All Films

Insultin' the Sultan

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

Willie Whopper tells a tall tale of his girlfriend being carried off by a Sultan and his efforts to rescue her.

Muratti Gets in the Act

1934 • 3 min

Muratti was a German brand of cigarettes. Fischinger transforms bunches of standing cigarettes into things that resemble human beings. At first they walk daintily around packages of Muratti tins. Gradually as the film progresses their motions become more graceful, as they do "slides" and other motions and formations associated with dance. The apotheosis of the film is remarkable: Dozens and dozens of cigarettes, arranged in Busby Berkeley-like fashion, repeatedly bow to the horizon, where a giant sun labeled "Muratti" rises in response to to their worshiping activity.

Autopolis

1934 • 42 min • France

The stages of car manufacturing in the immense Citroën factories on the Quai de Javel in Paris, from the foundry to the assembly lines, right through to the finishing touches. We observe the workers' precise tasks, the pace of production, and the employees' daily lives.

Bowery Daze

1934 • 6 min • United States of America

In the 1890's, Krazy runs a sleazy dive in the Bowery where Kitty sings and dances for a mostly drunken, low class clientèle. as the beer flows and the piano tinkles, a big, tough guy comes in and starts trouble, but everyone pelts him with fists, furniture and beer mugs until he's vanquished.

Vengence is Mine

1934 • 22 min • United States of America

Edited version of The Lawless Frontier. Mexican outlaw Zanti killed John Tobin's parents. John teams up with Dusty, also hurt by Zanti, to get the bad guy.

How's Crops

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

Cubby rises and shines with the dawn, and, reading a headline, learns that a "mysterious menace" is attacking farms and destroying crops. He uses his ingenuity to uncover the mystery. Cubby and his girlfriend go underground and create a crop of synthetic vegetables in their underground cave-factory, then force them upward through the soil. An evil clothes-wearing opossum conspires to steal the entire load of vegetables in his pickup truck, but Cubby's worm friend tips them off. Cubby bombs the opossum with a pineapple, blowing him sky-high. Beans, peas, and other assorted objects take on lives and personalities of their own.

Jest of Honor

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

One of half a dozen movie cartoon's based on Soglow's "Little King" panel comic strip.

Those Were Wonderful Days

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

Animated musical short. Songs including Oh You Beautiful Doll, Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet, In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree.

A Royal Good Time

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

A Little King cartoon from the Van Beuren Studios.

Tibet, Land of Isolation

1934 • 9 min

James A. FitzPatrick tour of Tibet in the 1930s.

The Good Scout

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

Willy is a Boy Scout who recounts his good deeds to the scoutmaster.

The Dizzy Dwarf

1934 • 8 min • United States of America

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit animated short.

The Lone Rider

1934 • 18 min • United States of America

A cowboy takes on a gang of gold mine swindlers.

Goin' to Heaven on a Mule

1934 • 7 min

A lazy farm hand must choose between "good" and "evil" regarding alcohol. His nightmare shows him going to heaven on a mule, but when he's there he gets into the jug of booze again and gets kicked to Hades.

La ruta de don Quijote

1934 • 19 min • Spain

A poetic journey through the paths and places of old Castile that were traveled and visited by the melancholic knight Don Quixote of La Mancha and his judicious squire Sancho Panza, the immortal characters of Miguel de Cervantes, which offers a candid depiction of rural life in Spain in the early 1930s and illustrates the first sentence of the first article of the Spanish Constitution of 1931, which proclaims that Spain is a democratic republic of workers of all kind.

Murzilka in Africa

1934 • 12 min • Soviet Union

A group of Soviet children, together with Murzilka, go to Africa to free the Negro girl Kane from captivity. Overcoming difficulties and obstacles, they wrest Kane from the grip of the oppressor-colonizer.

Annie Moved Away

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

Oswald and Annie are set to be married, but Pete steals Annie away momentarily by pretending to be a "handsome gentleman" who will fetch her to Oswald.

Un Muelle del Sena

1934 • 3 min • Argentina

An exercise of camara and editing.

Hollywood on Parade No. B-4

1934 • 8 min • United States of America

Songwriter Mack Gordon introduces flagpole sitter Shipwreck Kelly, who hoists some girls aloft with him and shows them sights around Hollywood.

Rambling 'Round Radio Row #9

1934 • 11 min • United States of America

An immigrant has become a mailman on Radio Row. One of his first duties is to deliver letters to Bunny Poe, Vera Van, Ramon & Rosalie and George Jessel. Each of them is doing a specialty, except for Jessel, who's been interrupted in his rehearsal by a fellow who wants him to appear on a benefit for starving "moonlight-song writers". Jessel accepts and tells his mother that he won't be home for dinner, until he is told that the benefit is not in town but in Philadelphia. But the fellow has a pretty secretary...

Tomatos Another Day

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

Watson’s avant-garde film is a unique example of dadaist aesthetics in early sound cinema. A minimalist and virtually expressionless acting style on a claustrophobic set characterizes the melodramatic love triangle. Watson considered the film a failure, though it appears extremely modern today, and suppressed its existence. - Jan-Christopher Horak

Halsted Street

1934 • 11 min

City Symphony of Chicago

Secret of the Skies

1934 • 56 min

Hal Wayne (Norman Shepherd) is a bank clerk turned thief on the run. He hijacks a plane, which crashes in a remote mountain location. The survivors' hopes of rescue soon fade, and they try to ration their remaining supplies.

Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing

1934 • 8 min • United States of America

This series of animated cartoons- sometimes including bits of live action- took popular songs of the day and combined the popular "bouncing ball" following the lyrics in an effort for audience sing-along's. "Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing" sung by Artie Dunn and Les Reis.