All Films

We Can Take It

1935 • 21 min

This 21-minute silent short comes from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and shows President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps in full effect from the time the boys went to work until the time they left. The CCC was basically put in place to give young men a job, boost their moral and protect the forests of California. Throughout the short we see the various jobs that were being performed and one really does get a great idea of what this mission was all about and why it was so important to Roosevelt.

Flight of the Century

1935 • 17 min • United States of America

The story of the most famous train in the world

Picnic Days

1935 • 3 min • United Kingdom

How to prepare the perfect picnic for the warm days that you spent outside. Learn here how to make your side dishes look and taste amazing.

Duel

1935 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Two young men, Fedya and Valentin, look after Dina. The girl gives them a date at the same time and in the same place. When they meet, she invites them to prove their love by risking shooting themselves with a revolver, in the drum of which is one of five possible bullets.

Kingdom for a Horse

1935 • 10 min • Canada

Old Dobbin talks about his flashy relatives, race horses, jumpers, fire horses, cavalry mounts.

The Hillbilly

1935 • 9 min • United States of America

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Newspaper From Rio

1935 • 13 min

Collection of reports related to Rio de Janeiro.

Sherriff Kodacolour No. 1

1935 • 8 min • China, India

Amateur footage filmed in Kodacolour, showing people and landscapes in Sikkim and Tibet. Opens with a group of men praying then eating. Shows mountain passes and views, women working, mothers and children, family groups, people crossing a stream, village yurts, fording a river on horseback, women washing and hanging wool to dry, and landscape views.

Into Little America

1935 • 53 min

This film is a 53-minute documentary of Admiral Byrd's second Antarctic expedition in 1934. Paramount Pictures sent two cameramen along to film this expedition

Cattle Work in the Corral of a Farm in Southern Mato Grosso

1935 • 4 min

A precious visual record of cattle ranching activity in the Mato Grosso hinterlands during the 1930s, seen through the eyes of a pioneering duo with an anthropological and ethnographic perspective.

Monkey Wretches

1935 • 7 min • United States of America

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Sinbad the Sailor

1935 • 7 min • United States of America

Sinbad battles a band of pirates at sea and on a tropical isle. A giant bird rescues him, and he ends up back on his ship with the pirates' treasure.

The Battle of Monkey and Crab

1935 • 3 min • Japan

When a monkey samurai kills a crab samurai, the crab’s child takes revenge with the help of friends.  Based on an Edo period folktale.

In Lamp Light Land

1935 • 4 min • United States of America

A Puppetoon by George Pal

The Immortal Swan

1935 • 56 min • United Kingdom

"The Immortal Swan", is a 1935 documentary tribute filmed not long after Pavlova's death that depicts the star dancing, including her most famous solo, "The Dying Swan".

Czar Atlantydy

1935 • 6 min • Poland

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Camera Thrills

1935 • 20 min • United States of America

Academy Award nominated short film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division in 2012.

Vibration of Granada

1935 • 20 min • Spain

This is a short film that, although a documentary in appearance, has very little to do with the generic conventions of that form. It would seem, then, that what we have here is the embryo of what he was subsequently to call the "elementary": an abstract or lyrical modality in the perception and exposition of the real.

Birdland

1935 • 5 min • United States of America

A Terrytoons cartoon released 23 August 1935.

An Expression

1935 • 4 min • Japan

A experimental animated film featuring moving shapes and lines.

The Shoemaker and the Elves

1935 • 9 min • United States of America

A homeless waif, staggering through a roaring snow storm, wanders into a small town. and no one except a poor shoemaker will give the little boy shelter from the storm. That night, the elves come in with their equipment and material, and make a new supply of shoes for the old man. In the morning, see what has happened, the old man tells the boy he has brought him luck, and can stay with him as his adopted son.

Danmarksfilmen

1935 • 55 min

1935 Danish documentary.

The Quarryman

1935 • 34 min • United Kingdom

Slate is the lifeblood of Blaenau Ffestiniog, but its dust can be deadly, with a painful legacy for family and society. this drama portrays aspects of the quarryman’s life in Blaenau Ffestiniog – work, home, chapel, courtship – and indicates the importance of education to the younger generation. The story highlights the hardships and tough choices that were part and parcel of life in such a society, alongside its cultural vibrancy and community spirit.

Trip to Manipur

1935 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Amateur film of a road trip through northeastern India, showing traditional dances and a gigantic flower float.