All Films

Poem 8

1932 • 20 min • United States of America

Independent film featuring modern dance in a forest, with the performers wearing white fabric costumes.

Prices and Profits, the Potato

1932 • 20 min • France

Prix et Profits is a 20-minute short film originally made for educational purposes and released in 9.5mm format. As the title suggests, the film follows the supply chain of a potato, from farmers to consumers, and examines the mechanisms of capitalism.

Sleepy Time Down South

1932 • 9 min • United States of America

Fire chief Bimbo is called to a house on fire, and rescues the Boswell Sisters and their piano, who start performing "When It's Sleepy Time Down South".

Procession of Sombor Roman Catholic Parish

1932 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

Short silent film.

Madras Mylapore - Tank and Religious Processions

1932 • 10 min • United Kingdom

The thronging streets of Chennai in festive mood are captured by this lively amateur film.

Veiled Aristocrats

1932 • 48 min • United States of America

A young woman plans to marry, but her mother and brother--a lawyer--don't like her prospective husband and scheme to prevent the marriage.

Just Leon

1932 • 53 min • France

Léon is hired by a detective agency to monitor a music hall star whose friend is extremely jealous.

Taiiku day

1932 • 8 min • Japan

Sports Day at Animal Village. Japanese animation short.

Scherben bringen Glück

1932 • 20 min • Germany

A man tries to outwit another man in pursuit of a woman.

Travelling Hawkers in Frankfurt am Main

1932 • 22 min • Germany

A documentary about unemployed people who bought fruit and vegetables at moderate prices at the wholesale market and sold these in the streets of Frankfurt. Since they had no permits they were constantly with their bulky carts on the run from the police. One part of the film was shot at the fairgrounds in front of the wholesale market. Newspaper and lottery ticket vendors, propagandists offering their ware for a few pfennigs, all convey the mood of a time when need made people inventive.

Wild and Woolly

1932 • 7 min • United States of America

A Walter Lantz Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released November 21, 1932.

The Wolf at the Door

1932 • 7 min • United States of America

A goat is being held hostage in his own cabin by a wolf knocking at his door. The goat calls on his phone for help so Scrappy sends his little brother to arrest the wolf. But the younger bro keeps coming back from the winter snow until he has a couple of rubber hot water bottles on him.

In the hell of Chaco

1932 • 52 min • Paraguay, Argentina

"El infierno del Chaco" had another version in 1938, with the images of the last peace negociations.

Son plus bel exploit

1932 • 41 min • France

Monsieur Loyal, bailiff by profession, is dispatched to a grub by an actress. Reason: she accuses Micheline, a young singer who works there, of stealing her songs. But our usher is nonetheless a man, and Micheline exerts her charms on him so well that he gives him shelter for the night, and finds him a new job at the Mirador, a cabaret that has just opened.

Par habitude

1932 • 31 min

Valentin Bourgeasse is an inveterate drunk. He takes the matter so far that one day he is evicted from his apartment. A few evenings later evening, as he has drunk too much (what else?), he forgets that he doesn't live there anymore so imagine his surprise when he finds a lady in "his" bed.

Small Trades in Paris

1932 • 19 min • France

Grinders, rag-men, China menders, mattress carders are among those small trades of yesteryear that have disappeared from our sight and fallen into oblivion. But way back in 1931 they were far from extinct and still populated and livened up the streets from dawn till dusk. The tenderness of Pierre Chenal look at them is only accentuated by the nostalgia experienced by today's viewer.

1932 Lake Placid Olympics

1932 • 18 min • United States of America

IOC has restored 18 minutes from the 1932 Lake Placid Olympics. Ten of those minutes are silent sequences from men’s speed skating. The other eight minutes are taken from newsreel reports produced by Hearst Metrotone, Fox Movietone and Pathé.

Texas Tornado

1932 • 53 min

Tex Robbins, a Texas Ranger, posing as "Wolf" Cassidy, a notorious Chicago gangster, works his way into the rustling gang and hideout of "Three-Star" Henley, but his plans go wrong and he has to fight his way to victory.

Come on Danger!

1932 • 60 min

Sam Dunning, one of the wealthiest ranchers in the Pecos Valley is found dead with a bullet in his back. Pinned to his body is a note which reads "An eye for an eye, signed Joan Stanton". Danger follows for Larry, a Texas Ranger. Will his sense of chivalry allow him to bring in a woman to face the charge of murder? Along the way, several cowboy tunes and fine locations contribute to the picture's Texican atmosphere.

Tennis Technique

1932 • 8 min • United States of America

Tennis champion Bill Tilden gives two tennis players tips on the proper grip, footwork, body position, and other ways to improve their tennis game.

?/Rhythmic Triangles/Fighting Cards

1932 • 4 min • Japan

Four short vignettes in this early animated film. In the first, shadows pull away to reveal a puddle, and automobile and bicycle tires pass through it. In the second, cutout shadows of a variety of shoes of people walking are seen. The third is a flurry of geometric forms. In the fourth, the playing card spade courts the heart and pushes away the club, but eventually the club returns, beats up the spade, and wins the heart. (Source: AniDB)

Mark of the Spur

1932 • 59 min • United States of America

A young ranch foreman, Bud Drake aka The Kid, is wrongfully arrested for the theft of six-thousand dollars from ranch-owner "Hardshell" Beckett. He escapes and with the aid of Beckett's adopted daughter, Alice, sets out to clear his name.

Bosko the Drawback

1932 • 7 min • United States of America

Bosko is the star player in a wacky game of professional football.

O-Kay Agency

1932 • 51 min

O-Kay Agency, run by Monsieur Dubois, will supply anything you like. Even what you do not particularly crave : for instance, Max, the agency's gifted employee made Sam, a millionaire, buy a bath just by putting an attractive young lady in it ! But what Dubois does not know is that, besides being able to close sales brilliantly, Max also dreams of becoming a professional singer.