All Films

Kashmir

1941 • 12 min • United Kingdom

An astonishing English tourist’s view of street life in pre-partition Srinagar and Kashmir.

Swingin’ at the Séance

1941 • 3 min • United States of America

1941 Soundies musical short starring Johnny Long and Helen Young

Modern Design

1941 • 2 min

Two men (amateur filmmakers Robert Davis and Harry Hilfinger) lip sync to the song “Modern Design” by Johnny Messner And His Orchestra.

Fundamental Fixed Gunnery Approaches

1941 • 32 min • United States of America

The 1943 Navy training film (MN-84b) Fundamental Fixed Gunnery Approaches is part of a series known as the “Fixed Gunnery and Fighter Tactics” series used to enhance in-classroom learning of Navy pilots. Fundamental Fixed Gunnery Approaches primarily uses graphics and models to demonstrate the various approaches for fixed gunnery, though it does include some actual video footage of planes flying the maneuvers.

Imperfect

1941 • 14 min • Sweden

Two students ponder the afterlife. They make a nocturnal agreement that the one who dies first will appear to the other at a certain time the day after the funeral. Then one student dies.

The Story of One Day

1941 • 9 min • Yugoslavia

A short film which documents a 24 hour period in the city of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Scenes of Yan'An

1941 • 15 min • Hong Kong

Filmed around March 1938, under the auspices of the China Wartime Film Research Association, but not publicly screened until 1941. Photographs of the Long March are very rare, as are those of its endpoint in Yan'An, the communist base of Northwest China in Shanxi province. Mao ZeDong may be seen along with other Chinese Communist leaders, including Liu Shao Qi, Ding Ling, Luo Rui Jing, and Kang Sheng.

Life of a Thoroughbred

1941 • 11 min • United States of America

1941 Oscar nominated short documentary by Tom Cummiskey

Speaking of Animals Down on the Farm

1941 • 8 min • United States of America

Part of Tex Avery's "Speaking of Animals" series of animated shorts. A collection of puns, sight gags and slapstick jokes involving pigs, cows, chickens and other animals on a farm.

The Baby Seal

1941 • 6 min • United States of America

Terrytoons theatrical short originally Released on April 10, 1941.

China Is Fighting

1941 • 43 min • China, Soviet Union

A Soviet documentary by Roman Karmen and Mikhail Slutsky, assembled from 1938–41 footage in Yan’an and at the front, chronicling China’s anti-Japanese resistance—from Eighth Route Army actions to civilian mobilization and daily life in the base areas.

Another to Conquer

1941 • 23 min

Boasting the assistance of the Navajo Service and the Untied States Office of Indian Affairs, Another to Conquer was targeted at Native Americans and features stunning location shooting. Nema and Don, made orphans by tuberculosis, are left on the reservation following the wisdom of their science-fearing grandfather and the community’s respected leader, Slow-Talker. Robert, their neighbor and friend, has gone away to school—forsaking tradition, according to his detractors—and has learned the scientific ways of the white man. He has also learned that he has TB and, through rest and treatment, is cured. The film progresses as a battle between traditional faith and contemporary medicine. Medicine wins and Slow-Talker, a convert to its ways, becomes its spokesperson.

The Joint Is Jumpin'

1941 • 3 min

The one and only Fats Waller with Myra Johnson performing his classic song The Joint Is Jumpin' from 1941.

Organic Fragment

1941 • 1 min • United States of America

a short animation from Oskar Fischinger, drawings with periodic colour coding and some cells completely painted.

Two Friends

1941 • 54 min • Soviet Union

Two officers of the Red Army find themselves in a struggle against foreign intelligence agents.

Albert Engström and His Rospiggars

1941 • 8 min

A documentary recorded at the artist Albert Engström's home and studio in Grisslehamn, during his last summer, with a memorial speech by the writer Ludvig "Lubbe" Nordström. We meet Albert Engström and his family, and best friend the xylographer Karl Johan Andersson. At the beginning of the 20th century, Albert Engström (1869-1940) was a popular illustrator and became known early on for his caricatures and joke drawings. Kolingen is perhaps his most famous "old man" who appeared in the magazine Strix, which Engström began publishing in 1897.

Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto

1941 • 55 min • United States of America

Rancher Timothy Wade is ambushed by a masked man riding a pinto horse. His young son, Buzzy Wade and the loyal ranch foreman, Dude Bates, are mystified as to who anyone would kill Wade. But, Jim Dana, a U.S. government undercover agent, has his suspicions that the reason may have been in order to acquire the ranch from Buzzy and his older sister, Ruth. Dana thinks the ranch may have a large deposit of a mineral useful to a foreign country. His suspicions are confirmed when a couple of guys with heavy-accents show up inquiring about the property.

We Beat Them Before, We Beat Them and We Will Beat Them!

1941 • 6 min • Soviet Union

Little cartoon

In the Berry Fields

1941 • 12 min • Sweden

Shows the picking and preservation of Swedish wild berries

Norway in Revolt

1941 • 20 min • United States of America

1941 Oscar nominated documentary

Always Tomorrow: The Portrait of an American Business

1941 • 51 min

Feature length promotional film presented by The Coca-Cola Company during World War II, focuses on a small town bottler as he looks back on his company's past and plans for an optimistic future.

More Dangerous Than Dynamite

1941 • 10 min • United States of America

A short film warning the unaware housewife of the dangers of “dry cleaning” with gasoline at home.

Immortal Symbols

1941 • 12 min

NSB (Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging) film by Hamer - "Volksche Werkgemeenschap" (Folkish Study Group) with the Department of Public Information and Arts in 1941. Its subject is the archeological and anthropological origin of various Germanic symbols as well as their symbolic meanings. Topics discusssed include ancestral heritage, the solar wheel/sun cross, folk arts and crafts, the hakenkreuz, Germanic myth, runes such as the odal and hagal, the tree of life etc.

The Priest and the Nanny-Goat

1941 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Animated version of Armenian national fairy tale.