1937 Movies

Conservative voter association's Gentofte film from 1937. Filmed by Gunnar Wangel with screenplay by Poul Melgaard.

In 1937 the Nazi leadership opened a major exhibition in Berlin entitled Gebt mir vier Jahre Zeit’’ (Give me four years time). This title was derived...

George VI's first Trooping the Colour as King, and Princess Elizabeth's as heir presumptive. Despite the reference to Leslie Mitchell's describing of...

Swimwear show at the Molitor swimming pool in June 1937.

Images of Helsingborg, Sweden. An amateur film by a young woman.

Short film about wool.

The funeral of Miss Jean Armour Burns Brown, great grand-daughter of Robert Burns, at Greyfriars Kirk and St. Mary's in Dumfries.

Drought conditions in the Great Plains during the 1930s, known as the "Dust Bowl".

A short educational film by the Museum of Modern Art showing the making of You Only Live Once.

Tourist bus trip from Helsinki via Tallinn, Riga, Berlin, Prague and Vienna to Budapest and back to Helsinki via Poland. Travel photos from along the...

Home movie of a winter sport & theatrics event at Chicago’s Soldier Field. Includes scenes of automobile theatrics, people skiing down a constructed r...

Tuggener had already photographed the airshow in Dübendorf in 1934, and in 1937 made his first film at the event. Children gazing in amazement, airpla...

A parodic story inspired by The Life of Émile Zola (William Dieterle) and transposed in the city of Quebec in the 1930s about a painter who flirts wit...

Transporting coffee beans from ship to roaster. Processing beans. Transporting coffee to stores. Making coffee at home and over a campfire.

A picture filmed in China showing the graphic details of the authentic execution of condemned Chinese drug peddlers.

A home movies documenting an interracial Filipino American family’s life on a farm in rural Ohio.

The film shows various ways of oil drilling and capitalization, from the oldest to the most modern ones.

Shiny cars, trams and people on a sunny summer day in Helsinki in 1937.