All Films

Spring Tonic

1935 • 58 min • United States of America

Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.

The News Parade of 1934!

1934 • 10 min • United States of America

Significant events from 1934, in the United States and abroad, are covered in newsreel format.

Shake Your Powder Puff

1934 • 6 min • United States of America

In this one, we're witness to a sort of vaudeville show with an all-animal cast, including a myopic turtle and a pig very proud of his ability to play the flute. There's a troupe of dancing "girls" who sing about "shaking your powder puff," and a dog (or wolf, or fox or something) keeps getting thrown out by the management.

Scrappy's Art Gallery

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

The adventures of a young boy and his dog. Vonsey and Oopie are the two bullies on the block who sometime give the two problems.

Viva Willie

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

Willie tells his friend that he was once a cowboy.

Almadrabas

1934 • 21 min • Spain

Documentary on tuna fishing and the art of capturing, processing and manufacturing of the industry.

The Tip Tops In Peppyland

1934 • 11 min

Animated and live-action film for children showing the beneficial effects of milk.

Enroll into the Cinéclub Zagreb

1934 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

Recordings that documented the founding of Kinoklub Zagreb and the enrollment of its first members.

Balkan Games in Zagreb

1934 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

Early recordings of a sport competition in Zagreb.

Sonata

1934 • 6 min • Netherlands

Short experimental film in the form of a sonata, with the parts allegro, adagio and presto. The first part shows, apart from animated dominoes, musical instruments: the keyboard of a piano and a clarinet. It also has images of the drum of a musical box and a gramophone. The adagio is mainly a play of light and dark. The light of the sun, burning candles and cigarettes alternate with images of a hand, trees and a glass of wine. In the final part, presto, a quick montage shows a row between a man and a woman. But the film has a happy end when the two make it up with a kiss.

Netzahualcoyotl

1934 • 21 min

Abstract, Opus 91 (The Firebird)

1934 • 1 min

Hardly a movie in any traditional sense; The bird-- Metal, glass, gel filters, electrical and lighting elements-- is seen through a frosted glass screen in a wood cabinet.

Variety Show at Peoria’s Palace Theater

1934 • 10 min

A variety show is performed at Peoria's Palace Theater. Includes live performances by a number of singers and dancers in front of a band of female musicians with an RQ as their band symbol.

Grandpa's Wise Advice

1934 • 2 min • Netherlands

Short Dutch animation film.

S.E. Tibet - Sherriff & Ludlow, 1934

1934 • 54 min • United Kingdom

Sherriff and Ludlow first met in Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan, where their shared love of ornithology, plants and travel led to a life-long partnership. They travelled widely in Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet collecting and documenting specimens. In 1933-34, they travelled to Tibet, Nang-kartse, Gyantse and back to India selecting over 500 plants and seeds; their collection included 69 species of rhododendron, 15 new to science.

Unlucky Strike

1934 • 21 min • United States of America

The boys wreak havoc at a bowling alley in this riotous Chick Chandler/Tom Kennedy comedy featurette.

Stockholm Curiosities

1934 • 9 min • Sweden

Various curiosities in Stockholm.

Primeira Exposição Colonial Portuguesa - Porto 1934

1934 • 8 min

A preview of the preparation works for the etnographic exhibition to take place in Oporto.

Cantique du soleil

1934 • 11 min • Canada

Albert Tessier musing about the beauty of nature, rural life and babies.

Vistas de Santo Domingo

1934 • 5 min • Dominican Republic

“The three films made by Palau may be considered lost, but it is possible to see footage from his personal film archive in “Tras Las Huellas de Palau” (René Fortunato, 1985), used as b-roll material. In one of the shots, a large poster can be seen outside a theatre promoting Secrets (Frank Borzage, 1933). From this hint, we could say that some of these shots could date from that year, or the following. I have never understood how these surviving reels are not properly collected and preserved for what they are: some of our first moving images”. - Diego Cepeda

Horned Game - Wild

1934 • 7 min • Afghanistan, India, Pakistan

The hunting party is filmed traversing across the edges of treacherous cliffs, one misstep away from certain death, but the height does not seem to bother these individuals who navigate the rock face with almost as much ease and grace as the markhor and bison they are tracking.

Deutscher Eisenbahner auf dem Himalaja

1934 • 8 min • Germany

Willy Merkl uses photos to recount his experiences as leader of the 1932 German Himalayan Expedition, which was made possible by the German railway sports clubs, and reports on the plans for the new expedition in 1934.

First Line of National Defense

1934 • 2 min • Japan

Documentary footage of indigenous Pacific islanders.

La Fontaine Lumineuse du Parc Lafontaine / Feu d’Artifice

1934 • 4 min

Maurice Gagnon experiments freely, filming fireworks and then colouring the images, creating a spectacle that intensifies the colourful magic of the pyrotechnics.