Glorious Betsy

Glorious Betsy 1928

5.80

Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.

1928

The Film Narrator

The Film Narrator 1993

1

Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent movies are not produced any longer. Telling stories is the only thing the man was ever good in, so he does not know what to do now. As political circumstances are changing dramatically these days in Germany, he gets new hope that things will again be going better for him...

1993

Sal of Singapore

Sal of Singapore 1928

1

SAL OF SINGAPORE was nominated for an Oscar for achievement in Writing during the second year of the Academy Awards. The film, being a part-talkie, nearly disappared from view. However, a preservation print does exist at UCLA, although it is unavailable for public viewing, awaiting restoration.

1928

The Sins of the Children

The Sins of the Children 1930

4.00

A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.

1930

Gang War

Gang War 1928

6.00

Saxophone player Clyde meets a woman named Flowers, and teaches her to dance. He later discovers that gangster boss "Blackjack" is also in love with her. "Blackjack" is also battling gang boss Mike Luego in a violent turf war.

1928

Interference

Interference 1928

8.00

Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did not necessarily qualify him to be a director. Evelyn Brent heads the cast as scheming Deborah Kane, who sets out to blackmail Faith Marley (Doris Kenyon), the above-reproach wife of Sir John Marlay.

1928

Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka

Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka 1933

1

A lost Japanese animated film noted for being one of the earliest to feature voice acting. The story is about a working family man who has an affair with a coworker. She finds out about the affair through him talking in his sleep.

1933