1934 Movies

A toy shop comes to life at night.

A Puppetoon by George Pal.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 9 October 1934.

Vasantasena is a fictional character and the protagonist of the iconic Sanskrit play Mṛichchhakatika (The Little Clay Cart) written by Śūdraka.

100,000 Buddhist priests have come to Rangoon for the funeral of High Priest U. Pandawa.

A tour of Palestine in 1934.

A movie poster calling for vigilance. A former kulak is sneaking into the collective farm for the post of accountant. He squanders collective farm grain, cheats collective farmers, indulges idlers, creating a mood of discontent among honest workers. The colle...

British potter Bernard Leach made 16mm films during his travels in Japan and Korea in 1934-35. In this short film, Leach is clearly fascinated by the special “Kuruma Ningyo” (cart-doll performance) practiced in Hachioji, a suburb of Tokyo. Commentary by puppet...

Recordings that documented the founding of Kinoklub Zagreb and the enrollment of its first members.

Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath it. Hunger marches organised by the National Unemployed Workers' Movement drew attention to the cause, but this left-wing collective picked up a cine-camera. The...

Volhynia, 1905. Jan Bereza is exiled to Siberia, while his wife dies in a fight with the military police. Bereza's daughter, five-year-old Hanka, remains unaware of what has happened. Years pass. The orphan Hanka grew up without care. She fell in love with a w...

Short film about seals, the hunt for them and how they are processed afterwards.

Contained in the "Music" section of the "Rivista Luce n. 2", it's the most experimental film by Corrado D’Errico, certified as a “work of visualized music” created on the notes of the overture of La Gazza Ladra (1817) by Gioacchino Rossini.

A stunning display by Nyishi tribesmen from the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India.

Home movie footage of the Manchurian Asia Express (あじあ)

Home movie featuring scenes of sailors, rabbit dance, Sports Day group games, Kendō practice, an excursion to Mt. Kōya, Nagasaki's Urakami cathedral, and Sunday School

A East India Films production