All Films

Race Symphony

1928 • 5 min • Germany

In Race Symphony (1928), Richter documents and celebrates a typical day at the German races, where a sophisticated people turn up in droves to gape, gasp, place a bet, and celebrate a well-deserved win.

Ko-Ko's War Dogs

1928 • 6 min • United States of America

An animated film where Ko-Ko the clown becomes involved in a war.

El orador

1928 • 5 min • Spain

In the Parque del Retiro, in Madrid, Spanish writer Ramón Gómez de la Serna weaves a humorous and absurd monologue about a monocle without glass, the noises that can be heard in a chicken coop and the importance of gesturing correctly with a large hand if someone wants to succeed in the art of oratory.

Momotaro, Japan's No.1

1928 • 11 min • Japan

Momotaro, the hero of the story, is born out of a giant peach his foster mother finds floating on the river.

Oh, What a Knight

1928 • 6 min • United States of America

Oswald is riding along on his horse having a merry old time when the two of them fall down a hill, right up to a castle. Oswald whistles for the princess, who blows him a kiss as she appears on a balcony. He reaches her by lassoing the balcony and tying the other end of the rope to his horse's tail, using it as a tightrope. A rival knight suddenly appears and Oswald falls off the balcony, startled. He manages to climb back up and the two fight for the princess.

Haplea

1928 • 2 min

Romanian animation story of a hobo and and a lady.

Sinners' Parade

1928 • 58 min • United States of America

In order to support her sister and her sister's small child, Mary Tracy leads a double life: by day, she works as a schoolteacher; nights, she dances in a cabaret show. Mary becomes interested in Bill Adams, whose mother is prominent in an anti-vice crusade, and therefore attempts to quit her job in the cabaret. Al Morton, the club's owner, holds her to her contract, however, and Mary is caught up in a police raid on the cabaret. The club is shut down, and Mary is fired from her teaching post. Morton threatens to expose Bill (who is running a crime syndicate with money embezzled from his father's bank), and Bill sets out to take Morton for a ride. Finally realizing that she has fallen in love with Morton, Mary calls the cops and saves him from certain death. Bill is arrested, and Mary and Morton decide to get married.

Khyber Pass; Kashmir; Agra

1928 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Romantic, atmospheric travelogue capturing some of northern India’s most iconic places – not least the Taj Mahal.

A Cat And Dog Life

1928 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Dogs and cats go on show at two princely London venues – among them some of the fluffiest kittens London is ever likely to see.

The Animal Olympics

1928 • 13 min • Japan

A group of animals take part in Olympic sports.

The Danger Rider

1928 • 54 min • United States of America

Hal Doyle, son of the prison warden, falls in love with a portrait of Mollie Dare, who runs a reformatory for ex-convicts where they may work for honest wages. To win the girl he poses as the notorious Tucson Joe and goes to the reformatory where his reputation causes the other men to fear him. The real Tucson Joe arrives but does not reveal his identity.

The Riding Renegade

1928 • 50 min • United States of America

A disgraced son of a sheriff is adopted by an Indian tribe after saving the son of a chief.

The Electric Night

1928 • 10 min • France

City lights contrasted with total darkness in this experimental short film.

The Vanishing Pioneer

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

A western settlement of pioneer descendants is threatened with the loss of its water supply through the encroachments of nearby townspeople.

Songs and Impressions

1928 • 8 min • United States of America

The team of Marlow and Jordan are the talents here as they run through three songs as well as the impressions, which I'm sure you gathered from the title. The Stephen Foster tune "Old Folks at Home" is given a new spin here as it's done by an impression of a 3-year-old, which is somewhat strange to say the least.

Fieldwork Footage

1928 • 3 min • United States of America

Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale Hurston spent nearly two years, from 1927 to 1929, studying the folkloric customs, work songs, spirituals, and vernacular language of African American communities along the River Road and from New Orleans to Florida.

The Upland Rider

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

The honest John Graham and the crooked Ross Cheswick battle for supremacy. Despite Cheswick's unscrupulous methods, Dan and his handsome bronco Tarzan win the Big Race for Graham. Dan's prize: Graham's lovely daughter Sally.

Scrooge

1928 • 9 min • United Kingdom

The miserly Scrooge changes his ways after being haunted by ghosts on Christmas Eve.

An Eastern Market

1928 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Documentary detailing a farmer’s visit to the market in Rawalpindi.

Souvenir de Paris

1928 • 47 min

The Adventure of the Torture Cage

1928 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Lieutenant Commander John Byrne of the Naval Secret Service and his partner Pvt. Bill Riggers chase criminal Dr. Sin Fang, who is desperate to find a lost sacred seal. (The fifth and only surviving episode of a six-part serial about an evil mastermind inspired on Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu.)

Sally Sallies Forth

1928 • 28 min • United Kingdom

A young woman becomes a maid for a day at a garden tea party.

The Death Ship

1928 • 10 min • United States of America

On a stormy night at sea, a Captain and the First Mate talk about the girl that they are both in love with. Then they agree to play a game of cards where the loser agrees to kill himself so that the other can have her.

Hot Dogs

1928 • 6 min • United States of America

Oswald sneaks away from school in order to visit a circus sideshow, and is chased through the circus by the police.