1934 Movies

An underground docudrama of the Depression, and rare surviving film from Chicago’s WFPL. The protagonist looks in vain for work, only to find ‘no help...

Amateur film by German ethnographer, church historian, and icon collector Martin Winkler, taken on several trips to the Soviet Union in the 1920s and...

A film by the founder of the Kinoklub Zagreb that shows a woman learning how to make her own film.

Maurice Gagnon experiments freely, filming fireworks and then colouring the images, creating a spectacle that intensifies the colourful magic of the p...

Early recordings of a sport competition in Zagreb.

Neither the press nor the surviving documentation describes the plot of this film, of which no copy exists. It is known, however, that it was a film t...

An animated adaptation of the legend of Pan Twardowski

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This recording details the skinning of animal specimens for preservation following the technique developed by Major P.H.G. Powell-Cotton himself. It i...

Released as an extra on the Depression era DVD of King Vidor's OUR DAILY BREAD, this short documentary shows how new communities were being developed,...

Hollywood is a town that holds many memories of the movie business and the movies themselves, which has resulted in a town brimming with possibilities...

Film by Schmid-Wildy.

"One of the last films about the King Alexander Karađorđević screened in 1934, the year of his tragic death. King Alexander Endowment, Memorial church...

In an Irish boarding school, girls play in the school's grounds, while Helen, an orphan, feels isolated from them as she wonders about the return of h...

A silent amateur 9.5mm reversal film presented without intertitles. Preserved by Fondazione Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia, Bol...

Film with synchronized sound. “Hear the speeches, cheers, etc.”

An exercise of camara and editing.

Animated puppets. Japan, represented by a soldier, approaches a Chinese man and cuts a piece of his tunic symbolizing Manchuria. The Chinese man runs...

A tour of Palestine in 1934.