All Films

Lumière et ombre

1928 • 5 min • France

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

1928 • 3 min • United States of America

An early animated version of the classic fairy tale

Joseph E. Howard: America's Popular Composer

1928 • 9 min

Joseph E. Howard presents some of his compositions: 1, 'Goodbye My Lady Love' used in 'Showboat,' 2. 'What's the Use of Dreaming,' 3. 'Oh Gee. Be Sweet to Me Dear,' and 4. 'I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?'

The Frankfurt Kitchen

1928 • 7 min • Germany

This film on kitchen design was part of a series of promotional shorts made by the photographer Paul Wolff in 1927-28 ahead of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM), which took place in Frankfurt-am-Main in 1929 and featured various demonstrations of mass housing.Die Frankfurter Küche, for its part, showcases the so-called “Frankfurt Kitchen,” which is still considered a key forerunner of modern kitchen design. Invented in 1926 by the architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky for the housing project “New Frankfurt,” the Frankfurt Kitchen was lauded for its low cost, high efficiency, hygienic design, and mass reproducibility. Wolff’s film demonstrates these qualities by comparing women at work in “old” and “new” kitchens, and through the use of animated diagrams demonstrating, in Taylorist fashion, the efficiency of labor in the new kitchen.

Documentary about Turin - First Postwar Period

1928 • 4 min

The film, shot by the Turinese photographer and amateur film maker Luis Bogino, displays daily life in Turin, giving a glimpse of the busy downtown area.

Mieres del Camino

1928 • 33 min • Spain

The Flash of the Forest

1928 • 50 min • United States of America

Silent action film featuring forest rangers.

Guadeloupe, le pays des Belles-Eaux

1928 • 42 min

A picturesque tour of Guadeloupe (French Caribbean) and its archipelago filmed in 1928 by Alfred Chaumel, colonial administrator: from Pointe-à-Pitre and its harbour to the islands of Les Saintes, Marie-Galante, and La Désirade, passing by the jagged coasts of the Porte d'Enfer, the sugarcane fields, the ravines, and the cockpits, the film showcases the natural beauty of the landscapes and the diversity of human activities.

A Trip to the Moon

1928 • 2 min • Netherlands

Silent Dutch animated advertisement for Kroon bicycles. A hand draws a cat cycling to the moon. On the way, it is bothered by falling meteorites and other inconveniences. However, as soon as it sits down on a Kroon bicycle, it is completely unaffected by stones. Without effort, it cycles to the moon.

The Idol

1928 • 6 min

A woman receives an idol which creates a dance of dilemma

Zeugen aus grosser Zeit

1928 • 7 min • Germany

Memorial service of the Reichswehr on Magdeburg Cathedral Square for the fallen of the First World War, with a flag company and a field service.

Latest Dance Creation is ‘Sugar Foot Strut’ (ca. 1928)

1928 • 2 min

Marie Saxon and other dancers demonstrate famed choreographer Charles “Buddy” Bradley's creation, in regular and slow motion, on tinted purple nitrate, silent.

Five Right in the Target

1928 • 54 min • Soviet Union

Vardan, a victim of misunderstanding, barely avoids becoming an accomplice in a crime. The first film on a contemporary theme from the Hayfilm (Armenkino) film studio about the educational role of the Red Army in shaping the character of conscripts.

Âmes d'enfants

1928 • 48 min • France

State Loan

1928 • 2 min • Soviet Union

An animated film advertising loans to households from the State Bank on the occasion of the first five-year plan.

Snow in Curitiba

1928 • 5 min • Brazil

In 1928, the city of Curitiba went through a rare snowstorm. To this day, it is the harshest snowstorm to ever take place in the city. Everything was recorded by Alberto Botelho in this short documentary.

Ko-Ko's Magic

1928 • 9 min • United States of America

Ko-Ko the Clown's hijinks with a magic powder.

Valencia, The Protector of Children

1928 • 59 min • Spain

Documentary that shows the work of the Valencian institutions of the 1920s that defended children, asylums of orphans, children's hospitals, medical treatments, education. But, in addition, the film allows to see a good number of urban sights and singular buildings of the city of Valencia at the time, some of which no longer exist.

Riding a Tricycle

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. The footage first shows Fuentes, his wife Josefina, and four of their children exiting their home. Then, Fuentes steps behind the camera to capture his son Antonio Jr. riding a tricycle.

A Breath of Broadway

1928 • 8 min • United States of America

Jack Waldron performs his stand-up vaudeville act.

Martin Wagner

1928 • 45 min • Soviet Union

The action takes place in the Volga Germans republic in the 1920s. The communist, a native of this village, who returns from the Red Army, Martin Vagner, with the help of the central Soviet power and the party, provides economic support to the poor, and then, with the help of the poor's rebellion, wrests the village council from the hands of the kulaks. Missing 3rd part

The Law and the Man

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

A silent film from the end of the silent era.

England Beats West Indies in the Final Test

1928 • 1 min • United Kingdom

The first West Indies Test cricket team visits England and loses all three matches.

Fuzzy Knight and His Little Piano

1928 • 6 min

A hilarious musical short starring character actor John Forrest "Fuzzy" Knight and his little piano, 1928. Knight was known for playing sidekicks in 1930s and '40s "B" westerns.