Samson and Delilah, although pre-1950, has been retained by Paramount, as are all the DeMille / Paramount silent films produced before 1928, and all sound films produced after 1950 — television distribution for those films is handled by Trifecta Entertainment & Media.

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

As a Republican La Guardia had to support Harding in 1920 ; he had to be silent in the 1928 campaign although he favored Al Smith, a Democrat.

Four silent films were made featuring Kit Carson as the " star " from 1903 to 1928.

Although the release of The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ) by Warner Brothers marked the first commercially successful sound film, silent films were the majority of features released in both 1927 and 1928, along with so-called goat-glanded films: silents with a section of sound film inserted.

For a listing of notable silent era films, see list of years in film for the years between the beginning of film and 1928.

* Sweeney Todd ( 1928 ) a silent film starring Moore Marriott as Sweeney Todd and Iris Darbyshire as Mrs. Lovett.

One of the earliest adaptations was a silent movie directed by Walter Lang, Alice Through a Looking Glass, in 1928.

* Sadie Thompson ( 1928 ), a silent movie starring Gloria Swanson and Lionel Barrymore.

* West Point ( 1928 film ), a silent film starring Joan Crawford and William Haines

One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: Seventh Heaven ( 1927 ), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans ( 1927 ) and Street Angel ( 1928 ).

In 1928 Novello starred in the silent adaptation of Coward's much more successful The Vortex, and made his last silent film, A South Sea Bubble.

He took small roles in three short silent comedies starring his wife Elsa Lanchester, Daydreams, Blue Bottles and The Tonic ( all 1928 ) which had been specially written for her by H. G. Wells.

Yet most American movie theaters, especially outside of urban areas, were still not equipped for sound: while the number of sound cinemas grew from 100 to 800 between 1928 and 1929, they were still vastly outnumbered by silent theaters, which had actually grown in number as well, from 22, 204 to 22, 544.

In 1928, the film had been released as the silent Der Rote Kreis in Germany, where it was shot ; English dialogue was apparently dubbed in much later using the De Forest Phonofilm process controlled by BSFP's corporate parent.

In September 1930, a song performed by Indian star Sulochana, excerpted from the silent feature Madhuri ( 1928 ), was released as a synchronized-sound short, the country's first.

Chaplin's feature The Circus, released in 1928, was his last film before the motion picture industry embraced sound recording and brought the silent movie era to a close.

The Docks of New York ( 1928 ) is a silent drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring George Bancroft, Betty Compson, and Baclanova.

The Fall of the House of Usher ( 1928 ) is a short silent horror film adaptation of the short story, " The Fall of the House of Usher " by Edgar Allan Poe.

It was made as a silent film and given a test screening to a theater audience on May 15, 1928, but failed to pick up a distributor.

The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra ( 1928 ) is an American short silent experimental film.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

Boudica has been the subject of two feature films, the 1928 film Boadicea, where she was portrayed by Phyllis Neilson-Terry, and 2003's Boudica ( Warrior Queen in the US ), a UK TV film written by Andrew Davies and starring Alex Kingston as Boudica.

The following year in 1927, Wray was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures In 1928, director Erich von Stroheim cast Wray as the main female lead in his film The Wedding March, released under Paramount, a film noted for its high budget and production values.

Similar panchromatic film stocks were manufactured by Agfa and Pathé, the shift to panchromatic stocks had largely been completed by 1928, and Kodak discontinued orthochromatic stock in 1930.

* 1928 film made in Movietone at SilentEra

Although finished in August 1927, the film was not released until June 1928.

The film was filmed from October to December 1927 and released in February 1928.

The film was shot from April to June 1928, but Fox ordered an additional 15 minutes of dialogue footage to be shot so the film could compete with the new " talkies " being released.

The film was released in September 1928 and was a moderate hit.

Bogart's earliest film role is with Helen Hayes in the 1928 two-reeler The Dancing Town, of which a complete copy has never been found.

* 1928 – Roger Vadim, French film director and actor ( d. 2000 )

* John Forbes Nash, Jr. ( born 1928 ), American mathematician, 1994 Nobel Economics laureate, subject of the book and film titled A Beautiful Mind

Kiyoshi Atsumi ( 渥美 清 Atsumi Kiyoshi ), born Yasuo Tadokoro ( 田所 康雄 Tadokoro Yasuo, 10 March 1928 in Tokyo — 4 August 1996 in Tokyo ), was a Japanese film actor.

* 1928 – Jacques Rivette, French film director

* Underground ( 1928 film ), a drama by Anthony Asquith

* 1998 – Alan J. Pakula, American film director ( b. 1928 )

* 1928 – Andrew Sarris, American film critic ( d. 2012 )

Irving Thalberg of M-G-M invited Flaherty to film White Shadows in the South Seas ( 1928 ) in collaboration with W. S. Van Dyke, but their talents proved an uncomfortable fit, and Flaherty resigned from the production.

* His Private Life ( 1928 ) as Yvette Bérgere

* Title Unknown ( He Comes ) ( 1928 ) Private Collection

* Unspoken Depths ( 1928 ) Private Collection

* Landscape with Red Cloud ( 1928 ) Private Collection

He was Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister from 1928 to 1930 and Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1930 to 1938 and later served as Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the British Government.

From 1928 to 1930, he was Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, firstly Stanley Baldwin and then Ramsay MacDonald.

He authored of the Code of Private International Law, Bustamante Code, approved by most Latin American states in the VI International Conference of Havana ( 1928 ), which he presided.

* Lake, 1928, Private Collection, Rio de Janeiro

Natives on Private Estates Bill, 1928 -

from: 1928 till: 1947 color: institute1 text: Private Foundation

He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Under-Secretary of State for India, Lord Winterton, from 1924 to 1928 and entered the government as an Assistant Government Whip under Stanley Baldwin in 1928, a post he held until the government fell in 1929.