All Films

6 Little Jungle Boys

1945 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers.

Story of a Dog

1945 • 10 min • United States of America

A dog trains for the battlefield and becomes a crucial part of the United States military. This 1945 short documentary film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short, One-Reel.

Where Time Stands Still

1945 • 9 min • United States of America

In this Traveltalk series short, we visit a region in Guatemala where the native Indian tribes live like their ancestors, without using most of the benefits of modern man. They not only grow their own vegetables and catch animals to eat, they also cultivate the plants they need to weave fabrics and make natural dyes from various berries and seeds.

Modern Guatemala City

1945 • 8 min • United States of America

This FitzPatrick Traveltalk short visits Guatemala City, touching upon its sights, customs, and history.

Coughs and Sneezes

1945 • 2 min • United Kingdom

This film explains how sneezing in public can spread disease, and shows how using a handkerchief can stop it.

Prairie Rustlers

1945 • 56 min • United States of America

Billy Carson is accused of the crimes committed by his dead-ringer, outlaw cousin Jim Slade, and barely escapes a lynching. With the aid of his pal Fuzzy Jones, Billy catches up with his cousin and clears his own name.

Teremok

1945 • 24 min • Soviet Union

The Frog, the Mouse, the Hedgehog and the Rooster settle in and live together in the little house. The attempt of the Wolf, the Bear and the Fox to enter the mansion meets with organized resistance...

The Last Installment

1945 • 19 min • United States of America

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a criminal idolizes the life of a famous gangster - unaware that his hero met a tragic end.

Gangs of the Waterfront

1945 • 54 min • United States of America

Gang Leader Dutch Malone goes on a hunting trip and is in a car wreck and is confined to the hospital, without the knowledge of any of his gang members. District Attorney Brady induces taxidermist Peter Winkly, who is an exact double for Malone,to impersonate Dutch and assume leadership of the gang. Winkly "takes over" the gang and only Rita, Dutch's girl friend, has any suspicion that he is not really Dutch. But Dutch sees a newspaper showing him out on the town, escapes from the hospital and is on his way to look up the impostor.

Operation Snafu

1945 • 3 min • United States of America

Private Snafu steals secret Japanese war plans, is captured and tried. He escapes and rows out to sea.

Parade of Aquatic Champions

1945 • 9 min

Johnny Weismuller, Esther Williams and other aquatic champions present an exhibition of swimming and diving.

Tops in the Big Top

1945 • 6 min • United States of America

Bluto is the ringmaster; Popeye is the star attraction. Bluto covets Popeye's assistant Olive. Popeye sticks his head in a lion's mouth, but Bluto has put a steak on Popeye's head. When he gets out of that, he does his high wire act: carrying a piano, and Olive, blindfolded. Bluto sabotages this with a banana peel and tosses Popeye to the monkey cage, while he has his way with Olive - until Popeye eats his spinach.

Hollywood Victory Caravan

1945 • 20 min • United States of America

A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.

The Seesaw and the Shoes

1945 • 11 min • United States of America

This short shows how two objects led to important discoveries. Children playing with a seesaw inspire French physician Rene Laennec to invent the stethoscope, and a pair of shoes made of caoutchouc lead Charles Goodyear to discover the process for vulcanizing rubber.

Snooper Service

1945 • 20 min • United States of America

Harry and El, private sleuths, are hired to follow a beautiful showgirl.

La nostra guerra

1945 • 16 min

Directed by Alberto Lattuada

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog

1945 • 17 min • United States of America

Leon suspects something between his wife (Dorothy Granger) - talk about the pot calling the kettle black - and the milkman, who are actually talking about getting rid of the dog. Leon hires a detective. An escaped convict enters the house, knocks out Leon and ties him up in a sheet. The milkman picks up the sheet thinking it is the dog. Mrs. Errol realizes the mistake just before Leon is dropped off the pier.

Tokyo Woes

1945 • 4 min • United States of America

Created for the US Navy in World War II. The Mr. Hook character was created by Hank Ketcham while at Walter Lantz Studios, where the first- and only color- Mr. Hook cartoon was produced. A wartime propaganda film about Japan and war bonds. The loudspeaker grille is in the shape of a peace sign as it shouts at Mr. Hook.

Death Mills

1945 • 22 min • United States of America

Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder. The film includes accounts of the economic aspects of the camps' operation, the interrogation of captured camp personnel, and the enforced visits of the inhabitants of neighboring towns, who, along with the rest of their compatriots, are blamed for complicity in the Nazi crimes - one of the few such condemnations in the Allied war records.

Chew-Chew Baby

1945 • 7 min • United States of America

Boarding house proprietor Wally Walrus takes out an ad in the local paper looking for a sweetheart. Woody Woodpecker reads this and decides he might be able to trick Wally out of some cooking if he dresses up like a girl and answers the ad.

Phantom of the Plains

1945 • 56 min • United States of America

Red Ryder tries to warn a duchess that her newfound beau has a history of murdering his wives.

A City Reborn

1945 • 22 min • United Kingdom

Coventry prepares to rise from the ashes of WWII in this docu-drama written by Dylan Thomas.

Jasper and the Beanstalk

1945 • 8 min • United States of America

The Scarecrow trades Jasper a handful of beans for his harmonica. Jasper plants the beans and climbs up the resulting beanstalk and, at the top, finds a beautiful girl in a golden cage playing a golden harp. Jasper rescues her from the Scarecrow, brings her down the beanstalk, and spends the rest of his days dancing to the music his girlfriend plays on the harp. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2009.

Tuesday in November

1945 • 17 min • United States of America

A propaganda short about the 1944 United States presidential election, produced by the Office of War information, for overseas distribution. It is meant to explain how the democratic process in America works. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.