1942 Movies

Soundie with Gael Amber singing and few couples dancing.

There Won't Be a Shortage of Love from Teddy Powell's Orchestra.

Charles 'Buddy' Rogers Soundie with Twelfth Street Rag.

Denver Darling's Hillbillies and their Buffalo Gals.

A struggling writer (Cheung Wood-yau) falls in love with a waitress Clara (Lo Ming) and forms a love triangle when a rich man joins the competition. T...

A Gandy Goose cartoon.

"The Harvest Shall Come" is a wartime story/documentary produced by Realist Film Unit and starring John Slater. This tells the story of an ordinary fa...

A Second World War documentary film produced for and by the National Film Board of Canada in 1942 as part of the "Canada Carries On" short documentary...

Vintage United States Navy Training Film.

Made by Paul Rotha Productions for the Ministry of Information. Wartime documentary about agriculture made to bolster morale on the “home front."

We see a woman in an apron standing beside a greengrocer's scale. C/U of the lady's legs. Commentator says if you don't have a set of scales like th...

Presented by the U.S. Navy, this WWII-era color film "Your Ship in Action" shows the construction and launch of a Cleveland class light cruiser, USS D...

Soundie with Marc Platt wondering Who Calls.

A tour of Southern Brazil in the 1940's.

Soundie with Ginger Harmon singing "Tica Ti Tica Ta."

A comic short featuring Whitey's Lindy Hoppers.

The Charioteers perform the classic title song in this early music video format.

The soundie begins with the guys in the bandbox playing nurdy stuff & the dancers in the street chanting "No, No, No!" until at long last Walter Fulle...

Detailed training film describing preflight and airborne operations of Consolidated B-24D heavy bomber.

Louis Armstrong and his Sleepy Time Down South.