All Films

Winter Rhapsody

1936 • 5 min • Sweden

Short glimpses of Stockholm.

Tod Slaughter at Home

1936 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Short skit in which a "Pathetone" reporter tries to interview Tod Slaughter at home, but finds the fiendish fellow is more interested in "polishing him off".

Heiteres und Ernstes um den großen König

1936 • 20 min

The short story focuses on two anecdotal episodes about the Prussian King Frederick II. In the first episode, the monarch meets an invalid. In the second episode, Baron Warkotsch's servant informs the king that Kappel's master is committing treason against the Prussian king, which puts Frederick's life in grave danger.

Fishing Around

1936 • 2 min • Japan

A young boy named Reffie disregards a “No Fishing” sign, dives into the water, and fights an octopus.

Zwiedzamy Gdynie

1936 • 12 min • Poland

Made by the Polish Telegraphic Agency, this reportage shows the construction and operation of the modern cargo port in Gdynia and its facilities. It is a typical example of a propaganda film of the second half of the 1930s, showing the rapid development of the young country and its growing economic power. The film has been digitised based on a copy imported from the Soviet Union in 1980.

Berlin May Day

1936 • 5 min

May Day parade and procession on the streets of Berlin, many Nazi flags on buildings and people in crowds. c. 1936, 16mm color.

How You See It

1936 • 8 min • United States of America

A remarkable short film about the basics of how movie film projection deceives the eye.

Carl and Mary in Africa

1936 • 8 min

Footage of Carl and Mary Akeley filmed during the AMNH Eastman-Pomeroy-Akeley East African Expedition, 1926. Short scenes from campsites and wildlife in Nairobi, Uganda, and Tanganyika (now Tanzania)

Plongeons

1936 • 17 min • Switzerland

From ski jumping to jumping into the Doubs: “Plongeons” is Armand Girard's sporting epic. The watchmaker from Le Locle, who commissioned the film from the Geneva-based company Cinégram S.A., performs physical feats in front of the camera. The most spectacular of these is a jump from a height of 40 meters into the Doubs on 19 July 1936, a record that remained unmatched for a long time. The landscapes of the Jura serve as the backdrop for Girard's sporting achievements, which go beyond nature and physical culture.

Sacred City of the Mayan Indians

1936 • 7 min

A visit to Chichicastenango, Guatemala, where Mayan civilization flourished.

Hell Unltd

1936 • 19 min • United Kingdom

In this film Norman McLaren uses puppets, diagrams, animation and live-action to present an anti-war message for use by peace organizations.

Catching Trouble

1936 • 10 min • United States of America

This short follows a day of work for an Everglades wildlife trapper catching animals for zoos around America. In this film, his assignment is to go out into the swamp with his Indian assistant and find a bobcat, two black bear cubs and six rattlesnakes.

Among the Hardwoods

1936 • 11 min • Australia

In mid-1936 a sound engineer visited the Pemberton region of south-west Western Australia to make a film that focused more on the atmosphere of the forest as it was irrevocably changed by the axe and saw of the loggers.

The Fox Hunt

1936 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Directed by Anthony Gross.

We're Like That!

1936 • 30 min • Spain

A musical comedy starring children. It is, in fact, a children’s story in which mainly poor children – singing and performing – band together against the adults in order to save the life of one of the children’s father.

Слонёнок

1936 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A Screw

1936 • 7 min • Brazil

A short documentary about a screw.

Perlen

1936 • 6 min

Short film promoting sparkling wine.

The People's Solidarity for the Victims of Fascism

1936 • 4 min • Spain

A pro-Republican propaganda documentary made during the Spanish Civil War. It is a report of the demonstration held in Valencia in 1936 in solidarity with those wounded in the war.

The Bird Stuffer

1936 • 6 min • United States of America

Krazy is a taxidermist. A tough customer comes into his shop and tells Krazy to "Stuff this fish, and make it look like a bird." Poor intimidated Krazy starts to work but gets knocked out. He begins to have a nightmare about all the animals he's stuffed in the past. The animals put Krazy on trial. He pleads with them, singing "I ain't gonna stuff no more." He runs but is chased by the animals until he wakes up hopping mad because of his nightmare. He's still so mad when the tough customer comes back in that he takes the fish and begins to beat the customer with it. The customer then flees.

Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #18

1936 • 11 min

A documentary newsreel (in Universal's "Going Places" series) offering an in-depth glimpse into the Universal/Walter Lantz animation studio, featuring narration by legendary newsman Lowell Thomas.

The Giant Turnip

1936 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Animated adaptation of Russian folk tale "Repka" ("The Giant Turnip").

Kamalam

1936 • 35 min

'An orphan Telugu girl falls in love with a student at the school of a South India Mission.' (BFI)

British Paramount News No. 588

1936 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Defiance is in the air in this evocative newsreel footage of anti-fascist solidarity rallies, after the Battle of Cable Street.