Most Viewed Year 1931 - 88

When copper wire is wrapped around an iron rod and connected to a battery, it becomes an electromagnet. A science teaching material movie that...

This short takes a comic look at serious moments from past serials. In part I - "Gin" - of "The Curse of a Drinking Heart", a woman is drowning her...

Made during the rapid industrialisation and collectivisation of Stalin’s Five-Year Plan. Kaufman countered the poverty of the villages with the...

A story of three little bears going on an adventure to find the lost little duck.

John Moon is a businessman interested in ghosts. He decides to spend the night in a barn hoping to see the ghost of the bushranger Sturdy who died...

Based on a hit song by child star Hideko Hirai from 1929, this gem -- a real historical curiosity -- provides glimpses of 1930s popular culture...

Directed by Jordano Pidutti.

Krazy sends off for mail-order music lessons; he gets back a saxophone and an instruction book (we actually follow the mail going both ways) . His...

Newsreel about the opening of the casina in Vina del Mar (Chile).

The Unlucky Butterfly. A early Japanese animation short.

Shadow on the Mountains (Arthur Elton, 1932) is a classic English pastoral, with impressionistic views of the English countryside as it expounds the...

Remember when Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music says "Every time God closes a door, He opens a window?" Well, this is basically the same philosophy...

Directed by Ilya Kopalin.

A portrait of New York during the depression, with views of Manhattan from boats and scenes of the lights of Broadway and what goes on in nightclubs.

The Aesop Sound Fables, while almost forgotten today, produced some of the strangest cartoons during the Depression with dream-like backgrounds,...

Young Scrappy tries to impress a girl by smoking a cigar made out of cabbage, but he only succeeds in accidentally swallowing the cigar and setting...

Avant-garde piece making use of trick lighting.

Fitzpatrick Traveltalks

Horror short.