1942 Movies

An Italian documentary.

1941 Soundies musical short starring Louis Armstrong

"Bicycle Polo at San Mateo features the Stauffacher brothers, Frank and Jack, and others playing the lost sport of bicycle polo on the lawn of San Mat...

Documentary short on American war production accompanied by Jan Peerce's singing of the title song by Rodgers and Hart.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 3 April 1942.

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A silent short film promoting the United States Citizens Defense Corps, a group in which civilians served locally to aid in the war effort and to prep...

Terry and the gang put on a boxing exhibition in order to sell war bonds.

Documentary short featuring a visit by American newsman Edward R. Murrow to the English town of Dover during the Second World War.

This FitzPatrick Traveltalk short tours North Carolina, first visiting the Cataloochie Ranch near Waynesville, where the ranch hands are shown square-...

A father worries for his younger son and asks his elder son to promise that he will do everthing in his power to ensure Arun does not go astray, educa...

Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, America was rife with rumors about the size of Japan's armed forces and how well-equipped they were to wage...

The public walk through the grounds of Kew Gardens and enjoy the flowers. Meanwhile, serious botanical research is conducted behind the scenes.

A short cartoon based on the Nancy comics. The cartoon is presented as three blackout sequences, each introduced by a classroom of pupils singing the...

An official training film from the War department. In April 1942, a detail of five enlisted men and two officers, Capt. Paul Lafferty and Lt. John Woo...

Exemplary social care by the state for Slovak workers in a convalescent home, with a beautiful Slovak backdrop.

As an overworked farmer insists that wartime food demands be managed, a woman is confronted by her conscience about the need to obey the food rationin...

An air-raid warden in Harlem; everyone turns out their lights willingly. All except for one: A lantern, whose flame refuses to go out. Joe plays cat-a...

Leela, an educated woman living in a village, who is in love with a man named Behari. Her father arranges her marriage to a wealthy man, Ramesh. When...