1938 Movies

The film documents the renowned physician and photographer Franciszek Groër at the hospital in 1938. By profession, Jan Otko was a bank employee who belonged to the city’s affluent class and was an avid amateur photographer. Jan Otko’s film is the oldest movin...

Wonderfully photographed promotional film of an Austin engine being installed into a yacht which then sails around the Cornish coast visiting villages from Rye to The Lizard. Some villages are visited by Austin motorcar.

Radical journalist Diwakar runs a printing press and edits a newspaper, much to the disapproval of his authoritarian middle-class father who believes that all respectable youths should get a job and settle down. Diwakar's scheming politician friend Vithalrao i...

Venice Film Festival 1939

This promotional short from Chevrolet features various breeds of dog and highlights their stand out quality. The film then demonstrates that a Chevrolet car has all of these great qualities rolled into one.

Join a Roma family as they journey through Kent in this unsentimental look at life on and off the road - superbly captured by the Barnes Brothers

Gerald Thompson's record of the 1938 Oxford University Cayman Islands Expedition. The first natural history survey of all three islands (Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac) reports were written about the flora, fauna, geology and wetlands.

Seal hunters J. Prants, E. Aaslepp, V. Aaslepp and A. Aaslepp travel from Aksi Island to the Gulf of Finland on a fishing trip. Travel between ice floes, pulling the boat on the ice. Catching seal pups. Hunting seals on the ice. Dinner and rest on the boat.

Members of the neighboring state arrive in the capital to declare war. Not only infantry, but also artillery, tanks and air forces are involved in the war.

Finnish documentary on the making of goat cheese.

The third Hagespraak in Lunteren. In this video, much attention is paid to the flag ceremony and the parade of the department banners.

Production of the Studio “Pixilated Pictures”.

Amateur footage of a trip to Tibet and Bhutan in 1938, including shots of the flora and fauna, Molo in what is now Arunachal Pradesh, the monastery at Sanga Choeling in Sikkim, and folk dancing in Kalimpong, West Bengal.

A gem-smuggling conspiracy drives an entertaining and unusually accomplished amateur fiction.

Boxer Gunnar Richard Bernhard "GeeBee" Bärlund returns to Finland.

An exciting action swashbuckler starring Hayafusa Hideto, aka "The Birdman of Showa Era." The extraordinary action that unfolds without a stuntman or lifeline is a must-see.

Peg-Leg Pedro is a 1938 Technicolor cartoon sponsored film. A boy and girl on a trip are attacked by pirates while looking for treasure.

In this informative 1938 film, we explore the fundamental types of car suspension prevalent during that era. As a wheel glides along a road, it encounters bumps caused by uneven surfaces. To prevent incessant jolting, the wheels are securely attached to the ca...