Movies 1938 Page 47

Television broadcast of The Moon in the Yellow River by Denis Johnston.

Cruchadouze and Castaniet are two inseparable friends. One day they decide to leave Arcachon to try the adventure in Bordeaux. After various odd...

Andy tries to win the approval of his prospective father in law.

An evening at a night club for penguins, (and a walrus or two). The stage show includes an appearance by a penguin incarnation of Bing Crosby, who...

The daughter of an industrialist takes an interest in the workers and tries to improve their lot. She avoids a strike, and falls in love with an...

Andy is duped into thinking his bride-to-be has a wooden leg.

When headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg disobeys orders and takes a plane to photograph potential landing fields in uncharted Latin American country, he...

800 Chinese soldiers guard the important warehouse district against the invading Japanese Army. Re-imagination of a famous (bordering on legendary)...

We take a tour of Porky's Poppa's farm, to the tune of Old MacDonald. After meeting several animals, "on this farm, he has a mortgage" which he frets...

The story of the rise of boxer Joe Thomas, which paralleled the life of Joe Louis.

The boys will get a new class teacher who has discipline, they get in a lot of mischief, so much complaints that they have to read extra during the...

Mania is the illegitimate child of a girl from the suburbs of Krakow and a lawyer. Bowing to the will of the family, he abandons the girl, leaving a...

The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.

A Marathi film by Devare and Sarpotdar.

The brave Monsieur Breloque has a friend, Pierre Martel, a private detective. When the latter asks him to replace him for a while, Breloque, although...

Kenyon has the newly arriving Ranger shot and his man Martin assume the Ranger's identity. Clay finds the Ranger before he dies and learns the truth....

London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero...

One of the subjects of the Prince of Slopoldavia, followed him to Paris, not out of love but to take revenge for the monarch's betrayal of one of his...

A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

Eddie Marston and his future father-in-law, Lord Milchester, struggle valiantly and comedically to balance their attempts to save Eddie's failing...

Drama-documentary, reconstructing a real incident in which a trawler got into difficulties in a North Sea storm. Released 7th March 1938.

Captures the lives, habits and habitats of London’s pigeon population.

Shots taken at night of the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Glasgow, showing the building, statues, and fountains lit up by neon lights.

An animated short created for Philips Radio to showcase how an advertising poster is conceptually and physically assembled. The film uses Pal-Doll...

This short looks at the sport of rock climbing. A team of three men ascend a rock wall on Southern California's Tahquitz Rock (also known as Lily...

“Musical performers Henry Hall and his Orchestra hog the limelight in this promotional film, ostensibly for Ascot gas water heaters.” - BFI.

Scrappy is reading Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People. A bird keeping him company hears Scrappy say "The early bird catches the...

A salted gold mine proves to be troublesome for a ghost town.

Experimental animation produced by GPO to explain telephone systems to the public.

Heading up the Chisholm Trail with a small herd and just a few men, Breezy has his cattle rustled by Curley and his gang. Returning to Texas, Breezy...

Animated cinema advertisement produced for Horlick's by George Pal.

Inspired by Edmond Rostand's 1897 play, this 1938 BBC Television studio production retells the comic and heroic drama of the 17th-century Gascon...

This Traveltalks short showcases the Paris International Exposition of 1937. It features a tour of the pavillions of several nations, as well as the...

A scientist doses three guinea pigs with three different tonics, which cause cartoon drunkenness in the subjects.

A western town is being overrun and ruled by a gang of outlaws led by Bart (John Merton). Former Ranger Tim (Tim McCoy) is called out of retirement...

Betty Boop and her players put on a theatrical show of wintry Canada, with a villainous cad, a mounted officer, and the leading lady herself as the...

An animated short produced by Charles Mintz.

Noted child psychologist Errol marries a widow with a nasty brat, and finds none of his theories seem to work when trapped in a pullman car on the...

Eddie Lambert is an advice columnist and radio personality. People come to him with problems, and he offers solution. In the third of three 'Uncle...