All Films

Coo Coo the Magician

1933 • 7 min • United States of America

Flip The Frog goes head-to-head with a swami-type magician, both trying to top each other (with some funny results). This all happens after the latter pulls a disappearing act with Flip's girlfriend.

A.M. to P.M.

1933 • 6 min • United States of America

Early cartoon from the Aesop's Fables series featuring Sentinel Louie, the "topper" to Otto Soglow's Little King comic strip.

Pio XI e Marconi

1933 • 6 min

The inauguration of Radio Vaticana, with Pope Pius XI and Guglielmo Marconi.

Sandman Tales

1933 • 6 min • United States of America

A Columbia Scrappy cartoon released October 6, 1933.

Three Brave Frogs

1933 • 7 min • Japan

Architects' Congress

1933 • 29 min

Architects' Congress is Lázló Moholy-Nagy's cinematic journal which recorded the 4th meeting of the CIAM (International Congress of Modern Architecture) in August of 1933. The meeting was held on board the ship Patris II which cruised from Marseilles to Athens, the Aegean Islands, and back. Congress participants featured such luminaries as Alvar Aalto, Cornelis van Eesteren, Charlotte Perriand, Ferdinand Léger, Seigfried Gideon, Le Corbusier, and José Luis Sert.

The Elastic Dancer

1933 • 3 min

Meet a gentleman with no bones to speak of - but a lot of movement.

Verdict: Not Guilty

1933 • 9 min • United States of America

Part religious allegory and part church pageant, it presents the heavenly trial of a woman who has died giving childbirth out of wedlock. The jailer wears a mask death's head mask and a nun's habit with a skull and crossbones on the front and God sits on an altar, flanked by angels, while the devil attempts to convict the woman for her sins. Shot with a handheld camera that doesn't always remain steady or keep the scene in frame, it is full of religious imagery and evocative folkloric elements, with flashbacks to the woman's life that provide a realism in sharp contrast to the allegorical pageantry. It shows its amateur origins, the texture, the pageantry, and the allegorical and ritualistic elements also looks forward to the American Underground cinema of Kenneth Anger, Curtis Harrington, and others in the 1950s and 1960s.

Över ån efter badvatten

1933 • 10 min • Sweden

Mr. Stockholm wants to swim but the archipelago boats do not leave until the afternoon, so there will be a trip with the hydroplan Södermanland, to Visby.

Preventing Tuberculosis

1933 • 29 min • Japan

This film is about the risk of tuberculosis and the importance of disease prevention; produced by the Home Ministry Public Health Division Health and Medical Bureau.

A Day at Turopolje Community

1933 • 25 min • Yugoslavia

Ethnographic depiction of everyday village life and the social relations in the period before socialist modernisation.

Depth

1933 • 5 min • Netherlands

Film experiment, made at the Filmtechnische Leerlangen (FTL). The makers of this 'absolute film' write in their introduction: 'This film only wants to be harmony; it is not a depiction of a certain subject.' The film shows abstract and figurative drawings that move and alternate. Balls, circles, lines, but also drawings of women, men and flats move across the screen. The only photographic images are those of card players. Prominent Filmliga member, filmmaker and FTL teacher Willem Bon was responsible for the colour technique.

Quest of the Perfect Woman: The Vampire of Marrakesh

1933 • 9 min

Tom Terriss (billed as 'The Vagabond Adventurer') is on the search for the perfect woman. This global quest has found him and his friend in Marrakesh, Morocco. Just before taking their search to Spain, Tom decides to slip away from his side kick. He soon stumbles upon an alluring and exotic beauty who turns out to be a vampire.

Fountains of Rome

1933 • 12 min • Italy

Images of fountains in Rome

Winter in Tallinn

1933 • 6 min

Tallinn winter scenes.

En dag ombord

1933 • 17 min

A portrayal of life aboard the cargo vessel M/S "Pedro Christophersen" of Stockholm during the Stockholm-Buenos Aires trade route.

Climbing Mount Everest

1933 • 32 min • China

A fascinating glimpse into life at high altitude for the party of the Mount Everest Expedition 1933 which intended, but ultimately failed to summit Everest.

La tragedia de la Escuela Wohnsiedler

1933 • 10 min • Venezuela

A tragedy occurs in a school.

Thylacine Film

1933 • 3 min

The original film of the Tasmanian tiger (also known as the thylacine) was shot by Australian zoologist David Fleay in 1933 on black-and-white film. Recently, this historic footage has been colorized and digitized by a team of international experts. You can watch the remastered footage of the last-known surviving Tasmanian tiger here. The thylacine, which resembled a medium-to-large-sized canid, had dark transverse stripes radiating from the top of its back. Sadly, the last known thylacine died in 1936 at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.

Stratos Fear

1933 • 7 min • United States of America

An overdose of gas at the dentist's office causes Willie to float like a balloon. He floats out of the office, through the stratosphere, and into outer space. There, he meets an alien scientist who has created a ray gun that will immediately process pigs and cows into cuts of meat...

River

1933 • 7 min

A poetically edited documentary capturing the gradual transformation of a river from the trickles of melting glaciers into a raging mountain stream. The film won 2nd place at the International Film Competition in Paris in 1933.

Marching Along

1933 • 7 min • United States of America

Comic strip character The Little King in an animated short, produced by Van Beuren studios.

On the Pan

1933 • 7 min • United States of America

Fiji and Samoa: The Cannibal Isles

1933 • 7 min • Fiji, Samoa, United States of America

Another FitzPatrick TravelTalk, taking us to the titular islands.