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Impressions of Life, N°1: Station Rhythms

Impressions of Life, N°1: Station Rhythms

1933 • 8 min • Italy
The Wrestler's Bride

The Wrestler's Bride

1933 • 22 min
Joyce Compton tries to help her new husband, Eddie Gribbon (as Scissors Jackson), win a wrestling match which he incorrectly thinks is framed in his favor. Wrestlers Hans Steinke plays the wrestling champion and Bull Heffner his opponent.
Oil: A Symphony in Motion

Oil: A Symphony in Motion

1933 • 8 min • United States of America
A self proclaimed saga of oil, celebrating the speed and power of plane, trains, and automobiles. It starts with a look at a farm, beneath which is oil. Soon, farmland is dotted with derricks. It's on to a refinery. Then, shots of oil derricks, their pumps and pistons moving, are interspersed with images of men at work and machines in motion powered by oil. Horse-drawn carts are discarded. Modern wheels turn. The narration consists of title cards written in a grandiose and rhetorical style - the bones of yesterday become the blood of today.
Rusty Rides Alone

Rusty Rides Alone

1933 • 58 min • United States of America
Bart Quillan and his sons are after Martin's ranch. Burke arrives to help Martin but being outnumbered he hopes to get help from Powers. But no one is sure which side Powers and his gang are on.
Im Photoatelier

Im Photoatelier

1933 • 28 min • Germany
A photographer goes on a business trip for three days. His helper (Karl Valentin) and the apprentice (Liesl Karlstadt) would prefer it to close the store during the absence of the boss. They only photograph customers reluctantly and cause all kinds of mayhem. When the boss returns, he faints after taking a look at the chaos.
The Important Witness

The Important Witness

1933 • 60 min • United States of America
A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and she is arrested for it.
Poison

Poison

1933 • 4 min • France
Short black and white surrealist film from Man Ray starring himself and Meret Oppenheim.
Railway Concerns

Railway Concerns

1933 • 11 min • Soviet Union
Cine-train short about railway work and corruption.
Life in the Raw

Life in the Raw

1933 • 59 min • United States of America
Adventure ensues as Judy Halloway arrives in Arizona to visit her brother, Tom.
Somewhere in Sonora

Somewhere in Sonora

1933 • 59 min • United States of America
John Bishop discovers a plot to rob a silver mine belonging to his girlfriend Mary's father and, to foil the evildoers, he joins them.
New Deal Rhythm

New Deal Rhythm

1933 • 8 min • United States of America
Plotless musical revue celebrating President Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration.
Reaching for the Moon

Reaching for the Moon

1933 • 8 min • United States of America
A Screen Song from the Fleischer Studios with the Irving Berlin song "Reaching for the Moon".
The 42nd Street Special

The 42nd Street Special

1933 • 6 min
As part of a publicity campaign for the film 42nd Street (1933), Warner Bros. Pictures, with the assistance of the General Electric Corporation, assembled a 7-car gold- and silver-plated train they called "The 42nd. Street Special". With numerous Warner Bros. contract stars as passengers, the train made a tour across the USA. It was scheduled to make stops in more than 100 cities, ending in Washington, D.C. for the March 1933 inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This short film records the send-off for this trip from Los Angeles' Santa Fe Station. Using a microphone set up on the rear platform of the last car, several people addressed the crowd attending the event. Those making remarks include performers, studio executives, and the mayor of Los Angeles.
Circle Canyon

Circle Canyon

1933 • 48 min • United States of America
The simplified plot has two different gangs attempting to wrest control of valuable Oklahoma oil lands from an orphaned girl, who is aided in her fight by her adopted father Chris Morrell.
Mediolanum

Mediolanum

1933 • 33 min
For Mediolanum, his second documentary, Ubaldo Magnaghi, co-founder in 1930 of the Milan Cine-Club (soon to become Cineguf, with Francesco Pasinetti’s Venice club), was commissioned by Agfa, then one of Europe’s biggest film manufacturers, probably to demonstrate the quality and superiority of reversible film, which remained unique after exposure and standardized developing. In Mediolanum Magnaghi sought the abstract. He isolated strong, essential architectural features without needing to recompose them in descriptions but making a show of them in temporal, desired luminous contrast. He provoked abstraction with rapid panoramas, but above all with bold, as well as oblique, camera positions. He was more redundant than Ivens or Vigo, perhaps without knowing their work. But he was attentive above all to form, since the human figure is always present in the background. The result is a real harmonic symphony of luminous contrasts, which are also fragmented glimpses of a great city.
Trouble Busters

Trouble Busters

1933 • 55 min • United States of America
Leaving town with the Sheriff after him, Tex joins up with the Trouble Busters Skinny and Windy. In Placerville he runs into trouble with Bill Jarvis leading to a mad rush to file on oil rich land.
The Trail Drive

The Trail Drive

1933 • 60 min • United States of America
Honest John is pulling off a swindle by buying cattle in Texas with worthless scrip and selling them in New Mexico for cash. Ken is leading the cattle drive not knowing that when they cross the state line Honest John's plan will have succeeded.
Krder-Ezidner

Krder-Ezidner

1933 • 52 min • Soviet Union
The film is about the establishment of a kolkhoz (collective farm) in a Kurdish village in Soviet Armenia.
Ain't She Sweet

Ain't She Sweet

1933 • 8 min • United States of America
19th century song pluggers in vaudeville theaters and in the streets invited audiences to join in the chorus; this tradition of participation appeared in movie theaters by the mid-teens. When sound arrived, Fleischer Studios’ delightful “Screen Songs” added witty animated prologues and celebrity singers to prepare the audience for the ball that bounced through the lyrics.
Rambling 'Round Radio Row #6

Rambling 'Round Radio Row #6

1933 • 9 min • United States of America
Host Harry Rose mixes a "cocktail" of musical acts.
Jaws of Justice

Jaws of Justice

1933 • 58 min • United States of America
Seeker Dean has found the gold he has been looking for for 15 years. Heading for the Government office, Boone Jackson kills him. Kickabout finds a cryptogram as to the gold's location and Sergeant Kinkaid solves the puzzle. But Jackson learns of the gold's location and to get it, he sets out to dynamite the dam that would flood the entire communuty.
When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba

When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba

1933 • 5 min • United States of America
Fleischer Studios 'Screen Song' of "When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba".
Dough Nuts

Dough Nuts

1933 • 7 min • United States of America
Tom and Jerry are doughnut-makers competing against an assortment of weirdos for first prize at a bakers' convention.
Lidoire

Lidoire

1933 • 25 min