1939 Movies

Focusing on Cracow's Jewish quarter, this film intermingles old and new, using music to enhance the images. Streetcars share tree-lined streets with h...

Through a car accident, a young pilot gets to know a girl who works as a fashion model in the city. She leaves her fiancé in front of him and applies...

Scenes from the Handba' festival on New Year's Day in Kirkwall. Winner of the Scottish Prize, The Andrew Buchanan Cup at Scottish Amateur Film Festiva...

Footage of the 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition, led by Dr. Cecil Thomas (C.T.) Madigan, with a team of nine. In 1929 CT Madigan undertook a series of a...

Footage shot by German troops and confiscated by Allied forces of an attack in Warsaw.

A spectacular, colourful and truly one-of-a-kind record of the Galilee in the 1930s. Director Fred Dunkel set out to film the Upper Galilee’s local la...

For the 1939 World's Fair on San Francisco's Treasure Island, Wah Chang was hired to animate a promotional film for a wax company called Pabco.

The butler brings several desserts to the master of the house, who doesn't even have the courtesy to taste them. On the other hand, he's very enthusia...

Wilno was one of the most important Polish cities, especially in culture. Here, a university where noblists like Czesław Miłosz learned is located.

Two cats housed in a glass box, one of which had received a small amount of atropine in the preliminary experiment, are exposed to ether vapors with t...

On his return from Paris, where he had co-founded the “musical artists” group, Charles Blanc-Gatti set up Colorfilm in Montreux (1938),where he produ...

The animals are having a swimming contest. The strutting Saru-kun, a monkey, can't bring himself to admit that he cannot swim, and puts himself forwar...

This is a propaganda film made after the establishment of the wartime total mobilization system. The film includes various war efforts, including Gyeo...

The film focuses on a group of 10 yr old students who tell their story.

The second film in the Fantasmagoria series.

Independent documentary depicting the farmers’ life of struggle against the snow in Shinjo City, Yamagata.

Big diesel machines threaten to run Mike Mulligan and his old steam shovel, Mary Anne, out of business, until Mike agrees to tackle a big job.