All Films

Law and Order

1942 • 57 min • United States of America

Billy the Kid and his pals Jeff Travis and Fuzzy Jones are arrested and brought to Fort Culver, where Billy is amazed to discover that he and the post commander Lieutenant Ted Morrison, are exact doubles.

Ring of Steel

1942 • 9 min • United States of America

Documentary short detailing the American soldier's part in preserving the fundamental ideals of this nation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Timur's Oath

1942 • 53 min • Soviet Union

The continuation of a story about a young boy Timur and his team who are living in a small Moscow suburb during the years before WWII - now during the war.

Jammin' in the Panoram

1942 • 5 min • United States of America

Helen Huntley and Stan Kenton and His Orchestra perform "Jammin' in the Panoram."

Bad Men of the Hills

1942 • 58 min • United States of America

U.S. Marshal Dave Upjohn arrives in Sundown to investigate reports of lawlessness.

Pretty Dolly

1942 • 20 min • United States of America

Leon Errol plans to buy a doll as a gift for his wife; misunderstandings ensue.

What About Daddy?

1942 • 10 min • United States of America

The trials and tribulations of a husband as his pregnant wife gets closer to the delivery date.

Woodman, Spare That Tree

1942 • 7 min

The Fox, a lumberjack, sets off to chop down his daily tree. He decides on the Crow's but the Crow is determined to save his home. He tries appealing to the Fox's sympathies with poetry and singing but the Fox pays no heed. After agreeing to let the Crow move out his possessions first (getting the Fox crushed by an elevator and piano in the process), the Fox sets to work chopping the tree. The Crow removes the blade from his axe so the Fox then uses a saw which the Crow uses to propel the fox into orbit. Next he tries bashing down the tree with an elephant but the Crow scares the pachyderm away with a toy mouse. Finally, the Fox plans to crash a train into the tree but it turns out the tree is petrified (or is it?).

Marines in the Making

1942 • 9 min • United States of America

This short film shows U.S. Marines in training at a number of unidentified bases, with a focus on hand-to-hand combat.

T-Bone for Two

1942 • 7 min • United States of America

Pluto finds a bone - but also finds Butch the bulldog, who claims it for himself. Idea: Pluto paces off a distance, buried treasure style, and digs a large bone-shaped hole. Butch falls for it, and while he's digging deeper, Pluto almost makes off with the bone. Butch catches on just in time and chases Pluto, who ducks into a junkyard. The bone gets sucked into in a squeeze-bulb horn, which Pluto does battle with.

Malta G.C.

1942 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Short WW II documentary

Keep 'Em Sailing

1942 • 20 min • United States of America

An FBI agent goes undercover to investigate the sabotage of American cargo ships.

North to the Klondike

1942 • 60 min • United States of America

Based upon the novel by Jack London, two friends in the Klondike aid settlers being terrorized by outlaws.

Cema

1942 • 17 min • United Kingdom

A documentary about the precursor to the Arts Council, the wartime Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), featuring an introduction by education minister R A Butler, an art exhibition in a factory and live music and theatre performances in various English locations.

Newspaper Train

1942 • 6 min • United Kingdom

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accurate and objective press on the home front.

I Wanna Go Back to West Virginia

1942 • 3 min

A Soundie featuring Slim Andrews and The Fashionaires with Sybil Rae.

New Towns for Old

1942 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII.

Groom and Bored

1942 • 16 min • United States of America

Johnny tries to keep his marriage a secret from his boss, who feels that matrimony interferes with business.

Let Me Off Uptown

1942 • 3 min • United States of America

Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa and His Orchestra perform "Let Me Off Uptown".

Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me

1942 • 3 min

A Soundie with Ted Fio Rito and Candy Candido.

Sock-a-Bye Baby

1942 • 18 min • United States of America

The stooges mistakenly kidnap a baby they find on their doorstep. When the cops and the baby's mother come looking for the baby, the boys panic and flee into the country with the cops (one of them is the baby's father) pursuing them by motorcycle. It all ends happily with the baby reunited with its parents and the stooges running off disguised as bushes.

The Daffy Duckaroo

1942 • 7 min • United States of America

Singing cowboy Daffy retires to the Painted Desert (still wet). He falls for an Indian maiden with a Brooklyn accent, but her very large boyfriend catches them. Daffy dresses in drag, which fools him for a while until Daffy's wig falls off. The boyfriend chases Daffy into the Petrified Forest (where Daffy freezes and breaks tomahawks). The Indian sends smoke signals from a phone booth and his tribe attacks Daffy, trapping him under his house trailer.

A Ship Is Born

1942 • 22 min • United States of America

This Vitaphone 'Technicolor Special' (production number 8001) portrays the behind-the-scenes story of the building and manning, during World War Two, of the USA supply line to Victory against the Axis powers, the United States Merchant Marine service.

Modern Mexico City

1942 • 10 min • United States of America

This Traveltalk series short brings us to the capital of Mexico, where we learn a little about the three million people living there. Their living quarters are viewed, as are various monuments found throughout the city, including a monument to George Washington. We also see the Museum of Fine Arts and the Washington Apartments. From here, we visit the bullfights.