1938 Movies

Soviet black-and-white cartoon of 1938. Film adaptation of the Uzbek folk tale. The tape is in the public domain, since it was released more than 70 y...

A short featurette about a murderer summoned by chance to sit on the jury and try the man accused of his crime.

Scrappy, the city slicker, goes to visit his country cousin. Scrappy is a practical joker and carries an electrical buzzer in his hand, and water-squi...

Two people have a one-night stand.

A young woman from Lima's high society, very wealthy and spoiled by her father, must decide between the amorous advances of two suitors. One is rich a...

A sailor is shipwrecked and wakes up on the Island of Madeira, where he meets the Queen of Bananas. But a giant spider warns him that she is an impost...

In an abandoned hotel, idle ghosts get drunk, play slot machines and line up for their relief checks. Two chimpanzees and their big mopey dog venture...

A short directed by John Hanau and Hans Nieter

A film report from the Dar Pomorza (Pomeranian Gift) sailing ship's training voyage to Stockholm to celebrate King Gustav V's 80th birthday. The film...

Make sure there's a hanky nearby: After the death of their mother, older sister Betty works tirelessly, supporting her sister through nursing school a...

Krazy Kat steers his magic carpet to three exotic locations while declaiming in the style of a radio announcer. The locales are the North Pole, Hollan...

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

Tampere Civil Protection Corps' anniversary parade. Compiled from preserved material.

The Mysterious Cowboy and his sidekick Pronto ride after the outlaw Bad Bill Bunion.

Drama-documentary, reconstructing a real incident in which a trawler got into difficulties in a North Sea storm. Released 7th March 1938.

The lecturer shows a microcinematographic sequence of spirochaetes and drawings of the gonoccus (the bacteria responsible for syphilis and gonorrhea)....

As the subtitle of the film suggests - The Story of a Post Card from Manchester to Graffham - this journey is very much focused on the process of sort...