1939 Movies

Istvan Bors was adapted from the popular Hungarian stage play by Sandor Hunyady, with a few songs added to the mixture. The title character, played by...

A documentary demonstrating the evolution of lubrication since Egyptian times and how modern machines have advanced.

The labor of sardine: fishermen at sea, patching of the fishing nets, casting and drawing of the nets.

This ethnographic short portrays a ritual using masks among the Dogon people of Mali.

Ages before man proclaimed himself a superior being, the tiny ant had developed the art of agriculture — a practice which was later to be the backbone...

Between captured images, animations and scientific descriptions, the puraquê electric fish is presented through the eyes of Humberto Mauro and Carlos...

An Educational film made for Japanese children about Railways. At the time, Japan was suffering from a shortage of Oil and their railways were incredi...

The story of Syphilis and the methods used to detect and fight it. No details about the symptoms though. No mention of penicillin.

An animated Danish commercial from 1939 for Houlbergs sausages.

Focusing on Cracow's Jewish quarter, this film intermingles old and new, using music to enhance the images. Streetcars share tree-lined streets with h...

A chemical scientist mocks his wife. She is unable to resist the violence and tries to commit suicide.

Short subject about futuristic fashion styles.

A young birch is selected from the forest as a class tree. Class trees are pulled into the canopy with a sledgehammer. The drying sauna smokes. Class...

Introduction to the Valaam Monastery.

Aimed at promoting active Korean participation in the war for the Imperial Japanese Army, the film sees the people of Joseon mobilized into a string o...