All Films

A Small Town in China

1933 • 9 min • Switzerland, United Kingdom

Shot by Methodist missionaries, this is an incredibly charming record of small-town life in an unidentified location in China. We see a bustling wharf town with canal-side dwellings, distinctive school buildings, and a hospital where newly graduated nurses pose for a group portrait. The relaxed smiles of Chinese and Europeans are captured in intimate close-ups, suggesting a tight-knit community.

Love's Labor Won

1933 • 7 min • United States of America

Cubby the Bear is in move and sings about it....

The Village Blacksmith

1933 • 5 min • United States of America

A Terrytoons cartoon released 3 November 1933.

Zwei Farben

1933 • 3 min

Abstract animation in color.

El Corazón de una Nación

1933 • 10 min • Chile

Documentary about the city of Santiago

A Day After a Hundred Years

1933 • 10 min • Japan

A filmmaker is brought back to life in the year 2032, after he was killed by a bomb in 1942. He sets out for a journey to Mars - as the space ship suddenly changes its course.

De Guayaquil a Quito

1933 • 59 min • Ecuador

Daily life in the city of Quito, Gauyaquil and Ibarra.

The Alley

1933 • 13 min

A lively City Symphony showing daily life in the lost city center of inter-war Rotterdam, alternating the poor life in the slums with the rapid, modern, and rich city life that lies beyond the end of the alley.

Polish Settlements in Brazilian Wilderness

1933 • 8 min

Propaganda film about Polish diaspora and their settlement in Paraná, Brazil.

Malaria

1933 • 1 min • Yugoslavia

Since 1928, the School of Public Health has been organizing its own film service, which started producing films aimed to educate the village. This is an animated fragment from an educational-propaganda film about malaria, created in a photo-film laboratory. The film was shot by engineer Aleksandar Gerasimov, head of the laboratory, edited by dr. Dragutin Chloupek, and the cartoonist was academic painter Vilko Šeferov.

The Dance Of The Crow

1933 • 1 min • Soviet Union

A crow dances and sings.

Greenland Rymill 1933

1933 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Film directed by John R. Rymill showing team members with their dog sledges during the 'East Greenland Expedition 1932-33'.

Death of the Earth

1933 • 45 min

In 1950, an astronomer discovers that a comet is going to destroy Earth. He warns the world, but nobody believes him. His engineer friend is building a spaceship, and they go on a space mission with the engineer's bride to save Earth.

Paradise on a Deserted island, part 1

1933 • 2 min • Japan

The film depicts live action footage of seagulls with a timelapse of an egg hatching.

Everest Flight, Blacker

1933 • 1 min

Amateur film taken during the first flight over Everest, showing aerial views of the mountain. The summit of Everest was flown over on the 3rd April 1933 by both machines of the ‘Houston Mount Everest Expedition’.

In Sala Operatoria

1933 • 1 min

Made by the son of the Surgeon Rodolfo Liscia during one of his father's surgeries.

Skiing

1933 • 1 min • Japan

Skiers enjoy a variety of slopes. Paper film, celuloid source unknown.

To Ireland By Air

1933 • 14 min

To Ireland by Midlands and Scottish Air Ferries Ltd. Shots of Renfrew airport where the plane is pulled out from the hangar and passengers board. Aerial shots of Arran and views of Belfast, Galway, Westport, Sligo and Derry. The return journey is by sea in the "Lairdsmoor".

Rough on Rats

1933 • 7 min • United States of America

An animated short, part of Van Beuren's Aesop Fables collection.

The Unbeatable Ohei’s Bandit Extermination

1933 • 2 min • Japan

While on an evening walk, Ohei is ambushed by legendary bandits from Japanese history and mythology, such as the legendary Monk Sohei and a three-eyed oni.

Amsterdam, zooals men het ziet tijdens een rondvlucht met de K.L.M.

1933 • 1 min

Amsterdam, as seen on a flight with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

Flip's Lunch Room

1933 • 8 min • United States of America

Flip is a cook at a restaurant with an old lady waiter and a young woman server.

Groucho Marx's Home Movies

1933 • 2 min • United States of America

Footage of Groucho, his wife and his children.

Cubby's World Flight

1933 • 8 min • United States of America

A Van Beuren "Aesop Fable" cartoon featuring Cubby Bear.