Most Viewed Year 1936 - 98

An unemployed man picks up a flyer which happens to be a notice asking for investors to put up capital for raising a sunken ship. The sum is 10 yen...

Venice Film Festival 1936

May was filmed as a backdrop to part of a theatre performance D36-D37 under the E. F. Burian's lead inspired by the classic Czech poem of the same...

Demonstrations and strikes of June 1936 in the Paris region. A short documentary produced by the French section of the Workers' International.

Driving safety film from the 1930's showing good and bad sides of a driver's mind.

Kiko the Kangaroo and Farmer Al Falfa and all the animals take an expedition to the North Pole in a dirigible but the skunks are made to ride in a...

A brief glimpse at public life in Berlin, 1936.

A publicity film. It shows the many attractions of Southport for the tourist: the Marine Parks, Lord Street (shots of the War Memorial, the Gardens...

Amateur newsreel showing the elections of February 1936, the last elections of the young and democratic Spanish Republic.

Variety short from Warner Brothers' Vitaphone unit: acrobats, a sister act who sings about their days as child movie actors -- two decades earlier --...

The veritable story of a citizen of San Francisco who, after being destroyed in the 1857 stock market crash, believed himself to be the emperor of...

Made by 20th Century Fox as part of their "Adventures of the Newsreel Cameramen" series, this black & white film contains spectacular footage of...

Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) wins a cricket match over South Australia by 105 runs.

This narrated film about persistence of vision (how movies work) has a good narrator and lots of fun visuals. High points: A weird scene inside a...

Most marvel at how close formation fliers go about their maneuvers, but what everyday drivers on the road are required to do are much the same in...

Being with a discussion of Balinese death rites, noting that as Hindus, they need to be burned so their souls can leave them behind; but bonfires are...

The picture opens with a deer nursing her fawns. We see a young deer being fed cigarettes; a raccoon picking the pockets of a man for sugar ; a...

Meshmesh Effendi (1936) The first animated film made in Egypt is about the character Meshmesh Effendi, who loves music, works in one of the clubs,...

A short film that was also thought lost, offering a rare insight into the almost forgotten tradition of Ukrainian animation.

Crime short from Louis Sonney.