All Films

Amstel Beer

1928 • 3 min • Netherlands

Short Dutch animation film.

A Good Recipe

1928 • 5 min • Netherlands

Short Dutch animation film.

Children Outside

1928 • 43 min • Netherlands

Propaganda film in three parts for Kinabu, a Dutch charity based in The Hague that sends sick or underweight city children to recuperate in the countryside.

His Excellency Minister Ko Botje in the Capital

1928 • 11 min • Netherlands

Promotional film for the Scala Theater in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Dressed up as a minister, Ko Botje travels in a farcical way through the Jordaan and the Spaardammer neighborhoods in Amsterdam to draw attention to his performance later that evening at the Scala Theater.

La ErupcIón del Volcán Quizapu

1928 • 12 min • Chile

Tour of a British Coal Mine

1928 • 26 min

This astonishingly ambitious amateur documentary examines the working lives of Barnsley's pitmen, whose muscle and machinery cut deep into the South Yorkshire Coalfield. It's an industrial process film at heart, following the miners' journey to work, descent at the pithead, labour underground, and the cut coal's journey by rail to Grimsby docks. Stylish and poetic, the scenes at the coalface are charged with elemental drama.

Mrs Kennedy Fraser in Iona and the Outer Hebrides

1928 • 14 min

Amateur footage shot around Iona and possibly Outer Hebridean islands c1920s, featuring many beach/sea scenes and notably, a puffer being loaded with cargo [possibly peat/coal?] from horse drawn carts.

The Man Who Changed His Mind

1928 • 31 min • United Kingdom

A young ruffian learns about the Scouts. Features Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout movement. Made in 1928 by the pupils and teachers of Altrincham County High School, written and directed by their schoolmaster Ronald Gow.

Hollywood Models

1928 • 3 min

Models pose in this short “Produced for the use of art students and technical study only”.

Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves

1928 • 5 min

"A five-minute silent film featuring Kossula (also known as Cudjo Lewis), the eighty-eight-year- old man who many believed to be the last survivor of the Middle Passage." -- Autumn Womack

Blackpool. Final Trial

1928 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Capacity crowds gather in Blackpool, at what appears to be the South Shore Open-air Baths, to watch the women's swimming and diving trials for the 1928 Olympics - if only some of the spectators hadn't strolled in front of the camera! The Games were held in Amsterdam, and saw success for the Brits: Scottish swimmer Ellen King went onto to win silver in 100m backstroke, and Great Britain also took silver in the 4x100m relay.

Danses espagnoles

1928 • 7 min • France

Carmencita Garcia, a Spanish flamenco dancer, performs two dances.

Fox Movietone News: Jenkins Orphanage Band

1928 • 10 min

The Jenkins Orphanage Band - comprised of young African-Americans in Charleston, South Carolin performs for the newsreel.

The Adventures of the Little Chinese

1928 • 24 min • Soviet Union

Within the initiatory journey of two children lies a fine lesson in geopolitics done Soviet style. Apart from this political demonstration, the patched-up puppets stroll through the décor with incomparable poetry. The charm never fades. This masterpiece is a treasure trove of creative invention carried by an attention to detail and a quest for perfection.

St Kilda: Britain's Loneliest Isle

1928 • 15 min

Travelogue of a sailing from Glasgow to St Kilda (via other Scottish islands) showing life on St Kilda shortly before it was evacuated.

Balançoires

1928 • 25 min

A young couple go to the carnival. After some savage heavy petting they meet a sinister fakir who offers to sell them Truth for six sous. A set of uncanny events follow. At worst 'avant-gardist' in the extreme, at best the counterpart to Cœur Fidèle's 'fête foraine' sequence after the abolition of melodrama. Excellent black screen cutting and chaotic camera shaking characterize the style.

San Fermín

1928 • 13 min • Spain

Film of the San Fermín celebrations in Pamplona, Spain.

Their Kingdom

1928 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The documentary Their Kingdom, co-directed in 1928 by Nutsa Gogoberidze and Mikhail Kalatozishvili (Kalatozov) for Soviet Georgia’s Cinema Trust, was considered lost until 2008, when there appeared a possibility that this important film – Georgia’s first documentary feature and Kalatozov’s directorial debut – had not disappeared irretrievably.

Los milagros de la Divina Pastora

1928 • 25 min • Venezuela

Amábilis Cordero featured in his film Miracles of the Divine Shepherdess (1928) the image of the death in very precarious shape of a scrawny, anonymous actor who, wrapped in a sheet and armed with a scythe, walking in sandals rooftops Barquisimeto in what could be considered one of the first and rare surreal visions of Venezuelan film. As we know, our film has preferred rather turn towards the outside; to the marginal, criminal and sociological social fact avoiding exploring spaces of dreams and imagination. In such a witty and imaginative country like Venezuela no longer curious that the film lacks the imagination to accept that truth finds its best support in the fable: that reality always full of poetry.

A Laugh or Two

1928 • 8 min • United States of America

Vaudeville act performed by husband and wife team Russ Brown and Jean Whitaker.

In the Shadow of the Pole

1928 • 41 min • Canada, Greenland

Documentary about a Pole expedition.

The Wild Westerner

1928 • 8 min • United States of America

A young woman named Remington (Ann Howe) arrives out West and soon meets the old man known as Wilbur (Val Harris). Soon after the brief introductions we get Wilbur's stories on romance and women while Remington does a dance.

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 27

1928 • 15 min

Funerals and funeral homes, residence, fair, and Baptist convention at Okmulgee, OK: Tulsa, OK; Gibson Station, OK; and Muskogee, OK.

I Thank You

1928 • 9 min • United States of America

Eddie White performs his vaudeville act.