All Films - Short Movie Database

The Three

1928 • 60 min • Soviet Union

Based on a short story by O. Henry "The Ransom of the Red Chief". Three boys meet by chance. Myshko, a pioneer, is walking down the street in the ranks of a pioneer unit, while the homeless Semen is standing behind the unit, and Mr. Zhorzhyk is looking out of the window. The second time the boys meet is in the Crimea, where Myshko travels with the pioneers, the panych in a soft carriage with a bonnet, and Semen between the cars. Semen is kidnapped by bandits who mistake him for Zhorzhyk. Meanwhile, Zhorzhyk escapes from his bondage to a pioneer detachment. Soon, Semyon ends up there as well.

Ko-Ko's Kink

1928 • 6 min • United States of America

An Inkwell Imp short.

The Border Patrol

1928 • 50 min • United States of America

Texas Ranger Bill Storm is sent to El Paso to ferret out a gang of counterfeiters thought to be working there and, on the way, gives a ride to New York socialite Beverly Dix, whose car has been wrecked on the road to El Paso. Bill quickly comes to suspect Earl Hanway and Lefty Waterman of passing bad bills; taking Beverly's father into his confidence, Bill identifies the counterfeiting plant, arrests Hanway and Waterman, and finds himself with his arms full of Beverly.

Chaz Chase, The Unique Comedian

1928 • 7 min • United States of America

Comedian Chaz Chase performs his vaudeville act.

Betty's Bath

1928 • 5 min • United States of America

A random passerby saves nude bathing beauty Betty from a disgusting rat, but the heroine, to her horror, notices rat-like features in the face of her savior. One of the most successful erotic titles of the early days of cinema (by the number of copies circulating worldwide at that time).

Scania

1928 • 8 min • Sweden

Images of Scania, Sweden: Ystad, Trelleborg, Malmö, Lund, Helsingborg, Mölle. Churches, castles and lordly seats. The preserved English-language version is shortened and partly edited differently in relation to how the film looked in its original Swedish-language version.

A Colorful Sermon

1928 • 7 min • United States of America

The film consists of Bert Swor in black-face pretending to be a black preacher.

The Steadfast Tin Soldier

1928 • 11 min • Denmark

A cartoon version of HC Andersen’s famous fairy tale about the staunch tin soldier who falls in love with a dancing ballerina, sets out on an adventure, and is finally engulfed by the flames of love. (stumfilm.dk)

Home Life

1928 • 31 min • United Kingdom

Made by an English family living in north India during the heyday of the Raj, this amateur film reveals the grandeur in which middle-class English colonials lived.

The Early Bird and the Worm

1928 • 3 min • United States of America

A baby bird tries to get the caterpillar. The caterpillar is too smart for him, though. Fun stop-motion film from 1929.

The Incident At The Stadium

1928 • 6 min • Soviet Union

The Adventures of Bratishkin at the Moscow Sports Festival.

Terrible Vavila and Auntie Arina

1928 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Educational film about March 8th, about the situation of rural women.

Movement Studies in Paris

1928 • 4 min • France

A study of traffic movement in Paris.

The Morrissey & Miller Night Club Revue

1928 • 10 min • United States of America

Will Morrissey and Midgie Miller get top-billing here but we also have Sammy Cantor, Charlotte DeLovelace, Harry Downing and Vina and Arthur on the bill. This here is pretty much a condensed version of what one would see at the Morrissey and Miller club.

The Ugly Duckling

1928 • 18 min • Denmark

Hans Christian Andersen's well-known fairy tale, where the ugliest youngster in the litter ends up as a beautiful swan. Here as a mixture of drawn and photographed film. (Stumfilm. dk).

A Takapuna Scandal

1928 • 15 min

A short silent comedy set in Takapuna, Auckland. Features Hector St. Clair, the London Pantomime Comedian. One of 23 community comedies made by director Rudall Hayward in different New Zealand towns between 1928 and 1929.

The Death Feigning Chinaman

1928 • 9 min • Germany

Ping Pong receives a bottle of alcohol as a gift from the Emperor. When he gets drunk and chokes on a fish bone, no one in the city wants to take responsibility for his death.

Sporting Goods

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

Sports-loving inventor Richard Shelby develops an "Elasto-Tweed" golf suit then hits the road in hopes of making a few sales. Along the way, he meets Alice Elliott, who mistakes Shelby for millionaire sportsman Timothy Stanfield (Claude King). Forced to go through with the masquerade, Shelby ends up spending what little money he has, and then some.

The March of the Machines

1928 • 5 min

An abstract film of machinery in motion, representative of many "pattern" films made independently toward the end of the silent era. (This film is different to the 1927 film of the same name)