Joer 1933 - 93

Amateur film taken during the first flight over Everest, showing aerial views of the mountain. The summit of Everest was flown over on the 3rd April 1933 by both machines of the ‘Houston Mount Everest Expedition’.

“Subtitled ‘A Comedy of the Depression,’ the two-reel film begins with the hero, Mr. Motorboat (played by Leonard “Motorboat” Stirrup, a professional tapdancer), waking up at dawn in an auto junkyard… The scene is much in the mode of Chaplin, though the whole is carried by the effective shots and cutting, unlike Chaplin’s typically static camera and long shots.” —Chuck Kleinhans

'Adventures of two detectives in post office.' (British Film Catalogue)

'Scots widower woos poor spinster, believing her to be wealthy.' (British Film Catalogue)

Ramonet is a teenager that can't stop making mischief. In order to avoid this, his mother sends him to be educated. Unfortunately, the move backfires. It is the first picture to be filmed in Valencian.

Since 1928, the School of Public Health has been organizing its own film service, which started producing films aimed to educate the village. This is an animated fragment from an educational-propaganda film about malaria, created in a photo-film laboratory. The film was shot by engineer Aleksandar Gerasimov, head of the laboratory, edited by dr. Dragutin Chloupek, and the cartoonist was academic painter Vilko Šeferov.

A crow dances and sings.

Edited footage from the Socialist Film Council

A lively City Symphony showing daily life in the lost city center of inter-war Rotterdam, alternating the poor life in the slums with the rapid, modern, and rich city life that lies beyond the end of the alley.

50 successive phases of bursting 50 primers.

The production of sugar cane in the West Indies, contrasting old and new methods

The fourth and final game in the 1933 playoffs for the Stanley Cup played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. The match, between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the New York Rangers, is described by the well-known sports commentator Foster Hewitt. Hewitt also interviews the players and coaches of both teams in their respective dressing rooms. Scoreless at the end of regulation time, the game goes into overtime: now the first goal scored will decide the game. The Rangers score to take the Cup.

Painting designs on clothes and hats. (British Pathé)

Releasing a new cartoon to theaters every two weeks, producer Paul Terry had the idea to create an animated movie serial parodying 1890s melodrama. This was the proposed first installment with four more “chapters” to be released over the next two months. The concept didn’t catch on, but the characters and tropes did—zaftig Fanny Zilch, the damsel in distress, pursued by mustachioed villain Oil Can Harry in his opera hat and the dashing (albeit effeminate) hero Strongheart. The cliffhanger situations and operetta format became a Terry studio staple over the next 20 years, including the return of Oil Can Harry himself, tropes later adopted by Terry’s 1940s-50s “Mighty Mouse” cartoons.

Documentary on the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay from the recruitment of troops to the battle front.

We should never forget our manners no matter how much we may excel in martial arts. Learn lessons from Yoshichiro's failure.

Norakuro's adventures in the Fierce Dog Brigade continue in this short film from the 1930s.