All Films

The Goal Rush

1932 • 7 min • United States of America

Flip the Frog plays college football with wacky results.

Screen Souvenirs

1932 • 10 min • United States of America

Screen Souvenirs is a 1932 American short film. At the 5th Academy Awards, held in 1932, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Novelty).

Assisi By Blasetti

1932 • 12 min

With a panoramic view of the city with the countryside in the background, the documentary approaches the urban area by framing the basilica, while the path of a monk with the torch seems to drive the camera up to the crypt of St. Francis. A narrator tells the story of the saint, of St Clare and of the orders by them founded. The images then create a sort of stroll in front of the art of Giotto and Cimabue. A procession of monks with the candles are the only human elements that stand out in the representation of the city and its architecture.

Da Makkin o'a Keshie

1932 • 5 min

A crofter in the Shetland Isles demonstrates how to make a 'keshie' to carry home his peat. This is one of a number of films made by Jenny Brown and bought by the GPO Film Library in the 1930s. It's shows Gideon cutting corn and then working it into a keshie, a basket traditionally used in Shetland for carrying peat. Looking back this short now has something really charming about it. David leads this film on his Martin concert ukulele, with Ian on soprano uke, and Allan on classical guitar. Alyth disgraces herself on kazoo. We have to finish the tune at the same time Gideon finishes his keshie, and we could swear that sometimes he deliberately speeds up to try to catch us out.

Down the Hallways of the Congress

1932 • 2 min • Spain

The famed caricaturist critiques the newly installed government of Spain’s Second Republic.

Unemployed Are Cooking for the Unemployed

1932 • 10 min • Germany

Ella Bergmann-Michel′s second movie "Erwerbslose kochen für Erwerbslose" was a assignment of the association of Frankfurt’s "Erwerblosenküchen" that during the world economy crisis could no longer serve meals for thousands of unemployed persons. The film was shown as a supporting film in many Frankfurt cinemas as well as in outdoor screenings at Frankfurt′s Hauptwache.

Grey Owl's Little Brother

1932 • 10 min

The story of the friendship between Grey Owl and a beaver. Sheltered and fed by Grey Owl through babyhood, the little beaver is reluctant to return to his own people. But when he does, Grey Owl (Archie Belaney) is adopted by the entire beaver tribe. The film shows Grey Owl playing with his beaver friends and re-enacting the finding of the baby beaver.

Hallo Oslo!

1932 • 17 min • Norway

Moving image "causerie" ["billedkåseri"], parts I and II

To glory

1932 • 42 min

1932 Bolivian short

In the Name of Lenin

1932 • 14 min • Soviet Union

A Soviet documentary marking the opening of the monumental Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, one of the showcase projects of Stalin’s First Five-Year Plan. The film highlights the scale of construction, the triumph of Soviet engineering, and the plant’s symbolic dedication to Lenin as a step toward the industrial transformation of the USSR.

In Sheep’s Clothing

1932 • 10 min

The Rebel Yell

1932 • 9 min

Archival film in which reunited Confederate veterans recite the famous battle cry of the South.

Letter to Collective Kolkhoz Farmers

1932 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A farmer challenges his comrades to raise production and fight the kulaks who resist the new order. A Kinopoezd - Cinetrain production.

I'd Be Delighted To!

1932 • 13 min

S.W. Childs, Jr.’s best known production, this thirteen-minute short film tells the story of a man and woman preparing for and enjoying a dinner date. As Childs described it in an article in Amateur Movie Maker, “I got the idea that it would be fun to film the action of some person’s hand, say at a cocktail party. Upon this slender thread the light tinsel of I’d Be Delighted To! was hung.” Throughout the film, Childs’ camera focuses solely on the hands and feet of the film’s protagonists. (Yale Film Archive)

Believe It or Not (Second Series) #11

1932 • 8 min • United States of America

This entry of the series does not feature Robert Ripley, who is away gathering material on his tours. Leo Donnelly narrates various odds and ends like a church service held on a river in boats, one of the largest sculptures in the world, sand art in bottles and a man who pulls cars with his hair. This episode also has a greater amount of "critter" material: chickens learn to be aquatic thanks to a training duck, another hen adopts puppies as her own, the Australian platypus is discussed and a motorized blacksmith and we see a horse with double-hoof. Vitaphone No. 1410.

Seascapes And Waves On Rocks

1932 • 5 min

Pathé Baby short by Guglielmo Baldassini.

Kharga

1932 • 18 min

Documenting a journey by camel across the desolate wasteland of the Kharga Oasis in 1932. The film includes scenes at a train station, bustling street, scenes of digging/excavating, camel caravan carrying loads and travel between desert camps (party includes European women). The film shows Kharga - the largest oasis of the Libyan Desert, which consists of a depression about 160km long and between 20km to 80km wide; it is located 232km south of Asyut, 550km south of Cairo.

Eel Fishermen

1932 • 18 min • Netherlands

Documentary about eel fishing and the landscape of North Holland.

Scenes From a Shetland Croft Life

1932 • 6 min

How peat is cut using a "tushkar" and made ready to be used as fuel in a croft in the Shetland Isles.

A Cattle Sale

1932 • 3 min

Scenes at a cattle sale in the Shetland Isles.

Windy Ledge Farm

1932 • 17 min • United States of America

Simple title cards link ten home movies shot at Maine's Windy Ledge Farm, at a neighbor's place, and visiting the Brownes in Chocorua, New Hampshire. We watch an uncle mow, farm hands haying with the White Mountains in the background, various young children playing, a lad holding his cat while carrying milk cans on a yoke, a pointer stalking a cat, the annual burning of brush and rubbish, and a montage of chores and relaxation on the farm. The last shot is of spring, a flag in the background. The films are sweet and straightforward, with clear black and white images.

The Pony Express

1932 • 7 min • United States of America

Stagecoach driver Flip must deal with a holdup and an abduction.

Olympic Games on Dankichi Island

1932 • 2 min • Japan

It shows the Olympic Games on Dankichi Island, where humans and animals compete against each other, in the categories: relay race, tug-of-war and tree-changing race. Who will be the champion?

The Seal of the Time

1932 • 26 min • Soviet Union

Puppet film teaching Soviet children to beware of spies.