All Films

Young Girl in the Garden

1936 • 4 min • France

Impressionist performance of a ballet dancer to the music of Federico Mompou.

Carmen

1936 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A Colourtune by Anson Dyer

Free Rent

1936 • 18 min • United States of America

Tom persuades Monty to buy a house trailer so they can live off the fat of the land.

The Fountain of Arethusa

1936 • 6 min • France

“La Fontaine d'Aréthuse” opens with what has been described as a “shimmering wash of sound in the piano, octave leaps in the left hand passing above and below repeated chords in the right,” a tune which apparently suggests the splashing waters of a fountain. The story “told” by the music involves a naked water goddess on the river shore, who is pursued by a hunter, before disappearing into thin air to join her water once again.

The March of Time: An American Dictator

1936 • 6 min • United States of America

On July 10, 1936, the Time Corporation released the seventh episode of the second year of its newsreel series The March of Time, which included a controversial sequence titled “An American Dictator.” This segment, purportedly a journalistic exposé, centered on the rise to power and political career of then Dominican head of state Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina. The content of the short piece accused Trujillo of committing many politically motivated crimes, including murder, and caused a brief diplomatic crisis between the United States and the Dominican Republic. - Naida García-Crespo

Vamp Till Ready

1936 • 18 min • United States of America

Charley's somewhat prudish wife pretends to be a party girl.

Sweet Dream

1936 • 47 min • South Korea

Middle-class housewife Ae-soon is excessively vain and neglectful of her duties as a homemaker. Unable to tolerate her any longer, Ae-soon's husband kicks her out, and she leaves him and their daughter Jeong-hee to take up with her lover in a hotel.

Die Erbschaft

1936 • 21 min • Germany

Short Film from 1936. Banned by the Nazis. First shown 1976. Karl Meier and his wife are some really poor folks. They don't have much to eat and they cannot pay for their flat. Even the bailiff does not know what to take from them anymore. One day they are told that they made an inheritance, because some relatives died recently. Their financial problems seem to be solved now.

The Pictorial Revue

1936 • 40 min

'Compilation of turns from Pathetones and Pictorials, compered by comedian Ronald Frankau.' (British Pathé)

Training Pigeons

1936 • 7 min • United States of America

Betty Boop is training a flock of pigeons, but one stray leads Pudgy the pup on a precarious chase.

Lash of the Penitentes

1936 • 48 min • United States of America

Fact and fiction collide in this exploitation flick that employs documentary footage depicting the bizarre self-flagellation rituals of the fanatical Catholic sect known as the Penitentes. Mixed with those truly disturbing sequences is a story concerning a killing in New Mexico, itself inspired by the murder of real-life reporter Carl Taylor as he worked on an article on the Penitentes.

Song Hits on Parade

1936 • 10 min • United States of America

Freddie Rich and his band perform a selection of musical numbers.

Houses of Poverty

1936 • 29 min • Belgium

Henri Storck’s militant short on Depression-era Belgium, set in Walloon slums on the outskirts of a prosperous city. Staged vignettes expose substandard housing, overcrowding, and numbed survival through claustrophobic, frame-filling images; a coda on slum clearance and “garden city” rehousing offers guarded hope.

Le retour à la vie

1936 • 11 min • France

Since 1930, unemployment grows in France. A family, living in the country, is facing economic hardship. The father hesitates to spend his money to invest (i.e. to buy a new cow). On the contrary, her daughter who is unemployed, has another point of view. Against his timidity, she explains to him that the money must be shared in order to change the world. There's so much progress to make in many areas such as health, roads, electricity, school...

The Gun Ranger

1936 • 56 min • United States of America

A lawman who brings in a killer only to see him freed because of corruption turns in his badge & sets out on his own to rid his town of killers & crooked politicians.

The Novelty Shop

1936 • 6 min • United States of America

The novelty shop owner has gone home, and that means it's time for its items to animate and have fun.

Two Too Young

1936 • 10 min

Spanky and Alfalfa try to get Porky's and Buckwheat's fireworks.

The Speed Reporter

1936 • 55 min • United States of America

Spectacular stunt work by Richard Talmadge, circus acrobat and stunt man for Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., highlights this expose of a big city criminal mastermind.

The Law in Her Hands

1936 • 58 min • United States of America

A female lawyer sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.

Tea Pot Town

1936 • 5 min • United States of America

Created in conjunction with Lipton as a soft-sell for its products, Tea Pot Town seems largely inspired by the Sunshine Makers narrative. Just as Sunshine Makers promoted milk - showing cheerful gnomes using it to cheer up their gloomy rivals - Tea Pot Town purported that drinking tea once per day added positivity to life and helped chase away negative thoughts.

Brand of the Outlaws

1936 • 60 min • United States of America

Gary Gray arrives only to be caught up in the rustling activities of Ben Holt and his gang. First Holt brands him for rustling and then frames him for murder. Proven innocent, Gary foils the gang's stage holdup and then heads after Holt whom he now knows to be the real killer. But Holt knows he is coming and waits unseen in ambush. Written by Maurice VanAuken

Boulevardier from the Bronx

1936 • 8 min • United States of America

A baseball team full of anthropomorphic animals play on.

Brotherly Love

1936 • 6 min • United States of America

Olive preaches the need for brotherly love on the radio. Popeye, hearing this, does a number of good deeds: helping two workmen raise a safe, straightening a wrecked car, and helping two boys sneak into a baseball game. But when he tries to break up a fight, it's more than he can handle alone. Olive and her followers come along and try to help, but it's too much for them, too. Of course, once Popeye has his spinach...

The Oregon Trail

1936 • 59 min • United States of America

Army Captain takes a leave of absence to find out what happened to his missing father.....