1936 Movies

The fourth in a second volume of promotional news real footage produced by Chevrolet. The short touches on a number of subjects in a generally upbeat...

Mary Field and F Percy Smith create this whimsical look at the breeding habits and life cycle of frogs.

Newsreel story about the California “Bum Blockade”, a scheme which fell apart after 2 months.

Animated adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's story "How the Whale got his Throat".

This informative short film narrated by Father Bernard Hubbard 'The Glacier Priest' shows in detail the large and lucrative salmon fishing industry in...

Travelogue by Andre de la Varre from 1936 about the restored capital city of colonial Virginia, Williamsburg.

A tour of Tunis, Algiers and Rabat in the 1930s.

Pro-Republican propaganda documentary made during the Spanish Civil War. It appeals to the population to fight against Franco's Nationalist forces.

10 min of footage from the Spanish revolutionary struggle saved in the CGT union archives - funeral procession for Durruti in Barcelona (over 500000...

British documentary.

An extract from 'Mauretania and RMS Queen Mary'. Part of BFI collection "Tales From the Shipyard".

A silent short documentary directed by Norman Dix.

A silent short documentary directed by Hans Ammann.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 17 April 1936.

Uncle Sam personally sends off a cat pilot for a flight to the Orient, to much crowd acclaim. Along the way he drops a heavy mailbag that nearly sinks...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 24 January 1936.

Documentary about highway construction in Germany.