1940 Movies

A short film on locomotives in Japan.

Short documentary about distributing mail and packages both in the past and with the help of the 1940’s modern technologies. The viewer can also catch...

Pianists Charlie Kunz and Mark Hambourg tickle the ivories for our entertainment in this jolly musical short.

In pre-independence India, a wealthy young zamindar brings a village girl of illegitimate birth into his household after her mother’s death. As she gr...

Shows home, work and school activities of a middleclass Japanese family.

A look at Bali, in the Dutch East Indies, 90 miles long, 45 miles wide, and home to a million people. After a quick reference to its history, we see i...

The second Egyptian cartoon starring Mish-Mish. While Mish-Mish Effendi is doing a cabaret number with his bride-to-be, there's an announcement over t...

A short anti-Semitic propaganda cartoon produced in 1940 based on a poem by Friedrich Rückert of the same name.

Church boat racing, discus throwing, swing, strength and skill games. The film was originally planned for the 1940 Summer Olympics. The actual film wa...

Documentary about the process of building tanks in Germany during the early days of World War II.

A behind-the-scenes look at the Bali Brassiere Mfg. Co., with various models showing the company's line of undergarments.

Documentation of patients with deformities.

Shows how the RAF's barrage balloon squadron are trained, and then on the job.

The Yugoslavian Royal Army's review at the Banjica neighborhood of Belgrade in 1940.

A Santa Fe Railroad educational film on the steam locomotive in their role in industry and passenger travel.

An ethnographic film depicting the harvest and threshing of grain in Veteli.

For several years a children’s class was held at the school on Saturday mornings. Creativity was encouraged, often within the framework of a specific...

Anatasio Cordero arrives unexpectedly in a confined physical environment: the home of a Lima bourgeois family member, which he is entrusted with guard...