1938 videos

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A tour of the British colony of Singapore in 1938.Footage from this film is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com

A tour of Hong Kong in the 1930s. Footage from this subject is available for licensing from www.travelfilmarchive.com

This is a film made by McPetruk in 1938 showing the Great yoga teacher demonstrating asana and pranyama. He was the teacher of BKS Iyengar and Sri K. Pattahbi Jois, founder the Astanga style of yoga.

This is a film made by McPetruk in 1938 showing and shows Krishnamacharya demonstrating yoga. Here we see a young Iyengar (still alive, well, and doing yoga, BTW) doing advanced poses that constitute the advanced A & B astanga series. This is obviously well before Iyengar dropped the vinyasa aspect from his practice and rebranded it as "Iyengar Yoga", putting greater emphasis on alignment.

A Tour of Manila, Philippines in the 1930s.Footage from this film is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com

The historic 1938 match race between west coast star Seabiscuit, and Triple Crown winner War Admiral. A race for the ages.

A tour of London, England in 1938. Buckingham Palace and the changing of the guard, guardsman with rifle at attention at gate, marching band, drums, guards marching with rifles, Constituition Hill, Hyde Park, Wellington memorial, Speakers Corner, horseback riding in park, nannies and baby carriages, sailboats on pond, baby in sandbox, swans, child drinking tea, British Museum and Regents Park Zoo, bears playing, peacocks strutting, Komodo dragon, Picadilly Circus overhead with traffic ...

Wroclaw in 1938

This is a film made by McPetruk in 1938 showing BKS Iyengar practicing Astanga Vinyasa yoga

It must have been shocking to hear the b word in the more respectable era of the 1930s. Leslie Howard is quite sinister and misanthropic in this movie and Wendy Hiller is hilarious as the cockney girl trying to become a lady. This is the classic speech where she tries to sound posh but just ends up using a posh voice and common vocabulary to regale the vicar's tea party with tales of her dissolute family life: "It was them who pinched it what done her in"...

BKS Iyengar practicing.

Beautiful Budapest (1938) - James A. FitzPatricks Traveltalk in Technicolor. Copyright: April 1, 1938. I'm sorry, but the quality is rather poor.

Our bold trio travels cross-country by trailer - and sorely lives to regret it, especially when the makeshift vehicle crashes its way down a cliffside. Characters — Mickey Mouse Donald Duck Goofy Director — Ben Sharpsteen Animation — Johnny Cannon Les Clark Ed Love Cut Scenes — Goofy struggles with corncob, during which he sticks his fork in a light socket; the resulting electric shock pops the corn.

War of the Worlds. A Halloween Eve (October 30/1938) CBS live broadcast radio drama, played out for a prank. Produced and directed by Orson Welles of the Mercury Theatre Players and based upon the 1898 HG Wells novel. The radio airing terrified many of its listeners, especially the ones who tuned into the broadcast late, and thought it was a live news broadcast of a real alien invasion from outer space. A Princeton psychologist of the day, found in his study of the mass hysteria, that 2 ...

A short clip of the fledgling Lawrence Welk orchestra featuring girl singer Lois Best. Welk opens up with his theme "Bubbles In The Wine," followed by Lois Best singing the Malneck/Loesser song "I Go For That." The band finishes the clip with the old standard "Ain't She Sweet." Welk's band is pure Mickey Mouse sweetness, with three trumpets, one trombone, three reeds who double on saxophone and clarinet, and a rhythm section consisting of a keyboardist who plays piano and Hammond organ, bass ...

1938 - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Tommy Kelly, Ann Gillis, Jackie Moran, Walter Brennan, and May Robson

This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely bee reveals Ferdinand's ferocious side via pained howls and wild stomping. This lands him in the bull-fighting arena amidst characters based on Walt's animators with a matador reportedly modeled after Walt himself.

Zářijové události roku 1938 byly pro Československo velkou zkouškou. Byl to rok hrdosti, odvahy, odhodlání a zrady.

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

PLEASE READ THIS - This clip was uploaded to Youtube specifically to embed in my web page abut this film: terrororstralis.com "Tarzan's Revenge" was the second Tarzan film made by producer Sol Lesser, who would eventually make fifteen Tarzan pictures. Lesser's first Tarzan film was "Tarzan the Fearless" from 1933 which atarred Olympic swimming star Buster Crabbe. This time the role of Tarzan was played by Glen Morris, the 1936 Olympic decathlon champion. His female lead was Eleanor Holm, an ...

Die Kristallnacht, also known as die Reichskristallnacht (literally Imperial Crystal Night), die Pogromnacht and inEnglish known as the Night of Broken Glass, was a massive nationwide pogrom in Germany and Austria on the night of November 9 1938, (and into the early hours of the following day). It was directed at Jewish citizens throughout the country and was the beginning of the Holocaust. More information: www.ashkenazhouse.org

Halkin dilinden Dersim Katliami

When a giant threatens the land, the cityfolk mistake Mickey's boast of killing seven flies with one blow to be giants. He is then forced to fight the giant for real.

The 1938 Hurricane, by the Works Project Administration - During this storm, Frank Schubert, last keeper of Coney Island Light, was aboard the buoy tender ship Tulip, which was thrown aground on top of some train tracks by the storm.