1927 Movies

This film was made during the inspection of the Brazilian border with French Guiana. At the time, the system of mountains in the north of Brazil, from...

Filmed by Pedro Sambarino.

On December 7, 1926, the pilot and photographer Walter Mittelholzer set off on an expedition that took him 77 days in a Dornier Merkur seaplane to Cap...

The adventures of a Parisien girl in Montevideo (Lost film)

Bento Balão, a wicked man and owner of the Pedra da Onça farm, cruelly beats a paralyzed old man who lived on his land and embezzled money from him, a...

Great item - feminine outfit and manly suit are exchanged by women to suit their hairstyles. (British Pathé)

This sumptuously stenciled short was filmed on the stage of a Paris music hall and includes such Orientalist numbers as “In the Temple of the Fakirs”...

Directed by Frank E. Kleinschmidt, Primitive Love follows the daily struggles of an Eskimo family during the harsh winter.

Made during the inspection of the Brazilian border with Venezuela and British Guiana, this film depicts the Amazon River and the boat traffic from sev...

This film gives a short history of wheeled transportation in the US, from bicycles and wagons to automobiles, and how a better system of roads and hig...

Speculative historical essay defending the theory, sustained by Spanish historian Celso García de la Riega (1844-1914) and his followers, that the fam...

Beautiful Amsterdam is a short promotional film from 1927 made by Alex Benno. In addition to the usual tourist images, this film (with English interti...

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

animated short

Advertising film for "Réveil Tam-Tam". Undoubtedly one of the oldest Belgian advertising films, with a strong colonial connotations present in the pro...

This collection captures the duo’s earliest (mis)adventures on screen, chronicling their journey from their first films together – The Lucky Dog and t...

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

The Duke and Duchess of York are welcomed back from their Empire tour by crowds and family. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

An artist fantasises about the poses his model could take.