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Clair de Lune

Clair de Lune

1942 • 8 min • United States of America
"Clair de Lune" was fully animated and scored when it was deleted from Fantasia in early 1940, a casualty of Fantasia's excessive length. In February 1942, inking, painting and technicolor photography were completed for "Clair de Lune" as a short subject, but it was not released. In 1946 it was edited , reshaped and re-scored as the popular music sequence "Blue Bayou" in "Make Mine Music". Previous attempts to recreate "Clair de Lune" were frustrated by missing animation and Stokowski footage. A nitrate workprint of the original version located in 1992 has allowed "Clair de Lune" to be completely reconstructed as Walt Disney intended it to be seen.
Mexican Extravaganza

Mexican Extravaganza

1942 • 12 min • Mexico
Musical number intended to promote mexican culture around the world.
Kokoda Front Line!

Kokoda Front Line!

1942 • 9 min • Australia
This iconic and Academy Award-winning newsreel shot by Damien Parer contains some of the most recognised images of Australian troops in the Second World War.
Westward Ho

Westward Ho

1942 • 56 min • United States of America
The all-purpose title Westward Ho was applied in 1942 to this "Three Mesquiteers" western. This time, the Mesquiteers are Tucson Smith, Stony Brooke and Lullaby Joslin, here played respectively by Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Rufe Davis. Our heroes converge on a small town to solve a series of mysterious bank robberies.
Olaf Laughs Last

Olaf Laughs Last

1942 • 18 min • United States of America
El tries to save his girlfriend, disinterested in him, from a gang of kidnappers.
I piccioni di Venezia

I piccioni di Venezia

1942 • 12 min
Tourist entertainment film about pigeons in Venice.
The Film That Was Lost

The Film That Was Lost

1942 • 10 min • United States of America
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a look is taken at the problems of film preservation efforts in the 1930s and early 1940s.
The Woman in the House

The Woman in the House

1942 • 11 min • United States of America
This short looks at the illness anthropophobia, the fear of people. In 1901, young Catherine Starr, who lives in a small English coastal town, has an argument with her fiancé. He leaves her house, goes off to serve in the Boer War, and dies of malaria. Catherine blames herself for his death and fears others will also blame her. She does not leave her house for forty years. Groceries are delivered to the house, but no one sees who retrieves them. When the Nazis bomb her house in September 1941, she is forced to cope with the outside world.
Wild Honey, or, How to Get Along Without a Ration Book

Wild Honey, or, How to Get Along Without a Ration Book

1942 • 8 min
Barney sets off in search of honey, but his various gadgets don't always work out they way they should.
Moscow Strikes Back

Moscow Strikes Back

1942 • 55 min • Soviet Union
A Soviet documentary chronicling the Battle of Moscow (October 1941 – January 1942), when Red Army forces repelled the German advance on the capital. Shot by numerous frontline cameramen, it combines harrowing footage of combat and civilian suffering with scenes of Nazi atrocities, framed against themes of Russian heroism and cultural survival. Originally released under the title Defeat of the German Armies Near Moscow, the English-language version, narrated by Edward G. Robinson, was retitled Moscow Strikes Back. The film won the 1943 Academy Award for Best Documentary. Warning: contains graphic images.
The Sundown Kid

The Sundown Kid

1942 • 59 min • United States of America
A Pinkerton agent masquerades as a criminal in order to infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters that is using wealthy widow Lucy Randall as a front. Arriving at the gang's hideout the Dawson ranch, Red discovers that the counterfeiting ring is headed by Mrs. Randall's attorney J. Richard Spencer and Dawson himself.
You're a Sap, Mr. Jap

You're a Sap, Mr. Jap

1942 • 7 min • United States of America
Spinach turns Popeye into a one-man US Navy during a World War II battle against the Allies' adversaries.
Joan Crawford's Home Movies

Joan Crawford's Home Movies

1942 • 28 min • United States of America
The private Joan Crawford fought as hard to create a normal family life as she did to establish her career. She forged her own path and to that end became a single parent, eventually adopting and raising four children. Like many parents, she picked up a 16mm camera and began filming both the special and the ordinary events of her family’s life. These home movies (ca. 1940–42) present that which one rarely gets to see: a larger-than-life personality at home, unadorned, just being herself—and often in color, at a time when her feature films were black and white. Crawford filmed most of the home movies herself; when she is on camera, it is unclear who is behind it.
Along the Sundown Trail

Along the Sundown Trail

1942 • 57 min • United States of America
Three lawmen hunt down thieves who are robbing a tungsten mine.
Night Shift

Night Shift

1942 • 14 min
Documentary short film depicting the work in a British armaments plant in which the night shift consists of women workers.
Mr. Blabbermouth!

Mr. Blabbermouth!

1942 • 19 min • United States of America
Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, America was rife with rumors about the size of Japan's armed forces and how well-equipped they were to wage war against the U.S. Using animation, the first part of this film dispels these rumors by showing that the U.S. had more raw materials and more fighting ships. The narrator also cautions moviegoers against spreading rumors (which are often initiated by enemy infiltrators to create fear and dissention) and believing everything they read in the newspapers. Just because "they say" something, that doesn't make it true.
The Sombrero Kid

The Sombrero Kid

1942 • 56 min • United States of America
A well-acted, well-paced entry in the Don "Red" Barry Western series from Republic Pictures, The Sombrero Kid featured the diminutive Barry as Jerry Holden, the apparent son and heir of veteran lawman Tom Holden (Robert Homans). But when Holden Sr. is killed by one of Banker Martin's (Joel Friedkin) gang of claim jumpers, Jerry learns that his real father was Bart Clanton, a notorious bandit killed by Marshal Holden, who then raised the orphaned boy as his own.
Boss of Hangtown Mesa

Boss of Hangtown Mesa

1942 • 58 min • United States of America
It is now an accepted fact that the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns were directed by the talented Joseph H. Lewis. Boss of Hangtown Mesa may not be in the same league as the Brown-Lewis classic Arizona Cyclone, but it comes awfully close. This time around, hero Steve Collins (Brown) comes to the aid of Betty Wilkins (Helen Deverell), who has taken over the telegraph-line business established by her uncle John (Henry Hall). The latter was murdered by outlaws who don't cotton to having the territory linked up electronically with the rest of the world.
Baroque in Croatia

Baroque in Croatia

1942 • 20 min • Croatia
A docudrama about baroque art in Croatia.
Jasper and the Watermelons

Jasper and the Watermelons

1942 • 8 min • United States of America
Jasper's desire for a ripe, red watermelon leads him to fabulous Watermelonland where he meets adventures that lessen his desire for watermelon and increases his wish to be back in the security of his Mammy's arms.
All About Dogs

All About Dogs

1942 • 7 min
A travelogue/documentary parody,where we look at different breeds at a dog show, and see that the humans resemble the dogs, and the canines do all the predictable gags.
Alona on the Sarong Seas

Alona on the Sarong Seas

1942 • 7 min • United States of America
Popeye and Bluto are on leave in the South Seas when Princess Alona (Olive) comes surfing by in her Sarong, a bird perched on her knee. The boys are smitten, and chase after her. The bird warns our boys that any harm to the princess will result in death from the local volcano.
The Sheepish Wolf

The Sheepish Wolf

1942 • 7 min • United States of America
Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf are both just trying to do what they have to do.
Down Texas Way

Down Texas Way

1942 • 57 min • United States of America
"The Rough Riders", has U. S. Marshals Buck Roberts (Buck Jones) and Tim McCall (Tim McCoy) coming to a Texas town to visit their friend, U. S. Marshal Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton), only to learn that he has disappeared, and is suspected of the murder of John Dodge (Jack Daley), owner of practically the whole town, except the hotel Sandy owns and runs when he isn't on an assignment as a Marshal. The murder has been committed by the henchmen of Bart Logan (Harry Woods), who intends to take over the dead man's property and whose men are holding Sandy prisoner to make it appear that he fled after arguing with and killing Dodge. Just before the murder, Logan sent a letter to Dodge with the news that the latter's long-missing wife is returning, and in a short while, Stella (Lois Austin), a Logan accomplice, arrives posing as the missing Ann Dodge, thus establishing her right to the Dodge property. Sandy, allowed to escape, returns ... Written by Les Adams