All Films

Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie

1932 • 8 min • United States of America

The Round Towners Quartet sings the title song with a Bouncing Ball. Cartoon sequence: Betty Boop and Bimbo go ice skating.

The Cat Purr Dance

1932 • 3 min • Japan

A family of mice dance to entertain a cat that disrupted their festivities after returning home early. (Source: MyAnimeList.net)

Miss Norah Blaney

1932 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Popular musical hall singer and pianist Norah Blaney performs a ditty about the gender nonconforming ways of modern young things for the camera in this early sound film. Blaney was known for her partnership with cellist Gwen Farrar in the late 1920s, performing duets which put an innuendo-laden queer spin on popular (heterosexual) hits.

He left on a long trip

1932 • 12 min • France

"He left on a long trip" - A young boy, fascinated by geography, leaves his homework for his interest in a pram lying nearby, about to leave on a long journey.

The III Winter Olympics

1932 • 15 min

Highlights of the 1932 Winter Olympics held in Lake Placid, New York.

Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre

1932 • 7 min • United States of America

The only known film record of the mass march and meeting held in Detroit on Feb. 4, 1932, against hunger and unemployment. Also shows the dramatic demonstration by workers at the Ford auto plant in River Rouge, Michigan in March of 1932, which ended with a violent attack by Dearborn police and Ford Company guards on the crowd with clubs, tear gas and guns which killed four young men. These deaths set off a wave of protest across the country.

Unsichtbare Brücken

1932 • 40 min • Germany

In the broadcasting center of a radio station, visitors are informed in a kind of educational course about how "electric waves" are generated and how they are converted into sounds that can then be heard on the radio.

Un client de province

1932 • 39 min • France

Doctor Planturel who is leaving for a vacation, hires a new servant too hastily. Now, Victor, the alleged domestic, is in fact a robber whose only aim is to burglar the doctor's house. But when a client comes to consult Planturel, he must keep up the appearances. That is why he asks his accomplice Fanchonnet to play the role of the doctor.

Conveyor

1932 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Bonus March 1932

1932 • 13 min • United States of America

Bonus March shows unemployed WWI veterans marching on Washington, D.C., demanding their bonus money, and being forcefully evicted.

In God We Trust

1932 • 42 min • Yugoslavia

WWI comes to a small Serbian village of Kumodraž , disturbing its residents' quiet life.

Idler

1932 • 51 min • Soviet Union

The main character of the film, Stepanov, was known as a quitter and a drunkard. He was constantly late for work, skipped shifts, and often showed up to the factory intoxicated. However, Stepanov secretly dreamed of becoming like the skilled drummer Fedorov. With the help and support of the factory staff, he began to improve.

The Pet Shop

1932 • 6 min • United States of America

The adventures of a young boy and his dog. Vonsey and Oopie are the two bullies on the block who sometime give the two problems.

A Spanish Twist

1932 • 6 min • United States of America

Tom and Jerry (the human versions, not the cat and mouse) are on a raft in the ocean. After being attacked by an octopus and losing their raft, they wash up on the shores of Spain. After harassing the waitresses at a local sidewalk café, they insult the owner and wind up in a bull ring as punishment. In the midst of fighting dozens of bulls, they receive a telegram that Prohibition has been repealed back in the U.S. They immediately leave Spain headed back to the U.S. for a drink.

Puppy Love

1932 • 6 min • United States of America

A Flip The Frog cartoon....

Detective Felix in Trouble

1932 • 10 min • Japan

Looking for Hanako's stolen shoes, black cat detective Felix starts to move.

The Crowd Snores

1932 • 7 min • United States of America

A Walter Lantz Pooch the Pup cartoon released October 24, 1932.

No Greater Love

1932 • 59 min • United States of America

Owing more than just a passing nod to "Abie's Irish Rose," a kindly Jewish delicatessen owner in New York City, Sidney Cohen, adopts a young, crippled Irish girl, Mildred, with much opposition from many quarters.

The Scarlet Brand

1932 • 58 min • United States of America

In The Scarlet Brand, a young cowpoke tricked into rustling cattle and hell-bent on getting revenge against the poacher who set him up.

Europa

1932 • 12 min • Poland

Europa is a 12-minute anti-fascist film made in 1931 in Warsaw, Poland by surrealists Stefan and Franciszka Themerson. The film is based on Anatol Stern's 1925 futurist poem Europa. It uses collages and photograms, and articulates the sense of horror and moral decline its makers were witnessing. The film, while long thought to have been lost, is considered an avant-garde masterpiece.

The Bad Genius

1932 • 6 min • United States of America

Somehow, Oopie's become a child prodigy on the Bass Viol, and practices with Scrappy playing along on piano. On the day of his big solo premiere, an accident takes place and Oop's knocked out. Not wishing to disappoint the show's patrons, Scrappy rigs up the unconscious savant with wires like a marionette to simulate a performance.

Stranded in Prescot

1932 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Brilliant documentary showing how British Insulated Cables can electrify your home!

Castle Sinister

1932 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A scientist seeks to transplant the brain of a young girl into his apeman.

Barnyard Bunk

1932 • 7 min • United States of America

An old farmer has let his entire farm go and it is falling down around him, with mice taking over. Tom and Jerry (the human versions, not the cat and mouse) show up with magical saxophones, and the music has amazing effects on the farm. A chicken lays dozens of eggs, a cow gives gallons and gallons and gallons of milk, and two woodpeckers don't just peck a tree, they cut it down and split it into firewood. Even the farmer's well changes, filling with beer (by the mug of course) instead of water. The farmer trades Tom and Jerry a huge bag of money for the saxophones, but he gets the better deal - the bag is full of the mice from the start of the cartoon, and they carry Tom and Jerry off to throw them into the pond.