All Films

Soldiers in White

1942 • 21 min • United States of America

A young intern is drafted and placed in the Army Medical Corps as a buck private and is none too happy about it. Injured, he is placed in the hospital where a Major comes by and explains how army doctors make important advances in medical science. The private is inspired and promises to make a good soldier. He is even more inspired when a nurse becomes his superior officer.

Inflation

1942 • 17 min • United States of America

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

Escape from Crime

1942 • 51 min • United States of America

Ex-con Red O'Hara becomes a daring news photographer, but his old ways get him into trouble.

Barney Bear's Victory Garden

1942 • 7 min • United States of America

Barney Bear grows a victory garden that a gopher is only too happy to gobble up.

Escape from Hong Kong

1942 • 60 min • United States of America

Three American vaudeville entertainers become involved with spies in Hong Kong, just before Pearl Harbor.

Eatin' on the Cuff or The Moth Who Came to Dinner

1942 • 7 min • United States of America

A live action piano player tells the story of a clothes-devouring moth who is on his way to marry a honey bee but gets caught by a black widow spider looking for a man of her own.

Ridin' Down the Canyon

1942 • 55 min • United States of America

Roy Rogers takes on crooked wartime profiteers in the musical western Ridin' Down the Canyon. Posing as solid citizens, the crooks spend their evening hours stealing horses from local ranchers, then selling the steeds to the government at exorbitant prices. The head of the bad guys runs a dude ranch where Rogers and his pals (The Sons of the Pioneers) are employed.

Any Bonds Today?

1942 • 2 min • United States of America

Bugs Bunny and friends sing and dance to promote the sale of government bonds in support of the war effort.

The Lone Rider and the Bandit

1942 • 54 min • United States of America

A singing cowboy and his sidekick rescue miners from a bad deal.

Don't Get Personal

1942 • 60 min • United States of America

Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored by his company, as he thinks their on-air quarreling is real. Two former associates, Jules Kinsey and J.M. Snow cross him up by substituting Susan Blair, an office secretary, for Mary and Elmer thinks the show's writer Paul Stevens is John.

The Boogie Woogieman

1942 • 2 min • United States of America

Three women sing a spooky song.

Scrap the Japs

1942 • 6 min • United States of America

Sailor Popeye, faced with many menial tasks, fastens a couple of mops to the prop of his plane, substitutes water for bullets in his machine gun and goes about cleaning the deck of the ship.

The Land

1942 • 43 min • United States of America

Documentary showing the poor state that American agriculture had fallen into during the Great Depression.

Fox, Hare and Rooster

1942 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Jasper and the Haunted House

1942 • 9 min • United States of America

Jasper and the Haunted House is another George Pal Puppetoon about a black boy and his troubles. This time, the scarecrow switches a sign that leads Jasper to a haunted house instead of a deacon's place where he brings a pie.

Jam Session

1942 • 3 min

Duke Ellington and Orchestra perform 'C Jam Blues'.

All Out for 'V'

1942 • 7 min • United States of America

When war is announced, all the forest animals, birds and bugs go into manufacturing of armaments, helmets and the like, with an annoying jingle about the country's instruction to step up production musically repeated.

Overland to Deadwood

1942 • 59 min • United States of America

Cash Quinlan, owner of the Hauling Company, is the leader behind a gang of raiders who have been robbing stagecoaches between Mesquite and Deadwood. He hopes by doing so to drive his competitors out of business so that he can get the railroad franchise for himself.....

A Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat

1942 • 3 min • United States of America

An early "soundie" in which Dorothy Dandridge & Paul White sing "A Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat" while getting dressed up for a big date.

The Bear and the Beavers

1942 • 8 min • United States of America

Barney has run out of firewood in mid winter. His quest for more is not too successful. Meanwhile, the beavers have been busily cutting and stacking their wood, which proves too tempting for Barney. The beavers are not pleased.

Destino d'amore, ovvero, piccolo mundo al platino

1942 • 14 min • Italy

A film comprising of numerous sentimental depictions of love.

This Love of Mine

1942 • 3 min • United States of America

Stan Kenton and his Orchestra perform "This Love of Mine" with Cyd Charisse and other dancers

Lights Fantastic

1942 • 6 min • United States of America

A tour of the bright lights of New York City, where the various advertising signs come to life.

The Life Cycle of the Newt

1942 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Underwater and microscopic photography by F. Percy Smith tell the story of a newt's life.