All Films

Wash-’em-Clean

1939 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Based on the popular Russian child poem story about the advantages of being neat and clean for children.

Death Goes North

1939 • 56 min • Canada, United States of America

Sergeant Ken Strange, of the Canadian Mounted Police, and his dog, King, are on the trial of the murderer.

Heroes at Leisure

1939 • 10 min • United States of America

This short film focuses on a group of lifeguards from a Southern California beach during the off season.

Africa Squawks

1939 • 6 min

A paunchy, monocled English character, Major Doolittle, and his valet, Jarvis, go hunting in Africa, where they try to trap a lion by dressing the servant in a skin, but are outwitted.

Incandescent Love

1939 • 2 min • Hungary

The puppet commercial entitled Incandescent Love was one of the distinctive works from the Coloriton studio. It was made in 1939 for Tungsram, manufacturer of electric light bulbs.

Hamateur Night

1939 • 8 min • United States of America

It's amateur night at the local theatre, and a procession of bad acts comes and goes: various musicians, a magician, and some actors. But they keep getting interrupted by Egghead singing "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain".

Peace and Plenty

1939 • 30 min • United Kingdom

“Bitter attack on the policies of the National Government - its laxity over social services and its mistakes in foreign policy - and their consequences for the British working class. There are two versions - long [30 mins.] and short [17 mins.].” - BFI.

While America Sleeps

1939 • 21 min

An episode in the "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Dave Miller, an aircraft plant worker, is actually selling secret bomber plans to foreign agents. United States Intelligence Department agents plan to trap him and the spies he works for.

There's Reason in Rhumba

1939 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Rhythm and romanticism rules over realism in this recreation of the origins of the rhumba dance

The Body Vanished

1939 • 46 min • United Kingdom

A Scotland Yard inspector and his reporter friend arrive on vacation in a small village and are immediately involved in what is claimed to be a murder but the body has disappeared, leaving it to the inspector to find the body, determine the motive and find the killer.

Pied Piper Porky

1939 • 7 min • United States of America

Porky Pig stars as the Pied Piper, who thinks he has taken care of all the mice. However, there is one rogue mouse that he is unable to catch. So he tries an old-fashioned mouse trap (a cat) and when the cat tries to fight, the result is the mouse wearing his fur (i.e. he killed him).

Grandfather Ivan

1939 • 21 min • Soviet Union

Porky's Picnic

1939 • 7 min • United States of America

Porky Pig goes on a picnic.

In the Depths of the Sea

1939 • 48 min • Soviet Union

About Soviet underwater research of the depths of the seas and oceans.

Moving Vanities

1939 • 17 min • United States of America

Leon Errol moves because of a rent increase.

Ingrid Bergman, "Intermezzo" Screen Test

1939 • 1 min • United States of America

Ingrid Bergman's screen test for the film Intermezzo by Gregory Ratoff.

A Day at the Zoo

1939 • 7 min • United States of America

A tour of the zoo, in typical Tex Avery style: a series of one-liners and sight gags, punctuated by Egghead teasing a lion at intervals, despite the admonishments of the narrator.

So Does an Automobile

1939 • 8 min • United States of America

At Betty Boop's Auto Hospital, the cars are treated for various humanlike ailments.

Love on Tap

1939 • 11 min • United States of America

In this musical short, a man tries to woo the manager of a dance troupe.

Iran, the New Persia

1939 • 46 min • Denmark, Iran

Documentary film about the final construction and inauguration of the Trans-Iranian Railway Company by the Battle of Saxony - a 1400 km stretch between the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. The stretch through rugged and difficult-to-access terrain involved the construction of 250 bridges and 250 tunnels. Work began in 1933 and was completed 6 years later. This movie takes a view at the Iran in the path of modernization and focuses at the Railway construction project as part of the path and tells the story of how it had been done.

Wake Up, Helsinki!

1939 • 8 min • Finland

Impressionistic short documentary of a Helsinki morning at the end of 1930s with a poetic narration.

Frau Mode spielt auf

1939 • 4 min

Ms. Mode plays

S.S. Ionian

1939 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

The Wrong Room

1939 • 19 min • United States of America

Professor Leon Errol, an authority on how to be charming, has a few too many drinks at the Ocean View Hotel and forgets all he knows on the subject. Among those he doesn't charm are his wife, his lawyer and his lawyer's wife, a blonde cutie he thinks he has bigamously married.