1936 Movies

Swiss advertising film for Persil about a 'wash ghost'.

Based on the song "Yarom, Chloptsi, Yarom".

Crime short from Louis Sonney.

Crime short from Louis Sonney.

Footage of Carl and Mary Akeley filmed during the AMNH Eastman-Pomeroy-Akeley East African Expedition, 1926. Short scenes from campsites and wildlife...

May Day parade and procession on the streets of Berlin, many Nazi flags on buildings and people in crowds. c. 1936, 16mm color.

A film director shows a friend two shorts that prove the advancement of a film industry in Venezuela. One of the first examples of sound film in Venez...

On a ship traveling to Egypt, Burhan kills Amina Hanem to steal her jewelry that the jeweler Cohen had offered her. However, the girl Nahid, who looks...

Steve the Horse cartoon

The theatrical release of the heavyweight boxing contest between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling.

First bilingual Venezuelan film, directed by Héctor Cabrera Sifontes.

The story shows the rivalry with the family of Sukhadas, first over who Dinadas' only daughter will marry, and then, more seriously, over the Anglo-In...

How the Post Office's night mail train from London to Aberdeen collects and distributes mail en route.

Shorty the chimp goes to Coney Island, Brooklyn where he climbs a ferris wheel and ogles bathing beauties.

Finnish short documentary

Propaganda film, capturing “the work of the government’s training camps and instructional centres for unemployed men.” - NFA catalogue.

Early stages in the growth of the sea-urchin are presented in microphotography by transmitted and reflected light.

Ten year old boy pilot called Gore Vidal. A young boy learns how to fly new kind of aeroplane with simple controls. M/S of boy, Gene, standing in fr...