All Films

He Will Come Back Again

1943 • 60 min • Soviet Union

A Georgian warrior witnesses the heroic death of a local communist girl in the battle for one of the Russian villages. The wounded warrior returns to his native village, but thinking about the girl does not give him rest, and his photography becomes the cause of misunderstanding with his bride.

The Men of Timor

1943 • 8 min • Australia

The film looks at the men, their living conditions, the food they eat and their bamboo shower. It shows the men building a radio out of spare parts to re-establish contact with the mainland (contact had been lost after the Japanese victory), the use of florins to pay native helpers, and a raid on a hostile native village which sees huts set on fire.

On the Road to Monterrey

1943 • 9 min • United States of America

This Traveltalk series short visits three cities in Mexico. We start in the village of San Miguel de Allende, known for its churches. A monastery has been converted to a school of arts. The second stop is Queréaro, where a 5-mile-long aqueduct built hundreds of years ago is still functional. It was near this city that Emperor Maximilian was executed in 1867. Then it is on to Monterrey, the large industrial city whose nickname is the Pittsburgh of Mexico. Here are steel mills, other factories, and the largest brewery in Latin America.

Action Stations

1943 • 45 min • Canada

This World War II film highlights the role of Canadian corvettes on convoy duty in the North Atlantic. Battle scenes show a crew sighting a German submarine and sinking it. Other scenes show training on the high seas.

Love's Gonna Be Rationed

1943 • 3 min • United States of America

The Song Spinners perform "Love's Gonna Be Rationed"

A l'Assaut Des Aiguilles Du Diable

1943 • 20 min • France

Marcel Ichac accompanied the mountaineer Armand Charlet, in 1943, in the repetition of the first crossing of the Aiguilles du Diable that the guide of the Chamonix valley had made in 1925. A roped party joined on snow and ice the Col du Géant, reached at the Mont-Blanc-du-Tacul stop and on the Col du Diable. The men cross the needles by climbing chimneys, cracks and abseiling walls. They access the eastern slope of the Mont-Blanc massif which offers a panorama of the Grandes Jorasses and Mont-Blanc. Armand Charlet was the first to reach the summits of four needles above 4000 meters: the Devil's Horn, Pointe Chaubert, Pointe Médiane and Pointe Carmen; he also tells how he successfully climbed the furthest, the Isolated. Marcel Ichac shot these scenes as close as possible to his subject, he responded with this film with a “truth” cinema, the principle of which we find in his later productions.

Wings Over the Pacific

1943 • 60 min • United States of America

An American officer discovers a Nazi plot to take over an island in the Pacific on which oil has been discovered.

The United States Service Bands

1943 • 10 min • United States of America

This patriotic wartime short showcases the service bands of the U.S. Army, Army Air Force, Marines, and Navy.

Sucker Bait

1943 • 39 min • United States of America

Military training film exposing the means used by Nazi agents to extract military information from talkative soldiers.

Wartime Housing

1943 • 18 min • Canada

During WWII, there was a need for affordable housing of decent quality. In response, small pre-fabricated homes were built quickly and efficiently to accommodate the influx of workers to urban areas.

How to Get Killed in One Easy Lesson

1943 • 8 min • United States of America

In this WWII short training film, a Japanese sniper, who has just been captured by an American soldier, explains how easy it was to pick off ten troops from the G.I. platoon, due to mistakes they, themselves, had made.

Murder on the Waterfront

1943 • 51 min • United States of America

A sailor and his wife become involved in a murder investigation.

Tin Pan Alley Cats

1943 • 7 min • United States of America

A jazz cartoon involving a "Fats Waller"-like cat who leaves the "Uncle Tomcat Mission" for the local jazz club. One of the “Censored 11” banned from TV syndication by United Artists in 1968 for racist stereotyping.

Hop and Go

1943 • 7 min • United States of America

Claude Hopper, a kangaroo, and "best darn hopper in the world," is full of himself (and dumb), so a couple of Scottish rabbits take him on. They set up a boxing ring; Claude gets tangled in the ropes. Next, he tries a distance leap, but the rabbits ride on his tail, then leap over as he lands. He tries again, without all the ballast in his pouch, but they've stuck his tail down with chewing gum. Claude falls into the river; the rabbits wash up in his water-filled pouch.

Forgotten Treasure

1943 • 10 min • United States of America

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short highlights the film preservation efforts of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Several scenes from early newsreels are shown.

Electronic Control System of the C-1 Auto Pilot Part 1: Basic Electricity as Applied to Electronic Control System

1943 • 19 min • United States of America

Animated training film depicting the fundamentals of electricity and how electrical signals can be used to keep an airplane on correct course and altitude through an autopilot.

Gem-Jams

1943 • 18 min • United States of America

Leon tells his wife that he has to leave to meet a client--unaware that the client is a beautiful woman and that his wife is suspicious.

Dispossessed Blues

1943 • 3 min

There's a attractive young lady sitting on the porch with a guitar player, and she starts moving to the beat, she appears to be flirting with the guitar player, then a guy comes up and grabs her hand to dance, leaving the guitar player displeased. The girl and guy start lindy hopping in the street, then other neighbors and passer-bys start dancing to. Lynn Albritton, the piano player, starts everyone "dancing in the street."

What's Buzzin' Buzzard?

1943 • 8 min • United States of America

Two buzzards suffer from acute food shortage and make up for it by cooking each other, or at least trying to.

Dollar Dance

1943 • 5 min • Canada

This wartime publicity trailer by Norman McLaren focuses on wartime inflation and the role of price control. Single-frame animation is used with pen drawings made directly on 35mm film stock. Music is by Louis Applebaum, a leading composer and advocate for the arts in Canada.

Quiz Crime No. 1

1943 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Test of observation for amateur detectives. Two crimes are depicted: The Crooked Billet Murder and Back Stage Murder.

Fighting Norway

1943 • 10 min • Canada

During World War II Norwegian patriots struck at Germany from the rear, linking Canada, the United States and Britain with Soviet Russia. Norwegian resources around the world were mobilized, and at Canadian training stations Norwegian airmen forged a lasting friendship between the two countries. Includes footage from the British film All for Norway.

Mass Mouse Meeting

1943 • 7 min • United States of America

A mouse is chosen by his peers to bell the cat so they will know when he's coming. After the cat realizes that he has been duped, he plans a little surprise of his own.

Sagebrush Law

1943 • 56 min • United States of America

Tom Weston arriving in town just as the Doctor announces his father's death a suicide, sees the gun is in the wrong hand. When the Bank Examiner announces the bank has no money and Tom's identity becomes known, the townsmen attempt to hang him. Escaping he finds the phony examiner and gets a a confession. Then he plans a trap for the murderer.