1942 Movies

Soundies short film in which Gracie Barrie sings "I've Got to Get Hot"

Why prices for goods in Canada are rising due to World War II.

This is a 1942 United States Navy Training Film, designated as MN-324A-D. Walt Disney Studios provides animation depicting a German gas attack.

Three men (Harry Hilfinger, Robert Davis, and Fred Kautzman) encourage people to follow rules set by the air raid warden in the event of an air raid....

A film of the Clyde, from its source at Elvanfoot to its mouth at Glasgow, from rivulet to mighty waterway. Street scenes in Glasgow, shots of factori...

Big Band Soundie starring Johnny Johnston, Ann Carmichael, and Don Kent

After Hou Yao moved to Singapore in 1940, he continued to work for the Shaw Brothers and made a handful of films, including Mata Hantu, before being m...

The film was produced and directed by Gratien Gélinas, who also plays the lead role of Fridolin, and who also wrote the screenplay. It is of course a...

Commissioned film shot on 16mm Kodachrome film between 1939 and 1941 at the Quebec Provincial Exhibition. Restored by TECHNÈS and MELS from the origin...

Stories in a boarding house where an actress, a bank employee and a trickster live.

A girl sees a bathing costume in a shop window, and as she has no money takes a kitsch painting off the wall at home in order to sell it. We follow he...

A short guide around St Pauls Cathedral.

Women from a variety of professions sign up to join a volunteer group looking after barrage balloons. Working through all weathers and all hours, afte...

Whirring, gliding and twisting machinery produces sumptuous Scottish woollen fabrics, captured in Technicolor by legendary cinematographer Jack Cardif...

Musical short

A Soundie starring Barry Wood.

Documentary short on American war production accompanied by Jan Peerce's singing of the title song by Rodgers and Hart.