1940 Movies

A Santa Fe Railroad educational film on the steam locomotive in their role in industry and passenger travel.

Herring seine fishing in Rymättylä in the summer.

A lion with a Bert Lahr voice can't stand being cooped up in a cage at the zoo, and escapes to confront the man who captured him in the first place, b...

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...

Reginald Foort performs at the organ.

Finnish short documentary

Newsreel from the 1940s about the procession of the Lord of Luren of Ica.

A newsreel from the 1940s depicts the official handover ceremony of the Iquitos airport. It shows the official delegation, comprised of American diplo...

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

Holiday traditions celebrated in Sweden

School children are taught elements of backstroke, breast stroke and front crawl at Cumnock outdoor bathing pool. Followed by demonstrations of each s...

Short propaganda film encouraging swedish aid in the Winter War.

Instructional film concerning the launching and recovery of aircraft in ships fitted with catapults.

From the Home Movies Collection.

Short designed to encourage the use of Technicolor for instructional and advertising films. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1995.

Getting Down to Earth Again, is a black and white motion picture, produced by Caravel Films Inc. for the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc., and was abou...

The second Egyptian cartoon starring Mish-Mish. While Mish-Mish Effendi is doing a cabaret number with his bride-to-be, there's an announcement over t...

This documentary was produced on the request of the Korean railway-organisation during the Japanese occupation of Korea. The news-coverage in those da...

The Yugoslavian Royal Army's review at the Banjica neighborhood of Belgrade in 1940.

A newsreel from the 1940s about the romantic corners of Old Lima: The Alameda de los Descalzos, the marble statues and the Church of Our Lady of Patro...