1932 Movies

A short film, consisting of coloured shapes, and rhythmically edited to syncopated jazz music.

Is there any agreement between colour variation and sound rhythm? Flashes of colour, synchronously shot to a fragment from the ‘Bolero’ by Ravel’.

"Workers Rise up Against War" a banner proclaims, as crowds gather in central London on May Day 1932. After marching to Hyde Park and listening to spe...

Documenting a journey by camel across the desolate wasteland of the Kharga Oasis in 1932. The film includes scenes at a train station, bustling street...

Die neue Wohnung, Version Atelier Richter, was made a year after the SWB version, for screenings in Germany that began in January 1932. This version,...

A documentary taking a journey down the Thames from Tower Bridge to the Shellhaven refinery near London.

Raden Ajeng Karina is of mixed-descent, born to a Dutch mother – who has since returned to the Netherlands – and Javanese father. She lives in the pal...

A 1932 Argentinian film by Luis Moglia Barth.

Due to problems, Gelder's small plantation is dwindling. So in order to support his son's education in Holland, Gelder falls into the hands of a loan...

The film tells the story of a hard-working and unfruitful life of a peasant from Adjara in the 1930s, who is forced to serve others to avoid starvatio...

Mario Soffici's first film in the form of a short.

A semi-documentary film about the violence and conflict of unfairly dismissed workers from the Heungnam fertilizer plant and their efforts to fight th...

A couple dances until a clothing failure causes disaster.

S.W. Childs, Jr.’s best known production, this thirteen-minute short film tells the story of a man and woman preparing for and enjoying a dinner date....

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

“When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathé News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chick...

Metal, glass, electrical and lighting elements, and a frosted-glass screen in a painted wood cabinet