1934 Movies

In the 1930s, Japan implemented a colonial policy called the “Policy of Sheep for North and Cotton for South.” The policy forced cotton cultivation in...

This plea to reduce the growing numbers of imprisoned youths, with its warning from the celebrated warden of Sing Sing prison, is drawn from the Octob...

Ernest Sant, a depressed and introspective man, wants to kill himself. He wanders the countryside, having bizarre encounters and often provoking hazar...

The original introductory part of Karol Plicka’s film The Earth Sings (1933),which was replaced with a sequence of shots of Bratislava during the era...

Slovak folklore presents its beauty not only in celebratory customs and children’s games. The short documentary proves that Plicka perceived poetry al...

A silent film hagiography of the Grand Pré region of Nova Scotia. Title cards illuminate the historical plight of the Arcadians in the time of the Gre...

A movie about Hokushin Japan

This "Colortone Musical" follows two gypsy children who steal toys from the camp puppeteer's wagon, then have a horrific nightmare

Technicolor tour of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.

Hardly a movie in any traditional sense; The bird-- Metal, glass, gel filters, electrical and lighting elements-- is seen through a frosted glass scre...

In this short film Bernard Leach follows the papermaking processes at the workshop of renowned papermaker Abe Eishiro, one of the early members of the...

British potter Bernard Leach made 16mm films during his travels in Japan and Korea in 1934-35. In this short film, Leach is clearly fascinated by the...

Fun with Little Orphan Annie at the circus.

Short experimental film in the form of a sonata, with the parts allegro, adagio and presto. The first part shows, apart from animated dominoes, musica...