1928 Movies

City views of Perm and Solikamsk, landscapes along Kama, Kolva, and Vishera rivers. Work of the Solikamsk potash mine named after the Decade of the October Revolution. Views of Cherdyn and nearby villages from the Kolva River. Old Believer villages and their...

A Sammy and Sausage cartoon.

The title performers (four singers and a pianist) perform two popular songs.

Shenanigans occur in this Aesop's Fables short.

Significant personalities of the Czech nation in drawings. A hand draws the portraits of Tomáš G. Masaryk, Edvard Beneš, Alois Rašín, Jindřich Fügner and Bedřich Smetana.

All of the three [Sandy] films that we know – Lumière et ombre (1928),Prétexte (1928),and Essais cinematographiques (1928) – last barely more than ten minutes in total, but bear witness to a certain originality in the context of the French avant-garde of the...

Travelogue was distributed by the American company Lincoln & Parker in 1928.

Scenes of the carnival rides at Coney Island.

A pioneering Soviet documentary filmed in the state nature reserve on Kyiv’s southern outskirts, showcasing the region’s landscapes and the scientists at work in its research station. Released by VUFKU, it became the USSR’s first nature-conservation film and e...

Burton Meredith, A young, U.S. government chemist discovers a formula for a deadly gas. But Wo Fang, the evil leader of the Chinatown underground sets out to steal the secret, using very foul and foul means he knows. And Wu Fang knows them all.

Time-lapse shots of plants reacting to various external stimuli.

Setangan Berlomoer Darah Is a 1927 Chinese Malay novel by Tjoe Hong Bok published in Semarang, Dutch East Indies. It tells of a young man who goes to seek revenge for his father's murder, before ultimately forgiving the killer.

Silent documentary directed by Walter Fischer

Daffy Doings in Doodlebugville Kinex

The historical silent film, which was commissioned by the City of Frankfurt, shows the individual construction phases of the Frankfurt "Großmarkthalle" right up to the traders moving in at the start of actual market operations.

Propaganda film in three parts for Kinabu, a Dutch charity based in The Hague that sends sick or underweight city children to recuperate in the countryside.

At the border between traditional live coverage (that describes the stages of grape reaping) and a private family movie, the film shows a visit to the estate of Avram Ghiltcik.

A collection of newsreels from 1914–1928, showing events in Malmö and Lund.