1932 Movies

S.S. Van Dine mystery with police Inspector Carr.

Amateur shots of pilgrims, temples and the bazaar at Haridwar, followed by rural scenes and the Gorrie family at home. This film is from the Gorrie c...

China's first song and dance film was "Poetry Written on the Banana Leaf" directed by Sun Yu and starring Wang Renmei in 1932. A battalion commander'...

Pathé Baby short by Guglielmo Baldassini.

Spanish documentary about the harbour mornings.

Produced as a promotional film for "Elektrizität im Kochgerät".

Viktor Rybak, author of many film reports and documentaries in the period 1923-1930, founded his own company for the production and film lab processin...

Sociological documentary presenting a village in Romania in the 1930s.

This early entry in James A. Fitzpatrick's TravelTalks series takes us to Bombay, which we're told is the gateway to India.

A short film, consisting of coloured shapes, and rhythmically edited to syncopated jazz music.

Is there any agreement between colour variation and sound rhythm? Flashes of colour, synchronously shot to a fragment from the ‘Bolero’ by Ravel’.

"Workers Rise up Against War" a banner proclaims, as crowds gather in central London on May Day 1932. After marching to Hyde Park and listening to spe...

Documenting a journey by camel across the desolate wasteland of the Kharga Oasis in 1932. The film includes scenes at a train station, bustling street...

Die neue Wohnung, Version Atelier Richter, was made a year after the SWB version, for screenings in Germany that began in January 1932. This version,...

Iver loses his Romani-parents in an avalanche, and gets adopted by farmer Sjur. Years later, his background comes back to cause trouble in his persona...

A documentary taking a journey down the Thames from Tower Bridge to the Shellhaven refinery near London.

Raden Ajeng Karina is of mixed-descent, born to a Dutch mother – who has since returned to the Netherlands – and Javanese father. She lives in the pal...

A 1932 Argentinian film by Luis Moglia Barth.

Due to problems, Gelder's small plantation is dwindling. So in order to support his son's education in Holland, Gelder falls into the hands of a loan...