1939 Movies

The labor of sardine: fishermen at sea, patching of the fishing nets, casting and drawing of the nets.

David, an engineer hired to build an industrial facility, arrives at a traditional hacienda on the Peruvian coast. He travels with Ramón, a scatterbra...

Scenes showing work at the various London docks is followed by shots of buildings and places of interest near the river including Billingsgate and Cov...

An experimental animation film in which the images were hand-drawn directly onto clear film by Guy Glover. The colourful moving forms capture the spir...

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

No further information survives about this comedy starring a character typical of costumbrista comedies: "a streetwise fellow with all the trappings o...

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...

Black-and-white photography of landscapes, a phantom ride through a tunnel, a panorama shot and some view of people playing in the water.

Directed by Keshavrao Dhaiber.

Part One of the documentary "Memories of a Town" by the late filmmaker José Ríos Cancino 40 years after the 1970 catastrophe.

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.

Throughout the 1930s, Margaret Cram directed the same film again and again. An itinerant filmmaker based in Boston, she made her living by traveling t...

Istvan Bors was adapted from the popular Hungarian stage play by Sandor Hunyady, with a few songs added to the mixture. The title character, played by...

Dufaycolor footage of a visit by George VI to the naval base at Plymouth. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

About young shooters helping each other master the skill of shooting.

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...

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