All Films

Reckless Decision

1933 • 53 min • United States of America

A mother and father try to find a way to protect their young daughter against the influences of booze, wild parties and dancing during the Jazz Age.

The Air Race

1933 • 7 min • United States of America

Willie tells his friends that he was once a pilot in an air race.

Petite bonne sérieuse

1933 • 40 min

La Terreur de la pampa

1933 • 40 min

Billy Forster, a dishwasher, dreams of becoming a hero. One day, he leaves Hollywood for Texas, where he is soon hired as a ranch hand by Tom Spielman. What Billy does not know is that the rancher is also a highwayman who, with the help of his Negro henchman Sam, terrorizes and robs isolated travelers. But, assisted by Nelly, Spielman's adopted daughter, and Partridge Eye, an Indian, Billy manages to bring the two criminals to justice.

Yoshichiro Salutes

1933 • 11 min • Japan

We should never forget our manners no matter how much we may excel in martial arts. Learn lessons from Yoshichiro's failure.

Les rigolos

1933 • 40 min

Simla and Lahore

1933 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Evocative observational scenes of Simla and Lahore, including the gorgeous Shalimar Gardens and Anarkali Bazar.

Unemployed: The Destiny of Millions

1933 • 21 min • Germany

Willy Zielke was a brilliant photographer and filmmaker from Łodź who suffered greatly at the hands of the Nazis: His German feature films of the 1930s, Arbeitslos and Das Stahltier, were banned; Leni Riefenstahl made use of him to conceive, direct, and shoot the prologue for Olympia, but gave him no credit; and later, in a mentally incapacitated state, he was confined to an insane asylum where he was forcibly sterilized, only to be released after five years in 1942 so that Riefenstahl could make use of him once again on the final shooting of Tiefland. Zielke’s 1933 film Arbeitslos, commissioned by a Maffei railway company unemployment shelter, presented a despairing portrait of a nation in near-total collapse.

Mickey's Race

1933 • 15 min • United States of America

Mickey and his gang of children enter a mule in a racing contest.

The Bill Poster

1933 • 6 min • United States of America

Krazy is pasting posters all over town. He then goes to visit his girlfriend. At her house, he has lots of problems dealing with her bratty kid.

Mister Mugg

1933 • 20 min • United States of America

Mister Mugg is a 1933 short American pre-Code comedy film directed by James W. Horne. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 6th Academy Awards in 1933 for Best Short Subject (Comedy). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, in 2012.

Circles

1933 • 3 min • Germany

One of the first color films in Europe, made with the Gaspar Color process.

Sing, Babies, Sing!

1933 • 9 min • United States of America

Baby Rose Marie is dropped by an animated stork, into a chimney. She sings a song to moms everywhere, "An Orchid For You." She then is seen dressed as an Indian and performs "Hiawatha's Lullaby."

Play Ball

1933 • 7 min • United States of America

At a baseball game, the frustrated manager of the losing team overhears spectator Willie Whopper bragging to his girl that he (Willie) could beat the opposing team...

Moscow

1933 • 58 min • Soviet Union

A documentary almanac about the life of the Soviet capital during the period of the extensive construction of socialism. The film shows the transformation of the external appearance of Moscow, the construction of new avenues, metro lines, residential buildings for workers, and the formation of a new way of life for a worker. There are also shots in the film that depict the leaders of the working proletariat: vols. I. Stalin, S. Kirov, S. Ordzhonikidze and others.

Twelfth Night

1933 • 9 min • United States of America

The earliest surviving film of Orson Welles, a vignette of his and Roger Hill's production of Twelfth Night at the Todd School for Boys.

All at Sea

1933 • 18 min • United States of America

"All at Sea" is a short documentary of Cooke, Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard all on Chaplin's yacht on an afternoon sail.

Sittin' on a Backyard Fence

1933 • 7 min • United States of America

Male cats fight each other over a female cat around the backyard fence.

Japanese King Kong

1933 • 30 min • Japan

A silent 3-reel comedy short that uses the 1933 film King Kong as a backdrop to the story. It was produced by Shochiku Studios (who released the original 1933 film in Japan on behalf of RKO). It is now considered to be a lost film.

Give a Man a Job

1933 • 3 min

A three-minute short made in conjunction with the National Recovery Administration that urges employers to hire the unemployed.

Dream

1933 • 2 min • Argentina

In the 1920s Horacio Coppola studied modern languages, photography and film, set up the first cinema club in Buenos Aires, and travelled to Italy, France, Spain and Germany, where he trained with the Bauhaus photographer Walter Peterhans. After visiting Vienna, Budapest and Prague, still hotbeds of secessionist art, Coppola returned to Berlin and made the experimental film Traum (Dream, 1933) with the theatre director Walter Auerbach, a nice short influenced by the French & German surrealists.

Hearts of Oak

1933 • 45 min • United Kingdom

A policeman recalls the events of the raid on Zeebrugge in 1918, and draws conclusions for Britain's peacetime policies.

Hamlet, Act I: Scenes IV and V

1933 • 6 min • United States of America

A 1933 screen test for a proposed, but never filmed, movie version of "Hamlet" in Technicolor, starring John Barrymore - this is the Ghost Scene.

Colombia victoriosa

1933 • 60 min • Colombia

A look at the war between Colombia and Peru from the battlefield. A conflict that lasted from September 1, 1932 until the peace treaty of June 1, 1933.