1936 Movies

The veritable story of a citizen of San Francisco who, after being destroyed in the 1857 stock market crash, believed himself to be the emperor of the...

May Day parade and procession on the streets of Berlin, many Nazi flags on buildings and people in crowds. c. 1936, 16mm color.

Short glimpses of Stockholm.

Images of the 1936 carnival, on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, especially the Corso on Avenida Rio Branco, the day of the ranches, and the parade of c...

In mid-1936 a sound engineer visited the Pemberton region of south-west Western Australia to make a film that focused more on the atmosphere of the fo...

Pictures from Paltamo, Kajaani and Oulu.

Two migrants from "Home", John Hawthron and Andy Henderson from Scotland, meet on a road building gang. John has not yet made his fortune in the new c...

This footage is a record of Katsumi Komatsu’s visit to urban and rural areas in Taiwan, specifically Taipei and Tainan, in April 1936 (Showa 11),cond...

This thinly veiled advertisement for Irish Sweepstake tickets was made for the US and UK market at a time when gambling was illegal in those territori...

Amateur newsreel showing the elections of February 1936, the last elections of the young and democratic Spanish Republic.

How the Post Office's night mail train from London to Aberdeen collects and distributes mail en route.

Instructional film for African audiences on the causes and prevention of hookworm disease

Short documentary about life in the village of Remete, 5km nortwest of Zagreb.

An educational documentary short, commissioned by the Chevrolet Motor Company, explaining a manual car transmission works.

"I knew Ovady Julber very well in the 1960s and still have many memories of his recounting of the making of the 8mm film LA MER in or around 1932 usin...

Produced in interwar France, this short documentary presents images of French Indochina centered on plantation industry—particularly rubber production...

Ethnographic images of Karelian village life, fishing, and the Praasnieka.

Children are playing on the playground in the park.

We take a boat trip on Lake Päijänne.

An architectural survey featuring sweeping views of downtown Chicago, Garfield Park Conservatory, University of Chicago, and Lincoln Park Zoo.