All Films

Czechoslovakia on Parade

1938 • 9 min • United States of America

This FitzPatrick Traveltalk series short looks at Czechoslovakia before World War II, including images of bridges, churches, and castles in Prague, also a non-military parade through the city.

All's Fair at the Fair

1938 • 7 min • United States of America

A couple goes to the World's Fair.

How to Watch Football

1938 • 9 min • United States of America

Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.

Swingtime in the Movies

1938 • 20 min • United States of America

In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.

A Nag in the Bag

1938 • 19 min • United States of America

Two guys who own a restaurant get word of a sure thing at the races and bet all their money on that horse; unfortunately, they bet on the wrong horse.

Haiti

1938 • 16 min • United States of America

A travelogue of Port-au-Prince, Haiti concentrating on the daily life and rhythm of tropical island life.

Styles and Smiles

1938 • 10 min • United States of America

Frank E. Jessop presents a revue of the dancing and singing acts of the time.

The Big Top

1938 • 7 min • United States of America

Puddy goes to a circus where he watches the various acts, but misinterprets Apaché dancing canines as an assault on the girl. He beats up the boy. Incredibly, everyone cheers this egregious bit of audience participation.

When G-Men Step In

1938 • 60 min • United States of America

Having paid for the education and legal training of his younger brother, Bruce, with the idea that he would become a lawyer and join his business, Frederick Garth, a racketeer posing as an honest businessman, is dismayed when he learns that Bruce has become a G-Man instead.

Out of the Inkwell

1938 • 6 min • United States of America

In a tribute to the Fleischer brothers shorts of the '20s, a janitor hypnotizes Max Fleischer's pen to draw Betty Boop.

What Price Safety!

1938 • 20 min • United States of America

Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger the public safety.

Porky & Daffy

1938 • 6 min • United States of America

Porky Pig is Daffy Duck's fight manager who gets Daffy a fight with "The Champion", but things get looney.

Paroled - To Die

1938 • 55 min • United States of America

Meline is taking money from his own bank to drill an oil well. When he finds Doug Redfern's bandana, he has his gang rob his bank and uses the bandana to frame Doug. When Doug is convicted but immediately paroled, Meline has another plan that he thinks will put him away permanently.

Count Me Out

1938 • 7 min • United States of America

Egghead decides his road to riches is through a boxing correspondence course. When he graduates, he takes on champion Biff Stew. Biff pummels him mercilessly (the correspondence course record continues to coach him during the match), but by accident, he knocks Biff out until we see it was all in Egghead's head, after being knocked out by the practice equipment.

The Duchy of Cornwall

1938 • 15 min

This survey of early Cornish history looks at the country's language, landscape and industries.

The Canary Comes Across

1938 • 21 min • United States of America

A prisoner with a good singing voice escapes, only to grow jealous when an opera singer who looks like him is delivered back to the prison and receives attention, especially from Ann, the warden's daughter who leads the prison glee club.

Porky the Fireman

1938 • 6 min • United States of America

Fireman Porky and friends try to save a theatrical boarding house and its inhabitants from an inferno.

The Jeep

1938 • 7 min • United States of America

Popeye brings his magical dog, The Jeep, over to see Olive and Swee'pea, just as the tyke has escaped from his crib. The Jeep leads Popeye on a merry chase looking for Swee'pea.

Home on the Rage

1938 • 17 min • United States of America

Andy mistakenly believes his wife and brother-in-law are conspiring to murder him for insurance.

Tale of the Good Umar

1938 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Soviet black-and-white cartoon of 1938. Film adaptation of the Uzbek folk tale. The tape is in the public domain, since it was released more than 70 years ago.

Woody Herman & His Orchestra

1938 • 9 min

Woody Herman's orchestra plays five tunes, and guest performers sing and dance.

The Story of Doctor Carver

1938 • 10 min • United States of America

The story of Dr. George Washington Carver (1864-1943), black educator and horticulturist. He is perhaps most well known for developing over 140 products from all parts of the peanut plant, including the shells and husks. He also developed products based on sweet potatoes and soybeans, and developed a cotton hybrid that was named after him.

How to Read

1938 • 9 min • United States of America

Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.

Fyodor the Hunter

1938 • 12 min • Soviet Union

Propagandistic animation short about the boy chasing the Japanese soldiers trying to break through the Soviet border.