All Films

The Boogie Man

1943 • 3 min • United States of America

"The Boogie Man" from Johnny Long and His Orchestra.

Theory of the C-1 Autopilot, Part 1: Basic Principles

1943 • 17 min • United States of America

Animated training film demonstrating the process by which an autopilot uses gyroscopic controls to maintain an airplane in level flight.

The Court Is in Session

1943 • 51 min • Soviet Union

The world’s first trial against German war criminals took place in Kharkov in December 1943. The film covers the trial of three Germans and one Russian: Corporal of German Secret Field Police Reinhard Retzlaw; Captain of the German Military Counter-Espionage Service Wilhelm Langheld; SS Obersturmbannführer, Company Commander of the SD Sonderkommando Hans Ritz; and collaborator, assistant to SD Sonderkommando, driver of the “gas van” Mikhail Bulanov. In the presence of 40,000 Kharkov citizens, the criminals were hanged on the Blagoveshchensk market, where the invaders themselves had previously carried out mass executions.

Waldemarsudde

1943 • 7 min • Sweden

A visit to Prince Eugen's home and a view of his art collections at Waldemarsudde, Djurgården.

West Indies Calling

1943 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Film records and illustrates a BBC broadcast by West Indians in Britain to explain to the British people the West Indians' contribution to the war effort

At a Depth of Eighteen Meters

1943 • 15 min • France

Jacques Cousteau's 1942 plunge into the Mediterranean sea

Studies of Apparent Behavior

1943 • 4 min • United States of America

This animated film was utilized in a classic experiment in cognitive psychology. Subjects were requested to interpret the moving picture-film of about 2 and a half minutes duration in which three geometrical figures were shown moving in various directions and at various speeds.

Land and Live in the Arctic

1943 • 60 min

Documentary short film depicting the correct methods of surviving the crash landing of a military aircraft in the arctic.

Aircraft Wood Repair, Part 1: Small Scarf Patch and Doubler Patch

1943 • 26 min • United States of America

Training film depicting methods on preparing, making, and applying different kinds of patches to damaged wooden areas of aircraft bodies.

Quetta - Damghan

1943 • 17 min

Amateur colour footage by Sir Clarmont Skrine from 1943, showing the people, landscapes and landmarks of numerous places in Iran.

Aseveljeyden sankarit

1943 • 47 min • Finland, Germany

An accurate description of the Finnish Waffen-SS volunteers from 1941 to 1943. Recruited in spring 1941, trained in Germany and all the way to the Caucasus. Narrated by a young TK man, front radio commentator Veikko Itkonen (1919-1990).

Rationing

1943 • 2 min • Canada

An animated short that explains wartime rationing.

To the Sounds of Dombras

1943 • 52 min • Soviet Union

Boxcar Rhapsody

1943 • 3 min

A Soundie with Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica Rascals.

Down, Down, Down

1943 • 3 min

A Soundie with Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five.

Do I Worry?

1943 • 3 min

A Soundie with Patterson and Jackson.

Chants populaires nº 3

1943 • 6 min • Canada

"Là-bas sur ces montagnes" was illustrated using photographed drawings presented in an old frame and "Meunier tu dors" with cut-out paper puppets with interchangeable limbs.

Verdict of the People

1943 • 12 min • Soviet Union

Rules in Fog

1943 • 17 min • United States of America

Rules in Fog. Sound signals. Title screen says, “Fog signals must be used in fog, mist, falling snow or heavy rain-storms, whenever visibility falls below 2 miles”. This 1943 era, black and white, U.S. Navy animated film, was produced by the Walt Disney Studios as part of its wartime cartoon production program.

Fantasia Brasileira - Concerto para Piano e Orquestra

1943 • 11 min • Brazil

The concerto for piano and orchestra of Fantasia Brasileira and its movements (Prelude, Song, Dance), illustrated by images of the performing musicians and Brazilian scenes: a raft at sea, a farm, rural workers, a church and a series of waterfalls.

Filmmakers at Volunteer Work

1943 • 10 min • Finland

Summer of 1943. The biggest Finnish film stars get together for charity and stop by an allotment of a veteran left disabled from the war. Helping with the harvest are, among others, Valentin Vaala, Regina Linnanheimo, Lea Joutseno, Irma Seikkula, Emma Väänänen, Hilkka Helinä, Kullervo Kalske, Reino Valkama and Joel Rinne.

Building of the Alaska Highway

1943 • 40 min • United States of America

WWII: The Japanese threat warrants a fortification of the northern territories, which prompts a herculean effort by the US Army Corps of Engineers to build a road where no one else would dare. Between 1942 and 1943 over 900 miles of rugged terrain in the Canadian wilderness between Dawson Creek to Fairbanks are cut down, excavated and paved for army and civilian movement. Color documentary by US Army Signal Corps.

Human Rugby Bullets

1943 • 15 min • Japan

Dogs play a game of rugby against a team of unscrupulous monkeys.

Five Film Exercises: Film 1

1943 • 5 min • United States of America

Begins with a three beat announcement drawn out in time which thereafter serves as a figure to divide the four sections. Each return of this figure is more condensed, and finally used in reverse to conclude the film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.