All Films

A Man Has Been Stolen

1934 • 60 min • France

Lost film. A young man is kidnapped by his business competitors, but the jailer falls in love with the man she has to keep a prisoner.

Mañana es domingo

1934 • 56 min • Argentina

A man is accused of stealing from a store when the real perpetrator is his girlfriend's brother.

Men of the Night

1934 • 58 min • United States of America

"Stake-Out" Kelly, ace detective, meets Mary Higgins at a small Hollywood sandwich shop where he expects to get some information concerning Packey Davis, head of a ring of jewel thieves. His suspicions are confirmed when Mary warns him that Davis is outside - waiting for him. Kelly sets a trap and, in the ensuing battle, one of the gangsters is killed. Davis is interested in rubbing out Kelly as Kelly and Baker are the only two witnesses against Smitty, a Davis henchman. Baker is in the hospital and the plan is bring Smitty there for identification. Kelly accidentally slips the secret to Mary, who in turn innocently informs Packey. A trap is laid.

The Live Ghost

1934 • 21 min • United States of America

Fish market workers Stan and Ollie are persuaded by a sea captain to shanghai a crew for him at the local bar for a dollar a head. Successful at first, the boys end up getting themselves shanghaied, and the crew vow revenge.

Goofy Movies Number Four

1934 • 10 min • United States of America

This entry in the series starts with a "Wotaphony Newsreel," which contains feature stories with humorous commentary. Then we see "Passions of Horse Pistol Pete," produced by Super-Stupid Pictures. It consists of excerpts from an unidentified silent movie, with narration that has no relation to the actual plot of the film.

Goofy Movies Number Seven

1934 • 10 min • United States of America

This comedy short contains a "Wotaphony" newsreel and a short film from Super-Stupid Pictures entitled "The Downfall of Thaddeus G. Blotto, Esq." As the audience views footage from unidentified silent movies, the narrator makes humorous comments while telling the (alleged) story.

Goofy Movies Number Five

1934 • 10 min • United States of America

In this short, Pete Smith provides comedic narration over silent film footage.

The Knife of the Party

1934 • 20 min • United States of America

A Theatrical Company is facing bankruptcy while being stuck in a hostile town, miles from home, in a hotel where they are already well in arrears in payment of their bills. The whole plot revolves around the troupe having to work in order to compensate the Hotel owner.

Buddy's Trolley Troubles

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

Buddy runs his own trolley. Most of it seems to be a musical number. However, there is a criminal living in the ditches as he breaks loose and hijacks Buddy's trolley.

The Hearts of Age

1934 • 8 min • United States of America

A colonial scene in the U.S. An old lady sits astride a bell while a man in blackface, wig, and livery pulls the bell rope. From an upper door emerges an old man, dressed as a dandy, who tips his hat to the woman as he walks down stairs grinning. Others leave the same door and walk down the same stairs: a shabby man, a cop, and, several times, the same dandy. The man in blackface hangs himself; the dandy continues to smile. A bell tolls, a grave beckons. In the dark, the dandy plays the piano. Is he Death? The Hearts of Age is the first film made by Orson Welles. The film is an eight-minute short, which he co-directed with William Vance in 1934. The film stars Welles' first wife, Virginia Nicholson, as well as Welles himself. He made the film while attending the Todd School for Boys, in Woodstock, Illinois, at the age of 19.

And She Learned About Dames

1934 • 9 min • United States of America

Students at New York's Rovina Finishing School for Girls send their photographs to the makers of Claybury's Beauty Soap, in the hope of being chosen as "Miss Complexion of 1934." Martha Howson wins the contest, which includes a trip to Hollywood and a tour of the Warner Brothers lot with Lyle Talbot. When she gets to the studio, all she wants to do is meet Dick Powell, star of the new Warner Brothers film Dames (1934).

The Third Sex

1934 • 59 min

An exploitation film about homosexuality. The film is believed to be lost. Elinor Gordon, who was frightened sexually by a man while an infant, confides in her psychoanalyst that she is contemplating yielding to the advances of her overly attentive and affectionate female roommate, Bobby Allen. The psychoanalyst advises the woman to dispossess her roommate, who works in the same law office as she, and to marry a football player. After the young woman rebuffs her roommate, she accompanies her lawyer employer, Dave Warren, to the country home of the firm's senior partner, John Grant. While Elinor falls in love with Dave, the senior partner's socialite daughter, Judy, yearns for Paul, an artist, who, unknown to her, is a homosexual.

The Spectacle Maker

1934 • 21 min • United States of America

A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious Technicolor.

Goofy Movies Number Three

1934 • 10 min • United States of America

This "complete show on one reel" starts with Super-Stupid Picture's "The Heel of a Nation", in which the narrator tells a humorous story while the audience sees scenes from a totally unrelated, unidentified silent movie. Then comes a "Wotaphony" newsreel. The last segment is a spoof of James A. FitzPatrick's Traveltalk series. We see a Pitts Fatrick Travel Squawk titled "A Visit to Schnozzle Isle." Schnozzle Isle is just off the coast of a Polynesian land which, when seen from the air, has a profile that looks remarkably (or perhaps not so remarkably) like 'Jimmy Durante' .

Borinage

1934 • 36 min • Belgium

Henri Storck and Joris Ivens’ landmark of social documentary, blending staged scenes with locals and on-the-spot reportage to depict the 1932 miners’ strike in Belgium’s Borinage—evictions, hunger, and police repression—transforming outrage into a call for solidarity.

Famous Scenes from Pagliacci

1934 • 12 min • United States of America

Scenes from Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera with Canio, the clown, introducing actors who are seen in pantomime while the operatic voices are heard off-screen. Canio discovers his wife has been unfaithful but carries on with his performance.

Roping Wild Bears

1934 • 9 min • United States of America

Wild bears that bother livestock are captured with ropes and shipped to zoos.

Carmen

1934 • 9 min • Germany

Silhouette film. Based on Bizet’s opera “Carmen”.

Everybody Likes Music

1934 • 20 min • United States of America

In the province of Bullvania, the President loses important papers and war is almost declared. Detective Shemp Howard and his partner come to the rescue.

Rambling 'Round Radio Row #10

1934 • 10 min

Four musical numbers plus a short comedy sketch. Harriet Lee sings "Sitting on a Log", multi-instrumentalist Frank Novak Jr. plays the accordion, clarinet, saxophone, and xylophone, Baby Rose Marie sings "You're Gonna Lose Your Gal", and Morton Downey sings "When Irish Eyes are Smiling" at the piano. Roy Atwell plays a radio announcer who keeps tripping over his words.

Another Wild Idea

1934 • 19 min • United States of America

Betty's father has an invention that looks like a fancy camera; it emits an ultra-lavender ray that temporarily rids the ray's target of inhibitions. To test it, Betty's father zaps Charley hoping his newly-aberrant behavior will cause Betty to end her affections for the milquetoast. Dad's plan backfires: the invention works perfectly, Charley gets a backbone, and Betty loves her new forceful man. However, Charley's courage and lack of a superego get him in trouble with the law. He goes on trial for assaulting a bullying police officer. Is Charley going up the river leaving Betty high and dry?

Cheerless

1934 • 56 min • Soviet Union

In order to eradicate malaria, endemic in the marshes of the Mingrelia region, the authorities plan to drain a large territory that according to legend is the realm of Uzhmuri, the Queen of Frogs and a deadly deity for intruders.

Dîner de gala aux Ambassadeurs

1934 • 5 min • France

Three successive sketches: Sacha Guitry successively calls Pauline Carton, Gaston Severin and Paul Pauley by telephone, to invite them to the Ambassadors gala dinner.

Call of the Coyote: A Legend of the Golden West

1934 • 50 min • United States of America

A cowboy protects a girl from those who murdered her father for his gold mine.