1934 Movies

Oopie is to give a violin concert, but doesn't want to play. Scrappy gives him a stick of chewing gum, which calms him. However, the gum gets on the two of them.

Home movie featuring scenes of sailors, rabbit dance, Sports Day group games, Kendō practice, an excursion to Mt. Kōya, Nagasaki's Urakami cathedral, and Sunday School

A signal from Buddy Deering on Mars warns Earth that the Tiger Men of Mars and their cruel king have broken their treaty and are attacking. Buck Rogers and Wilma Deering go to rendezvous with the Earth battlefleet before setting off to fight the tigerships. Ba...

One of the best-known films of Mahalakshmi, a sound film studio set up jointly by star Zubeida and director Vakil. The costumed love fantasy derived from the Arabian Nights and tells of Laila (Zubeida),a gypsy dancer who falls in love with the Persian soldier...

The daughter of a poor farmer leaves the village for the city. One day, her older brother, who previously wandered, comes to her. Disillusioned with city life, the brother and sister return to their native village.

These fragments of a documentary film project by Peter Pewas about Berlin’s Alexanderplatz show the neon signs on the big department stores, but also children playing unsupervised amid the rubble of vacant lots, passers-by trudging hurriedly through the slush,...

Indians kidnap The Little King from the Royal Express. He tames a wild bronco and a chase returns him safely to the train.

Billed as New Zealand's first "talking picture comedy", 'Hamilton talks' was made in the early 1930s. Shot in Hamilton, it is a typical comedy of the time involving many local scenes and local people in its making.

The story of how William Tell came to shoot the apple off his son's head is told in this Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from Walter Lantz.

Fleischer Studios Screen Song. At a super-automated theatre, the Eton Boys (in live-action insert) sing the title song aided by the Bouncing Ball.

Musical comedy starring George Formby alongside his wife Beryl in his first ever feature film. George plays John Willie, the shoeshine boy at the upmarket Crestonian Hotel. He's a cheeky little man with no time for authority, a head full of dreams, a pocketful...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 23 February 1934.

Birkenhead's sights, shopping opportunities and industries.

Thelma tries to pass herself off as a famous French painter.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 9 October 1934.

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".

Film by Heuberger.

‘Mo’ McIsaac and his sidekick Donald try to find work to support a young orphan girl he finds dancing for pennies in the street, Miriam, unaware she is really the missing daughter of rich aristocrat, Major Burnett. Gangster Al Baloney and Mae West impersonator...