1939 Movies

Footage of the Nueva Vizcaya Association community members engaged in leisure activities in and around Chicago.

A Secrets of Life short.

Lady Luck smiles on a reckless secretary who takes a punt on the Irish Sweepstake … but not everyone’s a winner.

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

A look at London Film Productions' studios at Denham.

Two cats housed in a glass box, one of which had received a small amount of atropine in the preliminary experiment, are exposed to ether vapors with t...

Footage of the 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition, led by Dr. Cecil Thomas (C.T.) Madigan, with a team of nine. In 1929 CT Madigan undertook a series of a...

A play of colours, shapes and music: colourful dots, lines and surfaces move to the rhythm of the music. A short film by Hans Fischinger, the younger...

In the Neumann shirt factory, the female workers cut, sew, and sing. A bell marks the end of the workday. Two workers go out into the street, where th...

A documentary that shows us Jewish life in pre-war cities of Eastern Europe.

A major Maratha historical focusing on Shivaji. The villainous Subedar of Kalyan, in his effort to defeat 17th C. Maratha emperor Shivaji, abducts a M...

Reconstruction of the life of Eugenio Pacelli from the very first stages to the pontifical election of March 2, 1939. "From the famous smoke on the Va...

‘Malay States’ provides a British pre-war perspective on life in the Malaysian archipelago. Sections include ‘Life in a Malay Village’, ‘On the Way to...

Production of the Studio “Pixilated Pictures”.

The naively innocent bachelor Bagaram, a clerk in a municipal office, has to find some brandy to restore the ill son of his boss, who is also the brot...

The unfinished film "Krylos" is a historical story about the 12th century, inspired by the excavations of a temple in Galicia. Rehearsals of the film...

Scenes showing work at the various London docks is followed by shots of buildings and places of interest near the river including Billingsgate and Cov...