1938 Movies

Impressions of the small village of Grimentz in the Val d'Anniviers in the canton of Wallis. The eye follows the Gougra brook past alpine farms and th...

Wonderfully photographed promotional film of an Austin engine being installed into a yacht which then sails around the Cornish coast visiting villages...

A naughty pilgrim boy holds an Indian boy hostage causing a war to break out, Nicky Nome comes to save the day with a Chevrolet.

A comedy, musical variety show is being recorded for the radio.

Gerald Thompson's record of the 1938 Oxford University Cayman Islands Expedition. The first natural history survey of all three islands (Grand Cayman,...

Silent film showcasing hypnosis and its effects.

Kleur en Glorie Onzer Tropen, "Colour and Glory of our Tropics", is a travel documentary shot in 1938 by Alphons Hustinx showing the prewar Indonesia...

Parody short about Leon Schlesinger and his company.

A Spanish propaganda documentary showing young men parading.

Sang-eun comes to Seoul with land papers to raise money for a business. Two malefactors, trying to steal these documents, fight among themselves.

Norwegian documentary showing scenes from Northern Norway and Vågå.

Amateur footage of a trip to Tibet and Bhutan in 1938, including shots of the flora and fauna, Molo in what is now Arunachal Pradesh, the monastery at...

The story of two young people who want to get engaged, but something always keeps happening to them and the ceremony is constantly put off. All this t...

Official film of the opening ceremony of Trans-Iranian Railway with the presence of the Shah and government officials at Fawzia train station in Lores...

Make sure there's a hanky nearby: After the death of their mother, older sister Betty works tirelessly, supporting her sister through nursing school a...

A Juan Oliva's animation short film.

This is a propaganda film that promotes Japan's victory in the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and orders that Koreans to be ready for battle and armed with...