1940 Movies

Plant movements in historical films by Wilhelm Pfeffers: geotropic bending of a horizontal Impatiens glandulifera; germination of Vicia faba; developm...

Short propaganda film encouraging swedish aid in the Winter War.

Official War Department Training Film.

This short films see men crafting furniture.

A Marathi film by Narayan and Gajanan.

How architecture, furniture and transportation have been designed to help Americans relax.

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

This film by Jorge Bedoya Forga (Arequipa, 1902 - New York, 1968),a pioneer of amateur 8mm filmmaking in Peru, contains footage from approximately 19...

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

At the summer baths in the village of Lujene (today a district of Velingrad) a competition for “Queen of the Beach” is held. In addition, high-diving...

A 1940 film on the Indian Air Force by J B Wadia. Going by the location and the presence of these officers and aircraft, it is believed that the film...

How maps are made from earliest times to the present.

One of the first made-in-Singapore movies by Shaw Brothers

A film by K. Narayan Kale.

Denunciation of Hitler, of “Mein Kampf” to the annexations of European countries

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.