1937 Movies

Meticulous documentation of the course and rituals associated with a traditional, folk wedding. Images of nature and Masovian landscapes are intertwin...

A picture filmed in China showing the graphic details of the authentic execution of condemned Chinese drug peddlers.

Summery and sunny Finland showed its best side in 1937, described in this tourism film.

This silent b&w film has intertitles in gothic script (in German). The film features cineradiography of x-rays of the knee and foot.

A Swiss railway documentary short.

A montage of some home movies taken by Archie Stewart (1902-1998),an early enthusiast in taken 16 mm sound films of his family. We see his daughters,...

Color documentary about Tunisia

1937 film produced by the US Auto Industry about the importance of lubrication. Motorists really ride on a film of oil, because all the moving parts o...

Eeny, Meeany and Moe, the three little monkeys, are running a resort, when a mama elephant and her. Calf drive up. Uh oh! No children are permitted! S...

Nang Nak has come back to life again and fleeing from the flood to become violent, ferocious, thrilling, exciting, and performing a miracle ten times...

Home movie of a winter sport & theatrics event at Chicago’s Soldier Field. Includes scenes of automobile theatrics, people skiing down a constructed r...

How radio broadcasting works.

Tuggener had already photographed the airshow in Dübendorf in 1934, and in 1937 made his first film at the event. Children gazing in amazement, airpla...

Lumiere Lumicolor

This documentary offers a look at the activities of the Works Progress Administration and examines and work being done on various types of projects.

A short educational film by the Museum of Modern Art showing the making of You Only Live Once.

This silent footage documents the survey conducted between March and April 1937 (Showa 12) by Keitaro Miyamoto, Toru Ogawa, and Tadao Kano in the moun...

Silent black-and-white footage of San Francisco, including the Ferry Building clock tower and ferryboats.

Bournemouth Orchestra perform a piece of music - Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2".