Cinematic Era: 1940 Vintage

A monkey in a jungle orchestra only has one note to play, but this seemingly easy task will be more complicated than it seems.

George Pal's third and final cel-animated commercial story film made for Lever Brothers product Rinso Soap. It's wash day, Grandmother Bear is coming for lunch and there's no soap. Mother Bear sends her two boys, one good, one mischievous, to the shop.

A comic look at prehistoric life. Inept Stone Age characters play baseball.

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 Alexander Dumas' The man in the Iron mask.

Old Mother Riley does the laundry for the dancers in the pantomime "Aladdin", where her daughter Kitty works as a chorus girl. Sneaking a peek at the show one day, Mother Riley accidentally pops up through a trap door onto the stage. Accosted by the angry star, Mother Riley’s belligerent responses have the audience in stitches. Outraged, the star walks out, leaving Kitty to take over the leading role, to great success.

An owl seeking to add some meat to his dinner adopts several disguises to get into a party being held by some musical bats. They are not fooled for long and the owl ends up in his own cauldron.

The romantic relationship between a sports journalist and a cyclist during the Tour de France.

In 1868, while the Cuban War of Independence develops, Gaston de Montero, a noble Spanish knight, rescues a young girl named Siboney and he helps her to become a successful dancer. Over time, she discovers that she is the daughter of a prominent aristocrat.

This is the war and everybody in Germany should beware : the enemy is listening. One family in particular had better be even more careful than the average citizen of the Reich : the Kettwigs. Indeed they own an armament factory and their engineers, technicians, workers and of course themselves belong to a highly sensitive sector. They are under the constant scrutiny of those who want to get hold of the secret weapons devised in the plant, notably of a wire which, when attached to a balloon, may become the most effective anti-aircraft ever. For sure, they should distrust everybody. Isn't Nolte, the waiter, an enemy agent? Should young Bernd Kettwig allow himself to be seduced by this pretty woman ? As for Bernd's secretary, is she right when she lets this handsome man woo her?

Evocation of the Carnival of 1912 and of 1940 through 4 characters: an entrepreneur and three singers.

A look at Bali, in the Dutch East Indies, 90 miles long, 45 miles wide, and home to a million people. After a quick reference to its history, we see its rice paddies, markets, and fishing. Rice is a cash crop, and the distribution of wealth, according to the narrator, is the most equal in the world. Girls dance at the temples, from age four to fourteen. Each community has its orchestra and often a popular dancer. We watch Gigi and his back-up musicians. On the shore, tourists are just beginning to discover Bali's beauty.

Health film using unusual imagery and metaphors to impart lessons in hygiene.

The action begins one early summer morning in a hostel, where we see, among others, two young girls, a law student, Ruth, and a small office lady, Ilse. From their conversation, we understand that Ilse has a very bourgeois outlook on life. By chance, these two girls come across one of Ruth's fellow students, Pontus Berthelsen, who is spending the summer holidays in a fisherman's cabin. Ilse, who has little world experience, quickly takes an interest in Pontus, who possesses a lot of innate charm. Pontus does his best to conquer Ilse, but her bourgeois attitude means - at first - that she does not fall for his rather deft approaches.

Sonja meet Curt in a taxi cab. By mistake, each believes that the other is a rich member of the upper class. They meet on a date, but since neither wants to reveal the truth about themselves, they both get more and more caught in the web of lies they have produced.

Two sides of Mysore: down to earth with the field workers and an Indian spectacle for the Maharaja.

Short film in support of the Red Cross showing civilian volunteers'work, radio and movie personalities at a fund-raising gala and encouraging recruitment. Deanna Durbin performs a song dedicated to the nurses. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

A persistent door-to-door salesman tries to sell his wares in a gated community that doesn't allow peddlers. He makes a killing selling clubs to a bunch of battling street brawlers.

The story of two brothers, Dhiraj and Shashi, and their rivalry. The cunning Dhiraj mortgages their ancestral property, causing complications for his innocent brother Shashi and their family. The plot also explores the contrast between rural (Unmad village) and city life, as both brothers originate from Calcutta.

New explosives will be demonstrated for the military authorities, but some shady characters looking to steal it to sell it to a foreign power.

A comic look at prehistoric life- about how boy might have gotten girl.

What might become the greatest challenge for the elderly Brasen couple having opened a summer guest house by the sea? Financial struggle or the sudden influx of demanding residents? Based on Herman Bang's short-story.

Unassuming elderly gent is installed as Mayor, by a cabal of financiers that expect to use him as a cat's paw.

Oversize garden pests overcome the springtime urge to garden. The story opens in the spring. A caveman starts working in his garden, where a humongous locust comes and eats his goods. After going inside, he finds another huge (Stone Age-sized) bug at the table eating. The caveman then makes his own meal, only to be infested at his door by bees! It's caveman vs. big bugs in this hilarious entry, loaded with great gags plus caricatures of Groucho and Harpo Marx.

A stark documentary film about the economic and educational crises the mountain people of rural Appalachia faced at the tail end of the Dust Bowl period.

The modest Sandro does not dare to reveal his love to Maro, who, in turn, is very jealous of Sandro’s friendship with a female football instructor. Maro’s suspicions are unfounded, as Sandro is passionate about football and has only a sporting interest in the instructor.

Rupert is the smallest pig of the litter, and all the farm animals bully him and won't give him a spot at the feeding trough. Sulking in the woods, he comes across two football playing bears. They teach him the game, and when he returns to the barnyard, uses football tactics against his tormentors. (Re-titled BARNYARD FUN for television.)

Test footage for an uncompleted Ray Harryhausen project showcasing dinosaur animation. A glimpse of daily life during the Age of Dinosaurs is revealed. A brontosaurus roams a dangerous remote island searching for food before a vicious tyrannosaurus rex and a triceratops battle to the death during the Cretaceous period.

Promotional short produced for the opening of the Metro Cinema in Cairo in 1940.

A rich man has two wives and two brothers-in-law, each of them related to one of the wives. When he decides to go to England, he takes his first wife's brother with him. During his absence, his second wife, with the help of her brother, treats the first wife badly, eventually trying to get rid of her after she gives birth to a baby boy. The first wife, to save herself and her baby from being burnt, is forced to leave the house.

A little bank employee wins a plane in the lottery and amazes his companions with his audacity.

Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.

Tomorrow is Theirs examines provisions for secondary school education during the war, arguing for the importance of maintaining excellent, thorough schooling in spite of wartime obstacles.

A popular film about the skills of Czech glassmakers.

British Air Ministry short film highlighting the need for the public to stay clear of aircraft wreckage during World War II.

Two young girls go to the big city to work in a food store. The owner's wife believes she's sick, and the owner is more than interested in the two girls. Based on Oscar Braathen's Novel.

Six-year-old Sugar Grey has inherited a ranch, which she will lose to her cousin Jeff Grey if a certain number of cattle aren't delivered on time.

Wehrmacht propaganda documentary about the might of the German armament factories and their inexhaustible reserves of war material made ready for use.

Training film made for Ford.

Porky Pig owns a fish store and goes out to lunch. After a cat is not having much success with a mouse, he goes into the fish store when Porky is away. When the cat thinks he has the good appetite, the fish go to war against him and drive him out of the store. He is then freaked out by the mouse and shrinks as the mouse grows.

Bienaimé, a modest postman, in love with Janine, the village postmistress, does not know that he is the illegitimate son of the old Baron de Mondésir. The Baron dies and in happy amazement, Bienaimé finds he is the sole heir to the deceased's estate. But he should be careful, for two crooks, Waldemar and Erika, are after his newly-acquired wealth.

The fashion house boss Harry Martin has invited all his staff to a crayfish party at his home.

Directed by Jirí Weiss

The life of students at the National Political Education Institute (Napola).

Ludwig Gruber, the director of a spa café, is a good man. Now and again, he makes little adventure-trips to Berlin to find business for his company. The women he is traveling with have an accident on the highway. Gruber is traveling incognito as “Mr. Rabbit” with Lotte, the leader of the group. Because of the accident, they’ll have to overnight together in a hotel. Since Mr. and Mrs. Rabbit are a “couple”, they’ll be getting a double-room, where they can … mmm … do what rabbits do. Since they both insist on climbing into bed with the lights out, it isn’t until the next morning that they notice they’ve been in the same bed the whole night. In the ensuing chaos, Grube loses his wedding ring, which is later sent to the address of Lotte’s mother, who now insists repeatedly, that he marry her daughter.

A traveling circus performs in a small town. In its arena there are famous masters - the Bear-athlete, the Poodle-juggler, and the Cat-acrobatic. But the Donkey suddenly became stubborn. I had to turn to the help of the yard Dog, who turned out to be a wonderful circus performer.

Group of tango musicians picks up an aspiring young chanteuse at one of their whistle stop engagements; film focuses on their collective path to stardom, romantic conflicts between the woman and two guys in the band and some peripheral crime-drama stuff.

A young Mexican saves a mortgage from an Argentine rural owner, associating with him and falling in love with her daughter.