All Films

So You Won't T-T-T-Talk

1934 • 21 min • United States of America

A hen-pecked husband takes his shrewish wife, and her obnoxious little brother, on a weekend camping trip. Along for the ride are the boorish downstairs neighbors (Shemp Howard and Ruth Gillette). A pleasant getaway turns into a nightmare thanks to the antics of Junior, an uncooperative tent, a lazy and oblivious Henry, and a skunk.

Buddy the Gob

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

Buddy is a US sailor on shore leave in China, where he rescues a girl who is about to be sacrificed to a dragon.

Pals of the West

1934 • 20 min • United States of America

Sheriff Ed Dawson (Franklyn Farnum)asks Texas Rangers Wally Wallace (Hal Taliaferro) and Bill (Al Hoxie), to go into an outlaw stronghold, where his daughter Ann (Dorothy Crittin)is being held prisoner, and capture the gang led by Larkin (Yakima Canutt). But Wally's identity is revealed and they are taken prisoner.

Jungle Jitters

1934 • 8 min • United States of America

Stranded on a tropical island, Willie meets a topless hula-dancing girl! There's also some rather politically incorrect fun with black native cannibals. Both Willie and the cannibal king have eyes for the girl.

Marketplace

1934 • 4 min • Soviet Union

The only surviving scene from The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda, a satirical animated opera that mixed fairy tale by Alexander Pushkin, music by Dmitri Shostakovich and Russian avant-garde.

Bam-Bam

1934 • 7 min • Sweden

The first Swedish animated short film with sound.

Alle Kreise erfasst Tolirag

1934 • 3 min • Germany

An animated experimental film showing coloured circles moving to classical music, which only got past the 1934 censors billed as a commercial.

Air Post

1934 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Shows the workings of Britain's Air Post service.

Swiss Trip (Rivers and Landscapes)

1934 • 13 min • Germany

The black and white, live-action Swiss Trip, scored with Bach's 3rd Brandenburg Concerto (like Motion Painting No. 1), is kind of a nature or travel film cut via noticeable (in-camera?) edits that give the impression the film is constantly blinking and foreshadow techniques Stan Brakhage would use in the '50s and '60s. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Der Führer

1934 • 15 min • Germany

Propaganda short about the "Führer" Adolf Hitler

Round the Wirral with a Movie Camera

1934 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Birkenhead's sights, shopping opportunities and industries.

Toybox Series, Episode 3: Picturebook of 1936

1934 • 8 min • Japan

Peaceful citizens (one of whom resembles Felix the Cat) are dancing to music before their island is being invaded by a gigantic rodent that resembles Mickey Mouse. The islanders contact legendary folk-hero Momotaro from a giant book to battle Mickey.

Kamishibai Kintaro

1934 • 7 min • Japan

Kintaro, gentle and strong, is popular in the forest. He eventually becomes a great samurai with the name Sakata no Kintoki.

The Lion Tamer

1934 • 9 min • United States of America

The Lion Tamer is a 1934 animated short film produced by the Van Beuren Studios and directed by Vernon Stallings and starring Charles J. Correll and Freeman F. Gosden as the voices of their popular radio characters, Amos 'n' Andy.

Maruche

1934 • 32 min • France

Southern Exposure

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

In a musical parody of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", slaves pick cotton by the ton, Simon LeGree threatens Uncle Tom with a whip, and Krazy helps Little Eva run away on ice floes created by dumping out the blocks from an ice truck. When she dies and goes to heaven, Krazy attempts to trick St. Peter into letting him in too, but he falls earthward in time to wake up, it's all a nightmare he's been having at the theatre putting on a "Tommer" show.

Holiday Land

1934 • 8 min • United States of America

Scrappy does not want to get up and go to school. As the days peel off his calendar, the holidays come to life, personified. Father Time takes Scrappy on a tour through Holiday Land.

Hitler's Reign of Terror

1934 • 55 min • Germany, United States of America

A documentary meant to show Americans what had been going on in Germany since Hitler's rise, centered on a fact finding trip by Cornelius Vanderbilt, with newsreel footage of book burnings and such.

Rhapsody in Two Languages

1934 • 10 min • Canada

Rhapsody in Two Languages is a city symphony film reminiscent of the work of Walter Ruttmann and Dziga Vertov, a paean to '30s Montreal that contrasts old and new: horse-drawn carts, flashy new automobiles, busy streets, jaywalking monks, and wild nightlife, with overlaps and spinning images that suggest just how out of control things could get when the sun went down.

Very Close Veins

1934 • 18 min • United States of America

Ben Blue has "the largest vein in the country," but not the kind that the gold prospectors in Alaska think he's got!

What Price Jazz

1934 • 17 min

In rhyme, a soapbox preacher, Mr. Blue Laws, enlists Mr. Public Opinion in the efforts of the Society for the Prevention of Jazz. Armed with an ax and a buckshot-shooting pistol, the two of them interrupt Ted Fiorito and his jazz orchestra (and showgirls). The lads head for the woods, where Ted convinces them to stand their ground. They're joined by their songstress who says it may be their last day on earth, so sing the blues for all they're worth. Then the dancers arrive to report they barely got away, and it's time for a final strut. Public Opinion brings a death sentence. Is there no appeal?

Gentlemen in Storm and Gentlemen in Crown

1934 • 12 min • Sweden

“A retrospect of European events during the past forty years, composed from early documentary material, and including one of the earliest extant specimens of news-reel film dating from 1897.” - The [London] Film Society, 1936.

L'Article 382

1934 • 45 min

While walking back home at night, an examining judge is robbed of his watch. Fortunately he offers resistance and, by roughing up the mugger, manages to recover his belonging. Imagine his surprise when he realizes his thief is none other than... the President of the Court of Justice! How will the poor man behave with him knowing what he knows?

Did You Know That?

1934 • 11 min • Canada

A review of little known and unusual facts collected from across Canada: New Brunswick's Magnetic Hill; a town in British Columbia with enough buildings for four thousand people yet inhabited by one man; and a religion which forbids its members to drive automobiles.