Most Viewed Year 1936 - 99

The fourth in a second volume of promotional news real footage produced by Chevrolet. The short touches on a number of subjects in a generally upbeat...

This informative short film narrated by Father Bernard Hubbard 'The Glacier Priest' shows in detail the large and lucrative salmon fishing industry...

Pro-Republican propaganda documentary made during the Spanish Civil War. It appeals to the population to fight against Franco's Nationalist forces.

British documentary.

Animated film about fire extinguishers.

Documentary about skilled blacksmiths.

Animation film about a cartoon olympics. Japan wins.

A short film about frogs and a fish trying to eat them all.

Children playing cowboys and Indians around a log cabin. Mr Frank Marshall began making amateur films in 1932, always using 16mm. Paper archive held...

Amateur newsreel showing the elections of February 1936, the last elections of the young and democratic Spanish Republic.

Promotional film for the Farmall F-12 agricultural tractor, demonstrating how easy and fast its implements can be attached and removed.

This narrated film about persistence of vision (how movies work) has a good narrator and lots of fun visuals. High points: A weird scene inside a...

Most marvel at how close formation fliers go about their maneuvers, but what everyday drivers on the road are required to do are much the same in...

Meshmesh Effendi (1936) The first animated film made in Egypt is about the character Meshmesh Effendi, who loves music, works in one of the clubs,...

Crime short from Louis Sonney.

Footage of Carl and Mary Akeley filmed during the AMNH Eastman-Pomeroy-Akeley East African Expedition, 1926. Short scenes from campsites and wildlife...

How the Post Office's night mail train from London to Aberdeen collects and distributes mail en route.