1928 Movies

A training film stressing accuracy for Western Union's keyboard operators, who were mostly women.

An insight into the fishing business in the North Sea.

In this incomplete print, Squire promises a “Cook’s Tour” of Russia, India, Italy, Finland, and Ireland. Russia is represented by Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sc...

Daffy Doings in Doodlebugville Kinex

Short Dutch silent short film.

Short silent documentary on Carnaval at Malmédy, Belgium.

The critic for L’Intransigeant (04.06.1928) complained that in this film, the couple Gabrielle Robinne (1886-1980) and René Alexandre (1885-1946) are...

The animals run a radio station- with mice generating electricity by paw power. An elephant sprays water into the microphone, and it comes out of the...

Documentary by the Argentine meteorologist José Manuel Moneta, recorded in the base "Orcadas" (Islas Orcadas del Sur) in 1927. It is the first film re...

This 1920s home movie, shot by longtime Corpus Christi resident Antonio Rodríguez Fuentes, may well represent some of the earliest produced by a Mexic...

Pathé Baby short by Guglielmo Baldassini.

Description of a rafting trip along the Torne River between Jukkasjärvi and Vittangi. The production company for this short documentary film is unknow...

Minute-long shots of the Dutch factory's grounds and the surroundings. We see the production process of 'de bekende murwe lijnkoeken W. L. en Ster hal...

A young girl survives a shipwreck and is found and subsequently raised by the fisherman Harry Smits. He gives her the name Leentje from the Sea. When...

All of the three [Sandy] films that we know – Lumière et ombre (1928),Prétexte (1928),and Essais cinematographiques (1928) – last barely more than t...

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

Pathé Baby short by Guglielmo Baldassini.

Funeral displays for Brazilian aviator Carlo Del Prete in Rio.

The historical silent film, which was commissioned by the City of Frankfurt, shows the individual construction phases of the Frankfurt "Großmarkthall...