The Last Witness. b/w. 2 reels. Detective drama in Germany.

Melody Time. Colour, 2 reels. Walt Disney. An array of wonderful Disney animation, including Little Toot, Johnny Appleseed, Roy Rogers and Pecos Bill.

Glinka. b/w. Russian with English sub-titles. Musical, about a famous Russian composer.
Reels 2 & 3 only (the last 2 reels, so at least we get to see the end, if not the beginning!)

The Third Man. b/w 1949. 2 reels. (Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Trevor Howard, Alida Valli.) Post-war adventure set in Allied-occupied Vienna.

Peter the Great, Part 1. b/w, 1937. 3 reels. Russian with English sub-titles. The early life of Tsar Peter the Great.

Peter the Great, Part 2. b/w, 1938. 3 reels. Russian with English sub-titles. The later life of Tsar Peter the Great.

Quiet Flows the Don. b/w, 3 reels. Russian with English sub-titles. Dramatisation of the novel by Mikhail Sholokov.

Sirocco. b/w, 2 reels. (Humphrey Bogart.) Adventures in French-run Syria in 1924.

Darby O’Gill and the Little People. Colour, 2 reels. 1959. Walt Disney. (Sean Connery, Albert Sharpe, Jimmy O’Dea.) Leprechaun adventure. Leonard Maltin describes it as "One of the best fantasies ever put on film." And we see Sean Connery singing! – an unusual role for him.

The Three Stooges in Orbit. b/w, 2 reels. Comedy. Our three heroes are unemployed and homeless when they answer an advert from a reclusive scientist who wants company. He has built a spaceship, but evil aliens are trying to sabotage it. The lads end up flying to some hilarious adventures.

Because of You. b/w, 2 reels, 1952.A woman ex-con marries while on parole, but does not tell her husband of her past. Her old associates involve her in another crime, and her husband divorces her, but years later, she gets him and her child back.

Spellbound. b/w, 2 reels, 1945. (Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G. Carroll, Michael Chekhov.) The new head of a mental institution is an imposter and an amnesiac; a staff member falls in love with him, and helps him recall the fate of the real Dr Edwardes.

Triumph of the Will. b/w, 3 reels. German with English sub-titles. Leni Riefenstahl. Nazi Party week-long rally in 1934. Still regarded as “the most effective propaganda movie of all time.”

Pygmies of the Rainforest. Colour, 2 reels. Excellent doco on the lives of the last nomadic Pygmies in the Ituri rainforest, central Congo.

Animal Farm. Colour, 2 reels. 1955. Animation of George Orwell’s classic. Oppressed by the cruelty and inefficiency of their master, the animals take over a farm, but find fresh tyrants among themselves.

The Maltese Falcon. b/w, 2 reels. 1941. After the death of his partner, private eye Sam Spade is dragged into a quest for a priceless stauette. (Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet, Elisha Cook Jnr, Peter Lorre, Gladys George, Jerome Cowan.)

The Norseman. Colour, 3 reels. 1978. Vikings sail off in a longboat on an adventure.

Battleship Potemkin. b/w, 2 reels, 1925 (this version has sound added plus English sub-titles, 1950.) Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. The mutiny at Odessa, an episode in the 1905 revolution in Russia. A textbook cinema classic, and masterpiece of creative editing. This film was judged as "the best film ever made" in 1948 and 1958 by a panel of international judges.

Monkey Business. b/w, 2 reels. 1931. Marx Brothers comedy. Four ship's stowaways crash a society party,and catch a few crooks. (Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Thelma Todd, Rockliffe Fellowes, Ruth Hall, Harry Woods.)

It Grows on Trees. b/w, 2 reels. 1952. A housewife finds a money-tree growing in her backyard, and suddenly all the family's financial problems are over - until . . . ? Comedy.

The African Queen. Colour, 2 reels. 1951. (Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Theodore Bikel.) In 1915, a gin-toting river trader and a prim missionary make odd companions for a boat trip down a dangerous river, culminating in an attack on a big German gunboat.

The Communist. b/w, 3 reels, 1957. In Russian with English sub-titles. Adventures during the Russian Civil War, 1920.

Cinderella. b/w. 2 reels, 1947. In Russian with English sub-titles. The familiar story of Cinderella, not in cartoon format as usually seen, but brilliantly acted out. Leningrad Film Studios.

The Five Thousand Fingers of Dr T. Colour, 3 reels. 1953. Dr Seuss’ only non-animation film, and his only full-length feature. A boy who hates piano lessons dreams of his evil piano teacher as an evil genius who keeps 500 boys imprisoned in a castle of musical instruments,