1938 Movies

This MGM short provides brief glimpses of over sixty screen actors and actresses, all whom started in silent films.

A blacksmith refuses to get with the times and fix cars instead. Instead, he winds up building a mechanical horse to race a supercar.

Views of some of the main pavilions and exhibits of the Empire Exhibition in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow, including shots of Don and margaret McLachl...

Two young people from Lima are in love. But the young man is poor. He has only one asset: his voice, as he is a singer seeking recognition through his...

A gem-smuggling conspiracy drives an entertaining and unusually accomplished amateur fiction.

Movie directed by Soya Kumagai

Part of BFI collection "On Yer Bike."

On a hacienda on the northern coast of Peru, cotton is harvested and celebrated with lively pachamancas. Miguel, the foreman, is in love with Isabel,...

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

An old film about the mountains of I Denti della Vecchia, a mountain group in the Lugano Pre-Alps, between Switzerland (Val Colla) and Italy (Valsolda...

Queen Elizabeth and King George VI attend the funeral of the Countess of Strathmore. This British Pathé production features the weakest shot composit...

Edited by Géo Kelber from footage shot by André Sauvage during his travels between the Far East and the Middle East, La perse offers a fascinating gli...

The funeral of Countess Bowes-Lyon, mother of Queen Elizabeth. The funeral procession departs from the walls of her residence, Glamis Castle in Scotla...

Venice Film Festival 1939

A promotional film made by the GPO showing how, despite exceptional weather conditions, the mail still gets through.