1937 Movies

A film telling people to be safe in their work practices.

Portrays the life of a family of rabbits. Relates the adventures of young Bunny who, visiting a nearby farm in search of lettuce, encounters a frog, a...

An overview of aviation development to 1937.

Girl guides on parade at a rally in southern India attended by Olave Baden-Powell.

A film about the Estonian forest industry, commissioned by the Estonian Forestry Association.

A heavily staged film which seen an African visitor's 'false naïve' yet penetrating questions which reveal the devastating impact of wealth inequality...

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...

Almost a remake of the earlier Fanny Zilch-Oil Can Harry cartoons of several years earlier, complete with the last minute rescue at the sawmill, thoug...

The manager of a car dealership is driving from Helsinki to Petsamo.

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

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 record of measures taken against an outbreak of plague in Lagos, followed by footage of welfare exhibitions in Lagos in 1937

Amateur film taken during the Shaksgam Expedition of 1937, led by Eric Shipton. The main aim of the Shaksgam Expedition was the “exploration and surve...

An accurate and suggestive view of The Venetian Lagoon through the shootings of Luis Bogino, an expert photographer and able amateur filmmaker from To...

Criminals! Bombardments on Barcelona (1937) reports on the naval bombardment suffered by the city of Barcelona.

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