All Films

Thunder in the Desert

1938 • 56 min • United States of America

Bob arrives looking for the killer of his uncle. When the Sheriff chases him and his partner Rusty, Reno thinks they are the men he is looking for and takes them into his gang. There Bob finds his uncle's gun and knows he has found the right gang. However he realizes the gang has an unknown leader and he sets out to find him.

The Rangers' Round-Up

1938 • 55 min • United States of America

Working undercover, the Rangers are after Bull and his gang. Ted successfully joins Dr. Aikmans traveling medicine show, but Jim's identity has been exposed and he is in danger.

Termites of 1938

1938 • 17 min • United States of America

The stooges are pest exterminators, mistakenly hired by a rich lady looking for an escort to a fancy society party. The stooges wreck the fancy mansion where the party is taking place and befuddle the guest of honor, an English Lord.

Meet the Girls

1938 • 60 min • United States of America

Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.

Song of the Buckaroo

1938 • 58 min • United States of America

An outlaw on the run assumes the identity of a dead man. When in his new identity he finds himself elected the mayor of a small town, he decides to go straight.

Here's Flash Casey

1938 • 58 min • United States of America

After graduating college an aspiring photographer lands his first job--with a big city newspaper.

Change of Heart

1938 • 59 min • United States of America

While Carol Murdock is becoming the golf-champion at the country club, husband Anthony is all wrapped up in his business and rants a lot about how much time his wife spends playing gold, thereby neglecting their home and him. Carol teams up with golfer Phillip Reeves and they win a tournament together, and Reeves becomes infatuated with Carol. Anthony rants some more and Carol packs up and starts the divorce proceedings. Anthony fights back by taking up golf himself.

Nostradamus

1938 • 11 min • United States of America

A look at various predictions Nostradamus made, such as the American and French Revolutions.

What Do You Think? (Number Three)

1938 • 11 min • United States of America

This short looks at the possibility that those who have passed on can communicate with us in ways we least expect.

Love on a Budget

1938 • 60 min • United States of America

This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.

The Man on the Rock

1938 • 11 min • United States of America

A look at whether Napoleon Bonaparte indeed died on the island of St. Helena in 1821.

His Pest Friend

1938 • 18 min

Leon's wife wants to surprise him by buying the cabin where they had spent their honeymoon. But when she secretly meets with the man who owns the cabin, Leon misunderstands what she is doing, and gets suspicious. When his friend at work convinces Leon that his wife is going to run away with another man, Leon decides to take immediate action.

The Invisible Menace

1938 • 55 min • United States of America

Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.

The New Homestead

1938 • 7 min • United States of America

An animated short produced by Charles Mintz.

Knight of the Plains

1938 • 52 min • United States of America

Peterson has a plan to obtain all the ranches in the valley. He gives Carson a phony Spanish land grant and has him pose as the Mexican owner. When Fred and Fuzzy have their cattle stolen by Peterson's men, they quickly become involved in the scheme.

Tree Trunk to Head

1938 • 35 min • United States of America

“The personality of the sculptor Chaim Gross, his mannerisms, his characteristic method of work, his tendencies are all intimately disclosed in minute details, as though unobserved—a sort of candid-camera study. Dramatic form and cinematic structure endow the presentation with excitement, humor, and interest.” —Lewis Jacobs

The Declaration of Independence

1938 • 17 min • United States of America

This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the deciding vote, at the meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, so that the Declaration of Independence was adopted.

The Great Count

1938 • 34 min • Soviet Union

A feature film that depicts scenes from the census of Imperial Russia in 1882 and the upcoming census of the Soviet Union as of January 17, 1939. The census takers interview citizens, fill out census forms in the homes of urban residents, collective farmers, and among the guests of the "Moscow" hotel.

Indian Elephants in the Service of Man

1938 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Indian elephants in action as working animals and in hunting.

Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb

1938 • 16 min • United States of America

Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive items which they systematically wreck, running up quite a bill. When they discover that, minus tax deductions, the jackpot is only $4.85 they quickly agree to marry three pretty rich widows who are also living in the hotel. The "widows" are actually gold diggers conniving to the get the jackpot money. When the girls find out what the jackpot is really worth, the boys get conked with champagne bottles.

Think It Over

1938 • 19 min • United States of America

A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.

The Old Barn Dance

1938 • 54 min • United States of America

Autry and his buddies have a horse selling business which is threatened by a tractor company which claims horses are out of date.

Getting an Eyeful

1938 • 17 min • United States of America

Nickotai (Danny Kaye) needs an eye test and is the first patient of ‘eyetestometist’ Henry Groper.

Law of the Texan

1938 • 54 min • United States of America

Ore shipments are being stolen and the Rangers send Buck and his men to guard the next shipment. When that is stolen also, Buck is kicked out of the Rangers.