1933 Movies

“Subtitled ‘A Comedy of the Depression,’ the two-reel film begins with the hero, Mr. Motorboat (played by Leonard “Motorboat” Stirrup, a professional...

A wife is caught between her drunken husband and her love-starved daughter.

A silent documentary about the Long Beach earthquake of March 10, 1933, which had a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughou...

A staging of the capture of the bandit Andrés Ramos.

Documentary about sights, landscapes, and cities in the southern Black Forest and Lake Constance.

A poetically edited documentary capturing the gradual transformation of a river from the trickles of melting glaciers into a raging mountain stream. T...

50 successive phases of bursting 50 primers.

Tallinn winter scenes.

Architects' Congress is Lázló Moholy-Nagy's cinematic journal which recorded the 4th meeting of the CIAM (International Congress of Modern Architectur...

In 1950, an astronomer discovers that a comet is going to destroy Earth. He warns the world, but nobody believes him. His engineer friend is building...

Björn Soldan descended with a camera into the Outokumpu copper mine in the winter of 1933. The miners' working day at a depth of one hundred meters is...

Repeal Brings Wet Flood! Celebrating repeal in that wettest of towns, New Orleans, LA. Currently available as part of the Treasures of the American F...

At the end of World War I, legionnaire Sergeant Stanisław hides from captivity at the home of his fiancée Wanda's father. He fights fiercely to defend...

Documentary about the Midget Village exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair.

A picture-story showman is reading a story about a troublemaking tanuki on the street to children. A starving tanuki with nowhere to go plots to steal...

In New York, a distraught woman sits in her rented room in a rocking chair. Outside, people shop and engage in commerce, men light pipes, hands type....

The film by Jorge Bedoya Forga (Arequipa, 1902 - New York, 1968),a pioneer of amateur 8mm filmmaking in Peru, was filmed around 1933 and records the...

Skiers enjoy a variety of slopes. Paper film, celuloid source unknown.

Meet a gentleman with no bones to speak of - but a lot of movement.