Cinematic Era: 1939 Vintage

Andy's twin brother gets Andy in hot water.

Miss Annemarie Tessmer is a clerk in the house of the manufacturer Herman Schilling and she is indispensable. She is exploited by all the family members and her own life is completely in the background. Herman Schilling wants his daughter Thea merry with the representative for foreign affairs Dr. Richard Rauch. However, after a number of dramatic complications, Richard chooses for the good, selfless and hardworking Annemarie.

Driven by the passion of his girlfriend, a humble young man gets a place as a singer achieving resounding success. When he gets it, he marries a famous diva leaving behind his youthful love.

A 1939 Bengali Drama Film directed by Prafulla Ray.

A narrative story of the planting of field windbreaks and shelterbelts in the prairie states, where farmers cooperate with the United States Forest Service in one of the most unusual tree-planting programs ever undertaken in an effort to reclaim land ruined by wind and drought.

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Rural melodrama about Durga, an adolescent child of nature, living with her aged mother Heera. Unable to get the medicine required to prevent her mother's death, one misfortune after another befalls the heroine in spite of the sympathies of the newly arrived village doctor, Jawahar.

An advertisement for Sigrand brand Menswear.

George is a disaster-prone zoo attendant who accidentally discovers a substance that accelerates motion, enabling his greyhound to run faster. This attracts the interest of a gang of criminals, who kidnap George's dog and plan to substitute their own in an important dog race. George and his friends defeat the crooks and their dog wins the race.

A broom spirit disguises itself as a pretty woman at night and goes out to do evil deeds, seducing young men and then killing them. In just three months, hundreds of men have fallen victim to the broomstick spirit.

A misogynistic teacher marries one of his students and then accidentally kills her.

Reportage about pre-war Warsaw, divided into five parts, describing the architecture and inhabitants.

An assortment of musical acts parade before the camera; Joy Hodges and Pinky Tomlin sing; The Elderblooms, a group of ladies ranging in age from 63 to 76, sing a song; acrobatic dancer Lucille Page does a turn; and young Mary Ruth winds it up playing a classical piece on the piano. Disjointed is the word.

Unemployed Anna leaves her son Olavi to be raised by Antti, a shoemaker. When the shoemaker dies, Olavi is sent to an orphanage, from which he runs away with a cat and a violin under his arm. After many misfortunes, the talented Olavi becomes a student of a professor at a music academy and travels to London to compete in an international violin competition.

In the land of Wicky Whacky a muscular young mouse takes heroic efforts to rescue his favorite hula-dancer from the attentions of a ruffian band buccaneering cats. The hero and his lady friend are disporting themselves in the ocean with the aid of a friendly swordfish when the pirates sight the enchanted island, and he has many difficulties in scuttling the ship of the villainous pirate crew.

A hound dog drives to the hills to dig for gold. However, a gas station hound explains that, in 1849, there was a major gold rush in the hills at the first sight of gold, and he didn't have any success digging, mining, or panning any gold. When a horseman reports a sign of gold, the station hound trades his gas station for the other hound's car and equipment.

In this “GI Movie Weekly” from Fistic Film (likely from 1939), viewers are treated to the historic fight on 4 July 1919 in Toledo, OH, where young boxer Jack Dempsey faced off against the World Heavyweight Champion Jess Willard. The film opens with a few highlights from 1919, including a young Prince of Wales observing the surrender of the German Fleet, Theodore Roosevelt speaking to an audience shortly before his death, and Babe Ruth posing in his New York Yankees jersey.

Scenes from the Handba' festival on New Year's Day in Kirkwall. Winner of the Scottish Prize, The Andrew Buchanan Cup at Scottish Amateur Film Festival, 1940. This was the last festival to be held until the end of the war.

Senator Fredrik, who advocates a policy of appeasement, expels his nephew Robert, an activist and lover of Justiina, from his home. Decades later, the lovers meet again when Robert returns to claim his inheritance.

Kwong Shan-siu as a playboy who sweet-talks Leong Suet-fei into a romance with him. She becomes pregnant but discovers that Kwong is nothing more than a cad who has already put her at the back of his mind.

The film explores the challenges faced by the inhabitants of the Mezquital Valley in the state of Hidalgo. It is considered a seminal work in the history of socio-anthropological documentary filmmaking in Mexico.

A mouse from the city invites a country mouse to the cellar where it lives to show how much food they have there. But soon the country mouse realizes that there is also a vicious cat sneaking around in this cellar. The lesson of the story: Wealth doesn't mean that you live without worries.

Behind the scenes look at Terrytoons.

A little girl dreams that she's in Mother Goose Land filled with all sorts of Hollywood movie stars.

A documentary demonstrating the evolution of lubrication since Egyptian times and how modern machines have advanced.

In the 1940s, a group of people on the mission of Japanese intelligence carried out sabotage activities against the revolutionaries. In this complicated period, the anti-revolutionary policies of the anti-revolutionaries and the responsibility of the people's vigilance protection organization were high. Dardulam and her husband Danzan were able to express the meaning of the film interestingly through the events of a family's life. is. The script was written by D. Namdag based on the idea of ​​one of his famous plays.

The cheerful and optimistic character of Sly Peter emerged in Bulgarian folklore during the distant times of Ottoman bondage and served as an outlet protest at national and social injustices. Although the origin of Nastradin Hodzha can be traced back to the folklore of the Middle East, he, too, is a product of Bulgarian folk art. In this constant companion, noble opponent and true friend of Sly Peter are synthesized the features of the common Turkish people. The film is based on numerous stories, incidents and anecdotes in which Sly Peter and Nastradin Hodzha poke fun at the Turkish feudal authorities, the wealthy Bulgarians and Greek clergy. More than eighty proverbs have been incorporated in the dialogue.

A fox family is starving, the father with a bandaged foot and crutch. Hunters and dogs roar through and start hunting down one of the fox boys, but he not only outwits them he steals a turkey dinner from the men.

Production of the Studio “Pixilated Pictures”.

First film by Włodzimierz Puchalski, that headstarted his career as a nature filmmaker. His photo album came out under the same name in 1951.

Between 1933 and 1935, the painter Wilhelm Eggert and his wife Dora Kuster traveled the African continent. Their expedition took them from Mediterranean Algiers through the Sahara and parts of the African west coast to the Congo and Kenya. Not only did the couple explore vast stretches of land that were almost completely unknown, at least to private travelers at the time, they also captured this journey on film. A screenable documentary film was compiled from the original 12,000m of film material. In cinemas and film clubs, European audiences were presented with a film that was evidently able to satisfy an interest in foreign, 'wild' cultures and exotic landscapes, albeit one that was always Eurocentric. The spectacular shots of African lifestyles and nature, which in many respects were new to European viewers who were almost completely unfamiliar with Africa, were praised and appreciated precisely because of their supposed authenticity.

Undergraduate Nik just wanted to get cigarettes when he is pulled into a series of events over the course of one night. Also during this night he meets three interesting women - whom will he end up with?

The film takes place at the end of the 19th century. The Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia has spent 20 years in Ethiopia to convert people to the Catholic Church. He comes back to Italy and he tries to get the help of the government of Piedmont. The Count Cavour, although he appreciates the Cardinal's deeds in Africa, cannot grant his Cabinet's support to the Cardinal's plans. The missionary man, trusting the Divine Providence, goes back to Africa by himself. The Cardinal, who is known among the people as Abuna Messias, becomes a friend of king Menelik. The support of the king is fundamental to spread his word and accomplish his mission. The Head of the Coptic Church, Abuna Attanasio, does whatever he can to prevent Massaia from reaching his goals and to get him exiled from Ethiopia. Menelik refuses to help Abuna Attanasio, who decides to address the Emperor, thus igniting a war between the Emperor and his subject Menelik. In order to end the war, the Cardinal decides to leave Africa.

Taking advantage of their uncle's absence, André and Raymond Rafet organize a New Year's Eve party at his house. The uncle returns unexpectedly, disturbs the party, threatens his nephews to disinherit them and then locks himself in his office. A few minutes later, he is found dead, poisoned.

Six German boys visit the zoologist writer Bengt Berg in Sweden where they are shown film footage of water animals, migratory birds and elephants in the Nile area, narrated by the host's naturalistic adventure stories.

Hunky is teaching her son Spunky how to kick properly. She has him practice with a mattress propped against a tree. Spunky befriends a family of birds who are building a nest. Spunky copies their design and builds a nest of his own. Although he is a donkey, he tries to imitate the birds in flight and falls out of his nest.

A plastic surgeon goes mad when he discovers that his wife have an affair. He fakes her death and disfigure her and locks her in the cellar.

The Maharaja of Banispur (Sardar Mansoor) sends his most trusted official, Surendra (Navinchandra), to Bombay to retrieve a large amount of money from the bank. On the train trip back, Surendra, while asleep, is relieved of the funds by a beautiful girl named Cigarette (Moti). When Surendra awakens, he gives chase after someone he believes is the thief. He then encounters members of “The Golden Gang,” a group of hooded gangsters whose leader is a mysterious cloaked individual whose true identity is unknown, even by his own goons. The Maharaja, refusing to believe this strange hooded gang exists, threatens Surendra with imprisonment if he does not return the money. The young man promises he will bring back the funds and smash the gang in the process! But before that can happen he is framed for murder and then buried alive by the gang!

A Lebanese Christian girl of European origin is attracted to a visiting Muslim chief and rides off with him.When her Christian fiance brings her back,she is punished for her transgression.

The movie tells about the struggle of Armenian and Azerbaijani peasants against hidden "internal enemies".

Going Places With Graham McNamee (1939–1940) is a news series featuring radio broadcaster Graham McNamee as reporter.

Directed by amateur filmmaker Nils Hallström, father of Lasse Hallström.

A country boy loves the daughter of his boss and godfather. An engineer who comes from the city is interested in the young woman who corresponds to him against his will.

The footage from the Chronicle of besieged Warsaw is probably the work of the cameramen of the so-called 'Starzyński team'. The fragmentary images of bombarded Warsaw, including the ruined streets of the Old Town, the burning Royal Castle, the bodies of passers-by on the pavement, were recorded in September 1939 with a view to later editing.

A group of travelers find themselves stranded for the night at a deserted train station, which according to the old stationmaster, has been haunted for the last 20 years.

After the tragic death of her fiancé, the countess of Leipzig finds out that she is with hope. The threat of a moral scandal forces her to marry the son of her father's servant - a very promising future doctor.