16 January 1927
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 highways will make transportation easier and more profitable.
Watch the official Wheels of Progress 1927 trailer in HD below.
United States 16 January 1927
United States Department of Agriculture Educational Film Service
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1927:
09 April 1927
Hank Kinney, a ranger, witnesses the accidental death of a man and the survival of a motherless infant.
19 February 1927
Cartoon animals frolic in a winter wonderland. Meanwhile, their keeper tries to make things safe and orderly.
16 December 1927
Poor Pete the Pup. He wants to hang himself because his master, Joe, has given up playing with him and going fishing for the love of a girl.
06 November 1927
A young lady impersonates a famous sportswoman while trying to win over a man.
19 March 1927
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to.
21 August 1927
After losing a fistfight to his romantic rival, wastrelly Clinton Philbrook skulks off to the North Woods.
05 January 1927
Two married couples, Doris (Helen Chadwick) and John Manning (Gayne Whitman) and Clara (Dorothy Revier) and Herbert Bradley (Ray Ripley), each separate as a result of domestic arguments.
27 November 1927
Harry will do anything to be a musician, but it takes a junk collector to discover his hidden talents.
27 August 1927
Douglas MacLean stars as The Young Thief, who falls in love with The Girl, played by Sue Carol. Alas, the Girl has been sold into the harem of The Wazir (Albert Prisco), forcing the Thief to sneak into the palace to rescue her.
18 November 1927
The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea.
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