All Films

Boy Meets Dog

1938 • 9 min • United States of America

Bobby is a young child who meets a lost dog and decides to take with him in the house to take care of him. However, his mean dad refuses Bobby to take any pets inside the house. Bobby disappears in his room and when gnomes come to life...

Porky's Five & Ten

1938 • 7 min • United States of America

Porky sets sail for the Boola-Boola islands in the South Seas with a ship full of general merchandise and plans to open a 5 & 10 cent store. But a swordfish cuts a hole in the ship and Porky's goods fall into the ocean, where the fish make creative uses of them, ultimately opening a Hollywood nightclub, complete with fish impersonating various stars.

Learn Polikeness

1938 • 7 min • United States of America

Olive takes Popeye to Professor Bluteau to learn some manners.

He Couldn't Say No

1938 • 57 min • United States of America

A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.

Porky's Poppa

1938 • 7 min • United States of America

We take a tour of Porky's Poppa's farm, to the tune of Old MacDonald. After meeting several animals, "on this farm, he has a mortgage" which he frets over, particularly since Bessie has stopped producing milk. Poppa orders an Acme milk producing robot, and the beast vs. machine battle is on.

Another Romance of Celluloid: Electrical Power

1938 • 10 min • United States of America

This short begins at Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam). The electricity generated here by the Colorado River is sent to Hollywood, where movie studios need it to make movies. After a tour of the MGM studios' power plants, we see short advertisements for upcoming MGM releases.

The Big Cat and the Little Mousie

1938 • 7 min • United States of America

Like many other cartoons, Baby-Face Mouse deals with the tried and true cliche of cat and mouse, and as usual, Baby-Face Mouse is crowned the winner!

What Price Porky

1938 • 7 min • United States of America

Porky tries to feed his chickens, but some ducks steal the corn he puts out, then declare war. The battle rages, with the ducks against the chickens, sometimes in wing-to-wing combat, but also aerial attacks, and Porky finally turning the tide with his machine gun improvised from a wringer washer and a bag of corn. But the ducks still get the last laugh.

Nalim

1938 • 11 min • Soviet Union

The comic film "Nalim" is based on the story of Anton Chekhov in 1885. According to the plot, the peasants tried to pull out a huge налим, which was stuck under a snag. The peasants were joined by a local shepherd, a carpenter and a lordly coachman, and then by the master Andrei Andreich himself, who watched this scene for a long time. As a result, the налим hit Andrey Andreyevich with its tail, and the fish left the hapless fishermen.

The Isle of Pingo Pongo

1938 • 9 min • United States of America

A travelogue spotlights the tropical island of Pingo Pongo, showing the unusual flora and fauna and the lives of the happy natives. One of the “Censored 11” banned from TV syndication by United Artists in 1968 for racist stereotyping.

The Train is Going to Moscow

1938 • 7 min • Soviet Union

About Soviet schoolchildren who prevented a train disaster.

Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas

1938 • 8 min • United States of America

Johnny Smith enters an America where the Indians behave like 1930s average Americans. When he is arrested, the girl Poker Huntas rescues and elopes with him.

The Candid Kid

1938 • 20 min

Short comedy/musical film featuring Josephine Huston and Phil Silvers.

Fleischer Studios Behind The Scenes

1938 • 6 min • United States of America

This fascinating and informative 1938 film, part of Paramount's Popular Science series, offers a tour through Fleischer Studios’ newly-built Miami studio during the making of the classic Popeye film Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp.

Porky the Gob

1938 • 8 min • United States of America

A battleship, manned mainly by dogs (and Porky), and whose captain sounds rather like Yosemite Sam, sets sail. When the crew threatens to get to the mess hall before the captain, he orders them to halt (and they do, some in mid-air). The ship gets a radio message of a reward for capturing the pirate submarine. The crew sets out in planes to go looking, leaving Porky behind. Naturally, the sub comes after the ship, and defense is up to Porky. He manages to repel the boarding party and winches the sub onboard with a plunger.

The Great Heart

1938 • 11 min • United States of America

This short film tells the true story of the heroic sacrifice of Father Damien, the Belgian priest who suffered a living death in order to bring hope and God's comfort to the lepers confined on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.

The Glass Slipper

1938 • 6 min • United States of America

Cinderella, with some modern touches: The Brooklyn-accented Cinderella is on the phone to her girlfriend Sadie telling her about the ball. The fairy godmother looks like 'Mae West'; the dancers at the ball jitterbug; the prince looks and acts like Harpo Marx. At the end, when the prince drops by with the slipper, the fairy godmother reappears to claim both the slipper and the prince.

Fisticuffs

1938 • 10 min • United States of America

This Pete Smith Specialty short showcases former heavyweight boxing champion Max Baer with various sparring partners in the ring. Slow motion is used to illustrate how Baer uses his skills.

The Singing Outlaw

1938 • 57 min • United States of America

A rodeo rider finds himself accused of the murder of a U.S. marshal.

The Nightshirt Bandit

1938 • 19 min • United States of America

A criminology professor sets out to find the "sleepwalking bandit", but when he finally catches up with the somnambulistic thief, it's not quite who he thought it would be.

Cinderella Meets Fella

1938 • 8 min • United States of America

Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets Prince Charming (Egghead).

Vacances

1938 • 10 min • Belgium

This trailer for the pleasures of living between La Panne and Le Zoute testifies to the post-1936 euphoria that came with paid holidays, with sun and rest for everybody.

Love and Curses

1938 • 8 min • United States of America

An aging hero is looking through the photo album and remembering the Gay 90's, and in particular a picnic interrupted by villainous Roger St. Clair, who tries to tempt Emily to the big city and away from Harold; when that fails, he takes her by force. Six months later, Harold is still searching; Emily is forced to sing on the stage of Roger's bar, accompanied by a barbershop quartet on "All Is Not Gold That Glitters." Harold passes by and hears her. Roger beans him with the curtain and ties Emily to the railroad tracks. Harold rescues her; there follows a sawmill scene, a shootout, and ultimately victory for our hero. Back in the present day, they wonder what happened to Roger, which is his cue.

Delhi

1938 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Filmed in 1938, less than a decade before Indian independence, Delhi has a curious tale to tell. ‘Delhi’, the viewer is informed, ‘is the cockpit of the Indian Empire’, it provides the ‘gateway to the riches of the south’. The opening sections of the film focus upon those who have tried and failed to establish a lasting power in the capital. ‘At Delhi’, the commentator states, ‘successive cities have been built by conquering invaders – each has fallen into disuse and decay’. The camerawork focuses on the ‘impressive ruins’ of these earlier invaders. Although the film also depicts the enduring architecture of Muslim rulers, such as Akbar and Shahjahan, it is stressed that their power has been superseded. Legend has it that it will be the ninth city of Delhi that ‘will endure and will rule forever’. Shahjahan had built the eighth.