1938 Movies

An indolent clerk tempts fate when he delays returning some unwanted theatre tickets until the next morning. A missed train to work is the first misfo...

All the news from 1938 that was fit to print including a New England hurricane, Germany’s annexation of Austria, a promise from Roosevelt to defend Ca...

Winter market/entertainment of 1938 in Rovaniemen.

A historical document of September 18, 1938, capturing the 40th anniversary of the Textile Workers' Union of Belgium in Ghent. Through an impressive p...

View of the Raadi Manor House. Museum staff at work. Overview of the ethnography department's exposition.

A documentary about market life in Helsinki's Market Square in the summer of 1938. The earliest publicly shown color film in Finland.

This lyrical film, from the Barnes Bothers, is a homage to the Kent countryside and the people who work on the land - with moody and dramatic photogra...

Wairoa funeral procession for victims of the Kōpuawhara flash flood.

This promotional short for The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937) begins by showing the cast and crew arriving at Zion National Park and setting up for locat...

A children's issue of the film anthology that narrates the exploration of the Arctic. A boy and a girl are sitting at a table, reading, talking, and e...

A short film about elderberries.

Advertisement for vacuum-packed canned coffee that was produced primarily for screening at the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair. In the narrative a young...

Explore humanity’s timeless dream of winged flight in this documentary from 1938. While airplanes have conquered the skies, their roar has overshadowe...

Shows how a young fox is captured with a snare and then tamed on a farm.

Summer pictures from Garrison Island accompanied by Harry Bergström's Hammond organ.

Analysis of buoyancy and breathing followed by an explanation of swimming strokes and skills.