All Films

Selling America

1938 • 21 min

A 1938 salesman speaks with Benjamin Franklin, one of the greatest salesmen that ever lived, who instructs him in selling techniques.

Oxydol Goes Into High

1938 • 22 min

"Motion slide film" for Oxydol distributors & retailers, showing sales campaigns undertaken by manufacturer. Good lab testing shots. Housewife speaks about Oxydol detergent & its benefits.

The view of Budapest

1938 • 2 min

The views of Budapest. Estimated to be recorded on the summer of 1938

The Wheat Farmer

1938 • 10 min

Portrays the life and work of a wheat farmer and his family in the Midwest. Shows how they plant and harvest the winter wheat and how they attend to other farming tasks, such as milking and cooking. Pictures the 4H Club activities of the children.

Three Glorious Days

1938 • 19 min • Spain

A pro-Republican documentary composed of archival material made during the Spanish Civil War. It is a summary of the different military operations which led to the conquest of Teruel.

Jitterbugs

1938 • 16 min • United States of America

Buster West plays a young man who wants to marry a lady. But there's a problem...her father is a complete grouch! So the plan is to invite her and her father to dinner. And, after feeding him a great dinner, he'll be more likely to give his approval. But there are some problems. First, Buster gets his friend (Tom Patricola) to pose as his butler AND relies on this guy to cook the meal.

S.E. Tibet and E. Bhutan

1938 • 17 min

Amateur footage of a trip to Tibet and Bhutan in 1938, including shots of the flora and fauna, Molo in what is now Arunachal Pradesh, the monastery at Sanga Choeling in Sikkim, and folk dancing in Kalimpong, West Bengal.

Oxford University Cayman Islands Expedition

1938 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Gerald Thompson's record of the 1938 Oxford University Cayman Islands Expedition. The first natural history survey of all three islands (Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac) reports were written about the flora, fauna, geology and wetlands.

Ponsuke's Shapeshifting Training

1938 • 3 min • Japan

Ponsuke laments over his inability to shapeshift.  After helping some chickens, he discovers a book on shapeshifting.  Based on the 1934 character by animator Ikuo Oishi.

Po słońce do przyjaciół

1938 • 11 min • Poland

A group of students are bored while spending their summer days in Warsaw on the Vistula River. At the suggestion of a friend, they decide to go on a cheap tourist trip to Yugoslavia. Together with them, we explore the Adriatic coast, including: the islands of Šolta and Brač. On the way back they visit Makarska, Savina Monastery and Belgrade. The film was produced by the Polish Academic Union of International Rapprochement "Liga" - an inter-university association dealing with, among others, organizing trips and foreign exchanges. In 2022, it was reconstructed based on two copies brought in the 1970s from the archives in the GDR and the USSR.

In the Former Nest of the Obscurantism

1938 • 19 min • Soviet Union

"In the Former Nest of the Obscurantism" (1938) is a Soviet propaganda film that ridicules the Christian faith. Filmed at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, which had been desecrated by the communists.

Récréation

1938 • 2 min

Students playing at École des beaux-arts de Québec

Behind the Movie Lens

1938 • 4 min

This promotional short for The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937) begins by showing the cast and crew arriving at Zion National Park and setting up for location shooting. The last minute is a "coming attractions" trailer for the movie.

Dance

1938 • 6 min • France

Home movie from Man Ray featuring dancer Jenny gyrating in black and white.

Catalonia's Martyrdom

1938 • 25 min

Spanish documentary made during the Spanish Civil War showing the damages suffered in Catalonia, Barcelona.

Our Day

1938 • 12 min

Home movie of the day in the life of the Kelly Family of Lebanon, Kentucky.

Chicken on the Street

1938 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Cubs, elephants and a hen do not follow traffic rules and are in trouble.

Motala - radions huvudstad

1938 • 15 min • Sweden

A 1938 short film about Motala as both a radio broadcasting and radio production city.

Lithuania

1938 • 32 min • Canada, Soviet Union

Colour documentary about Lithuania in 1937-1938 by Motūzas Brothers is made for Lithuanian community schools and youth organisations in Canada to show Lithuania's life before the Soviet occupation in June 1940. It shows the Lithuanian countryside, cities and towns, architecture, people's daily life, the most important events of 1937 - 1938 years.

The Dream of the Fatty

1938 • 15 min • Lithuania

The first Lithuanian puppet-animated sound film

Predacious fungi

1938 • 8 min

Study on Dactylaria brochopaga's predacious strategy

Learning How To Swim

1938 • 27 min

Analysis of buoyancy and breathing followed by an explanation of swimming strokes and skills.

The Haunted Camera

1938 • 12 min • United States of America

15 year old Mary is bored. With her parents permission she writes her chum Martha to come for summer vacation and they will make a movie. In the meantime two convicts escape from the nearby prison. To frighten the girls away the convicts decide to play ghosts. Film ends with a hand-colored inferno.

Febre Amarela I

1938 • 7 min • Brazil

The film demonstrates all stages of production of the yellow fever vaccine that took place in the Yellow Fever Service laboratory of the Rockefeller Foundation, located in Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, next to the Oswaldo Cruz Institute.