All Films

If

1942 • 2 min • Canada

This film shows how a vicious spiral of inflation would threaten the country if wartime controls were relaxed. In peacetime, prices are stable--raw materials plus transportation plus manufacture plus packaging plus distribution make up the price of commodities. But in wartime bidding starts for goods which are hard to get. Raises to employees to meet higher prices result in higher costs of production. Prices rise again. Without wartime controls, the spiral would mount up, up and up--and ruinous inflation would be the horrible climax.

National Income

1942 • 2 min • Canada

This film explains what makes up the national income and how it is spent. It also suggests that savings be invested in war bonds and certificates.

The Outskirts of Town

1942 • 3 min

After a presumably hard day at work, Dudley Dickerson plunks down at the kitchen table and sings a dry lament about his wife’s roving eye. Meanwhile, his aforementioned better half, Theresa Harris, flirts hilariously with a series of deliverymen.

Toll Bridge Troubles

1942 • 7 min • United States of America

The fox is gaily driving down the highway on his motor-scooter. The Crow, using his "Sucker Detector", spots the Fox as an obvious sucker. He goes to work disguising a free public bridge as a "toll bridge" passing himself off as the toll man. The fox doesn't want to pay the two dollars and attempts to cross to the other side without paying. He tries going across on a raft but the crow attaches it to an anchor. He tries using a "roller-coaster" ramp but the crow detaches it. Lastly, he tries driving underwater using an oxygen tank but the Crow replaces it with a helium tank sending the Fox skyward. Finally, the fox pays the $2.00 at which point the Crow reveals himself, yelling, "Sucker!"... but Foxy gets even.

Devil's Harvest

1942 • 52 min • United States of America

An investigator goes after the people who are corrupting the nation's youth by spreading the weed of Satan--MARIJUANA!!!

Desert Wonderland

1942 • 9 min • United States of America

Desert Wonderland is a 1942 American short documentary film directed by Russ Shields and Jack Kuhne exploring the Grand Canyon. It was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Short Subject, One Reel. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

The Battle At Sokol

1942 • 52 min • Soviet Union

Story of children in the village of Sokol, whose war game turns into reality with the German invasion on June 22, 1941. As their village faces danger, the children come together to help defend it, assisting with tasks like extinguishing bombs and supporting those left behind.

Women Are Warriors

1942 • 17 min • Canada

Highlights the increasingly important roles women occupy on the various fronts of WW II. In England, their more active jobs include ferrying planes from factory to airfield and operating anti-aircraft guns. In Russia, they are fighting on the front lines as well as acting as parachute nurses, army doctors and technicians. In Canada women have joined active service auxiliaries, and thousands labour day and night in factories turning out the tools of war. From the Canada Carries On series.

O Despertar da Redentora

1942 • 18 min • Brazil

A Battle For A Bottle

1942 • 7 min • United States of America

A cat literally uses his nine lives to get a bottle of milk off of a porch guarded by a bulldog.

Dance of Shame

1942 • 3 min • United States of America

A burlesque presentation in an antique environment with Faith Bacon in black veils.

A Lady with Fans

1942 • 3 min

Burlesque presentation of "fan dance" by the original performer Faith Bacon.

The Cavalry

1942 • 33 min • Mongolia

The events of Tanker Jargal and Cavalryman Tsend show that every citizen must fight against a foreign enemy for the independence of his country. Tseren, a man who mischievously misleads the letters sent by the two to their beloved ladies, expresses the evil plot of the enemy.

Hen Hop

1942 • 3 min • Canada

This joyful short animation features a dancing hen that transforms into an egg. The film was made without a camera by Norman McLaren, who drew directly onto 35 mm movie stock with ordinary pen and ink. Colour was added optically.

O Dragãozinho Manso - Jonjoca

1942 • 26 min • Brazil

After the great fight, Saint George, instead of killing the dragon, decides to take him home and teach him how to be nice. After the conversion, the dragon tries to make friends with other animals and people, but his efforts are always destroyed by his appearance.

Kyouryoku Boukuusen

1942 • 10 min • Japan

Woodland animal citizens learn how to extinguish different types of incendiary bombs and help fight back against an enemy air force of wolves.

By Night with Torch and Spear

1942 • 8 min • United States of America

Smoke, sparks and steam dance together in Cornell's found-footage collage. Backwards title cards (or an alien language, if you like) punctuate this mishmash of the industrial and the ancient.

Hemp for Victory

1942 • 15 min

An informational film produced to encourage farmers to grow hemp for the war effort during WW2. The film details the many industrial uses of hemp, including cloth and cordage, as well as a detailed history of the plant's use.

The Sky Princess

1942 • 7 min • United States of America

In this Puppetoon, a wicked witch guards a sleeping beauty in her cloud castle; but while she's away a violin-playing prince sails up in his sky-ship.

The Bridge

1942 • 40 min • Soviet Union

A Soviet army unit finds a bridge over a river blown up. The Ilo Gigauri Battalion is tasked with rebuilding it. Under constant enemy artillery fire, the fighters work selflessly to rebuild the bridge and successfully complete their combat mission.

Border Weave

1942 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Whirring, gliding and twisting machinery produces sumptuous Scottish woollen fabrics, captured in Technicolor by legendary cinematographer Jack Cardiff.

Colorful North Carolina

1942 • 9 min • United States of America

This FitzPatrick Traveltalk short tours North Carolina, first visiting the Cataloochie Ranch near Waynesville, where the ranch hands are shown square-dancing and singing folk songs. We cut to a visit with the many Cherokee Indian living in the state, followed by the camera showing the fields of azaleas, flowers that grow wild in many areas of this state. At the Biltmore estate, the annual Rhododendron Pageant is seen. Our screen tour winds up with a visit to Asheville, depicting Pack Square, the St. Lawrence Catholic Church and the Skyline Drive.

Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye an' Peep-eye

1942 • 6 min • United States of America

Popeye's 4 newphews try to sneak out instead of eating their spinach, so Popeye demonstrates some of the benefits: playing piano, dancing, shadow boxing but each is met with "but we don't like spinach." Finally, Popeye spanks them, and they start eating their spinach. After which, they play the piano until it breaks then use boards from the wreckage to spank Popeye.

What to Do in a Gas Attack

1942 • 14 min • United States of America

Explains what war gas is, how it is used by the enemy, and how simple household items, such as bicarbonate of soda and bleaching solution, may be used to prevent casualties. (archive.org)