1939 Movies

A class of expectant mothers practise ante-natal exercises designed by Kathleen Vaughan at Paddington (LCC Hospital),London. The purpose of each exer...

Directed by Keshavrao Dhaiber.

Avant-garde home movie, creators unkown, attributed to John C. Hecker.

Short film.

The footage from the Chronicle of besieged Warsaw is probably the work of the cameramen of the so-called 'Starzyński team'. The fragmentary images of...

Swedish amateur film from a trip through Europe a few months before the outbreak of World War II. Denmark, Austria (annexed by Germany a year earlier)...

An exposition, by means of diagrams and models, of the working principles of the compression ignition or oil engine.

A quest to paint the North Pole. Sunday-supplement ethnic humor abounds; but a pretty funny cartoon for all that.

A paunchy, monocled English character, Major Doolittle, and his valet, Jarvis, go hunting in Africa, where they try to trap a lion by dressing the ser...

History and exploration of Ford's plant in Michigan. Great historical footage of old time manufacturing of Ford cars.

The film shows a red fox looking for food in the wild. The fox is stalking across a forest meadow. Then it stops, undecided, to scent and secure its f...

Early documentary on the island of Bali.

A play of colours, shapes and music: colourful dots, lines and surfaces move to the rhythm of the music. A short film by Hans Fischinger, the younger...

Short film.

Virgolino's girlfriend is kidnapped, so he goes after the criminal.

This 1939 black and white classroom film produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films in collaboration with H.C. Raven of the American Museum of Natural...

The unfinished film "Krylos" is a historical story about the 12th century, inspired by the excavations of a temple in Galicia. Rehearsals of the film...

The film is a classical process-film that describes the making of commercial products, from initial manufacturing of raw material to final selling.