All Films

Telephone (Abstract)

1934 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Encouraging the use of the telephone, showing how it is man's first recourse in emergencies.

Jeunes filles en liberté

1934 • 54 min • Belgium

In this romantic film inspired by Mädchen in Uniform, two young, independent Amsterdam women win a trip to the Ardennes in a writing contest. Unbeknownst to them, they are followed by an attractive journalist with a camera, after which they both fall in love with him, and they compete with each other for him.

Fialkin's Career

1934 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The cartoon tells the story of a tap dancer named Fialkin, who decides to get a job as an accompanist at a local club. However, he confuses someone else's suitcase with his own.

Maori Days

1934 • 11 min

Filmmaker unknown. One of the few tinted silent films in the Archives New Zealand holdings, this film was part of a series completed by the NZ Government Tourist and Publicity Department. This episode depicts weaving with harakeke and the creation of a piupiu.

The Great Experiment

1934 • 7 min

Scrappy cartoon from Charles Mintz of Columbia Pictures. In this one, mad scientist Hugo Plotz experiments on the boy character in a water bowl by first turning him into a fish and then an old man. When his little brother comes in, Hugo then turns them into babies. And then when they go back to normal, they travel into the future, all the way to 1990. There they encounter people in propeller hats and attempt to rescue a girl from Plotz.

Jolly Good Felons

1934 • 9 min • United States of America

In this short, The Little King has a trip scheduled to visit the state prison.

São Paulo in 24 Hours

1934 • 10 min • Brazil

The great capital of São Paulo in motion, from the first dawn until the end of the night, in magnificent corners.

Art for Art's Sake

1934 • 6 min • United States of America

The Little King creates havoc when he goes on a tour of an art gallery.

Once Upon a Time

1934 • 8 min

This was made for Metropolitan Life Insurance in 1934, by New York based Audio Productions. Directed by F. Lyle Goldman.

Goode Knight

1934 • 8 min • United States of America

The classic story of Robin Hood, with Cubby Bear as the prince of thieves.

Aw, Nurse!

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

A Columbia Scrappy cartoon released March 9, 1934.

Kings Up

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

Oswald wants to be a knight. He then seeks the queen to grant him his wish.

The Black Sheep

1934 • 5 min

A Terrytoons cartoon released 5 October 1934.

Grey Owl's Strange Guests

1934 • 10 min

A canadian cameo production with Grey Owl produced by special arrangement with the national parks of canada.

Another Day

1934 • 10 min • Canada

Another Day is a city symphony film of Thatcher’s hometown, Toronto. Like other city symphony films, Thatcher’s follows the chronology of a day’s activity, fragments continuous action, and emphasizes quotidian objects (the alarm clock, the toaster, the coffee pot) to present a modernist visual record of Toronto. The film was named one of the Ten Best amateur films of 1934 by Movie Makers magazine.

Nachtasyl

1934 • 18 min • Germany

A early puppet animation by Ferdinand Diehl

Alexanderplatz Unawares

1934 • 8 min • Germany

These fragments of a documentary film project by Peter Pewas about Berlin’s Alexanderplatz show the neon signs on the big department stores, but also children playing unsupervised amid the rubble of vacant lots, passers-by trudging hurriedly through the slush, and a torchlight procession of Nazi storm troopers – a heterogeneous social reality. The film was never completed because the director was arrested by the Gestapo and the footage seized.

The Holy Land

1934 • 10 min • United States of America

A tour of Palestine in 1934.

Palm Magic

1934 • 4 min

For "Palmin vegetable shortening, with a reconstruction in riotous colour of how it’s extracted on a tropical island in the ocean." - Berlinale 2018

Doomsday

1934 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Science fiction film influenced by the style of inter-war European art cinema. Agricultural workers become aware of a strange phenomenon in the sky. People in rural locations discuss their observations. No-one knows what it is. Awareness of the phenomenon spreads; wildfires burn on heaths and panic is reported by newspapers. In the city, newspapers carry stories of earthquakes and changes affecting ‘the planets’. Extreme weather conditions are experienced. The changes are discussed on the streets. The day of final judgement is predicted by some. Uncertain of what is happening people hide indoors. A new day dawns and people venture outside. A large bright object fills the sky, collides with and destroys the earth. (East Anglian Film Archive)

The Slip-Back: A Weird Story in Two Parts

1934 • 18 min

Science fiction horror flick featuring young couples of the 1930’s Budapest. The protagonists visit the ruins of Visegrád, only to be surprised by the old hosts of the castle emerging from the ruins… and that is just the start of it!

Papermaking in Japan

1934 • 6 min

In this short film Bernard Leach follows the papermaking processes at the workshop of renowned papermaker Abe Eishiro, one of the early members of the Mingei movement. The entire process of making Japanese washi in Yakumo Village, Shimane Prefecture, is shown. The voice of Abe Shinichiro, grandson of the Eishiro was recorded as commentary.

The Girl from Paradise

1934 • 20 min • United States of America

Jack Hansen (played by Frank Luther) is an unappreciated chef in NTG's Paradise Restaurant. He thinks his sweepstakes ticket is a winner, so his boss (Mr. Granlund) promotes him to co-owner. Hansen's girl friend Sally (played by Miss Froos) steps in when the restaurant's star singer quits. It turns out Hansen did not win the sweepstakes, but he got to sing a few songs.

Shah Pahlavi's Visit to Turkey

1934 • 30 min

Images from the visit of Iranian Shah Pahlavi to Turkey in 1934. https://filmmirasim.ktb.gov.tr/tr/film/iran-sahinin-turkiye-ziyareti