All Films

Otsuki - Mr. Moon

1935 • 2 min • Japan

A group of tanuki celebrate the moonrise while a rabbit on the face of the moon makes mochi in this nod to the folktale, “The Rabbit on the Moon.”

Train Trip

1935 • 2 min • Japan

A train as it travels through the countryside.

Sutakora Sacchan Raccoon Dog Balloon

1935 • 2 min • Japan

Sacchan inflates a balloon that turns into a living tanuki (raccoon dog).  Based on the manga character by Suihō Tagawa.

The Phantom Doublot

1935 • 4 min • Japan

A father advises his son of hidden treasure in a haunted castle. However, it is said that those who seek the treasure never return…

Flower Garden Dance

1935 • 2 min • Japan

A girl purchases some flowers and a fairy offers to enchant them. The girl follows the fairy’s instructions, and plants the flowers. The next day, the flowers grow into small characters and start dancing, to the amusement of the girl and the animals nearby.

Tonkichi's Adventure

1935 • 2 min • Japan

Tonkichi flies through the sky on a plane but finds himself stranded on an island with different wildlife.

Hands Across the City

1935 • 15 min

A sponsored film made for the "Hands Across the City" fundraising campaign by the Peoria Community Fund Association, showing how various Peoria agencies care for vulnerable populations.

Fur, Seals and Flowers in Pribilof Islands

1935 • 4 min

A woman botanist collects wild flowers and local women make baskets on the island of Unalaska.

Kayak Rolling

1935 • 16 min

Eskimoes in Greenland "rolling" their kayaks, Greenlanders in traditional dress dancing "reels" and Confirmation Sunday at Jakobshavn.

Excavations by Dr. Hrdlicka, Dutch Harbour

1935 • 11 min

Dr. Ales Hrdlicka at work on excavations at the old village site, Dutch Harbour in the Aleutian Islands.

Flowers and Coffee Party at Umanak

1935 • 10 min

Wild flowers at Umanak, Greenland and the Governor of Greenland gives a coffee party.

Das Auge der Welt

1935 • 13 min • Germany

Technical process of transmitting a television picture Comparison of a newspaper picture and the raster recording of television pictures. Creation of the television picture through lines and pixels. Explanation of the recording process. Function of the Braun tube receiver. In a television studio. Television announcer. Test broadcasts. Auditorium. Demonstration shows. Imaging equipment.

Ormoz, a Yugoslavian Gallspach

1935 • 20 min • Yugoslavia

A 35mm film about the hydrotherapy spa of Ormoz (Slovenia) and its surroundings, which is being compared to the Austrian fashionable tourist destination of Gallspach. Once it was an extremely popular health resort under the guidance of Dr. Otmar Majeric.

Blind Man, Deaf Woman

1935 • 2 min

Amateur general views of people outside, walking. blind man with white cane and dog. Also people using sign language in a garden (possibly Kirkcaldy).

Yoker School Film

1935 • 12 min

Activities at Yoker school, Glasgow; pupils enjoying music and movement lessons, infants singing and dancing in the playground and senior pupils doing Scottish country dancing.

Kachikachi Yama, part 2

1935 • 4 min • Japan

A rabbit seeks revenge on an evil tanuki (raccoon dog).  Based on a popular folktale story. Sequel reel.

Kachikachi Yama, part 1

1935 • 4 min • Japan

A rabbit seeks revenge on an evil tanuki (raccoon dog).  Based on a popular folktale story.

Colour on the Thames

1935 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A rare glimpse of 1930s London in colour: the Thames has never looked lovelier.

Papageno

1935 • 11 min • Germany

Film shows the story of Papageno (the one from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute"), who wants a mate, yet has difficulties getting one.

R.a.f.

1935 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Here from 1935 is Gaumont British's documentary about the Royal Air Force, simply titled "R.A.F." and directed by John Betts. This film looks at the training of new recruits, and includes views of many (now rare) aircraft of the period.

The Peace Conference

1935 • 7 min • United States of America

As the representatives of all the world powers sit around the tables at the World Peace Conference, arguing and scrapping with each other, Krazy Kat introduces a happy note with his trick Comedy Gun, and everything winds up harmoniously...until the Nazis invade most of Europe a few years later.

The Game of Love

1935 • 55 min • Soviet Union

The film is about 3 friends falling in love with a girl. One of them changes his bad character under the girl's influence.

Heaven-Bound Travelers

1935 • 15 min • United States of America

Heaven-Bound Travelers (circa 1935) was discovered among the rolls of film in the Gist collection at the Library of Congress by S. Torriano Berry during the recent restoration of Hell-Bound Train. Eloyce Gist takes a central role onscreen as a wife and mother who is wrongfully accused of adultery by her husband and is left to fend for herself and their daughter in the world. As she struggles to sustain them, the husband becomes riddled with guilt and struggles with his decision, and the social realism of the drama shifts to an allegorical struggle between the devil, appearing to tempt humanity to sin, and the angels. The film does not exist in complete form but the fragments show a project of ambitious scope. Presented with a score composed and performed by Dr. Samuel Waymon.

A Happy Family

1935 • 7 min • United States of America

Krazy has the entire family come to visit: dozens and dozens of cats who behave like the dwarfs who visit Bilbo's house, eating all the food, destroying the dishes and setting fire to the establishment in this good Krazy Kat cartoon.