All Films

John Atkins Saves Up

1934 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Combining a whimsical romantic tale, practical information about the Post Office Savings Bank, and a gently experimental film-making technique, this film entertainingly depicts some of the prospects opened up by having a savings account.

Mushrooms

1934 • 20 min • United States of America

Harry Gribbon is Horace, a man with one passion in life: Mushrooms.

Brute Wanted

1934 • 24 min

A tall, shy and reserved young actor accidentally signs himself up for a wrestling match.

Perfectly Mismated

1934 • 20 min • United States of America

Leon's ex-wife moves into the apartment next to him.

Bread

1934 • 12 min

Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath it. Hunger marches organised by the National Unemployed Workers' Movement drew attention to the cause, but this left-wing collective picked up a cine-camera. The fictional story at the heart of the film is somewhat melodramatic, but the authentic surroundings give its message realism and weight.

Puss in Boots

1934 • 7 min

When the kittens of Puss in Boots are saved from drowning by a bagpiper, the cat offers to help the man rescue a princess as repayment of his debt.

Buddy's Adventures

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

In this one, Buddy and girlfriend Cookie are in a hot air balloon but they get forced to come down by some angry clouds with one of them being a rattlesnake.

The Stolen Heart

1934 • 10 min • Germany

A wicked giant attempts to steal all of the instruments from a small town.

Goldielocks and the Three Bears

1934 • 10 min • United States of America

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

The Old Pioneer

1934 • 8 min • United States of America

In this first entry in MGM's Happy Harmonies series, an old man tells a newsboy about his adventures with Native Americans in the Old West.

Robin Hood, Jr.

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

After the notorious pint-sized fibber Willie Whopper claims to have been Robin Hood, the cartoon segues into an adventure in which Willie is the singing-dancing Robin of Sherwood Forest. Maid Marion, imprisoned in Ill Manor and soon to be forced to marry the evil Prince John, writes asking Robin for his help. Robin disguises himself as a jester, comically disrupts the wedding and battles Prince John.

Klondike Gold

1934 • 22 min • United States of America

Edited version of The Trail Beyond. Rod Drew hunts for a missing girl and finds himself in a fight over a goldmine as well.

Zagreb in a Metropolitan Light

1934 • 5 min • Yugoslavia

A documentary about Croatia's capital aspirations of becoming metropolis. Camera follows everyday life of random city-goers. Title cards bring interesting plot twists, indeed making this film a mockumentary. One of the earliest preserved pieces of cinema in Croatia.

Holland in Tulip Time

1934 • 8 min • United States of America

This FitzPatrick Traveltalks short visits Holland in springtime, going first to the below-sea-level fishing village of Volendam, then to the capital city of Amsterdam. We then turn our sights to the cultivation of flowering spring bulbs - tulips and hyacinths. No other country is as renowned for bulb cultivation as is Holland.

Roamin' Vandals

1934 • 18 min

A 1934 short comedy subject starring Patsy Kelly and Lillian Miles.

There's Something About a Soldier

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

Betty Boop recruits for the Army by offering inductees a kiss. The recruits march off to war with a force of giant mosquitoes!

Buddy and Towser

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

On a winter night, Buddy charges Towser with the task of guarding his prize chickens, and then goes to bed. A fox enters the henhouse and is driven out by the hens and some ducks by having eggs thrown at him.

Love Thy Neighbor

1934 • 8 min • United States of America

Fleischer Studios Screen Song. Mary Small, "the little girl with the big voice", sings the title song with a Bouncing Ball. Animated sequence: a parody "Nosey News" reel.

Fate's Fathead

1934 • 20 min • United States of America

Accidental meetings and misconceptions lead a blissfully happy couple to fight and squabble.

Riding Speed

1934 • 53 min • United States of America

A Border Patrolman goes undercover to break up a smuggling ring on the Arizona-Mexico border.

Everything's Ducky

1934 • 20 min • United States of America

Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough take to the streets as pots and pans salesmen, wreaking havoc door to door with their demonstrations of their cookware.

Ferdowsi

1934 • 58 min • India, Iran

Biopic on the classic Persian poet of the 11th century Ferdowsi, and the author of Shahnameh, which is one of the world's longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the greatest epic of Persian speaking countries.

Pop Goes Your Heart

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

A robin sings, and the vegetation turns spring-like, followed by some more action by birds and bees...

West of the Law

1934 • 28 min • United States of America

Big-city gangsters run out of gas in the middle of the desert. A local cowboy gives them a tow back to his ranch, and the gangsters decide his ranch would be the perfect hide-out.