All Films - Short Movie Database

Captain Careless

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

Captain Careless is a 1928 film

Steamboat Willie

1928 • 8 min • United States of America

Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie Mouse, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.

Avalanche

1928 • 60 min • United States of America

An otherwise honest gambler, played by Jack Holt, begins to cheat at cards in order to put his son John Darrow through mining school in this lavish Zane Grey adaptation produced by Paramount. The callow foster-son pays back the noble gesture by running off with Holt's mistress, Olga Baclanova.

Driftin' Sands

1928 • 50 min • United States of America

A drifter nicknamed "Driftin' Sands" is hired by a wealthy rancher to protect his spoiled daughter. Driftin', of course, falls for the lady and is immediately banished from the ranch.

Quartette from 'Rigoletto'

1927 • 7 min

A musical short with Beniamino Gigli singing with Jeanne Gordon mezzo, soprano Marion Talley and baritone Giuseppe De Luca. Vitaphone production reel #415

Beautiful Amsterdam

1927 • 5 min

Beautiful Amsterdam is a short promotional film from 1927 made by Alex Benno. In addition to the usual tourist images, this film (with English intertitles) also features many shots of the Amstel Hotel, which had commissioned the film. The Amstel Hotel was most likely trying to convince American tourists to book rooms at the hotel when they visited the Olympic Games, which in 1928 were held in Amsterdam.

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 4

1927 • 17 min

Churches, residences, an undertaker, and unidentified locations mainly in Indianapolis, IN; Denison, TX; New Orleans, LA; Nashville, TN; and Memphis, TN.

Fiinbeck er rømt

1927 • 3 min • Norway, Sweden

A Norwegian animated commercial for Tiedemanns Tobakk AS using the comic strip characters from George McManus' Bringing up Father (Fiinbeck & Fia).

Stockholm in colours

1927 • 4 min • Sweden

A Swedish attempt at two-color technicolor.

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 23

1927 • 13 min

Stores, schools, churches and other locations in Wellston, OK; Okmulgee, OK; Sapulpa, OK; Drumright, OK; El Reno, OK; and Oklahoma City, OK.

Wat een openbaring voor hem

1927 • 4 min

Fly Low Jack and the Game

1927 • 30 min • United States of America

This technically ambitious short fiction film utilized actors from the Rochester Community Players, and was shot on locations across Rochester, including Britton Field, now the Rochester International Airport. Kodak screened it for customers at sales conventions, and it proved to be the perfect finale to Gleason’s film career-- A tale of a handsome aviator (and not a sportsman) returning home and finding love. The unofficial “Godmother of Amateur Filmmaking,” Gleason wrote "Scenario Writing and Producing for the Amateur" in 1929.

With Dog Sled Through Alaska

1927 • 55 min

Recordings from Knud Rasmussen's 5th Thule Expedition, which took place 1921-1924. With dog sled north of America from the Atlantic to the Pacific - the longest sled journey ever made. In addition to a scientific team consisting of six Danes, he had two Greenlanders on the trip: Arnarulunnguaq (the little woman) and Miteq (the eider). Photographer Leo Hansen was hired in Alaska, November 1923, and filmed the rest of the trip.

El bolillo fatal o... el emblema de la muerte

1927 • 15 min • Bolivia

The execution of the man who committed a deadly attack against the President of the Republic of Bolivia is recounted.

Ai Giardini / Anatre / Neve / Al Castello

1927 • 3 min

Pathé Baby short by Guglielmo Baldassini.

Monte Rosa / Battesimo Marisa

1927 • 3 min

Pathé Baby short by Guglielmo Baldassini.

In Casa

1927 • 3 min

Pathé Baby short by Guglielmo Baldassini.

Propaganda film Stork Hengelo

1927 • 14 min • Netherlands

A corporate film with compilation shots in which Stork’s machinery is advertised. Hengelo, eastern Netherlands.

Street scenes from Oslo and Dresden

1927 • 2 min

A short film by the renowned painter Edvard Munch which is currently viewable at the Munch museum in Oslo. The film depicts several street scenes from both Oslo and Dresden and is of an experimental nature.

Tea Company of the NILS in Pematang Siantar (Sumatra)

1927 • 21 min • Netherlands

A reportage about the tea company of the NILS (the Netherlands Indies Agricultural Syndicate) called Permanangan, on the east coast of Sumatra.

Herne Hill - Pedals & Puddles

1927 • 1 min • United Kingdom

The adrenaline rush of a race at South London's famous velodrome at the height of a cycling boom.

Solemn Interment of the Remains of General J.B. van Heutsz

1927 • 23 min • Netherlands

Reportage about the state funeral of the Gouverneur General in the Dutch East Indies, J.B. van Heutsz.

Dniprelstan

1927 • 5 min • Soviet Union

This educational video gives a popular account of the causes and undoubted benefits of the Dneprostroi Dam construction, keeping in mind Lenin’s words: “Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.”

A 'White' Christmas

1927 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Heavy snowfall makes Christmas dreams come true for residents across Britain.