All Films

The Red Rope

1937 • 58 min • United States of America

Brade has hired Rattler Haynes to kill Tom Shaw. But when Shaw intercepts a message between the two, he alters it hoping it will cause the two outlaws to fight each other.

The Sitter Downers

1937 • 16 min • United States of America

The stooges are suitors who go on a sit down strike when their prospective father-in-law refuses to consent the marriages. The strike wins them fame and they receive numerous gifts including a lot and a prefabricated house. They win the strike and get married, but the wives decree no honeymoon until the house is built. The boys have some problems with the construction, especially since Curly burned up the plans. The eventually finish the house, a monstrosity that collapses when one post is accidentally moved.

The Sun Shines On The River Lužnicí

1937 • 10 min

A lyrical B&W tone poem of the pre-WWII Czech countryside: athletic young men and women canoeing down the River Lužnice, passing medieval castles and sleepy half-forgotten villages. Silent with music.

Rocky Mountain Grandeur

1937 • 8 min • United States of America

This Traveltalk short visits Rocky Mountain National Park and a nearby dude ranch in Colorado.

The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning

1937 • 10 min • United States of America

Carey Wilson narrates this MGM Miniature short in which an average office worker suffers all week-end because his boss, who had a bad case of indigestion, didn't speak to him when he came to work on Friday and is convinced he is going to get fired.

Little Buck Cheeser

1937 • 8 min • United States of America

Little Cheeser and his friends, inspired by Buck Rogers (and visions of cheese), build a rocket ship and fly to the moon.

Dangerous Holiday

1937 • 58 min • United States of America

A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.

Sh! The Octopus

1937 • 54 min • United States of America

Comedy-mystery finds Detectives Kelly and Dempsey trapped in a deserted lighthouse with a group of strangers who are being terrorized by a killer octopus AND a mysterious crime figure named after the title sea creature.

Porky's Double Trouble

1937 • 8 min • United States of America

Porky Pig has some problems when his mobster lookalike decides to frame him for a bank job.

Trade Tattoo

1937 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Trade Tattoo went even further than Rainbow Dance in its manipulation of the Gasparcolor process. The original black and white footage consisted of outtakes from GPO Film Unit documentaries such as Night Mail. Lye transformed this footage in what has been described as the most intricate job of film printing and color grading ever attempted. Animated words and patterns combine with the live-action footage to create images as complex and multi-layered as a Cubist painting. Music was provided by the Cuban Lecuona Band. With its dynamic rhythms, the film seeks (in Lye’s words) to convey “a romanticism about the work of the everyday in all walks of life."

Football Fever

1937 • 7 min • United States of America

Oswald the Rabbit matches his football team up against the tough Ruffians, but it is a pitiful mismatch as Oswald has a lot of ducks on his outweighed team. But just as it looked as if Oswald's team was heading for a certain loss, it began to rain...and the tide turned in favor of the swimmers versus the waders.

Western Gold

1937 • 57 min • United States of America

President Lincoln personally sends Bill Gibson west to see if he can stop the holdups of the needed shipments of gold. There he meets his boyhood friend Foster. When all others refuse to take out the next gold shipment due to the killings, Bill volunteers. Jeannie, afraid for his safety, tells Foster of Bill's secret route not knowing Foster is the leader of the outlaw gang.

China Strikes Back

1937 • 37 min • United States of America

Raw footage received from photographer Harry Dunham revealed never before seen images of Mao Tse-Tung and the Eighth Route Army, inspiring Frontier to collectively shape a new film from desperate images, and to refine its dialectic editing.

The Hound and the Rabbit

1937 • 8 min • United States of America

A hound chases a young rabbit, ultimately cornering him against a tree. But the dog doesn't want to eat the rabbit, just make friends. The bunny takes his new friend (who he names Sniffy) to where the rest of the rabbits are playing football and, after introductions, they join in. Soon a fox happens along.

Sudden Bill Dorn

1937 • 60 min • United States of America

Bundy has found gold on the Kent ranch but directs everyone to Ghost Town as he tries to take over the ranch. But Bill and Kent's niece Lorna have taken possession. When it appears Bundy is attracted to Lorna, his jealous girl friend has men destroy the ranch and the explosion helps uncover the gold vein.

Oriental Paradise

1937 • 8 min • United States of America

This TravelTalk entry brings us glimpses of flower arranging, a temple deer park, and Mount Fuji.

Come on, Cowboys

1937 • 58 min • United States of America

Harris and Rigby own a circus. Rigby is a counterfeiter and frames his partner. The Mesquiteers learn Rigby is the culprit and get a confession from one of his men only to lose the case when the man is murdered in jail. The Mesquiteers try again and send Lullaby to try and win some of the fake bills in a card game.

Plenty of Money and You

1937 • 7 min • United States of America

A hen's chicks hatch, but one of them is actually an ostrich. She treats it as her own, but the ostrich keeps getting into trouble.

La Garoupe

1937 • 10 min • France

Home movie from Man Ray while on vacation with Pablo Picasso, Paul, Nusch and Cecile Eluard, Emily Davies, Valerie and Roland Penrose. The friends have fun with themselves and performing for the camera.

Romance of Louisiana

1937 • 18 min • United States of America

A short historical drama about the Louisiana Purchase.

The Cherokee Strip

1937 • 55 min • United States of America

A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee.

Hong Kong: 'The Hub of the Orient'

1937 • 8 min • United States of America

This Traveltalk series short takes a look at Hong Kong.

Egghead Rides Again

1937 • 7 min • United States of America

City dweller Egghead dreams of being a cowboy, but his bouncing around gets him kicked out of his boarding house. He sees an ad for a ranch looking for a cowboy and applies. His tryout includes tests of marksmanship and use of a branding iron, but most of it consist of chasing down and roping a troublesome little calf. He passes the test, but the job isn't exactly what he dreamed of.

The Lyin' Mouse

1937 • 7 min • United States of America

A mouse is trying to free himself from a trap when a cat arrives. The mouse, desperate, asks if the cat has heard the story of the lion and the mouse.