All Films

The Roosevelt Dam

1928 • 15 min

Film depicts TR's commitment to the reclamation of desert land and his belief that natural resources exist for the public benefit.

El 90

1928 • 30 min • Argentina

Through a succession of flashbacks, a grandfather tells his grandson about the outstanding episodes of the 1890 revolution, known as the "Revolution of the Park", against the government of Juárez Celman. Between the armed confrontations and the exaltation of the figure of Leandro N. Alem, the evocation includes a synthetic love story and culminates with the celebration of the second presidency of Hipólito Yrigoyen.

A Cycle of Songs

1928 • 11 min • United States of America

A cycle of songs performed by the singer Florence Brady.

The Lady Godiva

1928 • 22 min • United Kingdom

Account of Lady Godiva's naked ride through 11th-century Coventry in order to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to rescind his harsh tax laws. Based on and quotes from Tennyson's poem of the same title.

The Blossom Man

1928 • 5 min • Japan

Adaptation of Japanese fairy tale Hanasaka Jiisan.

Shaw Talks for Movietone News

1928 • 5 min

Famous author George Bernard Shaw's monologue to an audience on a variety of topics, including his impression of Mussolini's stern facial expressions. TITLE CARDS READ "1927. SHAW TALKS FOR MOVIETONE Several months before 'The Jazz Singer' appeared, sound films of current events and of interview with eminent figures of the day had been issued by the Fox Film Corporation. The voice in the interview given here is recorded with a precision rare in the early talkies. / William Fox Has the Honor to Present / The World's Outstanding Literary Genius / GEORGE BERNARD SHAW / First Appearance in America Recorded by Fox Case Movietone Western Electric System"

T-Bone Handicap

1928 • 16 min • United States of America

FBO "Barney Google" short.with horses and ostriches.

His Excellency

1928 • 58 min • Soviet Union

This 1928 film features stylized cinematography and actors from the Moscow Art Theater in a fiction story based on the life of Jewish Labor Bund member Hirsch Lekert who attempted to assassinate the Vilna governor in 1902 to avenge the flogging of workers who participated in a May Day rally.

Aphrodite

1928 • 50 min • Argentina

According to historian Fernando Martín Peña, this film was produced by Julio Tello's Argentine Cinematographic Union distributor and premiered at the San Martín Theater as if it were French "presumably for reasons of respectability." After the campaign against him by the Catholic newspaper El Pueblo, San Martín took it down from the billboard. On November 4 it was announced that the film would be shown again in a downtown theater and finally on November 7 the interim mayor Adrián Fernández Castro resolved the ban for "amoral".

Panicky Pancakes

1928 • 6 min • United States of America

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

The Shanghai Document

1928 • 51 min • Soviet Union

The film portrays Shanghai, China in the early 1920s. It shows the contrasts between the world of Western expatriates (including Britons, Americans, New Zealanders, Australians, and Danes) who live in the luxurious Shanghai International Settlement, and that of the Shanghainese inhabitants, who spend their days laboring.

The North West Frontier

1928 • 12 min

Immerse yourself in the industry of the North West Frontier, from the Khyber Pass to the city of Peshawar. Roving among bazaar traders including cobblers, copper smiths and silk weavers.We see gun making, central to British military might, and a mud fort, last outpost of the British empire on this historic road. The film elaborates on the region around Peshawar with the small villages and the military and economic outposts in the area.

The Ham What Am

1928 • 7 min • United States of America

In this Vitaphone short, Jay C. Flippen performs "Keep Sweeping the Cobwebs Off the Moon" and "Magnolia," as well as a vaudeville comedy routine.

Behind the Monastery Wall

1928 • 58 min • Soviet Union

The old nunnery owns the best lands. Nuns rent out the land to local rich men, and exploiting peasants they have a wealthy life. The peasants live in misery. Especially, the family of the peasant named Levin. He is forced to give away his last horse, his son Andrii is imprisoned, his daughter Nastia becomes a maid of a rich landlord. Trying to prevent the master’s harassment, Nastia escapes and gets to the nunnery. She can see the other life of the nuns who manufacture false relics, drink alcohol and kill children. Nastia ends up in the basement for resisting one of the “spiritual pastors.” Meanwhile, her brother Andrii escapes from prison. He stirs up a rebellion and saves his sister. The film is lost.

Samoyed Boy

1928 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Adventures of a Nenets boy, who returns to his homeland from Moscow an educated young man.

A Trick of Hearts

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

In this comedy-western, based on the life of Henry Irving Dodge, our cowboy hero keeps his tongue firmly planted in his cheek as he goes up against a town run by such women as newly elected sheriff, Carrie Patience. Hoping to restore some masculinity to the sheriff's office, Gibson stages a series of fake hold-ups but is soon upstaged by a real crook

The Air Mail Pilot

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

A high-flying action film involving a pilot battling air mail robberies.

Grotesken im Schnee

1928 • 12 min • Germany

After the grey city rain has turned to snow, we find ourselves together with a silhouette figure in the snow-covered mountains. Under the motto "Get on your skis", a winter sports experience for young and old begins - from ski jumping, figure skating and bobsleighing to mountain tours on skis. Animation techniques and documentary real film footage, in which the winter sports enthusiasts themselves often look like silhouetted figures against a white snow background, intertwine, overlap and merge into a cinematic winter snow experience.

Fragment nul uur nul

1928 • 6 min • Netherlands

Fragment nul uur nul chimes with the tune of such a symphony, yet plays eclectically with form and image. A hidden gem, it was originally conceived as a backdrop to a theatre play and offers, if you will, a form of expanded theatre/cinema. The Filmliga protagonists‘ practice to cut up films as they seemed fit, or to show only fragments and loose ends to support their aesthetic preferences, is reflected here.

Beyond the Sierras

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

A masked avenger takes on claim jumpers.

The Book Worm

1928 • 11 min • United States of America

Wilbur is sent by his boss at the bookstore on an errand to deliver a book to a customer. However, instead of just delivering the book, he just awkwardly stands there talking to the customer. Eventually, however the lady tries to get him to stick around--and it looks like she has romance on her mind.

High Up

1928 • 6 min • United States of America

Oswald The Lucky Rabbit Cartoon

Gogi - The Young Pilot

1928 • 31 min • Soviet Union

Gogi is about to test his flying machine, so everyone better take cover!

Desire Under the Elms

1928 • 54 min • Soviet Union

An adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play Desire Under the Elms.