All Films

Pieśniarz Warszawy

1934 • 54 min • Poland

Julek doesn't want to work, he prefers to sing on the street and marry his beloved. His family doesn't want to hear about it, to which Julek sings in the voice of Eugeniusz Bodo: "That's just how cold-hearted I am..."

Rip Van Winkle

1934 • 6 min • United States of America

Rip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskill mountains where he runs into an odd group of men drinking and playing bowls. He drinks some of their mysterious brew and passes out. When he wakes up under a tree he is astonished to find that 20 years have passed and things are a lot different. This is a charming story about how America changed due to the cival war, only in a different and more subtle way than ever told before.

Can You Take It

1934 • 6 min • United States of America

Popeye sees Olive going into the Bruiser Boys Club, where she works in the hospital ward. Their motto, "Can you take it?", is a clear challenge to Popeye. President Bluto puts Popeye through the tests, and while he fares better than most, he still ends up in the hospital ward, until he eats his spinach and goes after the members.

Africa, Land of Contrast

1934 • 9 min • United States of America

James A. FitzPatrick takes a look at the continent of Africa.

The Ballad of Paducah Jail

1934 • 19 min

Kentucky humorist Irvin S. Cobb hunts for an escaped felon, but the tables are turned when the criminal nabs him instead.

Betty Boop's Little Pal

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

Pudgy the Pup makes a mess of Betty Boop's picnic, is sent home, and runs afoul of the dog catcher.

The Super Snooper

1934 • 21 min • United States of America

Andy is a rich and well-respected man. But he's concerned what sort of boyfriend his daughter might have gotten as she's talking marriage and her previous boyfriends were very short-term and he didn't like them very much. So, when he learns where this boyfriend works, he goes undercover as a porter there to spy on him. Unfortunately, he ends up befriending the wrong folks and thinks the boyfriend is a crook...when it's really these new 'friends' who are jewel thieves.

The Lawless Frontier

1934 • 59 min • United States of America

Tobin is after the bandit Zanti who killed his parents. He finds him just as Zanti is about to kill Dusty and kidnap Ruby. Saving the two, he goes after Zanti. He catches him but Zanti escapes the Sheriff's handcuff's and this time Tobin has to chase him into the desert.

6.30 Collection

1934 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Short documentary showing the workings of a large London sorting office.

The China Shop

1934 • 8 min • United States of America

The elderly owner of a china shop leaves for the night, and the various figurines and decorated mugs come to life. A demonic figure captures an upper-class lady and does battle with her lord, damaging much of the shop. But the demon proves to have a glass jaw and, literally, a yellow streak, and the happy couple is soon reunited. No dialogue, but some signs are in English, particularly the final punch-line.

Reducing Creme

1934 • 8 min • United States of America

Willie Whooper, doused in reducing creme, shrinks to the size of a mouse and is chased by a cat throughout a house. Finally Willie returns to normal size and angrily covers the cat in reducing creme. The cat now shrinks to mouse size, and gets a black eye from the mouse he habitually torments.

I Scream

1934 • 20 min • United States of America

Gus Shy, an ice cream man, gets embroiled in a vicious gangland feud.

Betty Boop's Life Guard

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

Betty takes a trip to the beach and needs the assistance of a big, hunky lifeguard when she rides her rubber horsy out too far!

Switzerland the Beautiful

1934 • 8 min • United States of America

In this Traveltalk series short we learn that four million ethnic French, German and Italian people live in Switzerland. The Alps and their important part in the country's history is noted. We view vividly-coloured alpine wildflowers which cover the mountain meadows in the spring. We see rushing mountain streams, fed by melting snows, and then learn of colourful alpine chalets and traditional wood-carving amongst other highlights.

Citadels of the Mediterranean

1934 • 10 min

Visits to Gibraltar, Alhambra and Athens in the 1930s. Gibraltar, pan across harbor, naval ships, POV down main street with shops, Alhambra, Spain, Sierra Nevada mountains, Gate of Justice, Hall of the Ambassador, arabic letters, Court of Lions, Athens, Greece, Acropolis, Parthenon, Temple of Olympian Zeus, Greek army guards marching and dancing, Socrates prison cave, students reading Socrates, downtown Athens.

A Little Bird Told Me

1934 • 7 min • United States of America

A live-action little boy is caught stealing jam! When he asks his big sister how she knew he had done it, she answers "A little bird told me." This launches an animated segment about a newspaper run by birds and how they got the scoop on the little boy's crime.

The Star Packer

1934 • 53 min • United States of America

John Travers and Yak, his faithful Indian sidekick, pick up where a murdered sheriff leaves off, and try to nab the mysterious Shadow.

The Gold Ghost

1934 • 21 min • United States of America

Dumped by his girlfriend, Buster drives west and winds up in a ghost town called Vulture City, where he appoints himself sheriff.

Ridin' Thru

1934 • 55 min • United States of America

Dad Brooks is in financial trouble and needs to sell a lot of horses. But they are being rustled and needing help, he sends for Tom. Tom looks for the rustlers but eventually realizes that someone is using a wild horse to do the rustling. He finds the secret entrance used by the rustlers to hide the horses but soon finds himself a prisoner.

The Hot Choc-late Soldiers

1934 • 5 min • United States of America

A group of confectionary soldiers go to war against a neighboring cookie castle.

Name the Woman

1934 • 60 min • United States of America

The fate of a city hangs upon the innocence of a girl charged with murder. A young, inexperienced, but adventurous newspaper reporter is bent on clearing her name by ripping the lid off a corrupt government machine.

The Chases of Pimple Street

1934 • 20 min • United States of America

In order to get out of his boss's doghouse, Charley pairs his troublesome sister-in-law with an important client and inevitable complications result.

The Headless Horseman

1934 • 9 min • United States of America

Early color animated short of an adaptation of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

Voice in the Night

1934 • 59 min • United States of America

Tim Dale is the son of the president of a big-city telephone company and quits his job following a dispute with his father over company policy. He takes up polo playing. Circumstances force him to give up his polo-playing and take on the job of helping a small-town telephone company overcome a plan by a gang to force the company out of business. He calls in his telephone-company pals Bob Hall and Jack to aid him against the crooks led by Matthews and Jackson, working for crooked lawyer Thomas Benton.