Cinematic Era: 1928 Vintage

The Nation of Fish by Hakuzan Kimura

Circus employee Poodles gets into plenty of monkey business while competing with the bully ringmaster for the love of equestrienne heroine Betty. But when she faints before an important performance, he must don drag so the show can go on.

When his buddy is murdered a dedicated cop, goes after the gang responsible.

Lon and Hazel Chaney with Mabel and Bill Dunphy play with a dog [perhaps Sandy] and perform some vaudeville routines. Later men and women, including Lon and Hazel and Lon's son, Creighton and his friends, and perhaps Eddie Parker, sit inside smoking, drinking, and talking.

Adaptation of the story “Peony Lantern” from 1928.

Lost movie.

A combination feature-animation advertisement for Schichtal, washing-powdermade by the firm Schicht. The bubble characters – Bublees – from the washing powder Schichtal quickly remove dirt from the laundry while the tired washerwoman is taking a nap. The commercial for the Czechoslovak-based Schicht company (Jiří Schicht a. s.) was filmed abroad.

Ko-Ko and Fitz live a life of luxury in a mansion full of servants, until the fantasy is burst when they wake up in a barn.

Comedy in two acts about a young official, played by Jean Georgescu, fired and then rehired after the boss's daughter falls in love with him.

A short silent comedy set in Takapuna, Auckland. Features Hector St. Clair, the London Pantomime Comedian. One of 23 community comedies made by director Rudall Hayward in different New Zealand towns between 1928 and 1929.

Singer Joseph Regan performs the songs "Mary Ann" and "Beloved."

Schools, residences, stores and other locations in Lawton, OK; Wetumka, OK; Muskogee, OK; Ardmore, OK; East Ardmore, OK; Cushing, OK; Lima, OK; St. Louis MO;

"Some folks think married men live longer. They don't — it only seems longer!" The opening inter-title to "Seein' Things" (1928) sums up the life of Joe Grubb (Ben Turpin), who is married to the shrewish Mrs. Grubb (Georgia O'Dell). An unpleasant wife not being enough, he lives next to some difficult neighbors as well. The neighborhood wives come over for their sewing circle, but when Joe Grubb tries to get out to a lodge meeting, Mrs. Grubb tells him that he's staying at home. He sneaks out anyway, but his deception and more is given away when the Grubb's new "Television outfit" reveals to the ladies that their husbands' lodge meeting is not a men-only event. The sewing circle ladies rush over, mayhem ensues, and things then resemble more of a boxing ring.

Short film with the popular song.

A young couple go to the carnival. After some savage heavy petting they meet a sinister fakir who offers to sell them Truth for six sous. A set of uncanny events follow. At worst 'avant-gardist' in the extreme, at best the counterpart to Cœur Fidèle's 'fête foraine' sequence after the abolition of melodrama. Excellent black screen cutting and chaotic camera shaking characterize the style.

George Washington Cohen, a naïve young man discovers a wallet in the street and returns it to its owner, the wealthy Wall Street banker, Mr. Gorman. Impressed with his honesty, Mr. Gorman gives George a job. However, things take a complicated turn when George discovers Mr. Gorman's wife is having an affair.

Competes friends working on the same farm at the heart of the girl, but she liked the younger, generating jealousy in the heart of the other lover, seeks to differentiate between loved ones, take advantage of the owner of the farm these feelings, who shall kill the girl's father, and deliver a charge to the young older, and pushes the young man to escape from the farm, even with impunity, which is intended however, that proved the charge, the younger lover in revealing the truth to succeed, and be arrested on his farm.

Documentary focusing on operations performed at the time by Dr. Benedito Montenegro in São Paulo hospitals. The director created cartoons "to better illustrate" the operations.

Scenes from Tutuila in Samoa.

Time-lapse shots of plants reacting to various external stimuli.

The ridin', ropin' and shootin' Billie is shipped from the Argentinian pampas to Europe to be polished girls' boarding school. Cheerfully untamable, she constantly violates the rules of the boarding school and is thrown out. So she gathers other girls around her and founds the Republic of the Teenage Girls on a deserted island, and becomes its president herself.

In the Parque del Retiro, in Madrid, Spanish writer Ramón Gómez de la Serna weaves a humorous and absurd monologue about a monocle without glass, the noises that can be heard in a chicken coop and the importance of gesturing correctly with a large hand if someone wants to succeed in the art of oratory.

British documentary.

Billy Dooley is sent on a mission inside a submarine.

Impressions of Bandung, Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia), with shots of the pasar (market), the Departments of War and Government Corporations, churches, parks, the residential office, a hospital, staff and service houses of the PTT, the Concordia society, the Chinese neighbourhood, the library and the observatory in Lembang.

Poodles Hanneford comedy produced and distributed by the Weiss Brothers.

A supposedly tame ape suddenly goes on a rampage in a small town. Based on a true story.

Propaganda film in three parts for Kinabu, a Dutch charity based in The Hague that sends sick or underweight city children to recuperate in the countryside.

Felix steals eggs from a hen's nest.

Critics of the time called "Milak, der Grönlandjäger" the German answer to Robert Flaherty’s "Nanook of the North" (1922). Filmed largely on location in Greenland and Norway’s Spitsbergen archipelago, the film combines impressive landscape footage with ethnographic observation.

A young man from Rio who, down on his luck in the capital, takes a job as manager of a sugar mill in the country, where he finds love with the mill owner’s daughter. The former manager, who had been demoted for incompetence, becomes jealous and tries to sabotage the mill.

A drama of dog vengeance packed with thrills.

Capacity crowds gather in Blackpool, at what appears to be the South Shore Open-air Baths, to watch the women's swimming and diving trials for the 1928 Olympics - if only some of the spectators hadn't strolled in front of the camera! The Games were held in Amsterdam, and saw success for the Brits: Scottish swimmer Ellen King went onto to win silver in 100m backstroke, and Great Britain also took silver in the 4x100m relay.

Vardan, a victim of misunderstanding, barely avoids becoming an accomplice in a crime. The first film on a contemporary theme from the Hayfilm (Armenkino) film studio about the educational role of the Red Army in shaping the character of conscripts.

An Inkwell Imps short.

One of the first documents of women's work in the canning industry. Through intertitles, the entire process of manufacturing the cans is followed. In the final sequence we see the dozens of workers who work there leaving the factory in the manner of the Lumière brothers' "Workers Leaving the Factory".

Scene of mid-August life in Varazze, on the Ligurian Riviera di Ponente, in the province of Savona.

Daffy Doings in Doodlebugville Kinex

Lighting Sketches of US Presidents and world locations.

A daughter of a wealthy man was forced to marry a man even though she was already in a relationship with another man.

Love blossoms in the hearts of the gypsy So'aad and the tribe leader Gewida. As she starts working in the circus, she is constantly harassed by Sam'aan, but Gewida saves her fromfrom Sam'aan's clutches and harassment as he asks for her hand in marriage.

Chip and his dinosaur wander over to a fort, where they watch wooden soldiers march in formation. Chip wants to enter the fort, but the guards won't allow his dinosaur in, so the dinosaur transforms into a small ball of clay. After entering the fort, a much angrier dinosaur breaks through the brick wall and attacks the guards. Later, trying bayonets and cannon against the creature, the soldiers run for their lives. Chip's dinosaur regains his original shape, and the two dinosaurs battle it out.

An angry man gets his ass kicked by a kid and his many animals.

Theobald, a Roman senator lives in Clermont with his niece Maxence who became a Christian. Sartorek, chief of the Barbarians, touched by Maxence's charm, orders the end of the pillaging and asks Theobald for her hand in marriage. Betrothed to Michel Brabance, she seeks refuge with him at the Christian colony of Vadum. From there, Michel asks for Clodion's protection. During his absence, Sartorek and his men attack Vadum and condemn Maxence to be decapitated for not renouncing her faith.