All Films

Rainbow Dance

1936 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Rainbow Dance is a 1936 British animated film released by the GPO Film Unit. This is Lye's second film. It uses the Gasparcolor process.

Nut Guilty

1936 • 11 min • United States of America

In this short film, Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen preside over the courtroom for a day, dispensing their own comic brand of justice.

Stormy Trails

1936 • 58 min • United States of America

A rancher caught in the middle of a bank robbery shoots one of the robbers. However, the dead bandit turns out to be a former ranch hand who was suing him. The rancher is arrested for murder.

One-Room Schoolhouses

1935 • 1 min

This film was preserved by the West Virginia State Archives, and is one of the 50 films in the 4-disc DVD box set called "Treasures from American Film Archives", compiled by the National Film Preservation Foundation.

Composition in Blue

1935 • 4 min • Germany

An abstract film in which every motion of coloured shapes is in strict synchronization with music. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Scrappy's Ghost Story

1935 • 7 min

Ghosts chase Scrappy and his little brother in the forest.

Beside the Seaside

1935 • 21 min

Londoners flock to the South Coast to enjoy themselves by the seaside during a heatwave.

The Blue Wonder

1935 • 3 min • Germany

Advertisement by animator Hans Fischerkoesen.

Sky Billboards

1935 • 8 min • United States of America

An educational film / Chevrolet advertisement that surveys skywriting.

L'Atelier du Val de Grâce

1935 • 2 min • France

Home movie from Man Ray with a view of his home/gallery

Jazz

1935 • 2 min

This avantgarde movie, unique in the history of cinema, was left behind by the architect and amateur filmmaker Dudás László. It is known that it was presented with sound during its showing(s), but there is no information about the nature of the accompaniment.

1935 Royal Jubilee Celebration

1935 • 9 min • United Kingdom

This film supplements footage from "the first colour newsreel" with other colour scenes from the day to create "the first specially edited colour feature in screen journalism". Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Pavement Pounding

1935 • 8 min

A film telling us how important it is to wear the right sort of shoes!

Um Belo Dia

1935 • 5 min • Brazil

The first cinematographic record of the city of Vitória (ES), made between 1935 and 1938 by Luis González Batán, using a 16 mm German camcorder. In addition to the city, he filmed his family and himself. The video is the result of the montage of this material, made in the late 1990s by his son Ramon (González) Alvarado.

Glimpses of 1935

1935 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Dufaycolor scenes of the silver jubilee year of 1935. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Aventures of Ko the Cow

1935 • 6 min • Netherlands

Short Dutch animation film.

Moctezuma's treasure

1935 • 9 min • Mexico

Lost animation short film about the treasure of the aztec emperor Moctezuma.

Bougainville

1935 • 37 min • France

The missionary father O'Reilly was in the Solomon Islands, South Pacific, in 1934-1935. He filmed the daily life, customs and traditions of the people of Bougainville.

Danger Signal

1935 • 47 min • United Kingdom

Amateur filmmaker, cinema historian and railway engineer H.A.V. Bulleid brings his professional life and passionate pastime together in a tragic tale of young love hindered by an incurable disability and the cruelty of society. Ted works as a fireman on a steam locomotive and is deeply in love with Emily, a beautiful young lady. But Emily has a disability, the result of a childhood accident which left her with a terrible limp. Constant pity from friends and the prying eyes of strangers drives a wedge between the pair, and Ted's confrontation with colleagues outside Emily's house leads to harsh words, and tragic consequences.

Sherriff Kodacolour No. 2

1935 • 9 min • China, India

Amateur footage filmed in Kodacolour, showing people and landscapes in Sikkim and Tibet. Scenes include people travelling by donkey, a dancing group, a camel train and camels drinking at a riverbank, people walking down a road, children in traditional dress, officials at a residence, scenes in a busy town and workers winnowing grain.

Sherriff Kodacolour No. 3

1935 • 6 min • China, India

Amateur footage filmed in Kodacolour, showing people and landscapes in Sikkim and Tibet. Scenes include children in traditional dress spinning cotton, musicians playing instruments, villagers gathered, animals grazing, milking goats, families in elaborate traditional dress and mountain views.

Mongolia

1935 • 42 min • China

The film was made in 1935 in what is now Inner Mongolia, but which was then part of Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo or Manchuria, explaining the presence of Manchu officials sporting queues and pointed tasselled hats, both of which had disappeared by this time in the rest of republican China.

Balli e passeggiate in montagna

1935 • 2 min • Italy

Short film shown as part of THE COLOURS OF SMALL GAUGE CINEMA Strand at Cinema Ritrovato 2024.

Urashima Tarō

1935 • 2 min • Japan

Fisherman Urashima Tarō rides a turtle on top of the ocean waves.  They then submerge underwater and arrive at a castle, where they are celebrated and greeted by dancing people and octopodes, and a princess.  Based on the folktale “Otogi Banashi.”