1937 Movies

A reclusive magician grants a wish to a beautiful young woman. The film is thought to be long lost.

Han Nio is in love with Oey Koen Beng. But her money-hungry mother pairs her off with a young wealthy man, Lim Goan Tek, to finance her gambling debt....

“30 Years of Nordisk Film” celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of Nordisk Film, featuring clips of the company’s major films from its first three dec...

The new Frigidaires for 1937 are coming!

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...

Transporting coffee beans from ship to roaster. Processing beans. Transporting coffee to stores. Making coffee at home and over a campfire.

GM employees rise in the morning and go to work in the factories, design studios, and offices of General Motors across the country. They receive their...

Part of the film Lviv Speaks (1958) edited by Bohdan Soluk. The traditional Jordanian blessing of water takes place on Rynok Square near the well oppo...

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

The film shows various ways of oil drilling and capitalization, from the oldest to the most modern ones.

Fuelled by pulp fiction, a rich woman's imagination goes into overdrive after her brush with a low-life on a Newcastle street. Not surprisingly for th...

A lively documentary about the Aleksis Kivi Elementary School in Helsinki, which was once, in the late 1930s, the most modern elementary school in the...

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

This silent b&w film has intertitles in gothic script (in German). The film features cineradiography of x-rays of the chest shot full-on and side-on....

Speeches, folk dance, choral singing, Kalevala magic, limb repair, weeping women, accordion player, recitation.