1928 Movies

This film on kitchen design was part of a series of promotional shorts made by the photographer Paul Wolff in 1927-28 ahead of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM),which took place in Frankfurt-am-Main in 1929 and featured various demonstr...

We immediately saw the Nungensser-Coli on the screen landing at the Bolivian airfield and witnessed a bird's-eye view of the city of La Paz, with its avenues, churches, and the high hills that overlook it, their peaks eternally covered in snow. The preparatio...

A documentary film of Mandatory Palestine. Showing the construction of modern infrastructure and life in the cities, depicts scenes from the holidays and work in the villages.

Juneteenth Celebration, farms, residences, football games and various people in Wybark, OK; Porter, OK; Muskogee, OK; Langston, OK; and Okay, OK.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

Silent Dutch animated advertisement for Kroon bicycles. A hand draws a cat cycling to the moon. On the way, it is bothered by falling meteorites and other inconveniences. However, as soon as it sits down on a Kroon bicycle, it is completely unaffected by stone...

Romanian animation story of a hobo and and a lady.

Chain of pictures and moving images about the origination of the annual Yser pilgrimage from 1920 to 1929.

José Bohr performs an interpretation of a Spanish-language adaptation of the song Miss Annabel Lee, which is in foxtrot rhythm and was originally performed by Annette Hanshaw in 1927.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

A short silent film about St Kilda, an isolated archipelago to the west of Scotland, and the final period of its habitation. Shows a voyage from Glasgow to St Kilda, containing scenes of the Western Isles and island life of the crofters on St Kilda. Research s...

Filmed by Pedro Sambarino.

Eddie White performs his vaudeville act.

A farmer builds a television and tunes in on nude girls.

Includes footage of bullfights by the brothers Manolo and Pepe Bienvenida, the Peruvian bullfighter Carlos Sussoni, Marcial Lalanda, Rayito, Lagartijo, and the banderillas of Bombita IV.

Baptists, cars and trucks on a train, footrace and other activities in Tulsa OK; Ransom, IN; Coweta, OK; Wybark, OK; and unidentified locations.

Within the initiatory journey of two children lies a fine lesson in geopolitics done Soviet style. Apart from this political demonstration, the patched-up puppets stroll through the décor with incomparable poetry. The charm never fades. This masterpiece is a t...

A picturesque tour of Guadeloupe (French Caribbean) and its archipelago filmed in 1928 by Alfred Chaumel, colonial administrator: from Pointe-à-Pitre and its harbour to the islands of Les Saintes, Marie-Galante, and La Désirade, passing by the jagged coasts of...

Documentary film that shows the Pontifical Coronation of Our Lady of Guadalupe, filmed on April 22, 1928 in Santa Fe, Argentina.

In this lively late silent two-reeler, blundering blowhard Jimmy is "always looking for work; someday he'll find it, then he'll have to quit." But meanwhile he applies for a job at a newspaper whose editor really, really wants to solve the mystery of the "haun...