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- Boule de Gomme is a child actor. On the set of the film he is shooting he gets on the nerves of the director and of the all crew by being off the beat when he is asked to cry or to laugh. Nobody manages to reason with him, with the exception of a grip who uses the rough way. A good beating and everything comes right in the end. The grip is promoted to the rank of production manager.
- A porcelain-maker invites a guest to sell him chamber pots, but family problems cause interruptions.
- An heiress is saved from a blackmailer.
- Made for the 1932 municipal election by the Social Democrats in Stockholm. The labor movement's emerging in Sweden. Welfare evolving. A young couple rents a modern apartment.
- Business tycoon F. X. Benedik claims he has been threatened by a mysterious stranger Boswell Marsh. When F. X. Benedik is found murdered. Tony takes over the business and tries to track down the mysterious Marsh.
- The story of two young men, one a prince of royal Bali-blood and the other defined as a coolie, and they are both in love with Dasnee, a slave girl possessing the sensuous charms for which the women of Bali are known to have. The prince marries a girl of his caste and the coolie marries Dasnee, but the prince still loves Dasnee. So, with the aid of his sister---nice family---they give Desnee, while her husband is off elsewhere, a hearty dose of goona-goona and the prince spends the night having his way with Desnee. He goes home to the palace but leaves his sacred sword, known far and wide as 'Kris,' in the bed. When the husband comes home he knows who has been sleeping in and left his sacred sword in his bed. The husband sets out to right this wrong in the manner of his ancestors.
- Sorok Serdets is a 49 minute politprosvet film centered on electrical power plants, the new beating hearts planned for Soviet society and economy.
- Land of the Maharajas: Sadhus and many camels Brings you to the famous white city of Udaipur with its magnificent palaces and gardens situated on islands in many lakes that gave it the name of "Venice of the East". From there we immerse in legends of chivalry and valor at the citadel city of Chittorgarh, three times the stage jaguars against the Moguls invaders. We ended the tour in an absolutely magnificent place, the holy city of Pushkar, an amalgam of holy and unholy people, right during its most important event of the year, its famous camel fair. Land of the Maharajas: Sadhus and Many Camels (49 minutes) covers Udaipur, Chittorgarh and Pushkar.
- Gomez has kidnapped Don Roberto and is holding him for ransom. Hoping to rescue Roberto and his daughter, Smith gets a job in Gomez's camp supposedly to repair their guns. Instead he fixes the guns so they will misfire. When Gomez refuses to let him go, he sends his horse for the Sheriff.
- An elderly jeweler is victimized by con artists pretending to be the Russian royal family. He sets out to turn the tables on the criminals and earn a reward that will give him enough to buy a pair of silver bracelets for his wife for their 25th wedding anniversary.
- An undercover marshal battles a power-mad cattle baron.
- Charmed by a pretty girl, Olive follows her on board a dirigible, where he discovers that the belle, Pearl, has a husband. Never mind such an insignificant detail, Olive tells himself as the dirigible takes off with a stowaway among the passengers. Unfortunately a storm breaks out and the captain, realizing that there are 13 people on board, decides to sacrifice one of them. Guess which one? Olive, of course.
- Jim Simpson rides into an area known locally as "The Valley of Badmen" to claim his father's ranch and learns from the county attorney, Mr. Horton, that it had been sold to pay back taxes. Simpson smells a rat, since his father had never had difficulty paying the taxes before. Simpson starts to snoop around with the help of a pretty cowgirl and his sidekick Half Pint and learns that the Horton and McQueen, another rancher have conspired to steal his ranch.
- About the growth of social consciousness of an Uzbek woman.
- Eight imported CLETRAC 30 tractors, assembled with the Oliver Disc Gang Plow, work non stop, from dawn to sunset, to grub up a large barren land south of the Tagus river, in preparation to a wheat harvest.
- A young girl falls in love with an artist of dubious repute.
- A man races to save his son's life, but death - incarnated in the child's imagination as the titular Elf King - calls unceasingly.
- About a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the perfect soldier.
- Marshal Jack is sent, undercover, into the bad lands to clean up a gang of Indians who have been terrorizing the local ranchers. Horses belonging to a ranch owner are stolen and the horse which was supposed to be in an endurance race is maimed. Jack is blamed for both deeds. He acquits himself and wins the race for The Colonel, after disclosing that the supposed band of Indians are a pack of white smugglers led by the ranch foreman.
- This featurette made for the Swiss Socialist Party follows alternately a day in the life of five modest people encountering various problems at work, even losing their job for two of them, before joining a protest march.
- Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may know something about it. En route he crashes his plane into Jerry's bathroom; she falls in love with him which makes her suitor Steve jealous.
- Sympathetic portrayal of a soldier who inadvertently commits sabotage through his ineptitude on the battlefield.
- A gambler sets out to help a pretty young woman save her trading post.
- In 1921. With the help of Japanese interventionists, the White Guards defeat a Shaldyba partisan detachment. The remnants of the defeated detachment pour into Levinson's detachment. Partisan intelligence soon finds that the Japanese has surrounded the detachment. To save the main forces from defeat, Levinson decides to break through the chains of enemies.
- A naive peasant appears by turns during the Civil War in two hostile camps and finally chooses the Red Army.
- The film recreates the events of 1905. In the center of the picture is the struggle of the proletariat, led by the Bolshevik party, against tsarism. The demonstration of labor unrest is replaced by episodes of the Russo-Japanese war, Black-Hundred demonstrations, accompanied by a pogrom of Jews, and beating of the intelligentsia. The film paints the attitude of the Mensheviks towards armed insurrection, reproduces the picture of barricade battles, the arrest of the Council of Workers' Deputies and the brutal reprisals of the tsarist autocracy with revolutionaries.
- The story of the removal of Laguna in the Paraguayan War.
- Cub reporter Dusty investigates the murder of the District Attorney and stumbles into a plot involving a kidnapping and a crooked election.
- Without sound, in three movements. Title cards declare that what a person likes and his manner of liking them reveals character. There are long looks at forms and rhythms. The film begins and ends with the sea: the tide coming in, small breakers running up on a beach. In the first movement, rocks appear, light and dark play on water. From time to time, machines turn. The light makes dappled patterns. In the second movement, a leafy tree branch gives way to water then shots of the sky and clouds. The third movement returns to the shore, with long takes looking out far, past the beach to outcroppings under the horizon. Small breakers interrupt the patterns of light on water.
- A young girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and wanders into the strange world of Wonderland.