1937 Movies

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".

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...

Encyclopedia Britannica Films teaches us about the animals on Farmer Brown's farm.

This entertaining thriller from John P Howard begins on a quiet road in Eltham. A man finding a note on the ground sees a woman waving from a high win...

A Finnish documentary on dogs.

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

“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!

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...

How radio broadcasting works.

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

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

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

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...