All Films

The Cagey Canary

1941 • 8 min • United States of America

A cat (not Sylvester) tries to capture a little canary bird (not Tweety), and not get caught by protective Granny.

Jungle Jig

1941 • 3 min

A Soundie with Dorothy Dandridge and Cee Pee Johnson.

The Prospecting Bear

1941 • 9 min • United States of America

Barney and his severely overloaded pack mule are prospecting, high on a mountain, when Barney spots gold nuggets, and a whole cave lined with gold.

Waiting for Baby

1941 • 10 min • United States of America

Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.

Soldiers of the Sky

1941 • 10 min • United States of America

Soldiers of the Sky is a 1941 American short documentary film, directed by Earl Allvine, about the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment. It was part of Adventures of the Newsreel Cameraman, a series of documentary shorts produced by 20th Century Fox. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

The Rookie Bear

1941 • 8 min • United States of America

In a humorous report, "Strife" magazine follows a bear who gets drafted and goes through the rigors of Army basic training.

Prairie Stranger

1941 • 58 min • United States of America

Charles Starrett is once more cast as frontier doctor Steve Monroe in Columbia's Prairie Stranger. In the company of his comic sidekick, mail-order intern Bones (Cliff Edwards), Dr. Monroe sets up his shingle in a small Nevada town. When business is slow, Monroe and Bones take jobs as ranch-hands on a cattle spread, and while thus employed try to solve a series of mysterious livestock poisonings.

Rags to Riches

1941 • 57 min • United States of America

A framed cabby rounds up fur thieves and saves his opera-singer girlfriend.

The Case of the Black Parrot

1941 • 60 min • United States of America

Sandy Vantine and her uncle, Paul Vantine, return from Europe with an antique cabinet purchased during their trip. Jim Moore, a reporter who had met Sandy and fallen for her during the voyage, suspects something odd about the cabinet. His suspicions are confirmed when people who have touched the cabinet mysteriously die. Jim and Sandy set out to solve the mystery before anyone else can become a victim.

This Is Poland

1941 • 20 min • Poland, United Kingdom

In the film, used the chronicles of war, fragments preserved in London prewar Polish films (landscape, architecture, industry), Allied supplies from Narvik, chronicles from France and material participation of Polish troops in the Battle of Britain. The film consists of two parts. The first part presents the image of Polish pre-war - an idyllic landscape, folklore, rich culture, growing industry. Part two represents the Nazi aggression, the heroic Polish soldier fighting on different fronts.

Back to the Soil

1941 • 6 min • United States of America

A Terrytoons cartoon released 14 November 1941.

Free and Easy

1941 • 56 min • United States of America

This MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello's play The Truth Game. Max and Florian Clemington pretend to be members of the landed gentry. Max romances the much-older Lady Joan Culver before finding true love in the form of pretty heiress Martha Gray.

Skip to My Lou

1941 • 4 min • United States of America

Four dancers, two males and two females, merrily dance to the merry tune of "Skip to my Lou".

A Little Jive Is Good for You

1941 • 3 min

Martha Tilton sings in this Soundies film from 1941, with Slate Brothers, and Ben Pollack and His Orchestra accompanying.

Inki and the Lion

1941 • 7 min • United States of America

Preceded by thunderous crashing from the jungle, a little black bird with a syncopated hop emerges from the brush to mystify big-game hunter Inki as he attempts to track down his prey: a ferocious daddy lion.

Robot Wrecks

1941 • 11 min • United States of America

Spanky and the gang discover a demonstration of a "human-like" robot named Volto and are inspired to create a robot themselves to do their chores for them. Slicker Walburn convinces them they will need "invisible rays" to bring it to life which he just happens to have to sell to them. As they rush off to get their money, Slicker gets Boxcar Smith to wear the robot's outer body so when he "brings" the robot to life, it will be Boxcar bringing it to life. The gang unsuspectedly gets their robot to mow the lawn at Froggy's house, but with a signal from Slicker, Boxcar runs amok and mows down everything in his path. Froggy gets to explain what happened to his parents who bust up the fraud and get the miscreants to work with the gang to clean up the mess.

Fascist Boots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland

1941 • 3 min • Soviet Union

Soviet propaganda cartoon made shortly after the German invasion, promising victory against the fascist invaders.

Flies Ain't Human

1941 • 6 min • United States of America

Popeye is trying to take a nap, but he's plagued by house flies that keep landing on him. He gets rid of most of them, but one in particular seems bent on making Popeye's life miserable, particularly after Popeye makes the mistake of flicking it into a can of spinach.

Liar

1941 • 10 min • Soviet Union

One day the duckling read a book about Munchausen and told his friends about how he, his dachshund and his horse went hunting in winter.

At the Stroke of Twelve

1941 • 20 min • United States of America

This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan, on the night he has decided to go straight, finds himself caught between the gunfire of two rival gangsters and, wounded by a bullet, he finds refuge in the home of a wealthy recluse. One of the gangsters is found riddled with bullets from the gun Lance dropped while making his escape, and he is arrested and tried for murder. The reclusive widow comes to the trail and testifies that Lance was her guest that night when the clock struck twelve, the time of the killing. Lance, while innocent, is also lucky, as the widow had her all her clocks set to always strike twelve, as the time her husband had died.

Coffins on Wheels

1941 • 17 min

Unscrupulous car dealers foist faulty and dangerous cars on an unsuspecting public.

Porky's Pooch

1941 • 7 min • United States of America

A dog named Rover explains to a Scottish Terrier named Sandy how he got his master. He went into a hotel room and bothered someone taking a bath--Porky Pig. Porky doesn't want Rover as a pet, no matter how many times Rover tries to make Porky adopt him.

Yellow Caesar

1941 • 24 min • United Kingdom

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

Ridin' the Cherokee Trail

1941 • 59 min • United States of America

Singing cowboy Tex Ritter and his sidekick, Slim Andrews, star in this musical Western about a couple of Texas Rangers who defend the citizens of a small territory from power-hungry outlaws. Villain Bradley Craven (Forrest Taylor) is determined to stop the election process that would allow the region to join the Union. Tex and Slim join a rancher and his daughter to stop Craven, with fearless Tex going undercover to ensure that justice is served.