All Films

The Hollywood Theater presents Movies of Local People. Photographed in and around Chapel Hill, N.C. April 16-17 1941

A portrait of the town of Schwedt in the Uckermark and its history. The architecture of Schwedt Castle and tobacco growing outside the town are also covered.

53: ships on the water, a community along the shoreline (possibly Ketchikan), totem pole, sunsets, views from boat on water, people disembarking ship and crawling into rowboats that are towed to shore at one of the Pribilof Islands, storm waves as seen from shore. Buildings in community, boys swimming, children participating in foot races, gunny sack races, racing with a pole etc., boys bobbing for apples, girls eating donuts off of string, pie-eating contest, baseball game with teams wearing uniforms, men herding seals and tossing seal hides into truck [this is sensitive content], men offloading supplies from ship, men gathering chunks of ice, power shovel filling dump truck with soil, men excavating hillside, men with shovels working in stream, people herding reindeer, men rowing boat to dock, and cliffs and surf. 54: "Funter bay," scenes of foxes on a rocky beach, numerous foxes in winter, and seals on beach.

Travelogue showcasing the sights of Ireland, including Dublin and Galway.

Horror over the Pacific in the form of Japanese perfidy is the theme of this special two reel. The amazing story of the Jap double-cross from the naval conference in 1921-22 to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the present war in the Pacific.

A mouse, being chased by a cat, enlists the help of a sleeping bulldog. When the dog awakes, the mouse hides in a hen's nest, and the cat disguises himself as a hen - and even does a hen imitation when the chicks hatch. The mouse then keeps pointing out the cat's hiding places, but when he points to a dump where the cat isn't hiding, the dog turns on him. The mouse paints an apple black and lights the fuse, but it explodes and sends him to mouse heaven.

An Oscar-nominated British documentary about the Polish people who escaped Poland and were living in England during World War II, both civilians and soldiers.

1942 Oscar nominated documentary that explains just how a bomber is made and staffed as it races to attack an enemy submarine

World War II propaganda film that shows the war-time agricultural work of women from the Women's Institute.

Is your hedge thin and straggly? Don't worry, help is at hand.

From the start, Vertov made himself known as an irreconcilable enemy of “acted films,” which he regarded as a violation of truth. At the peak of World War II, however, such lofty artistic principles proved impractical. Vertov’s poetic and patriotic For You, Front! is a fiction film with a script and two actors. In a letter to her fiancé, a soldier on the front, Saule asks if there is anything he needs from “our beloved Kazakhstan.” Yes there is, he replies: lead, which can be used to make bullets to kill the enemies of “our beloved country.”

A 1942 short film.

The short film is about the heroism of Azeri soldier.

A compilation of week journals made for Nazi-puppet regime in Croatia during WW II which show the warfare of Ustasha forces against Yugoslav partisans and Chetniks in eastern Bosnia.

A Puppetoon by George Pal.

Cab Calloway and The Cabaliers are singing about how The Big Bad Wolf only talks about his Disney money, Felix the Cat is fat and rich, and Mickey the Mouse is riding in his motor car, while the skunk moans about how "nobody loves me" on account of him just being a "dirty old skunk".

A documentary film about Västerbotten County, with visits to several points of interest.

The march towards progress in Ste-Anne-de-Roquemaure manifests itself in various ways. It is the establishment of a cooperative union, a parish hall, a school, a post office and, for some, the luxury of an automobile. The land is generous and the population, which usually goes about its daily activities, is preparing to welcome a distinguished visitor: Cardinal Rodrigue Villeneuve.

After several days of the offensive, the Red Army detachment settles down to rest. At a halt, the warrior Kuregen tells his comrades-in-arms the story of the feat of the legendary Kazakh batyr Tolagai, who sacrificed his life for the people's good a thousand years ago.

1941 Soundies musical short starring Louis Armstrong

Vivid colour footage of the wartime devastation wreaked on Bristol and Bath - and the barely affected village of Chew Magna.

To hasten the harvest of the first fruits and force the land to produce early, the farmer uses warm layers (Les couches chaudes) which have become a necessary complement to modern agricultural operations. Here we explain this technique by illustrating the different steps.

Soundie of Louis Jordan performing "Old Man Mose."

This animated short produced during WWII shows how Plugger helped the war effort by renting out his spare room so that a new worker could be brought in to work an idle machine at the munitions plant.