All Films

Riders of the Dawn

1937 • 55 min • United States of America

The first of 22 inexpensive Westerns starring Jack Randall (aka Addison Randall and Allan Byron), Riders of the Dawn is yet another in a long series of oaters featuring a lawman masquerading as an outlaw.

Soak the Poor

1937 • 16 min • United States of America

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices up with the consumers paying the freight.

Dog Daze

1937 • 7 min • United States of America

A series of gags at a dog show, including a stage revue. A dog gets into a trunk of roller skates and crashes through the stage show.

Uncle Tom's Bungalow

1937 • 9 min • United States of America

Warner Bros. cartoon parody of Uncle Tom's Cabin. One of the “Censored 11” banned from TV syndication by United Artists in 1968 for racist stereotyping.

Picador Porky

1937 • 6 min • United States of America

Porky and two pals stumble onto a Mexican town on the day of the town's annual bullfight. When they learn the contest winner gets $1,000...

The Wrong Miss Wright

1937 • 20 min • United States of America

Charley tries to get out of an arranged marriage so he can marry another girl. What he doesn't realize is that they are one and same girl.

Romance of Radium

1937 • 10 min • United States of America

Romance of Radium is a 1937 American short film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This short film tells the story of the discovery of radium and how it is used in medicine. In 1937, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (One-Reel) at the 10th Academy Awards

With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain

1937 • 18 min • United States of America

This advocacy documentary about the Lincoln Brigade was shot during the Spanish Civil War to raise funds for bringing wounded American volunteers home. Some 2,800 Americans enlisted in the International Brigades to fight against fascism in defense of the Spanish Republic. The film was directed by Henri Cartier-Bresson with Herbert Kline and additional photography was provided by Jacques Lemare and Robert Capa. This film is held at New York University’s Tamiment Library and is part of a vast collection of materials in the Abraham Lincoln Brigades Archive.

Romance of the Rockies

1937 • 53 min • United States of America

A doctor comes to the aid of local ranchers who are fighting to protect their water rights.

Hospitaliky

1937 • 5 min

To get at nurse Olive, Popeye and Bluto fake various illnesses. Olive sees through this and tells them they need to be either very sick or hurt real bad, so they try to get hurt, but both have a sudden run of what would normally be very good luck. Out of desperation, Popeye feeds Bluto the spinach when they start fighting.

Peeping Penguins

1937 • 7 min • United States of America

Curious penguins investigate an abandoned cabin, heedless of their mother's warning that "curiosity killed the cat."

Off to the Races

1937 • 58 min • United States of America

The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.

I Likes Babies and Infinks

1937 • 7 min • United States of America

Swee'pea is crying, so Olive calls on Popeye to cheer the baby up. Popeye and Bluto compete by doing various silly antics.

The Highway Sings

1937 • 4 min • Czechoslovakia

Probably the best-known advertising film for Bata, where joke and irony meet commercial purposes. Tires are sent from rural countryside to the turmoil of the city to serve progress.

Melody of the Plains

1937 • 55 min • United States of America

The fourth of 12 singing Westerns starring the "Silvery-Voiced Baritone," Fred Scott, Melody of the Plains begins peacefully enough with Scott, as cowboy Steve Condon, warbling Don Swander and June Hershey's "Albuquerque." The story quickly takes a rather grim turn when one of Steve's colleagues is shot and killed after selling out to a gang of rustlers. Mistakenly believing he fired the deadly shot, a dejected Steve, along with sidekick Fuzzy, goes to work for Bud's father, a rancher nearly forced into bankruptcy by a crooked land developer.

People of the Cumberland

1937 • 21 min • United States of America

The film takes place in rural Tennessee, where communities have experienced economic and environmental devastation created by the coal mining industry. The introduction of the Highlander Folk School in 1931 by educator Myles Horton and the movement to bring labor union representation to the region are shown as means of empowering the population. Efforts are made to stop the union activities with the murder of a local organizer, but eventually the union movement is able to take root with the local workforce.

The Black Tulip

1937 • 57 min • United Kingdom

In the Dutch Republic in 1672, a wealthy man named Cornelius Van Baerle devotes his life to growing tulips, unaware of his family's close involvement with political intrigue.

Kick Me Again

1937 • 21 min • United States of America

Joe Palooka and the gang travel to Paris for a boxing match against the French champion. When Anne is assaulted by a masher, Joe searches the streets for the hooligan, distracting him from his preparation for his powerful opponent.

Smoke Tree Range

1937 • 55 min • United States of America

A cowboy aids an orphaned girl whose cattle are being rustled by an outlaw gang.

Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)

1937 • 4 min • United States of America

To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is the foreground. Behind the lines, a triangle appears, then patterns of multiple triangles. Their movements reflect the music's rhythm. Behind the barrier of the black lines, the triangle moves, jumps, and takes on multiple shapes. In contrast with the blue and the black, the triangles are warm: orange, red, yellow. The black lines bend, swirl into a vortex, then disappear. The triangle pulsates and a set of many of them rises.

Behind the Criminal

1937 • 20 min • United States of America

Episode 13 of the Crime Does Not Play series from MGM.

Land of the Incas

1937 • 9 min

This Traveltalks series entry visits three sites important to the Inca Empire in Peru.

Os Últimos Temporais - Cheias do Tejo

1937 • 5 min • Portugal

A series of images documenting the floods of the river Tagus. This film has been recovered and made available by the Cinemateca Portuguesa.

Night 'n' Gales

1937 • 11 min • United States of America

Because of a storm, the Gang has to stay overnight at Darla's house, and they drive her father crazy.