All Films

Doll Messengers of Friendship

1927 • 9 min

A short film commemorating the 1927 doll exchange between the US and Japan organized by the Committee on World Friendship Among Children

Ko-Ko Hops Off

1927 • 7 min

Koko the clown and his dog attempt a round-the-world flight.

Spoilers of the West

1927 • 52 min • United States of America

A soldier falls in love with a beautiful settler who has refused his order to leave American Indian land.

Moscow

1927 • 60 min • Soviet Union

Documentary almanac directed by the great cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman about the life of the Soviet capital.

Filmogrammas nº 7

1927 • 8 min • Brazil

It tells of the filmmaker Silvino Santos' trip to Portugal in 1927, five years after he made "No Paiz das Amazonas". He also inserts footage in the state of Amazonas, such as children playing on the Madeira River, duck hunters, duck preparation for dinner, and scenes of Parintintins Indians.

Poor Girls

1927 • 58 min • United States of America

A young girl, Peggy Warren (Dorothy Revier), raised in expensive boarding schools, discovers that her mother, respectable Katherine Warren (Ruth Stonehouse) also leads a second life as the notorious Texas Kate, Queen of the New York nightclubs. She leaves home ashamed of how her mother paid for her expensive schooling. A reconciliation re-unites mother and daughter after the mother saves her from a loveless marriage.

Nocturne

1927 • 32 min • France

In Spain, a girl awaits the return of her lover, an officer in the army.

The Mojave Kid

1927 • 50 min • United States of America

A cowboy searchs for his mysteriously vanished father.

The Outlaw Dog

1927 • 50 min • United States of America

When his master is attacked and left speechless, Ranger is held responsible. On the lam from the Law, the canine hero links up with telegrapher Bill Brady and Bill's girlfriend Helen Meadows. He gets a chance to clear his name by helping Bill trap a pair of outlaws who plan to blow up a mail train and abscond with the loot.

The Little Screw

1927 • 10 min • Soviet Union

On the importance of invisible "cogs", or screws, in the work of an enterprise.

Change of Administration in the Dutch East Indies

1927 • 26 min • Indonesia, Netherlands

Report about the transfer of the administration of the Dutch East Indies from Governor-General D. Fock to A.C.D. de Graeff on 7 September, 1926.

A Light in the Window

1927 • 60 min

Dorothy, the unsophisticated daughter of Johann Graff, a stern, protective cobbler, dreams of entering café society after a night out with a friend. One night, Dorothy meets Bert Emmonds; they marries after three dates, and the outraged Johann disowns her. When Bert is falsely arrested for stealing an automobile, Dorothy is forced to work as a cigarette girl. She and Bert are later reunited, and Johann forgives his daughter.

1920s Fragments and Wax Experiments

1927 • 5 min • Germany

Never-released early experiments, animation drawings and tests from Oskar Fishcinger.

No Fuelin'

1927 • 6 min • United States of America

It's snowing and the thermometer is dropping well below freezing. Felix is cold. In his house a statue puts on a blanket, an alarm clock puts gloves on its hands, and a man in a painting puts on a hat and scarf. Another cat is shivering in the bath - the water has turned to an ice block. There's no wood for the stove. Felix tries to cut a tree trunk but it turns out to be an elephants trunk.

The Woman Who Did Not Care

1927 • 60 min • United States of America

The daughter of a boarding house keeper, Iris Carroll (Tashman) is subjected to the unwanted advances of her mother's boarders. When mom dies, Iris kicks over the traces, moves out of town, buys a gorgeous wardrobe and sets about to "get even" with the entire male population.

Painted Ponies

1927 • 60 min • United States of America

A rodeo rider arrives in Toptown to compete in the local rodeo. He meets a pretty young girl who, with her crippled father, runs a merry-go-round for the town's children. The town bully, who has designs on the young girl, tries to drive off the cowboy but is beaten senseless in the resulting fight. Soon afterwards, however, the girl's father is found shot, and the cowboy is arrested for the crime.

Rita Ou Rito?

1927 • 41 min • Portugal

Peixe-de-Espada (literally, sword-fish), a retired Army colonel, his wife and nubile daughter are spending their holidays at the Palace Hotel, in the company of a lady doctor, Doctor Pilulas (literally, pills). He tells tall-tales of his African adventures, and she finds ways to promote the excellency of the pills of her own fabrication. To spend some time with Gabriela, his girlfriend, Rito appears disguised as a woman, pretending to be the new post-office operator. Desguises will come and go, and all ends well after a turmoil of twisted plots.

A Wanderer of the West

1927 • 60 min • United States of America

In a plot to take control of the Lazy Y ranch, which holds water rights to the local area, a rancher kidnaps the Lazy Y owner's daughter. The ranch foreman manages to eventually foil the plot and get the girl.

Parimã, Frontiers of Brazil

1927 • 29 min • Brazil

This film was made during the inspection of the Brazilian border with French Guiana. At the time, the system of mountains in the north of Brazil, from the Pico da Neblina (literally, Fog Peak), Brazil’s highest mountain, to the Tumucumaque mountain range, was called Parimã. Images of the tour include the Oiapoque river, Saramacá Indians, Guyanese blacks, the city of Saint-Georges, and the Clevelândia agricultural penal colony, created by the Americans. It features views of the rivers, forests, animals, and the Indians and their daily lives.

Koko in 1999

1927 • 7 min • United States of America

This Out of the Inkwell cartoon features the Fleischer Studios continuing character, Ko-Ko, seeming to draw himself, and to battle with the environment created for him. It speaks to the self-referentiality of early animation, and to the creation of characters who are made to rebel against their makers.

Koko Plays Pool

1927 • 6 min • United States of America

Max Fleischer and brother David are playing pool when Koko and Fitz force their way out of the ink bottle. They want to play pool too, so Max obligingly draws a table for their use.

Hypnotism at Home

1927 • 18 min • Portugal

Sleepwalking and supernatural adventures, inspired by American farces.

Mathusalem

1927 • 9 min • France

Mathusalem (or Methuselah) is a 1922 play by Ivan Goll, considered a precursor of the theater of the absurd. The 1927 run of the play saw five sequences-- some of Jean Painlevé's earliest film work-- projected against a backdrop of white clouds.

Rough and Ready

1927 • 50 min • United States of America

Ned Raleigh, a cowboy on the Stone Ranch, is laughed at by his pal Rawhide Barton for emulating his chivalrous namesake, Sir Walter Raleigh. Manning, an eastern capitalist, agrees to make Stone a loan to pay off his mortgage if he surrenders 200 head of cattle as security; Manning, after he discovers oil on the property, conspires with Blake, Stone's foreman, to hide the stock, and thus secure the land for himself.