Cinematic Era: 1940 Vintage

Short film of Esso Station in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 1940. Depicts refueling, the price of gas on a pump, and car driving off, past another station.

At the summer baths in the village of Lujene (today a district of Velingrad) a competition for “Queen of the Beach” is held. In addition, high-diving and other recreational activities young people by the pool enjoy are revealed, along with another competition being held at the same event.

Reginald Foort performs at the organ.

Official War Department Training Film.

Agya Betal (Syed Jan), the demonic ruler of Maldweep, kidnaps Anarbala (Shanta Kashmiri), the daughter of Maharaja Madan Singh (Abdul Rahim Pahelwan), and keeps her hidden away in a magic city where monsters worship the goddess Narka Kumari while sacrificing devotees of the god Vishnu.

Herring seine fishing in Rymättylä in the summer.

From the Home Movies Collection.

A Marathi film by Narayan and Gajanan.

Film about Ghost-Cat.

Continuation War Review 10/41 Cannon operations. Pioneer repair work. Railway cannons. Hägglund's visit to Paalu. Views of the Aunus village, agricultural work. Military operations on the Isthmus. Capture of the village of Kiviniemi.

First color film in Bosnia. Bojko shot people bathing and cruising in their boats on the Vrbas river near his hometown of Banja Luka.

A Disney theatrical anthology

Romeo and Juliet (Spanish:Julieta y Romeo) is a 1940 Spanish historical drama film directed by José María Castellví and starring Martha Flores and Enrique Guitart. The film is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.[1]

A behind-the-scenes look at the Bali Brassiere Mfg. Co., with various models showing the company's line of undergarments.

A day in wintertime Budapest. Shot in an avant-garde style, the study extended over the smallest details of everyday life, observing everybody from workers repairing the street to nightclubbing bourgeoisie. A special rarity is the Arizona pub from Nagymező street, featuring a primadonna on a stage equipped with a very special elevator.

Reportage about the most dangerous occupations and work locations.

A few musical numbers from Dave Apollon and His Orchestra.

An exploitation film showing bare breasted women in western costumes playing ping pong.

Documentation of patients with deformities.

The third film in the Fantasmagoria series.

Short film by Rudy Burckhardt.

Copperhead hides in a box about to be delivered to Doctor Satan's new hideout. Doctor Satan suspects a poison gas booby-trap and has the still sealed box incinerated.

As the Copperhead leads escapees round a corner, Joe the thug opens fire on them, and the leading figure falls, shot.

Doctor Satan drops the Copperhead through a trap door and activates a sliding wall in the cell beneath to crush him.

A depth charge explodes. The diving bell, containing Bob & Lois, cracks and begins to fill with water.

Lance White portrays the Fuhrer as a short-tempered incompetent in his slapstick Adolf's Busy Day.

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

The epic of the exploration and conquest of the Brazilian territory, in search of gold and precious stones.

A young man in a leotard leads a group of animals in a sumo wrestling match. The bear is the final victor of all the animals, but then loses when he must face Kintaro.

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

The cats of two feuding hillbilly families make for a Romeo and Julliet love affair. the gun play mounts in fury until they realize the two have kittens, and quarrel ends.

The plot draws inspiration from crime films of the early 1930s, showing scenes of chases and shootouts between smugglers and police in Callao.

School children are taught elements of backstroke, breast stroke and front crawl at Cumnock outdoor bathing pool. Followed by demonstrations of each style and synchronised swimming.

A film by Douglass Crockwell made using oil paint on glass.

Pictures of new and old Turku.

Karelia, which was ceded to the Soviet Union, was commemorated in numerous short films during the armistice. The Karelia series and the poetic narration by a female voice bring memories to the surface for at least every Vyborg resident. "Our old Vyborg, the city of joy and sorrow in hard-fought Karelia, is now lost..."

For several years a children’s class was held at the school on Saturday mornings. Creativity was encouraged, often within the framework of a specific project. For example, a visit to the Lincoln Park Zoo might inspire the design and construction of figures of animals, as shown in the film. Or a visit to the Shedd Aquarium would result in the construction of rattan and cellophane fishes. The culmination of a project was the bringing together of the children and their creations in a performance, such as the AQUARIUM PLAY shown at the end of the film, which featured reflected colored forms and shadows.

Commemorates the (primarily voluntary) efforts by which Londoners coped with the start of the Blitz when, the commentary says, 1200 people were made homeless in one night.

1938–1940 film made in Palermo, Maine by Milton Dowe. 8mm. Kodak Safety Film (B&W reversal).

Recorded footage from the New York World's Fair in 1939.

A documentary about the events leading up to World War II and the first year of the war, compiled largely from Paramount Pictures newsreels of the 1930s.

The Jungle Yachts referred to in the title are International Caravan Camper Trucks. This film shows how well these trucks handle the Belgian Congo while out on Safari visiting the native people, traveling over hills and through river water crossings.

The men of the trawlers and drifters set out at dawn on voyages of any- thing from twenty to four thousand miles. This is a wartime picture of fishing and of fishermen who sail in all weathers through perilous seas.

How maps are made from earliest times to the present.

Finnish short documentary

During the war, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) would often make morale-boosting visits throughout the UK.

A film by K. Narayan Kale.

A Marathi film by Master Vinayak.

A Marathi film by K. P. Bhave.

A mute stagehand dreams that he succeeds in the theater after having recovered his voice.