All Films

Fashion News

1928 • 5 min • United States of America

Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.

Modern Mothers

1928 • 60 min

Adele Dayton, a famous actress, visits her daughter, Mildred, whom she left with relatives as an infant. Her guardians, Mazie and John, permit the visit provided Adele conceals her relationship from Mildred. While Adele is there, she unintentionally attracts the admiration of Mildred's sweetheart, aspiring playwright David Starke, when she helps him sell one of his plays to a Broadway producer. David goes to New York city to open the play, neglecting Mildred. On opening night Mildred visits Adele and finds her in an embrace with David; she upbraids Adele for stealing David's affection from her and returns to her home in Massachusetts. Realizing she has hurt her own daughter, Adele sacrifices her love for David, snubbing him with a cold shoulder, he soon returns to Mildred and they marry.

Mr. Bernhard Baron

1928 • 1 min • United Kingdom

In the East End of London, crowds gather to watch Jewish millionaire Bernhard Baron unveil an important new building.

Dead Man's Curve

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

A grease monkey discovers a defect in an auto engine being turned out by his employer. But since our hero discovers this only after losing an important race, his boss chalks up the loss to Fairbanks' supposed cowardice.

The Black Ace

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

Story of a a Texas Ranger whose foster-father has been falsely accused of a series of crimes.

The Fresh Lobster

1928 • 8 min • United States of America

A man has a surreal nightmare after snacking too late.

Too Many Cookies

1928 • 19 min • United States of America

Too Many Cookies is a comedy short

Character Studies

1928 • 9 min • United States of America

Montagu Love pretty much plays himself in this Vitaphone short where he starts off by introducing himself to the viewer and saying most probably remember him for playing villains. He then asks that people pretend that he's surrounded by a dinner party and he's been asked to give a speech even though he's shy.

Mickey the Detective

1928 • 22 min

Mickey and the gang play detective. Later, the dog gets stuck with a professor's time bomb.

Unreal Newsreels

1928 • 8 min • United States of America

Joseph Cornell's original compilation from his own film collection is based on the low-budget slapstick cartoons produced in the 1920s and 1930s by the Weiss Brothers, which Cornell turns into a parody of newsreels through subtle textual intervention.

Two Outlaws

1928 • 50 min • United States of America

Human cowboy hero is teamed with Rex, King of Wild Horses, an ornery critter but a magnificent animal.

Let 'Er Go Gallegher

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

Young John Gallagher wants to be a newspaper reporter. One day he witnesses a murder committed by a mysterious man with only four fingers on one hand. He gives his account of the murder and a description of the killer to his hero, newsman Henry Callahan, resulting in his getting a job on the paper as an office boy. When circumstances arise that result in Callahan losing his job on the paper, he and Gallagher set out to discover the identity of the killer and help Callahan get his job back.

English as She Is Not Spoken

1928 • 8 min • United States of America

Val and Ernie Stanton make their second appearance in a Vitaphone short. This time out the two basically stand in the same spot as they re-create their vaudeville act, which includes a few songs as well as a couple comedy routines.

La zone

1928 • 38 min

In 1928, Georges Lacombe, then assistant to René Clair, filmed the ragpickers who lived in the "zone". As his camera was stationary, he took particular care over the framing and he offers the viewer a document that is imbued with both realism and poetry. We even see the once-famous cancan dancer "La Goulue", sunk into poverty at the end of her life. - MHEU

Heart Trouble

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

No known surviving copy is known to exist. This well received film revolved around Harry Van Housen's rejection from service in WWI and subsequent heroism in foiling a ring of spies.

The Tonic

1928 • 27 min • United Kingdom

The family of the very wealthy but infirm Great Aunt Louisa await her untimely demise in the hopes of inheriting her great fortune.

The Four-Footed Ranger

1928 • 50 min • United States of America

The ranger Jack Dunne and his dog Dynamite are called in to investigate a series of cattle rustlings.

The Land of the Lion and Sun

1928 • 41 min • Soviet Union

The 41-minute documentary directed by Vladimir Yerofeyev, is a 1928 Russian production. 'The Land of the Lion and Sun' has recorded different moments of Iranian people’s social life, the country’s general ambience, women’s clothing in the year 1921.

KoKo Lamps Aladdin

1928 • 6 min

Ko-Ko the Clown enters a storybook and uses Aladdin's magic lamp to make his wishes come true.

Top Sergeant Mulligan

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

During World War I a vaudeville entertainer, Mickey, is helping to recruit officers for the army and finds himself in the service along with his female partner, who is also his girlfriend. At training camp he comes up against Top Sergeant Mulligan, who proceeds to make life miserable for him. If that wasn't enough, it turns out that Mulligan, the captain and a YMCA worker are all making a play for his girlfriend.

Sailors' Wives

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

Informed by her doctor that she is going blind, Carol Trent tearfully breaks off her engagement with Don Manning, hoping to spare him the stigma of a sightless bride. When Hughes catches up with her and demands an explanation, Astor pretends to have fallen out of love with him and further convinces him that she has turned into a shameless hussy.

Cleopatra

1928 • 20 min • United States of America

An early retelling of Cleopatra’s story.

Midnight Rose

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

Midnight Rose, a dancer in the Gold Coast Cabaret, loves Tim Regan, an underworld gang leader who decides to go straight in spite of entreaties from other gang members. A dying gangster requests that Tim adopt his 4-year-old son, Sonny; and realizing that the boy needs a mother, Tim induces Rose to marry him. She soon tires of housework, grows jealous of Tim's fondness for Sonny, and consequently returns to the cabaret, where Corbin, her former suitor, rehires her. When Tim, disillusioned, participates in a gang robbery, Corbin informs the police, whereupon Tim is caught and sent to prison.

KoKo's Earth Control

1928 • 8 min • United States of America

Ko-Ko the Clown and his dog Fitz walk into a building where levers that control various aspects of the Earth are located. After Fitz presses a particular lever, the world goes topsy-turvy and out-of-control. Note that this cartoon contains strobe flashing.