All Films

The Thousand Days

1942 • 21 min • United States of America

Associated Screen Studios' 'The Thousand Days' is a dramatic, impressionistic review of an historic one thousand days--since September 1939. You see Winston Churchill speaking to the Canadian Parliament, you see activities in the largest machine gun factory in the world (Canadian), factories producing shells, tanks, army vehicles.

A Railroad at Work

1942 • 26 min • United States of America

A documentary on railroads doing their daily tasks created by trhe The Milwaukee Railroad

Color Rhythm

1942 • 1 min

An experiment in color and rhythm with no music. An unfinished film that was later edited into Radio Dynamics.

A Priceless Head

1942 • 25 min

One of Boris Barnet's contributions to the "films for the armed forces" series, about the suffering of Poles under Nazi occupation.

Moresby Under the Blitz

1942 • 9 min • Australia

This Damien Parer/Ken Hall newsreel was shot at a time remembered as the dark days to Australia's north, with the Japanese still strong and threatening Port Moresby with air raids. The air battle for Port Moresby was a critical time for Australia. From this larger battle the newsreel selects a number of incidents for the visual record, as it looks at the damage to buildings in Port Moresby, the crash landing of an American bomber which had lost its undercarriage, and the sinking of the merchant vessel, the Macdhui, in Port Moresby harbour.

Stop That Tank!

1942 • 22 min • United States of America

A Disney educational animated short instructing the use of the Boys MK.1 Anti-Tank rifle.

Civilón en Sierra Morena

1942 • 9 min • Spain

15 Thousand Drawings

1942 • 42 min • Chile

The Modern Coal Burning Steam Locomotive

1942 • 24 min • United States of America

Documentary on the evolution and introduction of modern coal burning locomotives on the Norfolk and Western Railway line.

Swinging in a Harem

1942 • 3 min

A Soundie with Marian Lawrence and Her Dancers.

Back in the Saddle Again

1942 • 5 min • United States of America

1942 Soundies musical short

The Wind from the West

1942 • 17 min • Sweden

A short drama documentary about the life of a Sami family in the northernmost part of Sweden, Lappland.

Legs Ain't No Good

1942 • 3 min • United States of America

Musical short

Ukrainian Winter Holidays

1942 • 22 min • Canada

Ukrainian communities of the Canadian prairies still follow the Julian calendar and celebrate Christmas on the seventh of January. Traditional foods are prepared for the holy Christmas Eve supper, eaten when the first star of the evening appears. Then traditional carols and light-hearted dances in gay costume continue the festivities. In striking contrast, on Christmas Day the Ukrainians gather at the Greek Orthodox church to worship in a solemn service with ancient ritual.

Six Hits and a Miss

1942 • 9 min • United States of America

A musical which begins with six men and a woman singing; then a dance number; finally, the six men and woman sing again.

The Squawkin' Hawk

1942 • 7 min • United States of America

Henery Hawk, making his first appearance in a Warner Bros. cartoon, refuses the worm his mother is trying to feed him; after all, he's a chicken hawk. That night, he sneaks out to the hen house, but comes up against a protective rooster.

The Gay Nineties

1942 • 20 min

Songs from the 1890s presented in a musical short.

Umiwashi

1942 • 30 min • Japan

A short documentary from the Japanese Imperial Navy about Japanese Fighters in War.

Venezia Minore

1942 • 16 min

In this short documentary from 1942, Francesco Pasinetti guides us through a little-known, unprecedented Venice: the Venice of small canals, narrow streets, bridges and simple people engaged in daily chores.

Exotic Mexico

1942 • 9 min • United States of America

This Traveltalk short visits southern Mexico.

Moonlight Cocktail

1942 • 3 min

A Soundie with Buddy Clark and Dolly Mitchell.

Minnie the Moocher

1942 • 3 min • United States of America

Cab Calloway performing his famous hit "Minnie the Moocher".

Overland Stagecoach

1942 • 58 min • United States of America

Frontier justice is meted out over the suspicious death of a railroad mogul's partner.

High Stakes in the East

1942 • 10 min

In the aftermath of the Allied defeat in the battle for Java, after which the island fell into Japanese hands, this propaganda film made for American audiences shows what has been lost.