1928 Movies

Titles in French and English help us know what we're seeing. In all waters, daphnia abound. They are crustaceans about 2 ml long, with one eye that tu...

The Solomon Sir Jones films consist of 29 silent black and white films documenting African-American communities in Oklahoma from 1924 to 1928. The fil...

A picturesque tour of Guadeloupe (French Caribbean) and its archipelago filmed in 1928 by Alfred Chaumel, colonial administrator: from Pointe-à-Pitre...

Film depicts TR's commitment to the reclamation of desert land and his belief that natural resources exist for the public benefit.

Silent Dutch animated advertisement for Kroon bicycles. A hand draws a cat cycling to the moon. On the way, it is bothered by falling meteorites and o...

Mr. Bug and his girl elope after Dad tries to enforce curfew. Part of the Daffy Doings in Doodlebugville series from 1928.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

A reporter travelling in the Balkans is trying to gain a deeper understanding of the region, which is a melting pot of cultures, languages and religio...

A baby bird tries to get the caterpillar. The caterpillar is too smart for him, though. Fun stop-motion film from 1929.

Jack Waldron performs his stand-up vaudeville act.

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 midd...

Palomina, the daughter of a sausage manufacturer, is asked to marry Fermín de Bizcochea, but she prefers the boxer Hilario Martínez, who makes the sui...

Silent cartoon.

The first in the Daffy Doings in Doodlebugville series from Kinex. From 1928. Stop-motion bug milkman delivers milk and flirts.

First film filmed on Gran Canaria. Second one in the Canary Islands.

Artful documentary about the use of our hands.

Documentary by the Argentine meteorologist José Manuel Moneta, recorded in the base "Orcadas" (Islas Orcadas del Sur) in 1927. It is the first film re...

Includes footage of bullfights by the brothers Manolo and Pepe Bienvenida, the Peruvian bullfighter Carlos Sussoni, Marcial Lalanda, Rayito, Lagartijo...