All Films

Porky's Tire Trouble

1939 • 7 min • United States of America

Porky works at the Snappy Rubber Company. His dog, Flat Foot Flookey, is determined to follow him into the plant, despite the rules. And Flookey's clumsiness means he's not exactly going to be able to sneak in like when he falls into a vat of rubberizing solution, and molds his face into a number of then-popular movie stars, or makes Porky's boss (a walrus) drop a stack of tires.

Teacher's Pest

1939 • 20 min • United States of America

Charley arrives in a backward mountain town to be the new schoolteacher and receives a hostile welcome.

Peaceful Neighbors

1939 • 9 min • United States of America

Two rival families of chickens are arming in preparation for a battle in a property-line dispute over the division line between their two barnyard coops. After much fighting, squabbling and squawking between the two factions, two peaceful doves bring about a settlement between the two groups.

Sheep Dog

1939 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Tom Jones, a shepherd who lived in one of the Ystradfechan Cottages at Old Farm, Treorchy, was employed by the Ocean Coal Company who owned the land above ground and coal (the Park and the Dare Collieries) beneath. A farrier who lived in the adjoining cottage tended to all the Park and Dare pit ponies. Tom Jones was known world-wide as the “Wonder Shepherd” for his remarkable skills as an animal trainer which, together with his concern for his flock, are recorded here.

Snow Country

1939 • 38 min • Japan

Independent documentary depicting the farmers’ life of struggle against the snow in Shinjo City, Yamagata.

Yip-Yip-Yippy

1939 • 6 min • United States of America

Yip Yip Yippy is a 1939 Fleischer Studios animated short film. The short was the final official entry of the "Betty Boop" series. Although this was billed as a Betty Boop cartoon, it didn't feature Betty Boop.

Always Kickin'

1939 • 7 min • United States of America

Hunky is teaching her son Spunky how to kick properly. She has him practice with a mattress propped against a tree. Spunky befriends a family of birds who are building a nest. Spunky copies their design and builds a nest of his own. Although he is a donkey, he tries to imitate the birds in flight and falls out of his nest.

Bukovyna, Ukrainian Land

1939 • 30 min • Soviet Union

Dovzhenko and Solntseva's documentary about the Bukovina region.

Warlike Beavers

1939 • 9 min • Soviet Union

How the beavers rebuilt after the flood and drove the wolf away from their island.

Five Times Five

1939 • 20 min • United States of America

Cécile, Annette, Yvonne, Émilie and Marie, the Dionne Quintuplets, turn five years old and have a private birthday party in their garden. Other than the five little French-Canadian princesses-of-the-world, the attendees at the party for the sheltered sisters are their doctor-and-mentor Roy Dafoe; a priest and two nurses; radio's "Town Crier" Alexander Woollcott; and RKO-Newsreel cameraman Harry Smith.

No. 1: A Strange Dream

1939 • 3 min • United States of America

Hand-painted 35 mm stock photographed in 16 mm, color, silent, 2:20 or 5 min. Initially intended to be screened with and synchronized to Dizzy Gillespie's Manteca or Guarachi Guaro. "...the history of the geologic period reduced to orgasm length."

Cane Sugar

1939 • 6 min

US Dept of Agriculture film that shows how cane sugar is harvested and processed for sale.

Swing, You Swingers!

1939 • 18 min • United States of America

Andy the proprietor of a music store, hates swing music.

Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther

1939 • 14 min

An amateur documentary focused on the community of Cologne, Minnesota, circa 1939.

Land of Alaska Nellie

1939 • 9 min • United States of America

In this Traveltalk series short, we view the Inside Passage to Alaska, the longest protected waterway in the world. Traveling north, we enter the small town of Seward, gateway to the interior. One of the burgeoning industries is the raising of silver fox and mink. There are many road houses scattered throughout Alaska, but one of the most famous is twenty-three miles outside of Seward on Lake Kenai belonging to Nellie Lawing, better known as Alaska Nellie, who has a long and storied history in Alaska.

Das Wort aus Stein

1939 • 19 min • Germany

This Nazi propaganda film describes the "glories" of German architecture under the regime of Adolf Hitler.

Ice Antics

1939 • 9 min • United States of America

Ice skating is becoming a more and more popular activity, especially with ice arenas making it possible to skate in warmer climes and ice shows bringing the beauty of figure skating to the masses. For the novice skater just learning, there will be the inevitable bumps and falls. New skaters learn that their skate blades have an inside and outside edge. Basics they learn are how to glide properly and how to stop. Most maneuvers conducted by figure skaters are based on figure eights, figure threes and loops. Other areas of the arts and entertainment mesh with figure skating, such as music, fashion and dance. The most famous professional revue, the Ice Follies, incorporates many other aspects of entertainment into their show beyond the basic ice skating.

Les films de Brancusi

1939 • 56 min • France

In the early 1920's, Man Ray, who had previously taught Constantin Brancusi how to handle a still camera, introduced him to the movie camera. These fifty minutes of film, shot between 1923 and 1939, representing the sum total of all the images ever filmed by Brancusi, have never been shown before.

Hoagy Carmichael

1939 • 10 min • United States of America

Short musical subject featuring the work of composer Hoagy Carmichael performed by him and featuring Jack Teagarden and his Orchestra, as well as vocalist Meredith Blake.

An Bord eines Panzerschiffes

1939 • 2 min • Germany

A warship is displayed

Glaube und Schönheit

1939 • 16 min • Germany

"Faith and Beauty" - The BDM-Werk Glaube und Schönheit (German for BDM Faith and Beauty Society) was founded in 1938 to serve as a tie-in between the work of the League of German Girls (BDM) and that of the National Socialist Women's League. Membership was voluntary and open to girls aged 17 to 21. A Nazi propaganda film.

The Curious Puppy

1939 • 8 min • United States of America

While pursuing a little dog who's wandered into an amusement park at night, the park's watchdog accidentally switches on the power to all the rides and attractions, bewildering the pair of canines.

Dark Magic

1939 • 10 min • United States of America

A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.

The Barnyard Brat

1939 • 6 min • United States of America

A Hunky and Spunky animated short.