1932 Movies

Four short vignettes in this early animated film. In the first, shadows pull away to reveal a puddle, and automobile and bicycle tires pass through it...

A beautifully shot four-minute travelogue from Viipuro (Vyborg) to Kuopio, focused on architectures and everyday lives of rural villagers.

A Hearst Metrotone News reel.

Filmed by cameramen from Peruvian Films in Guayaquil, during the festivities held in November 1931 for the arrival in Ecuador of the steamship Urubamb...

Illustrating all the different cuts of beef for benefit of newly-wed women.

Funny Joe Noble animation about men's fashion.

A silent film on the Czech hop-picking industry.

A rich young man falls for a model, but his father is vehemently opposed to the relationship.

An early scientific film showing mesmeric close-up shots of insects and worms on a stalk of rice, believed to be part of state agricultural research.

Amateur filmmaker H.A.V. Bulleid spins a web of intrigue in a feature-length tale that pits British secret servicemen against Russian agents desperate...

Peruvian documentary.

1932 Bolivian short

How peat is cut using a "tushkar" and made ready to be used as fuel in a croft in the Shetland Isles.

Far in the North is about the glorification of the work of miners on Spitsbergen, where the national frame is replaced by class references. (giornated...

A Van Beuren Studios cartoon....

In 1931, Titaÿna, a French journalist, accompanied by Robert Lugeon, went to China to report on the Yangtze River.

Moving image "causerie" ["billedkåseri"], parts I and II

Scenes at a cattle sale in the Shetland Isles.

The documentary shows water landscapes as transparent surfaces, transfigured views of nature without technical effects. Close-ups, fragments, and view...