All Films

Norway: Land of the Midnight Sun

1933 • 9 min

A Traveltalk visit to Norway's fjords and the Lapplanders in the northern latitudes.

Antique Antics

1933 • 6 min • United States of America

Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released June 14, 1933.

Littoria

1933 • 11 min

A documentary on agriculture by Raffaello Matarazzo.

Election Campaign 1932 (Last Election)

1933 • 13 min • Germany

Ella Bergmann-Michel aborted her last film "Wahlkampf 1932 (Letzte Wahl)" about the election campaign in Frankfurt because of political reasons. During the shooting of the film Bergmann-Michel was arrested und parts of the films were destroyed. The film only exists as a fragment.

Nature's Workshop

1933 • 7 min • United States of America

A Walter Lantz Pooch the Pup cartoon released June 5, 1933.

The Rolling Wheel

1933 • 14 min • Germany

Silhouette film illustrating the growth of wheeled traffic from the earliest tim es to the modern car.

The Rugged Island: A Shetland Lyric

1933 • 56 min • United Kingdom

Hailed by John Grierson as 'one of the best descriptions of life in the country anybody has yet made', the film follows a young couple torn between the choice of emigration to Australia or remaining to work their croft in Shetland.

Mussolinia di Sardegna

1933 • 11 min • Italy

The documentary is about the foundation of a new town in the province of Oristano: Mussolinia. Named Arborea after 1945, it was founded as a result of a dike’s construction in the Tirso basin. The film shows the vastness of the dike in details. Forty thousand hectares of Campidano were made suitable to settlement thanks to hydroelectric plants, and the hard work of plowing and sowing the fields. The images show the efforts of building up a city from nothing to the first farms and houses, the road network and the new church. The last frames are in a street market: the display of goods to be sold and the faces of women doing their shopping.

Lahore - Badshahi Mosque

1933 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Extraordinary footage of prayers in the Punjabi capital.

British Paramount News No.251

1933 • 2 min • United Kingdom

We Protest: 80,000 descend on Hyde Park to demonstrate against Hitler’s antisemitism.

Goofy Ramonet

1933 • 39 min • Spain

Ramonet is a teenager that can't stop making mischief. In order to avoid this, his mother sends him to be educated. Unfortunately, the move backfires. It is the first picture to be filmed in Valencian.

A Child of Sun

1933 • 57 min • Soviet Union

The film tells us about the development of the cotton industry in Armenia.

Sally Sallies Forth

1933 • 13 min

The antics of Sally, a pet chimpanzee, in the English countryside.

Back in '23

1933 • 10 min • Canada

Directed by Gordon Sparling in 1933, this film revisits Canadien culture 10 years prior in 1923.

Papua and Kalabahai, Weird Haunts of Strange People

1933 • 9 min • United States of America

This Traveltalk series short visits Papua and Kalabahai.

Ramazan

1933 • 55 min • Soviet Union

In one of the villages, opponents of the Soviet regime - the bai, the mullah and the disguised enemy - the chairman of the collective farm - decide to use the Muslim holiday of Ramadan in order to disrupt work in the cotton fields of the collective farm, and some farmers succumb to the mullah's agitation - they hold fast and cannot work in the field. The individual farmer Timur, the farm laborer, faithfully follows the laws of Ramadan. Timur is an honest and religious person, a hardworking worker who manages both for himself and manages to work both in the mosque and at the bai, dreams of making a pilgrimage to Mecca.

Santiago

1933 • 8 min

A look at downtown Santiago during the growth and modernization process.

Mysore Dasara

1933 • 17 min • United Kingdom

The Mysore Palace shines with 100,000 lights in a dazzling 400-year-old celebration.

Hockey Champions

1933 • 11 min • Canada

The fourth and final game in the 1933 playoffs for the Stanley Cup played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. The match, between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the New York Rangers, is described by the well-known sports commentator Foster Hewitt. Hewitt also interviews the players and coaches of both teams in their respective dressing rooms. Scoreless at the end of regulation time, the game goes into overtime: now the first goal scored will decide the game. The Rangers score to take the Cup.

Footnote to Fact

1933 • 8 min • United States of America

In New York, a distraught woman sits in her rented room in a rocking chair. Outside, people shop and engage in commerce, men light pipes, hands type. A mother and baby play peek-a-boo: things are okay for many. The woman continues to rock. A drunk is arrested; a Salvation Army band plays, kids run around. Protesting unemployed workers appear. The rocking woman's face becomes more distorted. Military officers parade. A man picks through discarded clothes, hobos sit listless. These men are veterans of the Great War, now forgotten, many alcoholic. Passersby ignore men passed out on sidewalks. The woman stops rocking and takes action.

Prince George's Visit to Scunthorpe

1933 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Prince George, who later became the Duke of Kent, takes in some dramatic scenes in a local steelworks, opens a trunk road, and visits the War Memorial Hospital to open a new nurses' home - where his presence is eagerly awaited by giggling nurses.

Spite Flight

1933 • 7 min • United States of America

Willie Whooper finds his girl Mary weeping because her mother is being hounded by the evil landlord who holds the mortgage on their house...

Bulloney

1933 • 7 min • United States of America

Flip has been caught in flagranti with the bullfighter's girlfriend, now he must fight the matador and the even meaner bull.

The Fatal Note

1933 • 8 min • United States of America

The Little King prepares to play the piano, but a evil witch has put a bomb in it.