1933 Movies

Universal Newsreel from 1933 showing Cecil H. Dill, a farmer from Traverse City, Michigan, demonstrating his ability to render popular melodies by pressing his hands together. After the performance, which seems to be of Yankee Doodle, Dill modestly tells how h...

The earliest known film footage of Louis Armstrong and his orchestra, recorded on 21 October 1933 at Tivoli in Copenhagen. They perform, in sequence, I Cover the Waterfront, Dinah, and Tiger Rag. The recordings were made for the Danish feature film København,...

A poetic, experimental, industrial documentary.

A New Theatres Production

Educated in the Catholic mission school Kinghill, the chief's daughter, suspected by intrigue of poisoning on her wedding night and sentenced to death, becomes a nun after her escape and sacrifices herself as a nurse during a malaria epidemic in her tribal are...

An Eurocentric travelogue highlighting New Zealand's people, culture and natural beauty.

Documentary on the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay from the recruitment of troops to the battle front.

Reportage about the salvage operation for the 18th-century shipwreck the Lutine, which sank in the North Sea.

Film directed by John R. Rymill showing team members with their dog sledges during the 'East Greenland Expedition 1932-33'.

The film by Jorge Bedoya Forga (Arequipa, 1902 - New York, 1968),a pioneer of amateur 8mm filmmaking in Peru, was filmed around 1933 and records a social event apparently related to one of the first actions of the important project that sought to irrigate des...

A fascinating glimpse into life at high altitude for the party of the Mount Everest Expedition 1933 which intended, but ultimately failed to summit Everest.

Tallinn winter scenes.

Lost political documentary on the celebration of the basque nationalism and traditions.

Daily life in the city of Quito, Gauyaquil and Ibarra.

The funerals of the Brazilian president, Maciel.