1938 Movies

Kalajoki: Kallankarit in the Gulf of Bothnia.

The circus arrives in a small town on the coast of Peru. It is managed by the unscrupulous Orsini, who is facing financial problems. Orsini plans with Diana, the tightrope walker, to deceive a wealthy personage of the town. They choose Alberto who attends the...

Short documentary about cyclones.

[A toddler] refuses to eat his spinach and had fed some of it to the dog before the cracker ringmaster promises a show if he finishes it. He does and the show starts.

A butterfly sailor returns to port aboard a turtle battleship to marry his butterfly girlfriend. The courtship runs smoothly and wedding plans are made. The ship's whistle signals the end of shore-leave and frustrates their plans. The sailor ships out, leaving...

A 20th Century Fox Magic Carpet of Movietone travelogue short released in December 1938, depicting Scandinavian “Viking” history and landscapes. Produced as part of Fox’s long-running newsreel/travel series, the film later gained historical significance as a s...

Record of the Japanese expedition to Nanda Kot (6861m) in Himalaya in 1936. The expedition was organized by the Mountaineering Club of the Rikkyo University and included Sakuta Takebushi, who had represented Japan at the Olympic Games. They were the first to c...

A silent short documentary produced by Dix-Film.

Don Manuel, an old and wealthy landowner residing in Lima, is an uncompromising father. He has married off his eldest daughter, Victoria, to a diplomat who is actually a cynic who exploits her. Victoria's affection for Toledo, a friend of the family, is rekind...

A good racehorse is a good business in 1938, as shown in this Vyborg region horse-breeding film.

A short directed by John Hanau and Hans Nieter

A story of the priest who risked and faced conviction rather than reveal something told to him in confession. This forms the main theme of the picture.

Shots taken at night of the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Glasgow, showing the building, statues, and fountains lit up by neon lights.

Long John Silver forces the Captain to bet his house in a cockfight. It's John's champion rooster, the Honduras Hurricane, versus the Captain's: a scrawny bird with a bad cold. The boys replace the sick bird with a violent baby eagle.

In Ub Iwerks' The Frog Pond, many frogs are singing and having a good time until a big bully frog takes some food and basically orders a house built on his lily pond.

A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender.

A young pastor feels attracted to Martin, a fisherman, and his fiancée Raili. Martin, in turn, is in love with Paula, a shop assistant at a beach store. Jealousy and guilt drive these men, entangled in their relationships, to extreme actions.

One of a group of seven documentaries made for the 1938 Empire Exhibition under the supervision of John Grierson, the film was part of a campaign to improve the fitness of the Scots.