1927 Movies

Telephone current (personified as an animated messenger boy) travels to and fro across telephone wires to demonstrate what happens when a call is made...

Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland Islands and the Karelian Isthmus.

At the police station, four Hollywood cops sing "Skinna-Ma Rink-A-Dink," "Mother Goose Medley," "Cluckin'" and "Waddle."

Bruce Wilton, middle-aged, rich and famous, as a producer, has been rejected by Ada von Ruyt, a revue star. Finding an affection is developing between...

Instructional film on how to use a dial telephone.

The story of a decent, law-abiding saloon owner who gets himself in trouble with the corrupt city fathers when he attempts to close down the town's w...

The film starts with Lantz in person slapping some paint on the bottom of a canvas, turning it over and the paint drips down to create a forest that h...

This is translated from a 'Cine-club' catalog Ufoleis (France) 1973-1974. The Three Fatty (A ton of fun) are salesmen in a grocery. Everyone will fini...

A high-society woman, Glenna Marsh (Dorothy Revier),is arrested for the murder of gigolo-gambler Cole Norwood (Norman Trevor),but his honest casino...

1927 Bolivian documentary short

Phil and Victor prove their virtuosity by entertaining us with three tunes on the piano in a variety of ways and remaining syncopated.

Three musical numbers performed by Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians for Vitaphone.

The Hawaiian Beach Scene Orchestra performs six local Hawaiian tunes for the Vitaphone cameras.

A silent cartoon short produced by Mason Wadsworth and animated by John R. McCory.

“Many early short subjects cloaked genuine aesthetic discourse inside novelty approaches, such as the exploration of slow, fast, or reverse motion, di...

Milton Mouse, the demon rider, stages a one-man round-up, puts the horses into the barn and then calls on Rita, the rancher's daughter. They are getti...

John Charles Thomas (1891-1960) was a celebrated American baritone. Here is an early 1927 Vitaphone film of him singing two songs.