All Films

Van and Schenck: Pennant Winning Battery of Songland

1927 • 8 min • United States of America

A short film starring Van and Schenck.

Sailor Beware

1927 • 13 min • United States of America

Wimpy sailor boy Billy Epsom has just arrived from New Guinea with a guinea pig in a box for his sweetheart. But today's newspaper headline reads, "Guinea Pig With Deadly Germs Roaming Our Streets". Billy causes havoc at the Yellow Cab stand when a cabbie catches sight of his cute little "piggy". Billy sets out to see his girl at her father's mansion. On the streetcar, he takes the guinea pig out of its box. Soon passengers and driver are diving off, and the runaway car is gaining on a dynamite truck!

Old Norse Vikings Festival

1927 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Viking chieftains, flaming torches and outlandish costumes liven up a dark January day in Lerwick, Shetland, as the townsfolk celebrate 'Up Helly Aa'.

The Moon Special

1927 • 4 min • United States of America

Snap takes a rocket to the moon where he encounters unknown species.

La Glu

1927 • 60 min

A young Parisian woman nicknamed La Glu settles in a Breton fishing village with the intention of seducing Marie-Pierre, the only boy of the 9 children of Marie des Agnes.

Cement

1927 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A Soviet film about construction workers.

The Thief Trapper

1927 • 20 min • United States of America

Last of the series of short films starring "Fearless the Famous Police Dog."

Yasuji Murata's Monkey and the Crabs

1927 • 5 min • Japan

A Yasuji Murata version of the classic Japanese story Saru Kani Gassen.

Wax Experiments

1927 • 6 min • Germany

For the production of this film, Oskar Fischinger tinted various layers of hot wax. After cooling, the resulting lump of wax resembled a marble cake. Fischinger then began to cut off slices from the lump, photographing each step.

The Girl from Gay Paree

1927 • 60 min • United States of America

Mary Davis, alone and destitute in New York City, pilfers a meal from a restaurant and eludes the police by ducking into the Cafe Royale, where she is shuffled along a line of aspiring chorines awaiting job interviews. In desperation, Mary agrees to impersonate Mademoiselle Fanchon, formerly of the Folies-Bergère, who has walked out on her contract. Reporter Kenneth Ward interviews Mary, believing her to be the notorious Frenchwoman, and due to a misunderstanding, she rushes wildly into his arms. When Robert Ryan, a bachelor friend of the real Fanchon, investigates Mary’s deception, she violently repels his advances and believes she has killed him. Later, the real Fanchon threatens to kill Robert. Following a series of amusing complications, Mary finds love with Kenneth.

Sinner Without Sin

1927 • 54 min • Yugoslavia

A young village girl with traditional upbringing comes to the big city where she meets an elegant man. She forgets about her boyfriend, and everything goes fine until she discovers that he's a vicious bank robber, finding herself being arrested as an accomplice. Her boyfriend decides to save her.

The Banker's Daughter

1927 • 6 min • United States of America

Oswald is fired from his job as a limousine driver for flirting with the boss' daughter. But when the boss' bank is robbed by Pete, it's Oswald to the rescue!

The Old Wallop

1927 • 25 min • United States of America

Wheezer likes to hit people on the nose, and his folks encourage him to do so. Then the Gang wandering off climbing atop a construction site while the builders have gone to lunch.

Reis mistera Lloyda

1927 • 25 min • Soviet Union

About the fate of a ex-Wrangel's White Army soldier who flees from the Foreign Legion and returns to the USSR.

Camping Among the Indians

1927 • 22 min

The American Museum of Natural History funded this trip to New Mexico, documenting several Native American dances and practices.

Ko-Ko the Kid

1927 • 7 min

Koko the Clown seeks the Fountain of Youth.

Bring Home the Turkey

1927 • 20 min • United States of America

Habitually mistreated at the deceptively named Happyland Home Orphanage, the Our Gang kids find a loyal and kindhearted friend in the form of a black grownup named Uncle Tom. Alas, Tom's own children -- including real-life siblings Allen "Farina" Hoskins and Jannie "Mango" Hoskins -- are carted off to Happyland by the cold-hearted county officials. Farina, Mango, and the other kids escape the cruel orphanage in the dead of night, while Uncle Tom, preparing for their return, "borrows" food, clothes, and furnishings from various merchants.

Crazy and Magician

1927 • 14 min • Brazil

The story of an island populated by the weirdest people in the world, where nobody has a job. Pinduca, a Fakir, arrives to the island and becomes a magician, but also begins to lose his sanity.

The Octopus' Bone

1927 • 5 min • Japan

The story is based on the traditional, Japanese myth of Urashima Taro; in which a fisherman is transported from the seashore into a fantastic underwater world on the back of a giant turtle.

Publicity Madness

1927 • 60 min • United States of America

Pete Clark, publicity manager for Henly soap, concocts a promotional contest requiring entrants to fly nonstop from California to Hawaii. Believing such a flight to be impossible, Peter offers $100,000 of the company's money as the prize. However, after aviator Charles Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Pete decides to enter the race himself to collect the prize money and save himself from disgrace. After a series of amusing stunts, Pete is the first to reach Hawaii, thereby winning the admiration of Violet, the boss's daughter.

Yale vs. Harvard

1927 • 20 min • United States of America

The Gang turn to playing football, and face tough competition against the Gas House Garlics.

Double Trouble

1927 • 20 min • United States of America

"Snub" and his much larger dancing partner, "Fat" (Marvin Loback), struggle with each other in the room they share, try to crash the local vaudeville house and end up having to repossess a piano from their former landlord.

Two Flaming Youths

1927 • 55 min • United States of America

Sheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man Gabby Gilfoil shows up hoping to take her for some money. Gilfoil is mistaken for the wanted man Slippery Sawtelle. Neither suitor gets Malarkey but manage to take her husband (wealthy Simeon Trott) for a bundle.

Hazel Green & Company

1927 • 8 min

Hazel Green & Company play a few songs.