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Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 24

1928 • 18 min

Schools, residences, stores and other locations in Lawton, OK; Wetumka, OK; Muskogee, OK; Ardmore, OK; East Ardmore, OK; Cushing, OK; Lima, OK; St. Louis MO;

Mexican-American Community in Corpus Christi

1928 • 12 min • United States of America

This collection of films, shot in the 1920s by longtime Corpus Christi resident Antonio Rodríguez Fuentes, may well represent some of the earliest produced by a Mexican-American filmmaker about the Mexican-American community in Texas. In the home movie footage, Fuentes captures not only his family but also parades featuring local Mexican-American civil-rights organizations, including the Order of Sons of America and the Obreros y Obreras. Antonio and his wife Josefina were both heavily involved in early Corpus Christi Mexican-American community groups and the social network that these clubs comprised. The couple was also related to numerous local individuals, including Andres De Luna, one of the founders of the League of United Latin American Citizens. This collection comes to TAMI via the Mary and Jeff Bell Library at Texas A&M Corpus Christi.

Shadows!

1928 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A Sammy and Sausage cartoon.

Song Impressions

1928 • 9 min • United States of America

This three-person act has Jerry Williams doing the piano work while Dora Maughan and Walter Fehl do the "singing." What we basically have is the two doing a comedy act where the dialogue is sung instead of just spoken in a normal way.

Prétexte

1928 • 6 min • France

A Breeze from the South

1928 • 8 min

Gilbert Wells sings "Trustful Joe", "International Dan", and "Jubilee Blues".

¡Mujer, tú eres la belleza!

1928 • 60 min • Argentina

¡Mujer, tú eres la belleza! [Woman, You Are Beauty!] was a silent film made in Rosario, Argentina. Premiered on 24 March 1928 in one of the city's most important opera houses, with a live orchestra and a model posing on stage, it became a box-office success. (The same would happen in Buenos Aires, where the film was shown a few months later). Its creator, the Italian-born Argentine Camilo Zaccaría Soprani, was a well-known entertainment journalist in the city. But he would only acknowledge his authorship in an interview forty years later. Most of the film is lost. Only a ten minute fragment survives.

Wohnkultur, wie sie war, wie sie ist und wie sie sein soll!

1928 • 15 min • Germany

Film made in 1928 as a self-advertisement by the Cologne Tenants' Association (Mieterverein Köln).

The Little Dutch Tulip Girl

1928 • 14 min

Tom, an American boy receives a box of tulips from the Netherlands. In it he finds a book about the Netherlands with a letter in it. The letter was written by one Katrina (Trijntje) Schulder from Volendam. Tom dreams of travel to the Netherlands and visits Katrina in her village. Next we see The Hague (Royal Palace, Peace Palace), Aalsmeer, Alkmaar, Leiden, Marken and Amsterdam (Central Station, Rijksmuseum, Dam Square, Leidseplein). Eventually Tom awake and promises himself to someday actually go to the Netherlands and to visit Katrina.

Food: A Film Lesson In "Health and Hygiene"

1928 • 17 min

Food, but mostly milk, and how it pertains to the body.

Man: A Film Lesson In "General Science"

1928 • 18 min

Food absorption, sight and hearing.

The Sky: A Film Lesson in "Nature Study"

1928 • 18 min • United States of America

An early documentary about life above Earth, focusing on the planet's atmosphere and how what we do affects it. Also shown is a young boy learning how to to make a refractive telescope. In the last half of the film, an aircraft takes an imaginary trip to the moon.

Polonia Restituta

1928 • 53 min • Poland

This silent film presents original materials from 1917–1921 and later reconstructions. Polonia Restituta shows the German occupation of Warsaw, the fight against Ukrainians for Eastern Galicia, the liberation of Vilnius, the Polish-Soviet war, the Polish-Ukrainian alliance and the conquest of Kiev, the Polish counteroffensive in August and September 1920 and the signing of the Treaty of Riga.

Scenes of the Everglades

1928 • 40 min • United States of America

Businessman and adventurer Homer Augustus Brinkley produced this film in 1928 after living for several months among the Seminole Indians in the Everglades. He later used the film in a traveling show that featured a live, caged bear and himself dressed as a Seminole. Photographed by William B. Feeland, the film contains some of the earliest moving footage of the Seminole.

Not That Dumb

1928 • 2 min • Netherlands

Short Dutch animation film.

Luciano E Marisa In Casa Ai Giardini

1928 • 4 min

Pathé Baby short by Guglielmo Baldassini.

Andrija Štampar School of Public Health

1928 • 1 min • Yugoslavia

Short fragment.

Castello / Cannone / Giardini / Fontana / Ghiaccio

1928 • 4 min

Pathé Baby short by Guglielmo Baldassini.

Villaggio Indiano A Milano

1928 • 3 min

Pathé Baby short by Guglielmo Baldassini.

Milano / Vedute / Abbazia Di Chieravalle / Reno

1928 • 3 min

Pathé Baby short by Guglielmo Baldassini.

Ai Giardini / Bastioni / Rina Marisa

1928 • 3 min

Pathé Baby short by Guglielmo Baldassini.

Los amores de Quelif

1928 • 60 min • Colombia

Dealing with a prince (probably oriental?) in his choice between two beautiful women, when he chooses one, the other commits suicide by drowning herself in a lagoon. Not a single frame of this production is known.

A Tale of the Squirrel-hostess and the Mouse-villain

1928 • 6 min • Soviet Union

It is based on a folk tale about a hard-working Squirrel and a lazy Mouse, who eats the Squirrel’s food. The film is lost.

NV Wessanen's Koninklijke Fabrieken Wormerveer

1928 • 9 min • Netherlands

Minute-long shots of the Dutch factory's grounds and the surroundings. We see the production process of 'de bekende murwe lijnkoeken W. L. en Ster halfzachte lijnkoeken" (“the famous soft oil cakes W.L. and Ster semi-soft oil cakes”). At the end, we see a parade of the whole range of products, including the “Ster linum flour” (“very kneadable”), “soya cakes”, “groundnut cakes” and “coconut cakes”.