1928 Movies

Shot in experimental "Keller-Dorian", Mateo Falcone was the first attempt at a french feature film in color. Shown once in incomplete form and then, to today's best understanding, never completed. A 10 minutes fragment is all that is known today.

Time-lapse shots of plants reacting to various external stimuli.

Dick Rich and His Melodious Monarchs, a popular West Coast group, perform "Ramona," "There Must Be a Silver Lining" and "Sunshine."

"He [Walter Lantz] and Tiny Ward are the two comics who are crazy about their visitor from the city, the very decorative Peggy Shaw. As they are rivals in love they are constantly up to all sorts of tricks which every now and then show a tinge of humor." - Re...

A community comedy set in Feilding using local people in the leading roles. The Manawatū town’s name is however misspelt in the title. The new school teacher is courted by Ken the journalist and part-time fireman and Tom the grocery clerk, who play tricks to d...

This collection of films, shot in the 1920s by longtime Corpus Christi resident Antonio Rodríguez Fuentes, may well represent some of the earliest produced by a Mexican-American filmmaker about the Mexican-American community in Texas. In the home movie footage...

An unedited and untitled film of the opening of the new British Instructional Film Studios by the Rt. Hon L.S. Amery. Invited guests are seen arriving by train and walking toward the studio. Mr Amery is then seen speaking to an audience in the studio (with him...

Medical film from the Vincenzo Neri collection.

Jack Waldron performs his stand-up vaudeville act.

Short Dutch animation film.

All of the entries in this rare collection of blue movies from the silent age have one thing in common - the beautiful young girls of Hollywood baring all for the movie cameras.

A comedy short with Jack Cooper done by J.R. Bray Studios.

Businessman and adventurer Homer Augustus Brinkley produced this film in 1928 after living for several months among the Seminole Indians in the Everglades. He later used the film in a traveling show that featured a live, caged bear and himself dressed as a Sem...

A journey from Paris to Liège completed in four hours without stopping by a train operated by the Compagnies du Nord.

The film, divided into two parts with a total of twenty acts, narrates in a chronic and intimate way the life and heroic deeds of General Rafael Uribe Uribe.

Short film about a city woman visiting the countryside.

An American short sound film released in 1928 under the title Overtones. Photoplay wrote about the film that: "It's one thing to listen in on two middle-aged women, each jealous of the other, having a tea fight. But it's quite another to hear their respective...

Short fragment.

A Russo-Japanese war animated film.