All Films

Haarlem's Daily Paper; The Technical Design of a Modern Newspaper Company

1928 • 26 min • Netherlands

A Dutch film in two parts in which the entire process – from producing the newspaper to delivering it – is explained. We see shots of the editorial and administrative offices located on Groote Houtstraat 93, and the entrance to the printing buildings at Zuider Buiten Spaarne. Making the newspaper: typesetting the adverts, the typesetting machine, the design of the newspaper, the letterforms being pressed onto the damp raster, the electric drying drum, the raster being placed in the casting machine, the plates being mounted to the rotary machine, and the printing of the newspaper. We also see the newspaper being delivered via automobile and via paperboy. (There are also images of Haarlem shot from the Grote Kerk).

A Rafting Trip Down the Torne

1928 • 3 min • Sweden

Description of a rafting trip along the Torne River between Jukkasjärvi and Vittangi. The production company for this short documentary film is unknown and the premiere year cannot be determined with certainty either. The only surviving nitrate copy of the film had begun to degrade when the film was reprinted in 2007, leading to fascinating effects on the film's original colors.

Cricket at Birmingham

1928 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Edgbaston sees Warwickshire take on the touring West Indies cricket team.

Tryavna

1928 • 19 min

The Tryavna municipality took charge of producing the film, featuring scenes showcasing the town, its square, the residence of renowned revolutionary Georgi Raykov, the home of acclaimed poet Petko Slaveykov, the birthplace of his son and poet Pencho Slaveykov, a textile factory, a coal mine, and a festive town celebration.

See Yourself as Others See You

1928 • 4 min • United States of America

Short, silent advertisement for the QRS Company's combination camera and projector. The Chicago-based company sold the 16mm equipment for $98.50, using "see yourself as others see you" as a tagline to drum up interest in using their camera-projectors for shooting and exhibiting home movies in domestic spaces.

Bau und Einweihung der Großmarkthalle

1928 • 32 min

The historical silent film, which was commissioned by the City of Frankfurt, shows the individual construction phases of the Frankfurt "Großmarkthalle" right up to the traders moving in at the start of actual market operations.

Jazz Babies

1928 • 4 min

Antics involving girls at a finishing school.

The Dam Is Broken

1928 • 52 min • Soviet Union

The film is set in one of the regions of Western Ukraine in the 1920s. A poor peasant, Vasyl, openly opposes the arbitrariness of the lord's authorities. While hunting in the lord's forest, he is captured by soldiers and imprisoned in a dungeon. His beloved girl Lesia, with the help of the villagers, opens the dam, and water begins to flood the manor. Amid the commotion, Vasyl escapes from his captivity.

Harry Wayman and His 'Debutantes'

1928 • 8 min • United States of America

The 'Debutantes' are an all female orchestra led and directed by Harry Wayman doing some musical and dancing routines, Harrry accompanies with the violin.

Dick Rich and His Synco-Symphonists

1928 • 10 min • United States of America

Dick Rich and His Synco-Symphonists play "Chlo-e (Song of the Swamp)", "Lovely Little Silhouette" and "St. Louis Blues".

The Nation of Fish

1928 • 15 min • Japan

The Nation of Fish by Hakuzan Kimura

The City that Never Rests

1928 • 56 min

Shots of pre-war Rotterdam, both the city and the port.

Earl Burtnett and His Biltmore Hotel Orchestra (I)

1928 • 8 min • United States of America

Vitaphone must have really enjoyed Earl Burtnett because they made four shorts together in 1928 and this here was the first. Burtnett introduces the musical numbers as well as the musician doing the tune and for the most part I thought this was fairly entertaining. "Miss Annabelle Lee" was the final number and probably the highlight of everything but the other numbers are well worth listening to.

The Wife's Relations

1928 • 58 min

The Wife's Relations, The Lost Heiress, is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Maurice Marshall and starring Shirley Mason, Ben Turpin and Gaston Glass.

Melodious Moments

1928 • 8 min

The Croonaders sing "Blue Grass", "What Is It Like to Be Loved?", "From Monday On", and "12th Street Rag".

Christmas Day

1928 • 1 min • United States of America

This 1920s home movie, shot 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 footage, Fuentes captures his five children-Ruben, Ophelia, Mercedes, Antonio, and Carmen-on Christmas Day 1928. The children surround the outdoor Christmas tree, playing with the gifts they received.

Fashion Madness

1928 • 57 min

Gloria Vane (Claire Windsor), a shrewish, vain young debutante turned fashion model drags her dying lover, Victor Redding (Reed Howes), ten miles to the nearest settlement in the Canadian wilderness, saves his life and is transformed. How they got from New York City to the Canadian wilds is another story.

Golf Widows

1928 • 56 min

Directed by Erle C. Kenton. With Vera Reynolds, Harrison Ford, John Patrick, Sally Rand.

Essais cinématographiques

1928 • 1 min • France

All of the three [Sandy] films that we know – Lumière et ombre (1928), Prétexte (1928), and Essais cinematographiques (1928) – last barely more than ten minutes in total, but bear witness to a certain originality in the context of the French avant-garde of the 1920s. The films were subtitled by Sandy as "Visual Entertainment".

Ten Hope's Handel Maatschappij

1928 • 20 min • Netherlands

A short documentary on how different food products are manufactured.

Air: A Film Lesson In "General Science"

1928 • 20 min

Tracking an animated tornado coming into camera and moving over a map of a town.

A Trip to Cairo

1928 • 8 min • France

The critic for L’Intransigeant (04.06.1928) complained that in this film, the couple Gabrielle Robinne (1886-1980) and René Alexandre (1885-1946) are seen in a hotel, like everyone else, viewing the Pyramids, like everyone else, and riding a camel, like everyone else. He does however admire the use of colour.

De biscoop is geen rijwielstalling

1928 • 2 min

Titelcards that where shown during or before the film program, calling for a restriction of the amount of bicycles (!) being stalled in the hall of the theater.

A Happy Rescue

1928 • 4 min • Netherlands

Short Dutch silent short film.