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Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men

Valley Town: A Study of Machines and Men

1940 • 25 min • United States of America
A documentary examining the effects of industrial automation on a small American town.
Billy the Kid Outlawed

Billy the Kid Outlawed

1940 • 52 min • United States of America
In the first of the six films Bob Steele made in PRC's "Billy the Kid" series, gun law rules in Lincoln County, New Mexico in 1972, where Sam Daly and Pete Morgan operate a general store. Daly expects to be elected sheriff and he and Morgan intend to bring off a final big coup and then disappear. To further their plans, they have local ranchers such as the Bennett brothers killed. Billy Bonney and his friends Fuzzy Jones and Jeff Travis, driving a cattle herd and friends of the Bennetts,engage in a gun battle with the killers that frightens the stage horses. Billy gives chase and rescues Judge Fitzgerald and his daughter Molly. The judge has been sent by Washington's Department of Justice to take over the law enforcement in Lincoln County, but is murdered by the Daly/Morgan henchman. Sheriff Long deputizes Billy and his friends to bring in the killers, but Daly is elected sheriff, and promptly brands Billy, Jeff and Fuzzy as outlaws. Billy, now known as Billy the Kid, retaliates by ...
Spring Offensive

Spring Offensive

1940 • 19 min • United Kingdom
Humphrey Jennings’s wartime short rallies Britain’s countryside, showing fields ploughed up from fallow, seed sown, and crops raised on once-idle land as part of the national push to feed the home front—an urgent, lyrical call to turn soil into sustenance.
Now You're Talking

Now You're Talking

1940 • 12 min • United Kingdom
Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant worker, who lets slip vital information about some overnight research on a captured enemy aircraft. This inevitably leads to this most important of secrets falling into the lap of the enemy.
Eyes of the Navy

Eyes of the Navy

1940 • 20 min • United States of America
Produced by MGM in cooperation with the U.S. Navy, this short film follows U.S. naval aviators through their basic training in Florida and advanced training in California.
Pardon My Berth Marks

Pardon My Berth Marks

1940 • 20 min • United States of America
Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife.
Rocky Mountain Rangers

Rocky Mountain Rangers

1940 • 58 min • United States of America
Frustrated by their inability to take action against a murderous gang who killed a young boy, Texas Rangers Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Rusty Joslin (Raymond Hatton) and Rico Rinaldo (Duncan Renaldo) hatch a plan: Stony poses as an outlaw dubbed The Laredo Kid to lure the bad guys into Texas. But the plan might fall apart when the real Laredo Kid arrives on the scene in this action-packed Western.
Meet the Fleet

Meet the Fleet

1940 • 20 min • United States of America
The story of three recruits undergoing Navy bootcamp training.
Nothing But Pleasure

Nothing But Pleasure

1940 • 20 min • United States of America
To save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home.
The Big Premiere

The Big Premiere

1940 • 11 min
It is a premiere night at the Fox Carthay Circle theater, and the Our Gang show up to observe the festivities. But after the Gang causes a disruption, the police send them scurrying home. Not to worry--the Our Gang stage their own premiere night in the clubhouse barn.
The Capital City: Washington, D.C.

The Capital City: Washington, D.C.

1940 • 9 min • United States of America
A Traveltalk look at the exteriors of Washington, D.C.'s famous buildings and monuments.
Ghost Valley Raiders

Ghost Valley Raiders

1940 • 57 min • United States of America
Donald Barry, not yet Donald "Red" Barry, heads the cast of the Republic western Ghost Valley Raiders. A federal marshal, Barry is assigned to put an end to the activities of a stagecoach-robbery gang. That's why he spends most of the film pretending to be an outlaw himself. Stunt specialist Yakima Canutt plays a secondary villain, and also doubles for Barry in the dicier action scenes.
The Snow Man

The Snow Man

1940 • 6 min • United States of America
Three bunny rabbits have fun playing with a jovial snowman who has come to life. But along comes a villainous bear who wants to put the snowman on a hot stove.
Porky's Last Stand

Porky's Last Stand

1940 • 7 min • United States of America
Porky and Daffy run a diner. The eggs come from chickens kept on the premises. A customer orders a hamburger, and Daffy discovers the mice have gotten to the meat first and left a note. He spots a calf outside and goes after it but ends up having to fight off a large bull. Meanwhile, Porky is preparing an order of two eggs, but one of them is actually a baby chick, who runs away. Daffy manages to sic the bull on Porky, who does some acrobatics to escape until Daffy lures the bull back to him. The bull finally crashes into the diner.
King of the Lumberjacks

King of the Lumberjacks

1940 • 58 min • United States of America
Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.
Under Texas Skies

Under Texas Skies

1940 • 57 min • United States of America
The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been murdered by person or persons unknown. The new sheriff (Henry Brandon) resents the arrival of the Mesquiteers, going so far as to frame Tucson on a murder charge.
London Can Take It!

London Can Take It!

1940 • 9 min • United Kingdom
A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.
Confederate Honey

Confederate Honey

1940 • 8 min • United States of America
Nett Cutler (Elmer Fudd) romances Crimson O'Hairoil in this send-up of Gone With the Wind (1939).
Land of the Six Guns

Land of the Six Guns

1940 • 54 min • United States of America
Stone is buying cattle cheap in Mexico, bringing them across the border without paying duty, changing the brands, and then selling them at a big profit. When Jack Rowan arrives and buys the vacant ranch used by Stone to sneak his cattle across the border, Stone sends out his henchmen to finish Jack off.
All About Hash

All About Hash

1940 • 10 min
Mickey's parents are constantly quarreling because his mother serves hash every Monday night. The kids decide to put on a radio skit to try to get them to stop fighting.
Women in Hiding

Women in Hiding

1940 • 22 min • United States of America
In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the hospital costs involved. She falls prey to a baby-for-sale racket with quack doctors performing their services.
Heroes of the Saddle

Heroes of the Saddle

1940 • 56 min • United States of America
A fast-paced, enjoyable entry in the long-running Three Mesqueteers Western series, Heroes of the Saddle featured the three cowboy pals promising to look after Peggy Bell, the little daughter of mortally wounded rodeo champ Montana. Legal technicalities, however, halt the adoption proceeding and Stony, Rusty, and Rico can only watch as the little girl is placed in the county orphanage.
Billposters

Billposters

1940 • 8 min • United States of America
Donald and Goofy are putting up advertising posters in a farm. Goofy prepares to post on a windmill, but his tools keep disappearing and reappearing on the windmill blades. Donald puts up his posters, a picture of a soup can, and a goat eats them immediately. Goofy gets stuck to his poster after it comes around on the windmill. Donald, being his calm, even-tempered self, gets into a battle with the goat.
Service with the Colors

Service with the Colors

1940 • 21 min • United States of America
Service with the Colors is a 1940 American short drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason. This drama is "dedicated to the soldiers of the United States Army." Men with diverse backgrounds enlist in the army and are all assigned to the same post. Some adapt easily to army life, while others have trouble making the adjustment. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 13th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).