Our Gang Follies of 1936
The gang puts on a show, everything goes well, except they're missing an act.
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The gang puts on a show, everything goes well, except they're missing an act.
Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions of George and Gracie, who've just invented a television device that can
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, and loves Bahia, the beautiful dancer who works with him in the same c
San Sebastian, October 2023.
Assesses the contribution made by British avant-garde composer, Cornelius Cardew, to contemporary music. Includes interviews with Stockhausen and other composers, and extracts from Cardew's own works.
Summer 1936 - The Berlin Olympics, organized by the Nazi regime on the eve of World War II, acted as a grand showcase for a Germany that was athletic, peaceful and rejuvenated. The violence and hate that until then had r
The film chronicles the story of how the Nazis and the IOC turned, to their mutual benefit, a small sports event into the modern Olympics. The grand themes and controversial issues from the 1936 Games have continued to t
This brief period in French history (1934–1938), known as the “Popular Front,” has left an indelible mark on the nation's collective memory. Set against the backdrop of a polarized and divided France, this film chronicle
By means of a chronological arrangement of historical video material from the Istituto Luce archives, it tells the story of Fascist Italy's ambitions in Africa and the role they played in shaping fascist ideology and the
Leni Riefenstahl's flamboyant Nazi aesthetics shaped the public image of the 1936 Olympics. Never before had sports and politics been mixed. Through archive photos and reconstructions, we get a closer look into the histo
The forgotten story of Son Kee Chung, the Korean athlete who won a gold medal under Japanese flag in marathon at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
In 1931, Germany was awarded the Olympic Games in the hope this would draw them into the international community and world peace would be promoted through sport. For two weeks in August 1936 cameras captured the world’s
Various shots during and after the Crystal Palace fire in 1936.
The history of the Asturian mining basin from the mouths of its protagonists. We are after the victory of the national side in the Civil War, the families decimated with the dead in common graves. The "fugaos" and the gu
A 36-minute overview of one of mankind's greatest achievements. In the early 1930s, America was in the depths of a tragic economic depression. Yet the people of that troubled era constructed Hoover Dam, still one of the