Most Viewed Year 1936 - 99

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...

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...

Swiss advertising film for Persil about a 'wash ghost'.

May Day parade and procession on the streets of Berlin, many Nazi flags on buildings and people in crowds. c. 1936, 16mm color.

A film director shows a friend two shorts that prove the advancement of a film industry in Venezuela. One of the first examples of sound film in...

Steve the Horse cartoon

Propaganda for the care of the eyesight. Diagrams are used to demonstrate the structure and function of the eye. Eye conditions that can affect the...

Made by the Polish Telegraphic Agency, this reportage shows the construction and operation of the modern cargo port in Gdynia and its facilities. It...

Social democratic election film. The plot revolves around the young love couple Axel and Ulla, whose fates are woven into the larger political...

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Propaganda short film

At the head of the brig-schooner Lili, Captain Mario “Droit-devant” finds himself involved in marijuana trafficking led by an aristocrat...

Short glimpses of Stockholm.

An anti-New Deal theatrical short that mocks “wasteful” government spending on the arts and humanities. The film was most likely produced...

Sociological documentary presenting various aspects of a village in Northern Romania in the 1930s.

Barney Google, in a parody of the radio program, Major Bowles Amateur Hour, stages his own version, but uses catch-phrases all through the broadcast...

A Chinese-American aviator falls in love with an opera star named Fan in San Francisco. A jealous theater manager named Jung intervenes, threatening...

The subject matter is the stuff and substance of Venetian architecture reflected in the rippled surface of the canals. It captures the very essence...

Footage of Mosley and his Blackshirts on 7th June 1936