1935 Movies

It takes a leap of imagination to get from the electric oven in 1935 to plastic clothes, video phones, vacuum tube emails, and the home cinema by 1955...

Piccolo Pete saves a dog from an oncoming train and is taken home by Tillie Twitch in this rotoscoped cartoon from the 1930s.

Terrytoons make a modern variation of Red Riding Hood.

Advertisement by animator Hans Fischerkoesen.

Amateurs on the stage, Amateurs on Radio and now - with the cooperation of the New York Daily Mirror the Amateur's Movie Contest was conducted in New...

Directed by Abdelaziz Hassine.

Newsreel started in 1935.

In the 13th century AD, the Turkish slave girl (Shajarat al-Durr) captures the heart of (Al-Malik Al-Salih) and he marries her so that she can interfe...

Directed by Niazi Mustafa.

Directed by Niazi Mostafa.

A compilation film showing a capsule history of America's involvement in WWI.

This short, the seventh in the 'See America First' series, opens with a slightly corrupted version of the following quote from Sir Walter Scott: "Brea...

Short film where the hero Hatanosuke battles ghosts and monsters in a haunted house.

Short film where the hero Hatanosuke battles with an evil gang of thieves.

En Voltam (I Did It) was based on Confession, a play by Rose Meller. Elma Bulla repeats her stage role as a young woman who takes the blame for a thef...

Documentary about Ethiopia.

The Farmer tries to keep his pet from eloping. The "star attraction" here, as far as I'm concerned, is the ballad "Agnes", probably an original song b...

A travelogue of the world's last medieval state, produced by a Swiss expedition.

An evocative account, inspired by Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran (1934),of the lives of the Gaelic speaking inhabitants of Eriskay, a remote island in...

This is one of Palestine's earliest sound films and part of a larger campaign to encourage settlement and investment in "the Jewish homeland." Land of...