America

Porky is reading the Greek myth of the gorgon, who turned everyone she looked at into stone. Mother tells him it's bedtime; he dreams of being Porkykarkus, the hero that saves Greece.

Porky's Super Service

1937 • 7 min • United States of America

Porky owns a full-service gas station; he deals with a wide variety of problems, like a bump that migrates to different parts of the car. But his real nemesis is a supposedly sleeping baby in a car whose tire needs changing; in fact, the baby is wide awake and a real brat. Both Porky and the brat end up covered in grease; the irate mother drives off, but the child has tied a pump to a tire, which ends up pulling the whole station into the ground.

Love Nest on Wheels

1937 • 20 min • United States of America

Buster, the eldest son in a family of hillbillies who manage a hotel, attempts to raise money to save the hotel from foreclosure.

Gracie at the Bat

1937 • 18 min • United States of America

Andy manages an all-girl softball team.

The Little Match Girl

1937 • 8 min • United States of America

A small girl makes her living selling matches on the streets of New York. It's winter, and the hustling crowds at best ignore her, and some are outright rude. She takes shelter and, to try to stave off the cold a bit, lights a match. It gets blown out; this happens again, then on the third try, she falls into a dream. In this dream, cherubs attend her, she gets a new doll, then a new dress. The cherubs put her on a throne. Then a storm comes, and she goes toward a candle. That candle goes out, and we see that back in the real world, so did her match and her life. An angel comes along and takes her soul.

Amateur Crook

1937 • 59 min • United States of America

Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.

Le Mot de Cambronne

1937 • 36 min • France

Madame Cambronne, who is English, "it's historic", would really like to know what this famous "Cambronne word" is, which she has never heard. General Cambronne stubbornly refuses to repeat his famous saying.

Rover's Rival

1937 • 7 min • United States of America

Porky reads a book of new dog tricks; unfortunately, his dog, Rover, is old. A puppy comes by and taunts him.

Eastern Valley

1937 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Unemployed miners in South Wales are helped to form a Subsistence Production Society to farm and produce goods co-operatively.

Porky's Badtime Story

1937 • 7 min • United States of America

After Porky and Gabby oversleep yet again, their boss warns them that they'll be fired if they're late again...

Friend Indeed

1937 • 10 min

Pete Smith tells the story of 'Sparky', a German shepherd dog trained to lead his blind master, a country doctor who lost his sight in a fire, and now has to depend upon the dog to lead him in his daily rounds. 'Sparky" was the dog who was responsible for the Interstate Commerce Commission passing a special ruling allowing guide-dogs to travel first-class in Pullman cars to accompany their blind partner, and not as animals confined to the baggage car. Smith shows how 'Sparky' went to Washington D. C. with his master and helped sell the change to the legislators.

Dawn of Hope

1937 • 60 min

"Dawn of Hope" (1937) is a film made by Antonio Sau for the anarchist union the CNT and is also one of the most important social films made ​​in Spain. Keep in mind that was filmed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, when the revolutionary impulse still held firm. In this respect, tells the story of John, a worker who has just become unemployed, their effort to get a new, impossible to work in a country with more than three million unemployed at the time, as it says in the film. John's wife also takes a humiliating job to feed their children. Outraged by this and seeing the conformism of the people, John ends up as a social agitator.

Hi-De-Ho

1937 • 11 min

Young Cab Calloway's mother is concerned, because Cab spends his days listening to the radio, pretending to lead a miniature orchestra. A deacon passing by the apartment hears him singing and advises him go to his wife's gypsy tea room. As she reads the tea leaves, she sees situations which lead to Cab and his orchestra performing musical numbers.

The Siege of Huesca

1937 • 10 min

A documentary, with some fictionalized images, about the operations and combat that took place near Huesca in the first months of 1937 during the Spanish Civil War.

Trail of Vengeance

1937 • 58 min • United States of America

There is a range war between the ranchers led by Tilden and the outlaw gang of Link Carson. Wanted outlaw Dude Ramsey arrives and joins up with Tilden. First he saves the ranchers from Carson's trap and then exposes Pearson as Carson's informant and killer of Steve Warner.

Similarities Between Length and Speed

1937 • 10 min • France

Jean Painlevé short film examining proportion and its effects on organisms.

Porky and Gabby

1937 • 7 min • United States of America

Porky Pig and ill-tempered Gabby Goat go on a camping outing. Chaos ensues.

Fowl Play

1937 • 7 min • United States of America

Popeye gives Olive a parrot that he's trained. Bluto sets the bird free and then tries to kill it.

They Wanted to Marry

1937 • 60 min • United States of America

Newspaper photographer Jim Tyler sneaks into a society girl's wedding, and the bride's sister decides she prefers him to her upper-crust suitors. She even likes his pigeon, who travels everywhere with him.

Heredity in Man

1937 • 14 min • United Kingdom

A study of heredity in man, showing how both good and bad characteristics are passed on from one generation to the next.

The Law Commands

1937 • 58 min • United States of America

Night riders are terrorizing homesteaders, and the town doctor tries to keep the locals from forming a vigilante group. After more towns people are killed, however, the rest of the town makes the doctor the town sheriff and tells him to clean up the gang.

We Work Again

1937 • 15 min • United States of America

The role of African Americans in the recovery years of the Great Depression is the subject of this informational short, which offers an idealized depiction of life in a segregated society. The highlight, by far, is rare footage of Orson Welles’s “Voodoo Macbeth,” produced in 1935 for the New York Negro Unit of the WPA’s Federal Theatre Project.

Glimpses of Peru

1937 • 9 min • United States of America

This Traveltalk series short brings us to Lima, Peru where we see a modern city.