1932 Movies

Sound re-issue of a 1929 Paul Terry cartoon, The Polo Match. A jockey preparing his horse for the day's polo matches. He opens up the neck, pours gasoline in the horse, oils and greases his hoofs, cranks up the tail and the horse is ready to go!

The IOC has managed to assemble 49 minutes of sound coverage and 99 minutes of silent footage from the 1932 Summer Games, using material from U.S., British, German and Swedish newsreels.

A weird and wonderfully bizarre Japanese cartoon from the '30s. A young boy lives with his grandmother in a city where people use small airplanes to get from place to place. He drives a taxi plane, and during one of his travels he bumps into a bird that has be...

Short documentary about the cycling match "12de groote prijs Brasschaet".

Maru-san and Kaku-san have grown complacent in the long peace. They go to view a military parade, but it turns into a comparison of the military strength of countries around the world. In the end, they listen in on an arms control conference to find out what e...

A film by Richard 'Dick' Leonard produced by the American Alpine Club about mountaineering in Sierra Nevada (California). Richard Manning Leonard was an American rock climber, environmentalist and attorney. He served as president of the Sierra Club and the Sav...

The film by Jorge Bedoya Forga (Arequipa, 1902 - New York, 1968),a pioneer of amateur 8mm filmmaking in Peru, was filmed around 1932 and contains various views of the Panama Canal.

Highlights of the X Olympiad in Los Angeles.

A Secrets of Nature short film.

What we would like to show a foreigner who wants to get to know Sweden. Silent travelogue.

Raden Ajeng Karina is of mixed-descent, born to a Dutch mother – who has since returned to the Netherlands – and Javanese father. She lives in the palace at Yogyakarta and must integrate herself with the majority Javanese society. In doing so she wears traditi...

While listening to a tedious lecture on the Soviet threat, Wisconsin Dells’ Tuesday Club members fall asleep and find themselves laboring in an all-women collective in Russia under the unflinching eye of the Soviet special police

This entry in the "Magic Carpet of Movietone" series is a mostly wordless look at sailing on the high seas with the crew of the Polish sailing ship Dar Pomorza. The ship was an old-style ship with many large sails.

A brief tour of Hollywood, California, including looks at the various movie studios and the homes of celebrated movie stars.

The film didactically exemplifies a few police and coroner procedures, from gathering clues at a crime scene to doing autopsies.

The super cat—just like the one out of the Fairy Tales—but it's Ally Alberta.

Footage of the daily goings-on at the Baju-Asih mission hospital and the associated outpatient clinics in Purwakarta. Featured are, among others, the players of a korfball match and the Medical Director, Dr. Bremmer, at work in his laboratory.

Metal, glass, electrical and lighting elements, and a frosted-glass screen in a painted wood cabinet

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

A 1932 amateur film made by Jack Weisbord from the US, whose father-in-law was from Kurów. Kurów is a municipal settlement in Puławy County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland.