1938 Movies

Venice Film Festival 1939

Timber Toppers is a 1938 American short film by 20th Century Fox. In 1939, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, One-...

When cloth merchant Zhao Dexin passed through the ancient tomb, he met the scholar Qin Qiufan and the girl Hua Hongyu in the underworld. Qiufan was ki...

A Spanish propaganda documentary showing young men parading.

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...

Short animated film.

A story of the priest who risked and faced conviction rather than reveal something told to him in confession. This forms the main theme of the picture...

Soviet black-and-white cartoon of 1938. Film adaptation of the Uzbek folk tale. The tape is in the public domain, since it was released more than 70 y...

A crying baby won't drink it's milk until Edna May Oliver tells him a story about W. C. Fields trying to milk a cow. An uninspired outing seemingly ta...

The circus arrives in a small town on the coast of Peru. It is managed by the unscrupulous Orsini, who is facing financial problems. Orsini plans with...

A stop motion short film advertising for the need of a telephone in households.

A young woman from Lima's high society, very wealthy and spoiled by her father, must decide between the amorous advances of two suitors. One is rich a...

A passionate young man can't forget the love of her life, who is about to get married. Passion will find its way but with fatal consequences.

A 20th Century Fox Magic Carpet of Movietone travelogue short released in December 1938, depicting Scandinavian “Viking” history and landscapes. Produ...

About how, thanks to the occasion, Owl became a traffic light and accidents stopped happening at the intersection in the forest.

A mother blackbird hatches out two normal offspring and one featherless nitwit. The nitwit refuses to learn to fly and learn the other aspects of bird...

Norwegian documentary showing scenes from Northern Norway and Vågå.