Cinematic Era: 1928 Vintage

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

At the time of the departure of a freighter, a man runs on the pier, begging that he be taken aboard. The captain agrees. The only passengers are the captain’s niece, Marie, accompanied by her baby boy. A radio message is received. It seems that a murderer has just escaped on a boat.

Casper is going on vacation with his wife and ugly baby (I'm sorry, but the kid IS really creepy looking) and after about five minutes of unfunny shenanigans, he arrives home and gets ready to take off for the country. However, unexpectedly, his rich uncle, his aunt and their destructive and stupid son arrive and invite themselves along for the trip. The trip is anything but relaxing.

The eight Victoria Girls dance, together and separately, to numbers that include “Diane”, “Rain”, and “Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella”.

Movie comedy with Jerry Mandy.

Burton Meredith, A young, U.S. government chemist discovers a formula for a deadly gas. But Wo Fang, the evil leader of the Chinatown underground sets out to steal the secret, using very foul and foul means he knows. And Wu Fang knows them all.

Princess Lola has been exiled from her native Pelicania after one of her relatives usurped the throne. She is now the celebrated prima donna of the Revue Theatre, arousing rapturous applause from audiences night after night. However, the princess has her most devoted admirers behind the scenes. The young theatre doctor Ove Helmer loves her, and our two old friends, Pat and Patachon – one now a prompter at the theatre, the other a make-up artist – regard her with the warmest affection. When the princess finally gets the opportunity to return to her native Pelicania, Pat and Patachon are eager to come along to help her assert her position. As things progress, Patachon's striking resemblance to the country’s king has unexpected consequences. (stumfilm.dk)

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

Aesop's Fables cartoon

The Foy Family performs a vaudeville act.

A group of animals take part in Olympic sports.

Based on a poem by Florentino Collantes.

A British army unit sets out to rescue the son of a maharajah, who has been kidnapped by a rebel group.

In order to break up her son's engagement to a postmaster's daughter, a wealthy matron hires the girl as the family maid, then sets up her son with a beautiful and wealthy heiress. The son breaks his engagement and instead becomes engaged to the heiress. Depressed, the young girl leaves and, with a friend's help, moves to London and becomes a fashion model. Complications ensue when her former fiancé comes to London to get her back..

A lost simple comedy, which used the most representative parts of Poznań (the film was to promote the General National Exhibition in Poznań).

By coincidence, Pat and Patachon are cast for the lead roles in a major film production. It quickly turns out that the odd couple doesn't fit in to just any plot, and especially Patachon's helpless attempts to play prince charming are testing the director's patience. (stumfilm.dk)

The film was produced as a compilation film. Blum reported in “Film-Kurier“ (5.11.1928): "It will be assembled from excerpts of partly unpublished Ukrainian films. […] Some American footage has also been used. To get material as impressive as possible, a number of films, 0-60, have been viewed." Based on ideas by Dziga Vertov, and largely assembled from the last reel of his film 'The Eleventh Year', this compilation presents an explicit critique of the very technology that Vertov sought to praise, stressing the dark side of industrialization—hands mangled in workplace accidents, train wrecks, coffins—and connects to a particularly German concern with the negative effects of technology stretching from the Romantics to Heidegger, Horkheimer, and Adorno in the twentieth century.

The young Queen of Nlilrania and her consort, Prince Ferdinand, are deeply attached to each other, but a hectic youth in Vienna has left him with a flirtatious disposition. An old flame visits the palace, and the Queen apparently has justification for her jealousy. She orders her husband to remain in his apartments. He retaliates by returning the key of the door between their rooms. After a furious scene he departs for Vienna with the Countess. The Queen secretly follows with her aide-de-camp. in the train they encounter sonic officers, and the Queen not only dances, but at Vienna goes to the Arts Ball, where her husband awaits the Countess. Though masked, he recognizes her, and reconciliation ensues.

A young ruffian learns about the Scouts. Features Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout movement. Made in 1928 by the pupils and teachers of Altrincham County High School, written and directed by their schoolmaster Ronald Gow.

Amos faces a few difficulties as he tries to drive his cross-eyed wife and their two rambunctious children to California.

Famous author George Bernard Shaw's monologue to an audience on a variety of topics, including his impression of Mussolini's stern facial expressions. TITLE CARDS READ "1927. SHAW TALKS FOR MOVIETONE Several months before 'The Jazz Singer' appeared, sound films of current events and of interview with eminent figures of the day had been issued by the Fox Film Corporation. The voice in the interview given here is recorded with a precision rare in the early talkies. / William Fox Has the Honor to Present / The World's Outstanding Literary Genius / GEORGE BERNARD SHAW / First Appearance in America Recorded by Fox Case Movietone Western Electric System"

Japanese silent film from 1928.

Cohen (Sidney) and Cohan (Murray) are partners in a barber shop, always squabbling with each other, both being smitten by their beautiful manicure girl.

Film depicts TR's commitment to the reclamation of desert land and his belief that natural resources exist for the public benefit.

After a fight with his neighbor over their Model Ts, Ben's tuxedo is ruined. Unfortunately, the suit he gets as a replacement doesn't hold up too well.

Roommates unable to pay the rent take to the streets in search of easy cash and free food.

A Dutch film in two parts in which the entire process – from producing the newspaper to delivering it – is explained. We see shots of the editorial and administrative offices located on Groote Houtstraat 93, and the entrance to the printing buildings at Zuider Buiten Spaarne. Making the newspaper: typesetting the adverts, the typesetting machine, the design of the newspaper, the letterforms being pressed onto the damp raster, the electric drying drum, the raster being placed in the casting machine, the plates being mounted to the rotary machine, and the printing of the newspaper. We also see the newspaper being delivered via automobile and via paperboy. (There are also images of Haarlem shot from the Grote Kerk).

Images of Scania, Sweden: Ystad, Trelleborg, Malmö, Lund, Helsingborg, Mölle. Churches, castles and lordly seats. The preserved English-language version is shortened and partly edited differently in relation to how the film looked in its original Swedish-language version.

A friend of KoKo's animator draws a haunted house, and KoKo and his dog Fitz go inside. There, they encounter frightening hallways where every door leads to a new spook.

Sixth release in the 'Sexton Blake' series of short crime dramas.

A private detective and his young assistant solve crimes.

Short film about a city woman visiting the countryside.

British documentary.

This is the first Oswald cartoon to be directed by Walter Lantz who would later produce the Oswald shorts after George Winkler and Charles Mintz (the producers) were fired.

Early sound film of a popular stage puppet show.

A Paris night club proprietor falls from grace and is reduced, after going away for a while, to working there in a menial position.

Based on the play "Summer Lightning" by Ernest Denny, two housewives become embroiled with a foreign spy network.

Immerse yourself in the industry of the North West Frontier, from the Khyber Pass to the city of Peshawar. Roving among bazaar traders including cobblers, copper smiths and silk weavers.We see gun making, central to British military might, and a mud fort, last outpost of the British empire on this historic road. The film elaborates on the region around Peshawar with the small villages and the military and economic outposts in the area.

Folk architecture, costumes, work, customs and traditions, dances, and other expressions of traditional life in Slovak villages.

A young couple is in love, but Nina's father has seen another young man as her future man. It doesn't help when Nina's lover is convicted.

Fourth release in the 'Sexton Blake' series of short crime dramas.

In Race Symphony (1928), Richter documents and celebrates a typical day at the German races, where a sophisticated people turn up in droves to gape, gasp, place a bet, and celebrate a well-deserved win.

A 1928 comedy short

A pugilist sprains his ankle during a street brawl and is taken care of by a girl who loves him. Believing her love is returned, she makes preparations for their marriage. Deserting the girl at the altar, the fighter realizes his love for the girl when her vision appears to him, while down for the count in the ring, and this enables him to win the battle.

"The Secret Power" - Hardly anyone who strays into the emigrant's restaurant "Strange Bird" would suspect that the porter once was a general, the waiter a prince and the cook an admiral, and that the lady at the bar is actually the princess Sinaide forced was leaving their home.

A Czechoslovakian avant-garde film. A visual symphony of Prague by night.

Hugo, a rich and wild young man, joins Julio, his close friend and party companion, and after a night of adventure and alcoholic libations, the two awaken, still thirsty for adventure. They head to the Livestock Exhibition, then in full swing. There, they part ways, and Hugo goes to meet the beautiful Geni, the young daughter of Colonel França, a wealthy rancher from southern Minas Gerais and one of the main exhibitors at the important event. Hugo, upon seeing this beautiful young woman with such sweet eyes, is attracted to her, begins to fall in love with her. And, seizing a lucky opportunity, he invites her to dinner together at a restaurant located on the Exhibition grounds. Just then, a daring man appears and tries to flirt with his young companion.

Assistant Treasurer Benchley reports on the annual expenditures of the club for its home for "boys between the ages of 14", and other projects.