1927 Movies

Vom Reiche der sechs Punkte is an unusual silent film, produced far away from the film studios in Berlin and Munich. The story deals with a steel worker who looses the sight of his eyes and has to accept his fate. The film shows in unique documentary pictures...

The film describes the funeral of King Ferdinand I of Romania, as well as the oath of the Regents at the Royal Palace, in Bucharest.

Silent lost film.

A husband leaves his wife and kids for the sake of pleasure. Eulis Atjih, his wife, and children live in poverty. Later on, when he returns destitute, she forgives her former husband

The "first Azorean film" (as the press called it at the time) was made in Angra do Heroísmo. It was an initiative of the company Foto-Cinema Açores, directed by António Luís Lourenço da Costa, a native of Terceira and better known as "photographer Lourenço". T...

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

British documentary.

Baburao Painter’s mythological silent feature SatiSavitri (1927) narrates the tale of love and devotion of legendary Savitri, who won back her husband from the Lord of death Yama. Only 32 minutes exists.

Hermann Perren, mountain guide, prepares the ascent of Dent du Requin with a companion. He checks the equipment necessary for any mountaineer, rope, ice axe, glasses, double socks and iron shoes. They leave Chamonix, cross the Mer de Glace and arrive at the Re...

A silent film, his first, made by acclaimed animator Bob Clampett.

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

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.

A Krazy Kat cartoon.

Filmed by the Dominican missionary priests.

Farmer Alfalfa is a junkman and get’s into a fight with a cat and a mouse.

An Aesop's Fables Cartoon

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...