All Films

Enoken’s Ten Millions Sequel

1936 • 54 min • Japan

The story picks up from Part 1 as Enoken's young scion forsakes his wealth and takes a department store job – in drag and sometimes blackface – to prove to the girl of his dreams that he be a hard-working, serious man.

Heroes of the Range

1936 • 56 min • United States of America

A cowboy G-man joins an outlaw gang out to rob a gold shipment.

Hurling

1936 • 10 min • United States of America

A short film showing the Irish contact sport known as hurling, which is similar to, but much rougher than, American football.

How to Behave

1936 • 10 min • United States of America

Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert Benchley always has the best advice about any social situation. Hilarity ensues.

When I Yoo Hoo

1936 • 7 min • United States of America

It's the Weavers vs. the Mathews in Hickory Holler. The Weavers are singing (the title song), the Mathews are sleeping...

Dummy Ache

1936 • 18 min • United States of America

Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Misunderstandings, mishaps, and hijinks ensue. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division in 2013.

Vår randade väg

1936 • 13 min • Sweden

A short film about the importance of traffic safety.

How to Train a Dog

1936 • 8 min • United States of America

This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.

Whoops, I'm an Indian!

1936 • 17 min • United States of America

Set in the Old West, the stooges are crooked gamblers swindling the residents of a frontier town. They are discovered and must escape into the woods. To elude the sheriff they disguise themselves as Indians. Their plan works until Curly, dressed as a squaw, is forced to marry a local tough guy. The stooges are unmasked and wind up in the hoosegow.

Phantom Patrol

1936 • 60 min • United States of America

A deranged killer escapes into the Canadian woods. He tries to fool the locals by pretending he is a well known mystery writer, but the local Mountie starts to get suspicious.

Enoken’s Ten Millions

1936 • 58 min • Japan

Enoken plays a cloistered rich kid whose father hires a disreputable tutor to teach him how to really be a millionaire: by drunken debauchery, women, and song.

Our Building of Home and Community

1936 • 34 min • Sweden

Campaign film for the Swedish Folkpartiet (People's Party) in 1936.

The Crooked Trail

1936 • 60 min • United States of America

After Jim Blake saves Harve Tarlton's life, they become partners in a gold mining claim. After a while Harve reverts to his outlaw way of life. Everyone but Jim seems to know that Harve is bad but Jim merely thinks he needs a chance to go straight. But Jim's wife Helen has a plan to expose Harve as the outlaw he is.

Brother and Sister

1936 • 60 min • Japan

Ino tries to control Mon’s every move, but she becomes a fallen woman, having an affair with a student, Obata whereas her sister San remains a “good girl.” The mother is very supportive of her daughters, but, the father, Akaza, who is the stonecutter foreman on the damn, lacks control of his family.

The Black Network

1936 • 20 min • United States of America

The owner of a shoe polish company sponsors a radio show that showcases black performers. Since his wife's father put up the money to be the sponsor, she insists on singing on the show. She goes on after the main star, singer Nina Mae McKinney. The wife sings so badly that the sponsor's customers abandon him. He is forced to shine shoes on street corners, while Nina Mae and her boyfriend win a bet on a daily number and end up on easy street.

I Wanna Play House

1936 • 7 min • United States of America

Two bear cubs, one black, one brown, frolic near their sleeping father.

Sheik to Sheik

1936 • 22 min • United States of America

A radio salesman gets knocked out by a golf ball and dreams he's in the desert where he sells radios to sheiks.

The Mascot’s Honeymoon

1936 • 12 min • France

A dog's shipboard honeymoon voyage takes a turn for the worse when a fierce storm hits the ship.

The Fourth Dimension

1936 • 10 min • France

The film begins with methodical descriptions of one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional space. It then looks at a two-dimensional world inhabited by flat mice. It imagines how a human, from the third dimension could interact with that world. It then suggests how beings from a fourth dimension might interact with us. Next the film posits time as a fourth dimension, with scenes to aid comprehension. An off-screen narrator, graphs, and clever photography provide explanations and illustrations. The film asks viewers to use their imaginations.

Kärlek och monopol

1936 • 15 min • Sweden

Campaign film for the Swedish Högern party in 1936.

Ali Baba

1936 • 7 min • United States of America

Ali Baba senior and his son Ali Baba live in poverty. One day they happen to see the Forty Thieves enter their cave. After the thieves leave, Ali Baba and his son enter the cave and start to fill their pockets with the treasure they find inside. Alas for them, the Forty Thieves return and they are forced to hide in large jars. But of course they are discovered...

The Scalpel

1936 • 22 min • United States of America

A mad doctor transforms into a monstrous killer after injecting a serum into his thyroid gland.

Let's Get Movin'

1936 • 6 min • United States of America

Olive is moving out of her apartment; she's hired Bluto to move her things, but Popeye comes over to visit and won't be shown up.

I Wanna Be a Life Guard

1936 • 6 min • United States of America

Popeye applies for a lifeguard job when he sees Olive in the pool, but Bluto also wants the job (and Olive). The manager, Wimpy, asks them to demonstrate their skills in a contest. Popeye does well, until Bluto demonstrates lifesaving and first aid on him.