1939 Movies

Short documentary film.

An assortment of musical acts parade before the camera; Joy Hodges and Pinky Tomlin sing; The Elderblooms, a group of ladies ranging in age from 63 to...

Men in Danger is a documentary about health and safety in industry, covering occupational diseases and potential accidents. It also covers the effects...

Journey to Brazil in the 1930s through its riches: tobacco in Sao Salvador, silk and coffee in Sao Paulo and sugar cane in Rio de Janeiro.

short by Clarissa Dreyer-Patrix

“Between 1926 and 1985, amateur Archie Stewart shot over seventy thousand feet of film. In 1936 he purchased a sound-on-film 16mm camera and began to...

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

The story of Bertoldo ug Balodoy is about the romance and hilarious adventures of love-sick Filipino Siamese twins, Bertoldo (played by Ben Abeda) and...

Ages before man proclaimed himself a superior being, the tiny ant had developed the art of agriculture — a practice which was later to be the backbone...

Three shepherds are turned into princes by the Forest Fairy and they go live to their lively castle.

Boston-based itinerant filmmaker Margaret Cram (Margaret Cram Showalter) traveled to towns in New England making “Movie Queen” films. Local townspeop...

An Educational film made for Japanese children about Railways. At the time, Japan was suffering from a shortage of Oil and their railways were incredi...

Directed by amateur filmmaker Nils Hallström, father of Lasse Hallström.

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An animated Danish commercial from 1939 for Houlbergs sausages.