All Films

The Nightingale

1932 • 9 min • United Kingdom

The nightingale and its song, its habitat, nest eggs and young.

Mother of Pearl Venus

1932 • 8 min • Venezuela

This venezuelan short film, produced under the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez, was the first film production in the country's history to incorporate the use of sound.

Tonpei and Sarukichi

1932 • 8 min • Japan

The lazy Tompei is still asleep past 10 o'clock and even at 11 o'clock. He finally wakes up at 12 o'clock at the deafening sound of the angry clock. Hungry, Tompei walks to Sarukichi's house and grabs food Sarukichi has harvested. The next day, while Sarukichi is working in the hills, Tompei beats Sarukichi's two children who are staying at home and tries to steal things from Sarukichi's house. Sarukichi, who is alerted of the situation via telephone from his children races home, is infuriated at the cruel Tompei and punches him so hard he falls down.

May Festival 1932 in the Vienna Stadium organized by the ASKÖ

1932 • 22 min

Maifestspiele 1932 documents the 'Maifestspiel der Wiener Arbeiterschaft' which took place on May 21-22, 1932 in the stadium in Vienna. After the historical revue, numerous delegation marched into the stadium to demonstrate the power and unity of Austrian Social Democracy. This is often wrongly attributed to Pál Fejös. Rather, it was directed by Stephan Hock. The confusion seems to arise from the film being included as a special feature of the Ö-Film / Edition Der Standard DVD release of Fejös' Sonnenstrahl.

Armies of the World

1932 • 28 min • Japan

Maru-san and Kaku-san have grown complacent in the long peace. They go to view a military parade, but it turns into a comparison of the military strength of countries around the world. In the end, they listen in on an arms control conference to find out what each country is really thinking.

Jules Ladoumègue's mile

1932 • 39 min

A poetic sports documentary featurette on a French middle distance runner popular during the start of the Depression, who represented his country in the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam.

Amadeus Nickelnagel

1932 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

About a gentle young man, a misunderstood poet whose printed poems the ruffians use to wrap sausages. His misfortune is that he falls in love with an independent young athlete, with a modern worldview, who is interested in sports rather than poetry. Amadeus follows the young woman, brings her flowers and gives her one of his poems, at which point she, instead of offering tenderness, challenges him to a boxing match.

Hockey: Canada's National Game

1932 • 8 min • Canada

1933 hockey game

The Super Cat

1932 • 1 min • United Kingdom

The super cat—just like the one out of the Fairy Tales—but it's Ally Alberta.

Sonne ins Haus!

1932 • 3 min • Germany

Animated advertisement for Sonne briquettes.

The Xth Olympiad at Los Angeles

1932 • 18 min

Highlights of the X Olympiad in Los Angeles.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1932 • 10 min

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

Skiers of Bloke

1932 • 7 min • Yugoslavia

A short documentary film featuring Aleksander Lavrič.

The Great Bird Mystery

1932 • 5 min • United States of America

Scrappy and Oopie build a bird house, and a sparrow wants to move in. However a mean robin stops him, and then tries to kill him with an arrow.

Experimental Fragment

1932 • 1 min • Yugoslavia

Viktor Rybak, author of many film reports and documentaries in the period 1923-1930, founded his own company for the production and film lab processing in 1931. This experimental fragment was created because of Rybak’s intimate amateur enthusiasm: it was made without pretensions to public display and commercial exploitation. According to Rybak, without the title and “trailer”, the film was made in cooperation with employees of his company. He also remembered the name of the cartoonist: Miroslav Modic. This is the first preserved film strip with animated drawings made in Zagreb.

Prelude by Rachmaninov

1932 • 1 min • Soviet Union

An animation set to an electronic rendition of Prelude by Rachmaninov.

An Evening at the Inn Knutte Knopp

1932 • 9 min • Sweden

Around the inn Gröna Lund on Långa gatan at Djurgården, Stockholm in 1932. Bellman songs, drinking and a saxophone cabaret.

Spaghetti, Topi e Altri Animali

1932 • 3 min

Short film shown as part of THE COLOURS OF SMALL GAUGE CINEMA Strand at Cinema Ritrovato 2024. Edoardo Scotti coloured and toned his films after developing them and duplicated certain parts to create special effects. The colourants he used created a palette comparable to that used in dyeing fabrics - he was also a textile manufacturer.

An Event in Saint-Louis

1932 • 60 min

Armenian refugees in France try to organize a public screening of a film about the Soviet Armenia, together with the French members of an underground organization.

Little Geezer

1932 • 15 min • United States of America

A parody of gangland thrillers, with children playing the parts of adults, opens with a heist. Little Geezer, a handsome and self-confident gangster, brings the loot to one of Big Shot's holes in the wall where the instructions are to divide it equally. Little Geezer takes a bigger share. Meanwhile, Big Shot is under pressure from Scarface Macaroni and his East Side gang; they're undercutting Big Shot with cheap beer. They kill one of his guys and wound Little Geezer. Meanwhile, Geezer's fallen under the spell of a siren, Greta Garbage; love leads him to want to leave gang life. But, is there any way out? Will Big Shot let him leave?

Seabirds in the Shetland Islands

1932 • 9 min

Footage of the seabirds found in the Shetland Isles. One of a group of films made by Jenny Brown and bought by John Grierson for the GPO Film Library in the 1930s.

Birth of Jazz

1932 • 6 min • United States of America

Impressive early music synchronization with fevered visuals, 1930s-cartoony to the point of being camp. Classical themes: "Moonlight Sonata", "Poet and Peasant Overture". Popular themes: "Down Home Rag", "St. Louis Blues".

The Slopes of Triglav

1932 • 49 min • Yugoslavia

Miha invites his fiancée Minka to the dance, but he's tempted by another big desire of his - climbing. Frustrated Minka insists on the festivity, where she finds herself in a company of older hiker. However, all ends happily, as Minka and Miha, after many smaller adventures, meet at the top of Mount Triglav, where they sign the marriage contract, but also confirming their love for the mountains. In addition to its charming story, the movie features footage of picturesque Slovenian mountains.

Travel Notes

1932 • 12 min • United States of America

Photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975) went to the South Seas on a sailing ship in 1931 and 1932. Travel Notes (1932), is a 12 minute long series of scenes from the ocean trip, including a stop in Tahiti. Using 35mm motion picture film, Evans creates abstract compositions out of sails, rigging, and crew.