All Films

Flowers for Madame

1935 • 7 min • United States of America

A tour of the garden, where every flower dances or plays a tune, especially today, since it's the flower pageant. Fire strikes as a badly placed magnifying glass ignites a match. The flowers do what they can to fight it, but the fire manages to get through the sprinkler.

Sleeping Beauty

1935 • 6 min • France

This retelling of Sleeping Beauty, recreated through stop motion animation, is centered on lithe Prince Charming, who leaps and bounds through our storybook set. Film commissioned by a wine company.

Doctor Oswald

1935 • 8 min • United States of America

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

Safe Roads

1935 • 8 min • United States of America

A production by Chevrolet from 1935 on safety around trains

Spinning Mice

1935 • 7 min • United States of America

A girl is sewing in her playroom when a boy sneaks in and lets loose a horde of mice into her doll house. She discovers them and is fascinated by them, one in particular who can speak.

Parade of Hats

1935 • 2 min

A hat advertisement for Sools by animators Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff.

The Officer's Mess

1935 • 21 min • United States of America

Gus Doakes joins the National Guard; hilarity ensues.

Pie in the Sky

1935 • 22 min • United States of America

At a skid row mission, a cleric opines as men wait to eat. After his sermon, he brings out a pie and cuts it into small slices. The two men at the end of the line get none. They leave the mission and head for a garbage dump where junk becomes props for their play. A dress form becomes Mae West; a rusted car gives them a wild ride. Then, one dresses as a priest and promises pie in the sky. By the end, they sport metal halos.

Along Flirtation Walk

1935 • 6 min • United States of America

Chickens from Plymouth Rock College and the Rhode Island Reds prepare for the big game.

Guests of The Nation

1935 • 49 min • Ireland

During the Irish War of Independence in 1921, a pair of IRA soldiers are ordered to guard two British prisoners, but face a dilemma when they bond with their captives.

Danemon Ban: The Monster Exterminator

1935 • 10 min • Japan

The boozy mercenary of the title, based on the actual historical figure of Naoyuki Ban (1567-1615), attempts to rid a haunted castle of spooks.

I Wished on the Moon

1935 • 7 min • United States of America

A Screen Song from the Fleischer Studios with the song "I Wished on the Moon".

The Graduation Exercises

1935 • 6 min • United States of America

Scrappy and Oopy are on their way to Scrappy’s last day of class. Oopy’s distractions cause Scrappy to be late to graduation, so Oopy devises a plot to sneak into class so Scrappy can still graduate.

The Burgomeister

1935 • 56 min • Australia

A burgomeister and family man is haunted by a crime he committed 15 years before: robbing a wealthy Jewish Polish seed merchant to pay off his mortgage debt.

Fighting Shadows

1935 • 58 min • United States of America

Mountie Tim O'Hara is sent to Indian River to investigate a fur trading racket. But he quickly finds himself in trouble when he is accused of shooting a prisoner in the back and is then put in jail by a fellow Mountie.

Buddy of the Legion

1935 • 7 min • United States of America

Buddy gets a new job in a book shop, but spends his work hours daydreaming about leading the Foreign Legion and fighting Amazons.

Gangtok and Sikkim Trip

1935 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Amateur footage of a trip into the Himalaya.

Delhi to the North West Frontier

1935 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Amateur film featuring government buildings in Delhi, a shooting party in Malakand and winter in Abbottabad.

Berlin remains Berlin

1935 • 12 min

A short film depicting the Nazi Imperial Capital of the 30s as a modern, vibrant metropole, reconstructing itself under the auspices of the new regime and bracing for the role it was about to play in the new political order.

The Great Jakobshavn Iceberg Bank

1935 • 8 min

Inuit in their kayaks hunting for seals and collecting ice for drinking water.

Why Pay Rent?

1935 • 22 min • United States of America

Elmer fixes up a room for his just-married, freeloading brother-in-law and wife. When the newlyweds show up, Henry brings a surprise in the form of stepson Junior. The apartment is now too small, so Henry decides that they'll buy a lot and build a do-it-yourself home, a disaster in the making when Junior switches the house's part numbers. It doesn't help matters that Elmer, Henry and the wives are all incompetent.

Wolf Riders

1935 • 57 min • United States of America

Deputy Indian Agent is framed for the murder of a captured fur thief actually killed by his boss in rivalry for affections of a saloon girl.

Treasure Blues

1935 • 19 min • United States of America

Thelma and Patsy follow a map looking for treasure.

Street Scenes in India

1935 • 9 min • United Kingdom

From the arrival of a new viceroy to street markets, this amateur film captures the diversity of life in colonial India.