1935 Movies

This short, the seventh in the 'See America First' series, opens with a slightly corrupted version of the following quote from Sir Walter Scott: "Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!" As the...

The film was made in 1935 in what is now Inner Mongolia, but which was then part of Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo or Manchuria, explaining the presence of Manchu officials sporting queues and pointed tasselled hats, both of which had disappeared by this ti...

Short film where the hero Hatanosuke battles with an evil gang of thieves.

Short Dutch animation film.

A reconstructed version of the sound film "Hebräische Melodie," in which violinist Andreas Weissgerber plays Joseph Achron's piece of the same title in Jerusalem, commissioned by the Jüdischer Kulturbund. The outdoor shots were taken in the Old City of Jerusal...

Hein Priembacke is a sailor who has washed ashore in an African desert. There are intertitles in German in rhyme.

Documentarian and film historian, Theodore Buff, captures the present day abandoned ruins of Fort Lee, New Jersey - also known as "the original Hollywood."

Mixture of amateur and newsreel footage of George V's silver jubilee. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Early Japanese animation featuring a dancing tanuki (a Japanese raccoon dog).

Amateur footage of the devastation caused by one of South Asia's worst earthquakes.

Complete presentation of the banana industry from the clearing of the jungle and the planting to the shipment of the fruit to the American markets.

Ghosts chase Scrappy and his little brother in the forest.

A monkey and tanuki go fishing in a frozen lake but the king catfish isn't pleased. Condensed version of Osaru no Tairyou.

Inuit in their kayaks hunting for seals and collecting ice for drinking water.

First of four feature versions of the same-title, same-year serial, consisting of the first three episodes, part of the fourth, and concluding footage not seen in the serial.

Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Rabbit are preparing their summer home, confident that winter has ended. Professor Groundhog, unable to see his shadow, predicts several more weeks of cold weather. The rabbit-family and their woodland neighbors choose to disbelieve the gro...

Lost animation short film about the treasure of the aztec emperor Moctezuma.

Documentary that details the daily habits of beavers and their interaction with the ecosystem at large. Filmed mostly in Digby County, Nova Scotia.

James A. FitzPatrick takes a look at colorful Guatemala.