All Films

March of Dimes

1938 • 1 min • United States of America

Judy and Mickey make a plea for folks to send in money to help fight polio.

Scrappy's Trip To Mars

1938 • 6 min • United States of America

Scrappy and Oppie dream that they take a rocket trip to Mars. There they meet some nice Martian girls. When they want to go home, the Martians will not let them leave the planet.

Opening of Trans-Iranian Railway

1938 • 9 min • Iran

Official film of the opening ceremony of Trans-Iranian Railway with the presence of the Shah and government officials at Fawzia train station in Lorestan, where the north and south railways meet.

Hommage à notre paysannerie

1938 • 37 min • Canada

Country life in Quebec. Houses, farming tools, family life.

Old Age Pensioners' Seaside Holiday To Southend-on-Sea

1938 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Pensioners queue in the street for buses to a seaside excursion of sunshine and frolics.

Cohen Personal Film: The Oval

1938 • 3 min • United Kingdom

England thrash Australia in the fifth Test at the Oval - but still lose the Ashes.

Taro Overseas – Hooray for the New Japan

1938 • 8 min • Japan

Taro sails away from home and fights a pack of lions who control an exotic island.

Farewell on the Ice Floe

1938 • 12 min • Soviet Union

Veteran Soviet polar explorers have spent nearly a year adrift on an ice floe in the Arctic. To commemorate their recent Hero of the Soviet Union honors, they retreat to their heated “USSR” tent, where a lavish feast magically appears: fish, fruits, cake and sparkling wine. As Stalin’s portrait looms above a banner quoting his 1935 promise that “life has become better, life has become merrier,” the scientists toast the New Year in true Soviet style. Outside, the Arctic wildlife has been rounded up like GULAG prisoners, marching in formation with banners to salute their “Bolshevik masters.” Mid-revelry, famed geographer Otto Schmidt parachutes in, greeted by each scientist with a warm “Brezhnev-style” cheek kiss. United once more, the five heroes raise their glasses under the northern lights, proving that even on the loneliest ice floe, Soviet camaraderie and celebration endures.

Hollywood Script Girl

1938 • 5 min

Short film about a script girl who becomes the star of a nudie cutie.

Elai Alai

1938 • 23 min • Spain

Opening with shots of the Basque region, this film collects the performances of the children's dance group Elai Alai and the Eresoinka chorus. They performed throughout France in order to bring awareness to the reality of the Basque Country and to raise funds to help refugees from the Spanish Civil War.

Injun Trouble

1938 • 7 min

Porky leads a wagon train into "Injun Joe Territory," and finally comes up against the fearsome Superchief. But Sloppy Moe, a survivor of a previous Injun Joe attack, knows something about him he won't tell... until the very end.

Tom Thumb

1938 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Lumberjack with his wife and five sons go to the forest. While parents and older brothers are busy collecting firewood, the two younger ones go to pick mushrooms, which, running away, bring the children to their leader, who suggests picking nuts instead of mushrooms. Lost in the forest due to a thunderstorm, the children find someone's house and ask for the night.

Ciudad Universitaria

1938 • 13 min • Spain

War propaganda directed by Edgar Neville about the Madrid Front.

An Evening with Edgar Guest

1938 • 21 min • United States of America

The Household Finance Corporation presents An Evening with Edgar A. Guest produced by the Jam Handy Organization. A schoolboy is trying to memorize a poem for a school event. Unbeknownst to him and his companion, Mr. Guest overhears them. He hears of their plight and explains the poem to them. The next evening, he is the guest of honor at a poetry reading contest.

Oblivious Man!

1938 • 3 min • Yugoslavia

Advertising cartoon for Kalodont toothpaste.

Challenge to Fascism: Glasgow's May Day

1938 • 7 min

The film follows the preparations for Glasgow's 1938 May Day March and the march itself, with the participation of students, workers and politicians.

Men of Ireland

1938 • 48 min • Ireland

A young medical student visits the Blasket Islands, off the coast of Ireland, during the holidays and becomes charmed with the place and its people. He falls in love with a local girl, who is betrothed to a local man. The two men meet and become fast friends, and the student realizes the hopelessness in his love of the girl of his friend. He leaves but, after his graduation from Trinity College, he returns to cast his lot with these simple fishermen

Children's Party

1938 • 8 min • United States of America

Director Joseph Cornell evokes the nostalgia of childhood by filming a children's party.

The Honduras Hurricane

1938 • 9 min • United States of America

Long John Silver forces the Captain to bet his house in a cockfight. It's John's champion rooster, the Honduras Hurricane, versus the Captain's: a scrawny bird with a bad cold. The boys replace the sick bird with a violent baby eagle.

The Romance of Iron and Steel

1938 • 21 min • United States of America

Armco presents a promotional film that follows the process of turning iron ore into steel.

Fuentes Family Ranch

1938 • 2 min • United States of America

This 1938 home movie, shot by longtime Corpus Christi resident Antonio Rodríguez Fuentes, captures Fuentes' parents at their ranch near Montemorelos, Nuevo León, Mexico. Fuentes' father rides in on horseback, while his mother tends feeds the chickens and tends to the crops. A proficient photographer, Fuentes takes note of the weather conditions during filming. He labels the footage of his father as taken on a cloudy, rainy day, and the footage of his mother as shot on a clear, sunny day.

Sky Pirates

1938 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Lethargic British air pilots are revived by "Horlick's Milk" to defeat the "Sky Pirates". Combo of intricately animated aerobatic dogfights where planes take on animal characteristics.

The Wolf And The Seven Kids

1938 • 12 min • Soviet Union

A goat and seven kids lived in a house on a hill. One day the Goat went to housework and strictly ordered the goats not to let the Wolf into the house. But the Gray Wolf forged a thin voice from a blacksmith, repainted his skin and managed to get into the house. Six kids were swallowed by him in one sitting. Only one was saved - the smallest goat. It was he who told the returning mother Goat about the terrible misfortune. The goat rushed after the Wolf and found him sleeping after a hearty meal. The fearless Goat ripped open the belly of the Wolf and saved the goats. Then the Goat stuffed the Wolf's belly with stones and sewed it up. Wolf woke up, went to the river to get drunk. He bent down, and the stones pulled him down. The wolf fell into the water and went to the bottom

The Road of Health

1938 • 12 min • United Kingdom

The lecturer shows a microcinematographic sequence of spirochaetes and drawings of the gonoccus (the bacteria responsible for syphilis and gonorrhea). He then turns to an easel and begins to draw 'the road of health'; the cartoon takes this up in magic drawing, in a style that is highly reminiscent of the 'Giro the Germ' series made for the Health and Cleanliness Council a few years before.