Cinematic Era: 1928 Vintage

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon featuring Waffles the Cat.

Two art songs in Vitaphone #2546

Ko-Ko is up to his usual mischief as Max prepares to run a track race.

Mechanical toys have become a favourite sinister device in horror cinema, and to modern eyes the wind-up wonders captured in this Topical Budget newsreel carry almost equal parts creepiness and charm. Toys like these may once have been the "uppermost thought in every young heart", but few 1920s children would have been lucky enough to find such expensive gifts under the tree on Christmas morning.

King Zogou the First is proclaimed ruler of Albania

Ko-Ko the Clown's hijinks with a magic powder.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

Fragment nul uur nul chimes with the tune of such a symphony, yet plays eclectically with form and image. A hidden gem, it was originally conceived as a backdrop to a theatre play and offers, if you will, a form of expanded theatre/cinema. The Filmliga protagonists‘ practice to cut up films as they seemed fit, or to show only fragments and loose ends to support their aesthetic preferences, is reflected here.

On her way to work at a department store, the pretty cashier Grete encounters a man in a car who offers her a ride. Grete has no idea that he is not a chauffeur, as she initially believes, but Dr. Fred Werder, the co-owner of *Zeitspiegel*. The two meet again by chance when Grete enters a contest in the "Zeitspiegel."

Several songs performed by Marion Harris.

Val and Ernie Stanton make up the comedy group for this Vitaphone short that was obviously capturing their vaudeville act.

Funerals and funeral homes, residence, fair, and Baptist convention at Okmulgee, OK: Tulsa, OK; Gibson Station, OK; and Muskogee, OK.

Eddie White performs his vaudeville act.

A hick stumbles onto a movie set in Hollywood.

Ranger the dog saves the day in this silent western.

Documentary that shows the work of the Valencian institutions of the 1920s that defended children, asylums of orphans, children's hospitals, medical treatments, education. But, in addition, the film allows to see a good number of urban sights and singular buildings of the city of Valencia at the time, some of which no longer exist.

Silent film directed by K.P. Bhave

A musical short featuring George Stoll, Edythe Flynn and The Hot Four.

The room looks like a lavish nightclub. The Ambassadors, a 15-piece band dressed in tuxedos, play three numbers: "Nobody But You," "That Reminds Me of You," and a jazzy rag. Gus Arnheim is at the piano, his direction is understated. Occasionally, a trio of musicians sings a few bars with light voices.

Night falls on the light daytime sky in viscous, fat drops that darken the world. That's only the first gag, but it sure sets the stage.

City lights contrasted with total darkness in this experimental short film.

Felix & his friend have fun playing at blowing bubbles. Felix gets inside one and is blown away. The bubble lands on a snowy mountain and turns...

Combines paper cut-out animation mixed with live travelogue footage of Sweden, Bavaria, Morocco, Holland, Mexico, India, and Japan. [The results are an attractive and unique combination of travelogue and cartoon, certainly quite different from the usual animated fare at the time.

About the struggle of the Uzbek people against the oppression of local feudal lords.

Travelogue was distributed by the American company Lincoln & Parker in 1928.

Prague, City of a Hundred Spires

An Inkwell Imp short.

A young woman grows up in the country and inherits an estate from her wealthy grandfather. Her grandfather's servant attempts to defraud her but his attempts are frustrated by the grandfather's lawyer and the girl's friend, a naval lieutenant.

British music hall star Leslie Sarony sings "When You're Up to Your Neck in Hot Water (Think of the Kettle and Sing)" in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.

Adaptation of Japanese fairy tale Hanasaka Jiisan.

Max is busy with his pretty new secretary and puts Koko and Bimbo on automatic for the day -- he sets a pantograph to draw a world run by slot machines like mechanical banks. However, is the creator in control of his creation, or is it the other way around?

El Tiempo newspaper and the Theater and Cinema Company. Filmed by Enzo Longhi, of Cinematográfica Peruana.

Filmed by Pedro Sambarino.

Filmed by Pedro Sambarino.

We immediately saw the Nungensser-Coli on the screen landing at the Bolivian airfield and witnessed a bird's-eye view of the city of La Paz, with its avenues, churches, and the high hills that overlook it, their peaks eternally covered in snow. The preparations our pilots made to receive him; the aerial acrobatics some of them performed; the bay, La Punta, the southern beaches, and finally, the arrival of the famous Costes and Le Brix; everything passed before our eyes with a clarity and sharpness that left nothing to be desired.

Includes footage of bullfights by the brothers Manolo and Pepe Bienvenida, the Peruvian bullfighter Carlos Sussoni, Marcial Lalanda, Rayito, Lagartijo, and the banderillas of Bombita IV.

Lost film, parody of Charlie Chaplin’s work. it features such disparate elements as a yacht, the Charleston, a bullfight, and Primo de Rivera and local authorities.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Considered the first fiction film shot in Asturias.

Documentary of the H.A. and Sidney Snow expedition to the Far North in search of the Steffansson Expedition.

While conducting a street corner meeting in the slums, a recent Salvation Army convert encounters her crooked former lover.

Antics involving girls at a finishing school.

An Inkwell Imps short.

Ko-Ko wants to play golf and finds his life complicated by a wife.

An Inkwell Imps short.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

At the border between traditional live coverage (that describes the stages of grape reaping) and a private family movie, the film shows a visit to the estate of Avram Ghiltcik.

In this incomplete print, Squire promises a “Cook’s Tour” of Russia, India, Italy, Finland, and Ireland. Russia is represented by Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, India by Amy Woodford-Finden’s ballad “Pale Hands I Loved Beside the Shalimar”. Bizarrely, a snatch of Mozart’s overture to Le Nozze di Figaro, set in Seville, appears to represent Italy. Lost footage robs us of Finland, and most of Ireland too.

In 1928, the Jean d'Esme expedition crossed Cameroon, Gabon and Congo. Along the way, the natives of various ethnic groups willingly let themselves be photographed, show off their skills, explain their ritual dances, and display their tattoos, hairstyles and jewelry.

Silent action film featuring forest rangers.

A pioneering Soviet documentary filmed in the state nature reserve on Kyiv’s southern outskirts, showcasing the region’s landscapes and the scientists at work in its research station. Released by VUFKU, it became the USSR’s first nature-conservation film and enjoyed widespread success, including a five-month run in Leningrad.