02 January 1938 Factual 11 mins
How long-distance telephone calls are made, from the UK to the USA. We see operators, miles of wires, and the amplification of voice transmitted across the waters. Engineers of the Post Office describe how they are improving the service.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt as Self
Humphrey Jennings Director
United Kingdom 02 January 1938
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29 January 1938
Professor Pierre is assigned to find a missing heiress whose fortune will go to a worthless relative if she isn't found.
01 May 1938
A cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like him.
29 April 1938
The mangiest pup at Pete's Pooch Palace catches the Captain's eye. He takes it home, but Mama is less than thrilled; she forbids it to stay in the house.
25 February 1938
The Cabin Kids, in between song and dance numbers, are at the county fair with intentions, fair or foul, of helping Mammy win the Pancakes cooking contest.
14 September 1938
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
31 March 1938
Angry, because he is making too many headlines with his gang-busting activities, the police chief transfers Lt.
05 May 1938
A short film on Republican efforts to improve education standards during the Spanish Civil War.
21 December 1938
In the village of Sableuse, the local manor has been bought out by a nouveau riche, Emile Cousinet. When his wife Lisette, a former music hall actress, flees to Paris with young Pierre de Sableuse, Cousinet asks Father Pellegrin, the village vicar, to bring the lost sheep back home.
02 January 1938
Documentary short directed by Sidney Cole and Thorold Dickinson.
31 March 1938
The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy and the public, wait for an opportunity to avenge their master and his family.
11 February 1938
Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle.
01 January 1938
The underage Rosemarie is still too young to run her inherited farm by herself; but she's more than aware that her foster father and the farm's administrator, the farmer Schlieker, is constantly skimming from the farm's finances to line his own pocket.
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