All Films

The Pioneers

1941 • 58 min • United States of America

A frontiersman leads a group of pioneers to their destination in the Old West and then helps them settle it.

Chef Donald

1941 • 7 min • United States of America

Donald decides to try cooking along with a radio show.

Underground Rustlers

1941 • 57 min • United States of America

Gold stages are being held up in the far west at a time when the U.S. government needs bullion, just before the famed "Black Friday" attempt to corner the gold market.

Toy Trouble

1941 • 7 min • United States of America

Sniffles the mouse and his friend the Bookworm try to evade a cat in a the toy department of Lacy's department store.

Strange Testament

1941 • 11 min • United States of America

This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Julian Poydras, whose encounter with a girl at Mardi Gras had a profound effect on his later life.

Kansas Cyclone

1941 • 57 min

The irrepressible Donald Barry is twice falsely accused of murder in this typical low-budget but well-mounted Republic Western. Barry plays Jim Randall, a lawman assigned to investigate a series of gold shipment robberies. Arriving in the middle of a hold-up, Randall finds himself accused of killing the driver (Yakima Canutt). Wells Fargo agent Cal Chambers (Milton Kibbee) vouches for his innocence, however, claiming him to be a noted geologist. Along with several of the prospectors, Jim devises a plan to prove that Jud Parker (Harry Worth) is using his dummy mine as a cover for stealing ore.

Aviation Vacation

1941 • 6 min • United States of America

An animated around-the-world trip by airplane.

Jingle Belles

1941 • 15 min

Gloria Jean sings two songs in the Universal musical short, which also features The Sportsman Quartette, the Milt Herth Trio, the singing trio of Lee, Lyn and Lou, and the Schuplatter Dancers

Arizona Cyclone

1941 • 59 min • United States of America

Crenshaw and Randolph are competing freight haulers and Randolph's lead man Tom Baxter has given him an advantage....

Superman

1941 • 10 min • United States of America

After The Daily Planet receives a letter from a mad scientist threatening to wreak destruction with his Electrothanasia Ray, Lois Lane heads out in the hopes of getting more information for a news story.

Baggage Buster

1941 • 8 min • United States of America

Goofy has to get a box belonging to a magician in time for the next train to pick the baggage. Clumsy Goofy drops the box and a lot of magician's props appear.

New Dimensions

1940 • 15 min • United States of America

This film was originally made in black-and-white 3-D for the 1939 New York World's Fair, and proved so popular that it was remade in 1940 in color and 3-D.

Leave It to Roll-Oh

1940 • 9 min • United States of America

Tongue-in-cheek film showing a domestic robot freeing housewives of their chores (and intimating that their work is hardly necessary); actually a promo showing how relays and switches function in the modern automobile. Shown at the New York World's Fair in 1940.

The Steam Locomotive

1940 • 10 min • United States of America

A Santa Fe Railroad educational film on the steam locomotive in their role in industry and passenger travel.

White Magic

1940 • 8 min

The physics, science and applications of light.

Let Yourself Go!

1940 • 9 min

How architecture, furniture and transportation have been designed to help Americans relax.

Danse Macabre

1940 • 7 min • Canada

The dead and the skeletons, coming out of the ground, indulge in playful dance to the music of Camille Saint-Saëns, and rejoice in the terror that they inspire.

The Face in the Mirror ("I Wonder")

1940 • 26 min

Introspective psychology for salespeople: "Would you buy anything from the salesman you see in the mirror?"

Circus

1940 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A traveling circus performs in a small town. In its arena there are famous masters - the Bear-athlete, the Poodle-juggler, and the Cat-acrobatic. But the Donkey suddenly became stubborn. I had to turn to the help of the yard Dog, who turned out to be a wonderful circus performer.

How Motion Pictures Move and Talk

1940 • 11 min

Produced by Bell & Howell, this short explains the basic principles of motion pictures and, by animation, shows how sound is recorded on a strip of film.

Kinematographische Studien an Impatiens, Vicia, Tulipa, Mimosa und Desmodium von W. Pfeffer (1898-1900)

1940 • 4 min • Germany

Plant movements in historical films by Wilhelm Pfeffers: geotropic bending of a horizontal Impatiens glandulifera; germination of Vicia faba; development and flowering in tulip, leaf movement in Mimosa speggazzinii and Desmodium gyrans.

Beau Geste

1940 • 60 min

A parody of the classic Beau Geste, made on the leftover sets from the 1939 version by San Diego State University students.

Dayak Boat

1940 • 3 min • Yugoslavia

First color film in Bosnia. Bojko shot people bathing and cruising in their boats on the Vrbas river near his hometown of Banja Luka.

Reel 5: Nassau - 1940

1940 • 14 min

From the Home Movies Collection.