1939 Movies

A conductor, in silhouette against sheet music, leads the title tune, which dissolves into a series of placid landscapes. As the music picks up, we se...

A film about the acting career of the artist Ludwik Solski.

At the Dimsdale Hall Finishing School, Assistant Dean Emily Godsall declares that any student who associates herself with swing music will be severely...

The work of the amateur film group of the Moscow Palace of Pioneers. The film was shot in the camp from July to September 1939. The shooting involved...

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Mother) in the royal carriage.

READIN' RITIN' AND RHYTHM 1939. Here is a neat short featuring some lindy and shag dancing.

A melodrama about a self-sacrificing mother who, after her husband is struck by lightning, has to raise her three sons and one daughter alone. She buy...

This black & white educational film is about the United States Navy showing off its skills on the high seas during a mock war-games session.

Views of Ornö and Huvudskär in the Stockholm archipelago. Everyday life is depicted on the islands with work in mining, fishing and a school for child...

Animated advertisement produced by California prune growers. To snappy jingles, the prune shaped puppet Peter promotes his product. NOTE: Exhibited at...

At a cartoon studio, a drawing of a jitterbug comes to life and encourages the other drawings to dance and sing. Meanwhile, the cuckoo bird in the cuc...

Pictures of the mining area, extraction, concentrator, workers' housing area and recreational opportunities.

Documentary looking at life in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.

A remake (or ripoff) of Chaplin's City Lights

The Vertigo of the Condors is the first film of a new stage in Peruvian cinematographic technique. New filming methods have been employed in accordanc...

A boxing kangaroo tricks his son into fighting when he really wants to be a violinist.

A confidence man pretending to be a mentalist swindles a family.

Maria Halmborg is a widow. Her husband Erik - missing for years - is considered dead. Suddenly she learns that her husband allegedly lives in Rio and...