All Films

The Play of Bubbles

1936 • 3 min • Czechoslovakia

Color abstract animated movie turns into "Saponia" soap advertisement.

Kappa Odori

1936 • 2 min • Japan

Ohei is brought to the lake where the kappa reside.  The kappa king announces there will be a celebration for Ohei and the kappa celebrate with drums and dancing.

Lil' Ainjil

1936 • 6 min • United States of America

In the lone Charles Mintz-produced (and Columbia Pictures-released) entry that was modeled from Krazy Kat's creator George Herriman's original designs, Ignatz Mouse devises several means of hurling bricks at Krazy, who considers this a term of affection. Besides Ignatz, Offissa Bull Pupp and Mrs. Kwakk Wakk also make their only Mintz-era appearances.

Gardens of the Orient

1936 • 10 min

This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an intriguing overview of tea production – from the planting of tea seeds to the final shipping of the precious leaves across the globe.

Glee Worms

1936 • 6 min • United States of America

A glow worm's girlfriend falls into a water pool during a severe storm, and he has to save her from drowning. A spider also wants to save her, but not for the same reason--he's hungry.

Anna May Wong visits Shanghai, China

1936 • 9 min • United States of America

Anna May Wong's vlog in Shanghai, May 1936. Footage shot (but ultimately unused) for the Hearst Metrotone newsreel series: the American star arrives aboard a Dollar Line ship on the Huangpu River, checks in at the iconic Park Hotel, tours the Star Motion Picture Studio and the set of the film Diamond (金刚钻), meets Miss Butterfly Wu, makes a brief stop at the flower market...

Taro's Monster Hunt

1936 • 5 min • Japan

A Bosko-cloned samurai battles traditional monsters and demons.

I Don't Want to Make History

1936 • 8 min • United States of America

Fleischer Studios Screen Song. Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra play the title tune, sung by an uncredited crooner with castanets and a Bouncing Ball. Animated sequence: a parody newsreel at the New News Theatre.

I Can't Escape from You

1936 • 8 min • United States of America

The title song sung by Billie Bailey and played by Joe Reichman's band with Bouncing Ball. Animated sequence: a parody 'Snooze Reel'.

Desert Phantom

1936 • 60 min • United States of America

Billy Donovan arrives looking for his sister's killer. When he hires on at the Halloran ranch where the mysterious Phantom has killed all the hands, it's not long before the Phantom shoots him.

Hereditary Disease

1936 • 25 min • Germany

This Nazi propaganda film attempts to justify and extols the "benefits" of euthanasia.

One And One Is One

1936 • 10 min • United States of America

These home movies shot by Dick Powell feature his wife Joan Blondell in a series of poses and dances as she tries on various dresses.

Trolley Ahoy

1936 • 8 min • United States of America

The terrible tempered Mr. Bang is commuting to work. When the trolley takes more than 5 seconds to arrive, he follows the tracks to the Skipper's house, where he bets him $10 he won't get to work on time. So motivated, the Skipper cuts breakfast short, but he hasn't paid the bill and his power is off. His wife rigs a sail, which gets him going, but a typhoon blows them off course. They land atop Mr. Bang's train...

Carnival Day

1936 • 16 min • United States of America

It's carnival time, crowds gather for horse races and the games and food of a midway. Bobby the singing jockey will be riding the favorite Stardust, and if they win, the prize money will enable Bobby to ask Maggie, a carnival florist, to marry him. Tony, an exuberant balloon man, happens on a plot to hobble Stardust. Tony has bet his business on the race's outcome. How will Stardust do?

The Barnyard Five

1936 • 7 min • United States of America

A worried duck is sweating it out while Mama Duck is hatching out quintuplets. Afterwards, Papa Duck receives a telegram of congratulations from his friend Oswald Rabbit and an invitation to have dinner at Oswald's house and bring the kids.

My Big Emergency

1936 • 11 min • Japan

Japanese short.

The Hills of Old Wyomin'

1936 • 4 min • United States of America

Fleischer Studios Screen Song of "The Hills of Old Wyomin'".

Procitnutí jara

1936 • 7 min • Czechoslovakia

Infierno Verde o La Guerra del Chaco

1936 • 41 min • Bolivia

Documentary on the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay and in particular on the signing of the peace treaty.

Help Madrid!!

1936 • 7 min

Spanish propaganda documentary focusing on Madrid.

Will Power

1936 • 16 min • United States of America

Edgar thinks he finally has a plan that will force his lazy, mooching brother-in-law to get a job. First, Edgar has some friends help him to stage a fake heart attack. Then, while he is supposed to be recovering, he taps into a source of mystical will power to do the rest.

Kolobok

1936 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Lived there were a grandfather and grandmother. A grandmother baked one time kolobok and put to cool off on a window-sill. And a kolobok did not begin to wait and left in the forest. In-field met a bear, wolf and fox. And all eating him was tried. And meantime a grandfather and grandmother left to search a kolobok.

No Other One

1936 • 7 min • United States of America

Hal Kemp and his orchestra play the title tune with singer Skinnay Ennis and a Bouncing Ball.

Molly Moo-Cow and Robinson Crusoe

1936 • 7 min • United States of America

Molly Moo-Cow washes to shore on an island, the one occupied by Robinson Crusoe. Much of the short is Crusoe extolling the virtues of the solitary life, Molly trying to ingratiate herself to Crusoe and Crusoe trying to get rid of her. He finally succeeds-just before cannibals come ashore, capture Crusoe and dump him in a pot. From the time they grab him Crusoe is yelling for help (from whom is unclear, given that he wants the island to himself).