1936 Movies

An educational documentary short, commissioned by the Chevrolet Motor Company, explaining a manual car transmission works.

A series of scenes that comprised both new material (featuring frontal nudity),and old footage from an Italian version of Dante's Inferno (also featu...

This short film takes viewers to Finnish Broadcasting Company Yleisradio's Radio Days event at the Helsinki Exhibition Hall, where radio technology is...

Produced in interwar France, this short documentary presents images of French Indochina centered on plantation industry—particularly rubber production...

An anti-New Deal theatrical short that mocks “wasteful” government spending on the arts and humanities. The film was most likely produced by the Jam H...

Meany, Miny and Moe, three monkeys, have their hearts set on a turkey dinner but the turkey thinks otherwise. While they are out hunting the turkey, t...

A rare visual archive of Viseu's public life during the 30s.

Demonstrations and strikes of June 1936 in the Paris region. A short documentary produced by the French section of the Workers' International.

This footage is a record of Katsumi Komatsu’s visit to urban and rural areas in Taiwan, specifically Taipei and Tainan, in April 1936 (Showa 11),cond...

This thinly veiled advertisement for Irish Sweepstake tickets was made for the US and UK market at a time when gambling was illegal in those territori...

Images of 1930s Stockholm.

The veritable story of a citizen of San Francisco who, after being destroyed in the 1857 stock market crash, believed himself to be the emperor of the...

Mish Mish Effendi and his friend Fayoumi spend their time doing nothing in an alley in Bulaq, one of the poorer sections of Cairo. Pretty girl Su'ad w...

Made by the Polish Telegraphic Agency, this reportage shows the construction and operation of the modern cargo port in Gdynia and its facilities. It i...

An animated “documentary” that retells the story of a 1934 hostage crisis that occurred in China.

During some military maneuvers, the lives of the soldiers are altered due to the multiple incidents caused by the presence of a beautiful woman.

Short film documenting 'The 1936 All-American Soap Box Derby', featuring many highlights from the event and concluding with the derby's awards ceremon...

Ancient documentary that presents the ascent of Higher and Lower Cathedral Spires in Yosemite Valley by a party of three climbers from the Sierra Club...

Spanish propaganda documentary focusing on Madrid.

A paper-film fantasy in which a father tells his son about treasure hidden inside a haunted castle, warning that no one who has gone in search of it h...