1940 Movies

A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour.

The classic conflict between the traditional Jewish way of life, and the modern life of the 20th century comes alive in this story of a young cantor w...

Vocational guidance film showing the radio industry as it existed in 1940, along with potential occupations at every level. Introduces the new industr...

Definitive document of pre-World War II futuristic utopian thinking, as envisioned by General Motors. Documents the "Futurama" exhibit in GM's "Highwa...

Pictures of new and old Turku.

This short dramatizes how profoundly the inventions of Thomas A. Edison have affected the world in which we live. In addition to the electric light, E...

Commemorates the (primarily voluntary) efforts by which Londoners coped with the start of the Blitz when, the commentary says, 1200 people were made h...

Short designed to encourage the use of Technicolor for instructional and advertising films. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1995.

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

1938–1940 film made in Palermo, Maine by Milton Dowe. 8mm. Kodak Safety Film (B&W reversal).

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...

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

“Peter will an die Landi” (1940) humorously broaches the issue of failing: Without success Peter is trying to reach an exhibition in Zurich by differe...

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

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

A color film produced by the Natural History Museum Vienna.

Short propaganda film encouraging swedish aid in the Winter War.