1927 Movies

A brief look around Bruxelles in 1927.

Japanese silent film from 1927.

Although the twins Flora and Dora attend the School of Sculpture, their real calling lies in gymnastics. They decide to open an “Institute of Strength...

Middle-aged Glasgow grocer Dickson McCunn ventures into the Scottish countryside in search of adventure, and finds a Russian princess imprisoned in a...

Billed as "a cinema-propaganda poster," this 1927 short advocates the purchase of government bonds as a means to combat a British trade embargo. Its d...

Will Rogers, America's unofficial ambassador abroad, invites us to rural England. He starts at Windsor Castle, and we see the boys at Eton in their to...

Pete finds trouble at school.

A two-reel version of 1925's Pampered Youth. Included on Criterion's Blu-ray release of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons.

During the good old days of the Russian aristocracy, that is to say, before the October Revolution, in the city of Moscow there was a fancy restaurant...

Krazy Kat fills in at a stork nursery for babies.

The coronation ceremony of the Icon of Our Lady of the Dawn Gate took place on 2 July 1927. It was a grand celebration, not only religious, but also n...

Chapter 11 of the silent serial "The Collegians".

Chapter 5 of the second series of 46 of the Universal Pictures silent serial "The Collegians".

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

Heads Up, Charley is a 1927 German silent comedy film directed by Willi Wolff and starring Ellen Richter, Anton Pointner, and Michael Bohnen. Marlene...

Short French documentary is essentially an "Archeology of Cinema," which is divided into two parts: 1) "The Past: Chronophotography, Origins, Developm...

Felix goes to Timbuctoo to win 50,000 buckaroos. Little does he know, his DIY airplane is about to be hi-jacked by terrorist fish. He finds a way out...