All Films

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

1936 • 12 min • Italy

A doctor performs an experiment on a dying man by placing him under hypnosis on his deathbed.

Share the Wealth

1936 • 19 min • United States of America

A small town shoe clerk runs for mayor under a "Share the Wealth" platform but finds himself in trouble when he's the recipient of $50,000.

Let's Ask the Ladies

1936 • 23 min

Mannequins in Co-operative Wholesale Society window come to life.

Dodge City Trail

1936 • 56 min • United States of America

With the increasing popularity of Republic's sagebrush crooner Gene Autry, rival company Columbia found it necessary to add a musical element to this Charles Starrett Western released in early 1937. As Starrett himself was no singer, the studio hired Donald Grayson to warble Lonesome River, Out in the Cow Country and Pancho's Widow, all by Ned Washington and Sam H. Stept.

Toonerville Picnic

1936 • 7 min

The doctor prescribes a relaxing day at the beach for Mr. Bang, who is overstressed. But the beach is anything but relaxing.

Play Safe

1936 • 7 min • United States of America

A young boy obsessed with trains sneaks out to play with the real trains that run just a few feet from the fence around his house. When he falls off of one and is knocked unconscious, he has a dream.

The Lion Dance

1936 • 24 min • Japan

The lion dance in traditional Japanese theatre.

Oh, Susanna

1936 • 54 min • United States of America

Oh, Susanna! is a 1936 American Western musical film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Frances Grant. Written by Oliver Drake, the film is about a cowboy who is robbed and then thrown from a train by an escaped murderer who then takes on the cowboy's identity.

Neighborhood House

1936 • 55 min • United States of America

Charley, his wife Rosina and their daughter Darla attend "Bank night" at their local movie theater, more eager to win the cash prize than see the picture. When little Darla is selected to choose the winning ticket, she draws her father's number. The crowd reacts angrily, thinking that the drawing is a fraud, forcing the child to choose another number. This one turns out to be her own ticket, after which a third drawing yields her mother's ticket. While pandemonium erupts in the audience, some gangsters arrive and raid the theater. A chase follows, resulting in the eventual capture of the crooks.

Victoria and Vancouver: Gateways to Canada

1936 • 9 min • United States of America

A visit to the capital of British Columbia and to its largest city.

The Birth of the Robot

1936 • 6 min • United Kingdom

This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many European filmmakers turned to puppets as an alternative, and Lye enlisted the help of avant-garde friends such as Humphrey Jennings and John Banting to make the amusing puppets. Exploring the still-complex color process, which involved the combination of three separate images, Lye creates such a vivid storm scene that reviewers hailed it as “proof that the color film has entered a new stage.” The music is Holst’s The Planets. - Harvard Film Archive

Cherry Blossom Time in Japan

1936 • 8 min • United States of America

In this Traveltalk short, the symbolic role of cherry blossoms in Japanese culture is explored as well as the traditional Japanese religions of Shintoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism.

Down the Ribber

1936 • 21 min • United States of America

Leon Errol trying to report a stolen car.

Treachery Rides the Range

1936 • 56 min • United States of America

The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from hunters. But Carter, of Carter and Barton, just signed a big contract for furs and Buffalo meat so they want the herds. The only way they can get them is to rile the Indians up enough to go on the warpath and break the treaty. After the trouble starts, the Indians get the Colonel's daughter and hold her prisoner. Written by Tony Fontana

How to Vote

1936 • 10 min • United States of America

A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.

Wanted - A Master

1936 • 10 min • United States of America

A dog living in a junkyard learns that all stray dogs will be exterminated by 3 o'clock that afternoon, so sets off to find a master before the deadline.

Happy Days

1936 • 9 min • United States of America

Pinhead is ridiculed by the other boys on the way to the fishing hole.

Shop Talk

1936 • 20 min • United States of America

A former art student returns from Europe to run the department store he inherited from his father and finds his employees behaving very bizarrely.

The Idaho Kid

1936 • 59 min • United States of America

Idaho, returning to the area he left as a boy, gets in the middle of a range feud. He takes the side of Endicott. On the other side is Hollister who is unaware that Idaho is his long lost son.

The Old House

1936 • 10 min • United States of America

A Bosko color cartoon in a haunted house.

Rio de Janeiro 'City of Splendour'

1936 • 8 min • United States of America

This Traveltalks short showcases the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro, emphasizing its Portuguese influence.

Betty Boop and the Little King

1936 • 7 min • United States of America

Betty encounters The Little King when, bored by the opera, he sneaks out to join in with her rodeo routine.

New Shoes

1936 • 10 min • United States of America

A love affair blossoms between two pairs of shoes after a couple purchases the shoes.

Rogue of the Range

1936 • 58 min • United States of America

Doran and the Sheriff have a scheme to bring in an outlaw gang. Doran is sent to prison so he and the gang leader Mitchell can break out. This gets him into the gang but he is in trouble when it's revealed he is working with the Sheriff.