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Artie Shaw's Class in Swing (1939)
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This film is less a typical musical short and more like an educational film. It consists of a narrator describing the music, composition and style of a big band.
The City (1939)
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A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay of industrialized inner cities.
The 400 Million (1939)
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The 400 million people of China are heirs to a great civilization, as their pagodas and stone lions can attest. But they are under attack from the Japanese. Civilian refugees walk, stumble, crawl to escape the destruction of their cities... While in the China of tradition, water buffalo still work the paddies and camels cross the desert, modern China is now a republic founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with modern schools, heavy industry, large engineering projects... The government of Chiang Kai-shek resists the Japanese invasion from the coast. Madame Chiang receives a cheque from the U.S.A. for war relief. War production continues in distant
The World Parade: Bali - Paradise Isle (1939)
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Early documentary on the island of Bali.
Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations (1938)
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Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form. This first half of her two-part film opens with a renowned introduction that compares modern Olympians to classical Greek heroes, then goes on to provide thrilling in-the-moment coverage of some of the games' most celebrated moments, including African-American athlete Jesse Owens winning a then-unprecedented four gold medals.
Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty (1938)
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Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form. Where the two-part epic's first half, Festival of the Nations, focused on the international aspects of the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin, part two, The Festival of Beauty, concentrates on individual athletes such as equestrians, gymnasts, and swimmers, climaxing with American Glenn Morris' performance in the decathalon and the games' majestic closing ceremonies.
Borneo (1937)
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Expeditions in Borneo by Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson show the terrain, flora, fauna and lifestyle of Borneo as the Johnsons search for a huge orangutan.
The Spanish Earth (1937)
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A propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War in support of the Republican government against the rebellion by Gen. Francisco Franco's forces who were backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The film would have been seen by those making it as a documentary.
From Dawn to Sunset (1937)
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GM employees rise in the morning and go to work in the factories, design studios, and offices of General Motors across the country. They receive their wages and shop for not only necessities, but some luxuries as well, in twelve cities across the country where GM factories are located. Local architecture and regional foods are highlighted. The workers then head home to their families for dinner, recreation, and bed.
Rain for the Earth (1937)
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Drought conditions in the Great Plains during the 1930s, known as the "Dust Bowl".
Night Mail (1936)
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This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the overnight run from Euston, London to Glasgow.
Formations (1936)
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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 needing to know where other vehicles on the road within close proximity are. But while a precision flyer knows what his fellow formation fliers beside him are going to do, a driver on the road may not know the driver in the cars close to him, and can only go by the rules of the road to guide him. A driver should try to view his situation much like the flyer from a bird's eye perspective while still paying attention to what he himself is doing. The four vehicle formation that any driver should
Triumph of the Will (1935)
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A showcase of German chancellor and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.
Los Angeles: 'Wonder City of the West' (1935)
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This Traveltalk series short visits Los Angeles, California. In one of the highlights of the film, narrator James FitzPatrick visits the Disney cartoon studio and shakes hands with Walt Disney.
Day of Freedom (1935)
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Filming of the performance show the Deutsche Wehrmacht (German Army) made during the Reichsparteitag of the NSDAP in Nurnberg 1935. Showing the readiness and the will of the newly build army. The third documentary directed by Leni Riefenstahl.
Three Songs About Lenin (1934)
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This documentary, made up of 3 episodes, is based on three songs sung by anonymous people in Soviet Russia about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.