Cinematic Era: 1927 Vintage

Cartoon short.

A woman enters a nightclub and slowly begins to open herself up.

Will Rogers, America's unofficial ambassador abroad, invites us to rural England. He starts at Windsor Castle, and we see the boys at Eton in their top hats. He motors past the oak trees of the king's riding park, where he strolls up to deer. Then it's on to Thomas Gray's churchyard and to a thatched cottage. Rogers buys 'hollyhawks' from a vendor, stops at Ascot, and goes to Hampton Court Palace to see Henry VIII's private garden and the first tennis court. He concludes with a boat ride down the 'Temms' past country estates, elaborate house boats, and picnicking punters. A stop at a riverside hotel for tea ends the tour. Rogers makes wry observations throughout.

A husband leaves his wife and kids for the sake of pleasure. Eulis Atjih, his wife, and children live in poverty. Later on, when he returns destitute, she forgives her former husband

A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.

Bottom-shelf Western star Neal Hart directs and stars in this silent western serial.

Music hall comic song.

A silent cartoon short produced by Mason Wadsworth and animated by John R. McCory.

An Aesop's Fables animated short.

About a clash on the open sea between Soviet sailors and a group of White Guard officers. Lost movie.

Silent released in 1927.

Short directed by Noburô Ôfuji.

Pete on the farm.

A tour through the Universal Studios with glimpses of several of their contract players and film makers.

Tesla coil tested at General Electric laboratory in New Jersey VS H. C. White holds a baton that's zapped by a Tesla Coil; he holds up an incandescent bulb that lights up; White and his assistants demonstrate various tricks with the 'lightning bolts'

The story is based on the traditional, Japanese myth of Urashima Taro; in which a fisherman is transported from the seashore into a fantastic underwater world on the back of a giant turtle.

Directed by Jose Nepomuceno

The story of this film is based on actual facts, the murder of actress Maria Alves, and the investigation that ensued, covered by Reinaldo Ferreira himself. Ferreira also wrote a novel based on the same facts.

A man who has been jilted by the woman he loves sets out to recover her stolen jewels in order that she can be happy with her new husband.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

On Halloween, Felix is both victim and victor in mischievous and bizarre jokes. A feline witch promises Felix a romance to lure him into a trap.

Temptations of a Shop Girl is a lost 1927 silent crime drama film directed by Tom Terriss and starring Betty Compson and Pauline Garon

Carousels, doubling up on the helter skelter and an enormous key feature in the annual funfair on Mitcham Green.

On May 20-21, 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh flew alone, non-stop from New York to Paris, in a single-engine plane without parachute or radio. With this feat, Lindbergh became perhaps the greatest hero of the decade. Fox Movietone's sound film record of Lindbergh's take-off was the first popular sensation of sound film; it was soon augmented by coverage of his welcome in Washington on June 11th.

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short.

Naughty is a 1927 silent film comedy directed by Hampton Del Ruth and starring Pauline Garon and John Harron. It was produced by Chadwick Pictures.

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

In northern Finland in the fall of 1916, Saima Niva rescues a man drifting in the river, who turns out to be a German lieutenant Braun. Braun and his six comrades have managed to escape the prisoner of war at the Muurmann railway station, but the lieutenant has had to get rid of the lost group. While Braun is recovering, under the good care of Saima, Niva's neighbor and henchman of the gendarmes, the greedy policeman Simpura, gets a tip about the refugees camped in the desert.

Madame Fidias suffers with jealousy of all those young women who pose for her husband's sculpture work. She fights to get Phi-Phi's (her affectionate name for Fidias) attentions back, using her feminine charms and cunning.

Omar Khani, a head of Zaqatala province, is a despot man: he kidnaps a beautiful married woman for his harem, and then he orders to kill her husband and leaves their children alone.

A reportage about the tea company of the NILS (the Netherlands Indies Agricultural Syndicate) called Permanangan, on the east coast of Sumatra.

Trying to escape a chase, a little skater wins the first prize at the competition.

A 1927 American silent melodrama film.

In order to face the payment of the landlord, Antonio works in the most varied snags, while his daughter reads novels. A watchman job gives him fame as a tough man and earns everyone respect.

1927 American silent Western film directed by and starring Leo D. Maloney.

Based on the operetta of the same name.

The Revelers sing a couple of songs around the piano.

Felix hires out to an optometrist as a mouse catcher.

A gentleman trades place with a notorious gangster who's his dead ringer to prevent an evil baron to marry his fiancée.

An Inkwell Imps short.

Adapted from a play by Romain Coolus, whose work Dulac had covered as a theater critic at the turn of the century, this atmospheric and socially inquisitive film tells the tale of an independent, sexually liberated woman (Eve Francis) who is torn between her husband (Gabriel Gabrio) and her lover (Paul Guide). Controversial at the time of its release, Antoinette Sabrier finds Dulac using her bold sense of visual rhythm to achieve a complex portrait of a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage and a nuanced investigation into human intimacy, with her characters’ emotions expressed through then-innovative cinematic techniques such as slow motion and associative montage.

A man listening to Rachmoninoff's 'Prelude' dreams he is the victim of premature burial.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

A rancher’s son returns from college in time to help father wage war on a gang of rustlers

Shows road building and repair by the Bureau of Public Roads in Mt. Rainier National Park. Rock is blasted in a quarry, crushed, and used in resurfacing roads. Shows Nisqually glacier, rivers, and other scenery in the park.