Most Viewed Year 1931 - 88

Made during the rapid industrialisation and collectivisation of Stalin’s Five-Year Plan. Kaufman countered the poverty of the villages with the...

This first entry in the "Believe It Or Not" series of shorts visits northern Africa. Included are a look at the Tuareg people of the Sahara Desert, a...

A girl with an alcoholic father struggles to fit in.

After a running gun battle through the streets, Krazy finds a gangster gorilla's secret hideout in a spooky graveyard, complete with animated...

The story of a crazy film company attempting to make the first 'talkie' in Australia. Two divas compete for the main role.

The breeding cycle of the bittern, the cryptically plumaged relative of the herons.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 27 December 1931.

Soviet courtroom drama directed by Efim Dzigan.

The film is a visual accompaniment to Honegger's music representing the progress of a transcontinental locomotive. The superimposed orchestra...

A Italian newsreel short.

On a cloud, the storks that deliver babies also manufacture them with a machine. We see it stamp out several. The noon whistle sounds in the dispatch...

Newsreel about the opening of the casina in Vina del Mar (Chile).

The Unlucky Butterfly. A early Japanese animation short.

Shadow on the Mountains (Arthur Elton, 1932) is a classic English pastoral, with impressionistic views of the English countryside as it expounds the...

An experimental short from Oskar Fischinger

The Farmer and his cat vs. the mice. A good example of the humor with which Philip A. Scheib used sound in the early days. Made during the short...

A camera conception of New York, the city of inconceivable contrasts.

Bobby Jones practices the fundamentals with a group of children in the wings.

“Canadian Capers” was produced by Terrytoons and released on August 23, 1931. Uniquely, this was assigned to only four animators: Frank...

No longer able to bear to see himself age, doctor Faust decides to put an end to his life. But just as he’s about to swallow the poison that...