1940 Movies

Documentation of patients with deformities.

View to Lake Viljandi. A family strolling by the lake. People with rowboats on the lake. Swimming competition in the lake pool. Boat harbour. A man wi...

P. U. Chinnappa, plays in dual role, as twin brothers. One is a tyrant king and the other is a brave commoner, separated at birth. Loosely based on Al...

"Released in mid-September 1940, Florida, Land of Flowers would be the first Technicolor Magic Carpet of Movietone to hit the screen. The location was...

Amateur footage of a group of conscripted soldiers at Hamilton Barracks at the start of World War II, including shots of daily activities such as rout...

The cats of two feuding hillbilly families make for a Romeo and Julliet love affair. the gun play mounts in fury until they realize the two have kitte...

Butterfly, a faithful Japanese wife, waits patiently in Nagasaki for the return of her American husband, Pinkerton. She sees the Stars and Stripes flu...

Rube Goldberg looks for a perfect Perpetuum Mobile design, while petroleum and internal combustion engine technologies open new frontiers.

Film from 1940

A father tries to take picture of his easily distracted daughter, which is made more difficult by an angry group of dogs.

This Traveltalk series short takes viewers on a tour of old New Mexico. Starting in Santa Fe, the oldest state capitol in the USA, the city existed lo...

This informative herring aid from WWII makes no bones about the need to make the most of every fish.

Lance White portrays the Fuhrer as a short-tempered incompetent in his slapstick Adolf's Busy Day.

The classic conflict between the traditional Jewish way of life, and the modern life of the 20th century comes alive in this story of a young cantor w...

Comedy set in Switzerland. An estranged honeymooner, mistaken for an ice- hockey champion, helps England to win an international ice hockey match.

The heroine, a girl of marriageable age named Yu, married a thirteen-year-old fiancé, but he died three years later. Twenty years later, Yu adopts a c...

A behind-the-scenes look at the Bali Brassiere Mfg. Co., with various models showing the company's line of undergarments.