All Films

Block Busters

1944 • 60 min • United States of America

Muggs, Glimpy and the rest of the Kids set about to Americanize affable young French refugee Jean Rogers. But after a disastrous baseball game, Jean is chased out of the neighborhood and told not to return.

Fish Fry

1944 • 7 min • United States of America

An alley cat attempts to steal the goldfish Andy Panda just bought from a pet shop, but the fish proves too clever for him.

Easy Life

1944 • 20 min

In this entry in the MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series young Frank Davis, dropping out of school and joining a small-time hoodlum gang, finds out that leading a life of crime is not all he thought it would be.

Sergeant Mike

1944 • 60 min • United States of America

A soldier becomes quite upset when he is transferred from the highly coveted machine-gun unit to the canine corps. He begins to change his opinion when he learns that his army dog Mike was a gift from an eight-year-old whose father was killed in the war. Now the soldier becomes committed to training Mike into the best army dog there ever was.

Gunsmoke Mesa

1944 • 58 min • United States of America

Wolf! Wolf!

1944 • 6 min • United States of America

Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep, and that leaves one of them vulnerable to a pack of hillbilly wolves. It's Mighty Mouse to the rescue!

Trombone Trouble

1944 • 7 min • United States of America

Pegleg Pete is practicing his trombone, badly. So badly, it's annoying the gods Jupiter and Vulcan and neighbor Donald. Only Donald has the temerity to confront him. He does, and Pete kicks him back home. The gods see this, and decide to give Donald a little bit of power which instantly goes to his head.

Words and Actions

1943 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Information on the different groups and organizations that are there to help the population during wartime.

Youth in Crisis

1943 • 19 min • United States of America

There is a vast increase of youth crime, doubling in the two years since the US entered World War II. With fathers off to war, women are working in the factories leaving children at home for the day or after school, unsupervised and free to get into trouble. Young men and women, some working and making an adult wage, now feel that they have the right to act and do as adults. Others are trying their hands at new thrills, such as smoking marijuana. Young women are getting into trouble by getting involved with the many servicemen that they are attracted to. This film shows how these kinds of subversive thoughts that lead to juvenile delinquency can be broken by having youths selling war bonds and organizing 4-H clubs, among other activities.

Land of My Mother

1943 • 25 min • Poland

Previously thought to be lost, this film documents life in Poland in 1938. Narrated by Eve Curie. Nominated for the Academy Award.

Advanced Typing - Shortcuts

1943 • 33 min

Demonstrates importance of posture and arrangement of equipment. Shows how to use tab stops, tab bar, decimal tabulator and carbon packs, and how to remove or insert words and letters, make erasures and type cards, envelopes and labels.

Peshawar, Kabul, Bamian, Herat, Meshed

1943 • 13 min

This colour, silent 16mm film shows various commercial activities on the streets of Peshawar, Kabul and other towns, highlighting the importance of trade to the people living and travelling through the North West Frontier and Khyber Pass. Architecture and archaeological sites along this important trading route are also well documented, providing a snapshot of many locations since affected by war. Made by Sir Clarmont Skrine, a British diplomat active in the 1940s this is an important record of sites of archaeological interest that have since been damaged or lost.

Swingeroo Circus

1943 • 3 min

Dancing clowns and acrobats entertain a circus audience.

Dipsy Doodle

1943 • 3 min • United States of America

1943 Soundies musical short starring Larry Clinton

Di Desa

1943 • 27 min • Indonesia

A propaganda film which tells us about the daily life of Indonesian people under Japanese military occupation. Showing a happy life as a voluntary army, farmer, planter and seller in supporting Japan's war.

Tomorrow's World

1943 • 19 min • Canada

From the 'Canada Carries On' series, this documentary emphasizes the importance of conservation and rationing, and the increased industrial production, during World War II. It suggests that "tomorrow's world" will be more prosperous and better planned because of the war efforts.

Strolling Thru The Park

1943 • 3 min

Harry Leighton’s musical number in a dance performance with three pairs of women and servicemen.

Rock It For Me

1943 • 3 min • United States of America

Soundies short film featuring Maurice Rocco performing "Rock It For Me" on the piano.

Three Three-Hundred-Year-Old Cities

1943 • 12 min • Sweden

Images from the towns of Akersund, Lindesberg and Nora (all in Sweden) as they all celebrate 300 years in 1943.

On Time

1943 • 3 min

A Soundie with Caroline Ayres.

Wham

1943 • 3 min

A Soundie with The Four Ginger Snaps.

Playa grande

1943 • 12 min • Argentina

"A documentary of high plasticity, with geometric framing, a radical editing that links long slow-paced shots with close-ups of sand, skin and nets that tell the story of a day at an Argentine beach" Ángela Lopez Ruiz.

Personal Hygiene for Women, part 1

1943 • 45 min • United States of America

This military training film outlines for the Navy enlisted woman the routines she must establish and the habits she must acquire to remain in the best physical condition for performing her assigned duties. Advice is given on diet, sleep, exercise, relaxation, posture, girdles, shoes and stockings, foot-strengthening exercises, foot care, care of shoes and clothing, bodily cleanliness, body odors, skin, hand, nail, and hair care, skin diseases, head and body lice, care of the teeth, constipation, reproductive system, the menstrual cycle and care of the body during menstruation, douching, and vaginal discharges. Women are shown properly performing the above hygienic routines. Shots include: women navy personnel at their various assigned duties. Animation and three dimensional models are used to illustrate some anatomical structures and functions.

It's the Brain That Counts

1943 • 18 min • United States of America

Based on the writings of Bertha Rachel Palmer, the film tells the story of a young man injured after drinking too much. The doctor who is treating him explains the effect alcohol has on his body.