1938 Movies

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.

Promotional film from Chevrolet showing how soft suspension springs combined with shock absorbers smooth out bumps on the road.

Don Giácomo, an Italian who believes he possesses the cunning of the Creoles, is the victim of a scam orchestrated by some bullfighting entrepreneurs.

Deals with liquid air, magnetic thickness gages, and the cathode ray oscillograph.

A short creation by Douglass Crockwell that can be found on the Unseen Cinema box set.

Seal hunters J. Prants, E. Aaslepp, V. Aaslepp and A. Aaslepp travel from Aksi Island to the Gulf of Finland on a fishing trip. Travel between ice flo...

Lucerito and his friends go on a crazy adventure: they steal a plane in Melilla and they land in the middle of the jungle, where they are met by a hos...

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

Boxer Gunnar Richard Bernhard "GeeBee" Bärlund returns to Finland.

An exciting action swashbuckler starring Hayafusa Hideto, aka "The Birdman of Showa Era." The extraordinary action that unfolds without a stuntman or...

A documentary about market life in Helsinki's Market Square in the summer of 1938. The earliest publicly shown color film in Finland.

An anonymous amateur film, random product of the ‘grand’ history from the point of view of the middle class. The family’s camera captures Adolf Hitler...

To encourage voters to approve a bond issue, the city commissioner of schools talks about some of the typical problems that students face.

Display of gymnastics by the men and women's Swedish Olympic Gymnasts Team in the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.

The views of Budapest. Estimated to be recorded on the summer of 1938

"Last Salute to the Commander" is a film about the funeral of the commander of the UGA (Ukrainian Galician Army) General Myron Tarnavskyi.

Ponsuke laments over his inability to shapeshift.  After helping some chickens, he discovers a book on shapeshifting.  Based on the 1934 character by...

Analysis of buoyancy and breathing followed by an explanation of swimming strokes and skills.