1938 Movies

Pictures from the 1938 Finnish Athletics Championships at Helsinki Stadium.

Pictures from the White Army victory parade in Helsinki held 20 years earlier.

This astonishing colour film features many of China's cultural treasures including Beijing's Forbidden City and Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven, t...

A silent short documentary produced by Dix-Film.

A documentary about market life in Helsinki's Market Square in the summer of 1938. The earliest publicly shown color film in Finland.

An anonymous amateur film, random product of the ‘grand’ history from the point of view of the middle class. The family’s camera captures Adolf Hitler...

Gerald Thompson's record of the 1938 Oxford University Cayman Islands Expedition. The first natural history survey of all three islands (Grand Cayman,...

Wairoa funeral procession for victims of the Kōpuawhara flash flood.

An ethnographic documentary about Nivala's haymaking.

Sugar beet cultivation, transportation, processing of raw sugar at the factory and packaging of finished sugar.

Construction of houses in a new district in Helsinki.

Finnish Hairdressing Championships, cosmetic products exhibition and fashion show.

A K40 ski jumping hill was built in Salpausselkä in 1923. In 1938, the hill was renovated at the same time as the grandstand was expanded.

Advertisement for vacuum-packed canned coffee that was produced primarily for screening at the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair. In the narrative a young...

A short film in color advertising 4711 Eau de Cologne.

A series of effects using animated figures and reflected light.

Portrays the actions of the esophagus, stomach, small intestine and colon. Shows normal and stimulated stomach movements, such as hypermobility, inhib...