1937 Movies

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!

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

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...

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...

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

Report produced by the Propaganda Section of the Government of Euzkadi. Made before Bilbao fell to Franco's forces, it focuses on the religious questi...

Various shots during and after the Crystal Palace fire in 1936.

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

How radio broadcasting works.

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...

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....

This early example of a State Sponsored promotional film was made in 1936 and showcases the sunny south coast of Ireland and everything it has to offe...

Japanese newsreel covering the offenses against Suzhou City Wall.