All Films

The Cracked Ice Man

1934 • 19 min • United States of America

Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.

Masks and Memories

1934 • 32 min • United States of America

In this musical short, three individuals try to entice a reclusive uncle to join the festivities during Mardi Gras.

Orphan's Benefit

1934 • 8 min • United States of America

Donald and Mickey put on a charity show, for some orphans.

Soup and Fish

1934 • 18 min • United States of America

At a ritzy beauty salon, while a mud pack is on her face, a wealthy socialite invites Thelma and Patsy, two salon attendants, to a party, mistakenly thinking they are social acquaintances whom she wants to entertain a visiting count. Just before our working-class pair arrives at the party, the hostess is called away to see to an ill dog. Thelma tries to behave in a refined way, but Patsy, with a head full of practical jokes and a bra filled with trick gadgets, turns the party on its head. The butler calls the hostess back to her home. Is Thelma and Patsy's moment in high society coming to a crashing end?

Three Times Before

1934 • 17 min • Germany

A bickering husband and wife decide to go to a lawyer to get divorced. When in the office, they present their sides of the same story, of which they are wildly different.

Der Theaterbesuch

1934 • 23 min • Germany

Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt have actually prepared themselves for a relaxing evening at home, but then the housekeeper enters and gives them two theater tickets for a performance of "Faust". As time is of the essence, a hectic rush ensues: At dinner, the couple get their cutlery tangled up, the cuffs can't be found, nor can a fresh shirt, and to make matters worse, oil ends up on the good dress. The couple reproach each other and bicker until the husband sits around offended and the wife cries. A glance at the theater tickets finally provides relief: the tickets are only valid for tomorrow's performance.

West of the Divide

1934 • 54 min • United States of America

Ted Hayden impersonates a wanted man and joins Gentry's gang only to learn later that Gentry was the one who killed his father.

Tomorrow's Children

1934 • 50 min • United States of America

Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities—her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue breeding, and her siblings are disabled, have mental problems or are imprisoned—she is ordered by a court to undergo sterilization so that her family's "defective genes" won't be passed on to any further. Her boyfriend Jim and a kindly priest search desperately for a way to stop the forced surgery before it's too late.

Done in Oil

1934 • 18 min • United States of America

Thelma tries to pass herself off as a famous French painter.

Gulliver Mickey

1934 • 8 min • United States of America

Mickey is first seen reading Gulliver's Travels while the mice orphan children are pretending to be sailors. After ruining their game Mickey tries to make it up to them by retelling the Liliput sequences of Gulliver's Travels pretending it was a real event that happened to him by portraying the role of Gulliver. The story ends with Mickey saving the town from a giant spider (Pete). However after telling the story, one of the children dangles a fake spider attached to a fishing rod which scares Mickey out of his witts.

The Crime of Helen Stanley

1934 • 58 min • United States of America

An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.

Oliver the Eighth

1934 • 27 min • United States of America

Barbershop owners Stan and Ollie answer an ad in the newspaper from a wealthy widow looking for a husband. Ollie only mails in his response and is invited to the widow's mansion. Stan discovers his unmailed letter and insists on tagging along. At the mansion, the widow's creepy butler informs them that the woman is crazy. She was once jilted by an Oliver and now her hobby is marrying Olivers and then slitting their throats. Now the boys must figure out how to escape.

Bubbling Over

1934 • 20 min

In this all-black short musical comedy, a woman has a husband so lazy she can stick a pin in him without him waking up... but announcing lunch gets him up pretty fast. She's also saddled with a bevy of his lazy relatives. Four more come by and sing as a quartet. After the wife learns they had been traveling men, she advises them to keep traveling and kicks them out...

Poor Cinderella

1934 • 11 min • United States of America

In the only Betty Boop color cartoon, Cinderella (Betty) goes to the ball thanks to her fairy godmother. Later, only her foot fits the glass slipper.

Range Riders

1934 • 46 min • United States of America

An elderly rancher writes to his son to come home and help him fight against a bandit gang that is trying to take over the ranch.

Mito Kômon: Rai Kunitsugu no maki

1934 • 49 min • Japan

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

Inside Information

1934 • 48 min • United States of America

Lloyd Wilson, trusted employee of an investment firm, is suspected of theft when $20,000 in security bonds is stolen from his office. Tarzan, the Famous Police Dog, has an intuitive dislike of an apparently respectable citizen, and this leads Wilson and the police to the gang headquarters. Tarzan wins a public citation for his leading part in breaking the case against a desperate gang of criminals.

The Crosby Case

1934 • 60 min

Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.

The First Round-Up

1934 • 18 min • United States of America

The gang packs up for a camping trip to Cherry Creek two miles from their home, but to them it is the wilderness. After night falls, the hooting owls and croaking frogs conjure up visions of spooks. When a thunderstorm hits, they all scurry for home.

The Man from Hell

1934 • 55 min • United States of America

A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough western town where he finds trouble everywhere.

Sky Larks

1934 • 8 min • United States of America

Oswald the Rabbit and his friend travel up to Mars where they meet the Roman god of war and a variety of anthropomorphic weapons.

Beyond the Law

1934 • 58 min • United States of America

Railroad Detective Tim Weston, charmed by Helen Glenn, agrees to clear her ex-convict father, John Glenn, of a murder and a robbery he did not commit. Complications quickly arrive and Weston finds himself hunted rather than being the hunter. A lost film.

School for Romance

1934 • 20 min • United States of America

Count Romansky is a newspaper columnist who specializes in romance issues. When he loses his job, he opens up a school where he instructs his pretty pupils on affairs of the heart.

Big Hearted Herbert

1934 • 60 min • United States of America

After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.