All Films

La Cigale et la fourmi

1934 • 11 min

Jacques Bogopolsky (Russian: Yakov Bogopolsky), also known as Jacques Boolsky or Jacques Bolsey, born December 31, 1895 in Kiev and died January 20, 1962 on Long Island, was a Russian-born Swiss painter, pastellist, engineer and filmmaker.

La danza de los esqueletos

1934 • 2 min • Venezuela

First Venezuelan animation movie.

Primeira Exposição Colonial Portugueza no Porto

1934 • 6 min

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

Rhythm in Light

1934 • 5 min • United States of America

Screen titles introduce the film as a modern artist's impressions of what goes on in the mind while listening to music. Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite" accompanies images of common objects and abstract forms photographed in soft focus and through prisms: rings, pyramids, the staff of musical notes, and floating lights are all seen in multiple images, sometimes as if through a kaleidoscope, other times as if in animation. Images appear and patterns move across the screen. Sparklers celebrate at the film's end.

City of Wax

1934 • 9 min • United States of America

City of Wax is a 1934 American short documentary film produced by Horace and Stacy Woodard about the life of a bee. It won the Oscar at the 7th Academy Awards in 1935 for Best Short Subject (Novelty). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the UCLA Film and Television Archive in 2007.

William Tell

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

The story of how William Tell came to shoot the apple off his son's head is told in this Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from Walter Lantz.

Davy Jones' Locker

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

Willie Whooper, the little boy with the big imagination, describes a day when he went fishing with his girl and unintentionally hooked King Neptune. The King of the Sea becomes angry, and adventures on and below the waves ensue.

The County Fair

1934 • 10 min • United States of America

A brat leads Oswald the Lucky Rabbit on a merry chase at the fairgrounds. Slapdash, violent laugh riot sparked by a round of parental abuse. Not to be confused with KOUNTY FAIR, an Oswald from a few years earlier. With Bill Nolan animation and a pretty score by James Dietrich.

Sichtbare Gedanken

1934 • 3 min • Germany

Two men play a game of chess. One man is told which steps to make by the smoke of his cigarette.

Katnips of 1940

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

A Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released October 12, 1934.

Funeral of King Alexander

1934 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

The funeral of assassinated Yugoslavian king.

Mallorca

1934 • 8 min • Spain

A journey through different places in 1930s Mallorca, the coast, the countryside, the city, in the company of the evocative music of Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909), to whom homage is paid.

L'Heure joyeuse de Mickey

1934 • 60 min • France, United States of America

An full hour of Disney cartoons

The Beast Man

1934 • 50 min • Argentina

The plane of a military man falls in an isolated area of the forest and, in time, he becomes a man-beast, a troglodyte. He is found by a scientist who turns him into a guinea pig for an experimental potion. The experiment fails and the troglodyte becomes a satyr who attacks and kidnaps maidens to take them to a cave where he subjects them to atrocities.

The Autograph Hunter

1934 • 7 min

Krazy Kat is out among the Hollywood stars at the Brown Derby. Lots of caricatures!

Little Orphan Annie: A Cartoon

1934 • 1 min • United States of America

Fun with Little Orphan Annie at the circus.

To the Moon With a Transfer

1934 • 60 min • Soviet Union

Lenya Glebov, a student of the collective farm school, designed a model of an interplanetary rocket. One moonlit night, the guys launched a rocket...

Evangeline

1934 • 9 min • Canada

A silent film hagiography of the Grand Pré region of Nova Scotia. Title cards illuminate the historical plight of the Arcadians in the time of the Great Upheaval. An unknown actress portrays Longfellow's Evangeline.

Hamilton Talks

1934 • 18 min

Billed as New Zealand's first "talking picture comedy", 'Hamilton talks' was made in the early 1930s. Shot in Hamilton, it is a typical comedy of the time involving many local scenes and local people in its making.

The Bath House

1934 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Radio Valve Revolution

1934 • 4 min • Netherlands

Cel animated short where worn out old radio tubes get their better qualities back by the young and powerful Philips radio tubes. "When you buy the new Miniwatt Tubes today, you will be enjoying better sound tomorrow."

A Family Wedding in Felixstowe

1934 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Having an architect for a father came in handy on Beris Wrinch's wedding day. A special bridge was designed so the wedding party could reach the marquee in style.

Ukhrul Medical Tour

1934 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A doctor and party visit the villages of eastern Manipur in India's far north east.

Some Say Chance

1934 • 45 min

In an Irish boarding school, girls play in the school's grounds, while Helen, an orphan, feels isolated from them as she wonders about the return of her father who went to Australia when she was young and has not returned. In London, unbeknown to Helen, her mother, 'Irish Moll', works as a prostitute, where she meets Gunning and potential clients in a bar. In fact, Helen's father abandoned his wife and child years before, and while | Helen awaits her father's return from Australia, she has been told that her mother is dead.