Cinematic Era: 1940 Vintage

Student Gábor and cigarette-smoking student Mujkó sneak into the Buda rose garden of baba Gül and fall in love with Leila, the daughter of baba Gül, who is bathing there and is destined to be the 33rd wife of Ali Basa. The guard captures the student and death awaits him and his companions.

Scans of Chauvet and Lascaux, ancient cave drawings discovered in France in the 1940's. Meant to be viewed under firelight, the flicker giving the illusion of movement.

Documentary about bears where the animals were filmed completely undisturbed.

September 1939 in Estavayer: An anti-aircraft battery of the Swiss militia takes up position near a hotel on the border. The daughter of the house is adored by all the soldiers. During a nighttime air battle in which a "foreign" aircraft is shot down, one of the soldiers is killed. Only the girl can comfort the overwhelmed soldiers; it is only an emergency during a storm that brings them together.

A young woman falls in love with her university classmate but her father is against it. She disappears and soon there are rumours that her spirit haunts her family’s villa.

The story concerns an attempt by fifth columnists to gain control of Australia's supplies of wolfram, a mineral used in the manufacture of munitions, involving a new wolfram field owned by Francis Jamieson (Marshall Crosby).

Against a background of bluish light, several objects appear: a square, a circle, and a set of rods. As the background color occasionally varies in shade between blue and rose, the objects move around, forming various patterns.

Introspective psychology for salespeople: "Would you buy anything from the salesman you see in the mirror?"

Prakash returns home to his wife Rajni after completing his studies, but his sister-in-law Bijli spreads false stories to turn him against her and pushes her niece Sudha toward him. Sudha uncovers Bijli’s scheme, clears Rajni’s name, and restores peace to the marriage.

A wealthy woman pressures her son-in-law to give her a grandson until her daughter finally gets pregnant.

After Hou Yao moved to Singapore in 1940, he continued to work for the Shaw Brothers and made a handful of films, including Tiga Kekasih, before being murdered in 1942.

A (lost?) Stone Age Cartoon

Police work during World War II in Britain.

A young boy goes hunting with his dog. He shoots and wounds a baby bluebird which tumbles to the ground, and this arouses the wrath of all the other birds. Regret for the act makes the juvenile vow to never go bird hunting again.

After Hou Yao moved to Singapore in 1940, he continued to work for the Shaw Brothers and made a handful of films, including Mutiara, before being murdered in 1942.

Vocational guidance film showing the radio industry as it existed in 1940, along with potential occupations at every level. Introduces the new industry of television, emphasizing its need for specially skilled workers. The film features imagery the electronics used in the pre-World War II era.

Tom Thumb Jr. and his friend are cast ashore on an island where they are found by a lady who thinks Tom is a baby and puts him to sleep in a sewing basket. Left alone, Tom and his pal seek food and have a series of misadventures with a mouse, duck and a cat.

During a chase across a gas works, Copperhead is knocked from a narrow beam by a block and tackle swung at him.

A wartime short encouraging workers to join free, government-organised engineering training schemes.

It takes place in 1827, in Carmen de Patagones, in the context of the confrontation between the militias of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata and the navy troops of the Empire of Brazil. It is the story of a fort lieutenant who falls in love with a young woman.

In a theatre in Rome, Aldo Fabrizi entertains an audience with a series of anti-English anecdotes and jokes based on an unpleasant experience with two British tourists when he was a poor cabman. This small propaganda film by Cines is part of a triptych commissioned by the Fascist government on the eve of its declaration of war with England and was never distributed. It is an extraordinary document because it was Fabrizi’s first screen appearance – although 1942 is the year associated with his debut in Avanti c’è posto… by Mario Bonnard, also produced by Giuseppe Amato for Cines – and was a precursor of his unforgettable cabman role three years later in L’ultima carrozzella (The Last Wagon) by Mario Mattòli, which Fabrizi himself wrote with Federico Fellini.

A young woman gives birth in Buenos Aires at the time of Rosas. As her husband was a young opponent of the government, supposedly murdered, she must fight against the gossip.

How architecture, furniture and transportation have been designed to help Americans relax.

Shankar abandons his religious wife Durga and takes their son Mohan into a life of crime. Years later, Durga raises her second son Kumar to be virtuous. When Mohan is arrested, he ends up being prosecuted by Kumar—his own brother—leading to a dramatic family reckoning and Mohan’s path to redemption.

Gábor, a doctor, fights his own battle to improve the welfare and health of the village. In his fight he is assisted by sister Jolán, member of the green cross.

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

Pradip, a poor artist, lives with his sister Rajani, a child-widow whose past he doesn’t know. Wealthy Rohini falls in love with him, but her guardian schemes to marry her to his wastrel son for money. Rajani briefly returns in disguise as a dancer, then withdraws again, and Rohini’s love story with Pradip collapses under the weight of deceit, duty, and misfortune.

Dhanna and his young daughter Tulsi struggle in poverty until Tulsi, trying to help her sick father, is arrested for theft and sent to jail. She later comes under the care of Dr. Kailash, whose household is held together by Rekha, the prosecuting attorney’s daughter in love with him. As Tulsi’s presence stirs tensions between Rekha and Kailash, the story weaves through themes of love, money, and morality, moving from hardship and conflict toward reconciliation and harmony.

Siti Akbari has a happy family life until her husband deserts her for another woman. But Siti Akbari remains unshakeable. Her devotion leads to her eventual fulfillment.

A young man, despite his qualification, can not find work and, after several attempts, asks a classmate, who is secretary of the President of an important Hungarian bank, to make him have a desk in his room and to do so pass for an employee.

A workshop owner goes on a trip to the desert and goes missing. Everyone thinks he is dead. His wife takes over the work of the workshop. She meets a young man and he likes her. They decide to get married, but the husband suddenly returns.

A 10-minute short edited from 1937's Sing as You Swing.

Life in the bustling Punjabi city of Rawalpindi before partition.

Some youngsters from the city, visiting the countryside, have fun tricking naive local boys.

Edgar Kennedy is over-joyed when told he has won a $5,000 prize in a "How To Be Happy Though Married" contest. A reporter interviews Edgar and his wife Vivien who tell him about their engagement and elopement. Then Viviens father tells them that according to a law he has found in a law-book, they aren't legally married. After a series of misadventures, they learn that the law is a new one and that the Kennedy marriage is legal.

A young woman pretends to be the daughter of a financier and enters a rich girls' college, where she commits a thousand mischiefs.

Dr. Paul Hoefler, a prominent explorer, organizes an exhibition to track down a secret cannibalistic society in Africa known as the "Leopard Men."

Diagnostic Procedures in Tuberculosis documents how to perform particular tests for tuberculosis.

Blackout gags about the holidays. New Year's (the baby speaks to us). Valentine's Day, Washington Day, etc.

A Cartune short featuring Punchy.

A straight man comes over to three comedians and tells them how the only way to handle a woman is to treat her rough and make her like it.

A documentary on the anti-Japanese war, once thought to be lost but eventually a print was discovered in the archive of Taiwan.

A government-sponsored short documentary commissioned by the Ministry of Information during WWII.