1940 Movies

Juha Tiisjärvi, a 79-year-old coppersmith from Nurmo, casts and finishes small bells in her workshop.

A Marathi film by Narayan and Gajanan.

First color film in Bosnia. Bojko shot people bathing and cruising in their boats on the Vrbas river near his hometown of Banja Luka.

A documentary looking at the manufacture of racing car parts in the factories of Mercedes, Auto Union, Continental and Bosch in Germany. It also featu...

Produced by Bell & Howell, this short explains the basic principles of motion pictures and, by animation, shows how sound is recorded on a strip of fi...

A collection of three short documentaries on Iran in the 1940’s.

Children do gymnastics under the guidance of their mother.

Dirty Willie learns about why nobody wants to play with him. He has a dream that he is working and is fired for being dirty. Then we learn about germs...

Introspective psychology for salespeople: "Would you buy anything from the salesman you see in the mirror?"

Tongue-in-cheek film showing a domestic robot freeing housewives of their chores (and intimating that their work is hardly necessary); actually a prom...

Reportage about the most dangerous occupations and work locations.

The third film in the Fantasmagoria series.

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.