All Films

The Big Birdcast

1938 • 7 min • United States of America

Birds present their own radio broadcasting service, featuring feathered versions of such stars as Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Rudy Vallee, Eddie Cantor, Ed Wynn, and many others.

Sex Madness

1938 • 59 min • United States of America

A young beauty queen travels to New York to further her modelling career, but contracts syphilis after being tricked into a sexual encounter. She is torn between the prospect of a slow, intensive but proven therapy and a supposed miracle cure.

Hide and Shriek

1938 • 10 min • United States of America

Detective Alfalfa and his assistants Buckwheat and Porky try to solve a missing-candy case but find themselves in an amusement park haunted house.

Wish upon a Pike

1938 • 57 min • Soviet Union

Adapted from four different Russian folk-tales, this early Soviet fantasy film tells the story of Emelya the Fool, who, fishing one day, catches a talking pike who pleads for his life and in return grants Emelya wishes for a life spared.

A Date to Skate

1938 • 7 min • United States of America

Popeye takes Olive roller skating in a rink. She's never skated before, so he has to teach her, and she's not a quick learner. Before long Olive ends up outside the rink, rolling wildly out of control.

Rhythm of the Saddle

1938 • 55 min

Gene is the foreman at the ranch owned by wealthy rodeo owner Maureen. She will lose her rodeo contract unless sales improve.

Miramar, Praia das Rosas

1938 • 10 min • Portugal

The film exhibited the community and the beach, "how I new and it was shown to me" (Manoel de Oliveira) by the Meneres family, that had a house in Miramar. The film is currently lost.

Doctor X

1938 • 12 min • United States of America

David Bradley made this fan film when he was just sixteen. Apparently, he had not seen the original before embarking on the project.

The Swing School

1938 • 7 min • United States of America

At Betty Boop's Music School for Animals, Pudgy the dog doesn't do so well, but puppy love triumphs.

Thrills and Chills

1938 • 6 min • United States of America

Betty Boop and Pudgy take the train to a ski resort and enjoy the winter sports while Betty evades a masher.

Flat Foot Stooges

1938 • 16 min • United States of America

The stooges are firemen at a station that still uses horses to pull the engines. A salesman who wants to sell the chief some modern equipment plants gun powder in one of the engines. The chiefs daughter catches him and after a chase both are knocked unconscious. When a fire starts, the stooges respond to the alarm, but don't realize its their firehouse that's burning! Somehow they manage to arrive in time to save the girl, and the villain gets his just desserts.

Já Se Fabricam Automóveis em Portugal

1938 • 9 min • Portugal

Reflecting the filmmaker's passion for automobiles, who in his youth participated in car races, the film portrays the attempt to manufacture a new model in the Ford factory in the city of Porto.

Mony a Pickle

1938 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A brisk GPO Film Unit promo for the Post Office Savings Bank: pub talk and daydream vignettes tout penny-by-penny thrift, peaking in a playful Norman McLaren passage where household furniture springs to life—selling the idea that “many a little makes a lot.”

The Main Event

1938 • 55 min

FBI agent Mac Richards takes his girlfriend, Helen Phillips, to a world championship boxing match only to learn that the event has been canceled because the titleholder has been kidnapped. Mac is entrusted with the ransom money, but the kidnappers discover that his fellow agents have surrounded the train station locker where the money was to be dropped and order the champ's manager to have the money delivered by an usher to a different location. With Helen disguised as the usher and Mac driving a cab, the pair set off to deliver the money. The gang isn't taking any chances, though - they waylay the cab and take both the ransom money and Helen to their hideout. Now Mac and his fellow agents must rescue both the champ and his sweetheart before they come to harm.

Female Fugitive

1938 • 58 min • United States of America

Police set up a dragnet to trap an outlaw's wife whom they believe to be his accomplice.

Man's Country

1938 • 53 min • United States of America

An undercover Texas Ranger runs into trouble when he learns that the murderer he's trailing has a twin brother.

Feed the Kitty

1938 • 7 min • United States of America

An Oswald Rabbit cartoon.

Enoken's Surprising Life

1938 • 58 min • Japan

Plumbing Is a 'Pipe'

1938 • 7 min • United States of America

Olive has a small leak in a pipe; she makes the mistake of calling Wimpy to fix it, and the even bigger mistake of asking Popeye to help her do something until Wimpy can arrive. Meanwhile, Wimpy keeps realizing he's forgotten his tools, his gloves, etc. and going back. Popeye finally eats his spinach and manages some fixes to the system.

Bulldozing the Bull

1938 • 6 min • United States of America

Popeye visits the bullfight only because of lovely Senorita Olive. He finds himself accidentally in the toreador box, even though he doesn't want to fight because it's cruelty to animals. Popeye rides the bull like a bronco, then gets tossed around a bit. The bull plants Popeye in the ground and attacks; the crowd turns on Popeye. Olive comes down to help and the bull chases her. The crowd throws vegetables at Popeye, including (fortunately) spinach.

The Stranger from Arizona

1938 • 55 min • United States of America

A quiet cowboy on a white horse saves a gal from cattle rustlers.

A Feud There Was

1938 • 8 min

The McCoys and the Weavers are two feuding hillbilly clans. Elmer Fudd, Peacemaker, attempts to end the fighting; but violence and zaniness win out.

Inside Nazi Germany

1938 • 16 min • United States of America

Short documentary film in the newsreel series 'The March of Time'.

The Captain's Christmas

1938 • 8 min • United States of America

Pirate John and his crew threaten Christmas after taking over the Captain's role as Santa.