All Films

Organchik

1933 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Visionary satire by Nikolai Khodataev.

Jeder hat mal Glück

1933 • 20 min • Germany

Wolfgang Staudte's first short film, which he produced in 1933 for Ethos-Film GmbH in Berlin. Staudte not only directed, but also wrote the script.

Backs to Nature

1933 • 19 min • United States of America

The girls are going on a camping trip.

Nearly Naked

1933 • 55 min • United States of America

Eddie is forced to join a nudist cult to win over the girl he loves, Vera Marshe. When Vera is near, he becomes somewhat distracted, and being new to nudism, has a hard time adapting. He grabs some foliage to conceal his lack of clothing---his coverage turns out to be poison ivy... or is it love causing his itch?

Germany Awakens - A Document of the Rebirth of Germany

1933 • 55 min • Germany

A propaganda film of the Nazi Party from the year of the “Machtergreifung” in 1933. The film is a contemporary interesting document that illustrates the self-perception of the party at the beginning of their importance in terms of power politics.

En plein dans le mille

1933 • 50 min • France

Octave Laburette only makes blunders in his job with a backroom worker. He buys ten thousand shares of the Compagnie Générale des Cacahuètes, when the client wanted to sell them. His boss registers them on his own account: Octave then owes the agency sixty thousand francs and his wife informs him that she is joining her lover.

The Little Broadcast

1933 • 10 min

Musical Short released in 1933 featuring additional performances that were not included in the feature film THE BIG BROADCAST from 1932.

So This Is London

1933 • 14 min

London at its best? This gorgeously photographed portrait of the capital was made by Marion Grierson, sister of the more famous John Grierson, often hailed as the father of documentary film. The film transcends the typical travelogue thanks to the photography of William Shenton and Grierson's poetic approach to editing - which prefigures modern films like the acclaimed From the Sea to the Land Beyond (2012). The film achieved international fame at the time of its original release, yet Marion Grierson is almost completely overshadowed in the history of British documentary film by her brother John.

L'Ordonnance malgré lui

1933 • 48 min

The colonel must marry the baroness of Flair, as soon as the girl this one will have found a match. A friend of the colonel proposes his nephew: a count with a degilded coat of arms. Private Leneveu presents himself to the baroness, who takes him for the suitor, whereas he is the colonel's driver. Gaffes and misunderstandings. The arrival of the true nephew restores the situation. Leneveu goes to the police station.

Greedy Neighbors

1933 • 41 min • China

A foolish wealthy inheritor, whose household is dependent on his wife's competence, finds his estate threatened by a bully neighbor in this allegory of the difficulty of dealing with unchecked aggression and treachery, and of the tension between traditional Chinese customs and early 20th-century European influences. Originally about 100 minutes, only 41 minutes exist.

The Sea

1933 • 9 min • Poland

The Sea [Morze] is a 1933 Polish short documentary film directed by Wanda Jakubowska. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1933 for Best Short Subject (Novelty).

Wedding of Maharaj Kumar Shri Meghrajji Shaeb of Kutch and Maharaj Shri of Kishangarh

1933 • 42 min • United Kingdom

Fireworks, illuminations and traditional dance all feature in a stunningly opulent royal wedding at Kundla, Gujarat.

The Fugitive

1933 • 56 min

A half a million dollars has been stolen and stashed away and prison inmate Dutch knows where it is. So Government Agent Joe goes to prison and makes friends with Dutch. When Joe breaks them out, Dutch leads them to the money only to find it gone. But Dutch's old gang is on hand and they haven't found it either.

The Mysterious Rider

1933 • 57 min • United States of America

The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles to their land. When Harkness gets a better offer, he steals Benton's receipt for the money and Benton is jailed. To fight back, Benton escapes jail at night to become the Phantom.

Blutendes Deutschland

1933 • 12 min • Germany

This Nazi propaganda documentary traces the rise to power of the Nazi party in Germany.

Kid in Hollywood

1933 • 10 min

Shirley is an aspiring actress is rejected by casting, but gets her chance to perform when the star doesn't feel like performing.

Aloha Oe

1933 • 4 min • United States of America

Fleischer Studios giving "Aloha Oe" the 'Screen Song' bouncing ball treatment.

Sing, Sisters, Sing!

1933 • 9 min • United States of America

Strange goings-on in a department store, which is having a fire sale while it's on fire. Mice run a movie projector. In a live-action sequence, the singing Three X Sisters lead three bouncing-ball selections, the first Scottish, the second German, the last a bit of a black stereotype.

Los Tres Berretines

1933 • 60 min • Argentina

The members of a Buenos Aires family have three hobbies — "berretines" in Buenos Aires slang — that keep them apart of their duties. Because of that, the family business is going down, and the only one who is concerned is the father, who hopes for his fourth son, an architect, to save the situation.

Crashing Broadway

1933 • 59 min • United States of America

When Tad Wallace's act flops on Broadway, he joins a troop heading west. In a small town, they run into Jeffries who has just burned down the theater. When Jeffries kills Griswold, Tad has a plan to trap him by using the talents of Shakespearian actor Thorndyke.

Bosko in Dutch

1933 • 7 min • United States of America

Set on a frozen pond in Holland, various animals attempt to skate on the slippery ice.

Wonderland of California

1933 • 7 min

Short film made up of various clips showcasing the Cinecolor process, including a visit to a Marx Brothers film set. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.

Down by the Old Mill Stream

1933 • 8 min • United States of America

It's apple time, and all the strange little Fleischer bugs waste no time getting the apples to ferment so that they can immediately get drunk.

Procession of Elephants at Jaipur; Galta; Raj Mahal

1933 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Armoured elephants, sacred monkeys and a camel carriage from Rajasthan.