Cinematic Era: 1941 Vintage

A Soundie with Florence Gill, Redd Harper and The Sells.

A Soundie with Gus Van.

Mitra and Neng Mardinah are in love with each other. This makes Mardjohan jealous. So he spreads viscious rumors that Mitra is the son of a criminal. Mitra leaves town out of frustration. One day, Mardjohan has an accident, and is saved by Mitra. At home, Mardjohan's mother recognizes Mitra as her long lost son. Mitra is Mardjohan's brother.

Stars past and present gather to take part in the ceremonies at the dedication of Republic's new sound stage to the memory of Mabel Normand.

Filmed on a playground, Who Has Been Rocking My Dream Boat begins with what was described by Anger as a “montage of American children at play…in the last summer before Pearl Harbor”.

Rayon is the future!

A successful tango singer struggles to cope with the demands and opportunities of fame.

Radio commentator Swing is seen at the beginning, introducing the animated film to follow. The action shows the various treaties and non-aggression pacts of the 1930's and how they served to expose the foolish trust the allied countries put in them, when Hitler broke them all in his march of conquest.

A few leagues from Seldwyla, in the Zurich countryside, two children, Sali Mantz and Vreneli Marti, form an inseparable pair of playmates. Unfortunately, their farming parents, who have always been friends, are at odds with each other over the purchase of an adjoining field.Sali and Vreneli don't see each other again until much later and fall in love, but their parents still hate each other fiercely. Despite everything, the young couple will try to live their forbidden love.

Napoleon's uncle, a parish priest in a small mountain village, is offered the position of cardinal by the emperor. As soon as the news spreads, some people rush to exploit it to their advantage. But the prelate prefers to continue living among his faithful.

Arthur Whitney wants to learn about love making.

The large dam works on Amager's west coast are shown as an example of the employment measures the state initiated during the war. An area which made Amager 1/3 larger was dammed. 700,000 tipper trucks on the seabed must be emptied. At the same time, a new channel was dug for Copenhagen's South Harbour.

A Soundie with the Vincent Lopez Orchestra and Sunny Skylar.

1941 Soundies musical short starring Johnny Long and Helen Young

This publicity clip for Canada Post is Norman McLaren's first film for the NFB. For this animated short, McLaren drew symbols by pen onto clear 35 mm stock, which was then superimposed on a photographed painted background. Benny Goodman's rendition of Jingle Bells provides the accompaniment. (NFB)

Elang Darat, who leads a gang of robbers continuously harasses the village of Kresek. To overcome the security threat, the head of the village calls for assistance from a detective, R. Parlan. During a raid, Parlan is injured, and is nursed by Rukmini, the village head’s daughter. Their closeness prompts jealousy in Gunawi, the adopted son of the village-head. Later, it is revealed that Gunawi is the son of R. Bardan, Parlan’s father. Parlan then must face Gunawi because he is actually the one that people call Elang Darat.

Stars and stripes forever and ever and ever. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Willie Howard sings of his escapades as Tyrone Shapiro, the Bronx Cavallero, in Yiddish, Spanish, and English.

Cartune cartoon set in a country fair.

Radio commentator Swing is seen at the beginning, introducing the animated film to follow. The action shows the various treaties and non-aggression pacts of the 1930's and how they served to expose the foolish trust the allied countries put in them, when Hitler broke them all in his march of conquest.

Htay Aung Din becomes the notorious bandit Bo Aung Din, but when he falls for Ma Mya Win, the woman he kidnapped, he faces off against her detective lover in a battle for her heart.

Christmas, during wartime.

Documentary short of Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi.

Tobis studio short film by Peter Pewas that wasn't intended for theatrical release.

Shot in 1941, this black-and-white instructional film (featuring actor Alan Ladd) serves as a veritable time capsule on the history of the sport, with advice on ski design, schussing, lacquer, wax and toe plates.

The action takes place in an unspecified South American country in the 19th century. Immacolata, who married by proxy, joins her husband, an emigrant woodcutter. Upon arrival at the port, she finds a man bearing the agreed-upon signs and spends her first night with him, unaware that she is giving her virginity not to Gidda but to Pietro, a rival of her real husband who wants revenge. Immacolata's encounter with Gidda is not a happy one: the young bride is welcomed into the house only out of pity, neglected, mistreated, and finally abandoned by her husband to reunite with his mistress, a woman of ill repute named Nazaria. The rival returns to interfere and, in a shootout, ends up mortally wounding Immacolata, who was trying to protect her husband. When it is too late, Gidda realizes his dramatic mistake.

The film tells the story of detective Charlie Chan helping to solve a strange case involving the use of invisibility. It combines science fiction elements with gunfights and fight scenes, and enhances the urban feel through radio-based crime-solving techniques and modern characters.

This Ministry of Information film does ‘what it says on the tin’. It is a straightforward, ‘no frills’ demonstration of how to store roots vegetables outside by a traditional method known as ‘clamping’, which had been used for centuries.

A policeman's daughter runs away with a rustler and he (her father) chases them.

An orchestra conductor is frustrated by all the silly musicians in his band as they play the music.

NSB (Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging) film by Hamer - "Volksche Werkgemeenschap" (Folkish Study Group) with the Department of Public Information and Arts in 1941. Its subject is the archeological and anthropological origin of various Germanic symbols as well as their symbolic meanings. Topics discusssed include ancestral heritage, the solar wheel/sun cross, folk arts and crafts, the hakenkreuz, Germanic myth, runes such as the odal and hagal, the tree of life etc.

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A Terrytoons cartoon released 14 November 1941.

The spry, fun-loving, genial and enterprising Uncle Joey Mouse comes to the big city to visit his nephews who live in the basement of a large mansion. The butler sets the dining table elaborately for a meal, but the mice have other ideas; they scurry up on the table and, using the tableware and food for equipment, start a baseball game.

The children of the London Blitz, some evacuated, others still in the city, are the focus of this film. A fund- and awareness-raiser aimed at US viewers, it was sponsored by the American branch of Save the Children and produced by key documentary production company Paul Rotha Productions.

Willie Howard is a guard on sentry duty sent to the mess hall where pretty girls are present to entertain the troops in this soundie.

A Nigerian man is shown the famous sights of London by a friend.

German Infantry and soldiers from the SS Tontenkopf, with the help of artillery, attack Soviet troop positions near the Valday Heights in the summer of 1941.

Coin operated jukeboxes during WWII were able to play video as well as the audio and this here is one example of that. Ray Noble and His Orchestra get the top billing here but we've also got Snooky Lanson and a couple other performers chipping in to sing the title song.

Filmed after the start of the blitz, but with little visual reference to this, 'City Bound' is an exploration of the daily commute into London from the suburbs in 1941.

A tour of the Dartmouth Royal Naval College, showing the education and shaping of young men into members of the Royal Navy.

Shoeshine stand scene w/ the Delta Rhythm Boys singing 'Jack You're Playing The Game'; Black women watch from windows, another dances; Black man measured by tailor watched by girlfriend; rent party w/ jive & jitterbug dancing; men enter 'Harlem Credit Clothing' and pose in new suits w/ 'dames'.

Fats Waller performs his best song and mugs for the camera with many a sly, risqué comment in this 1941 Soundie. A rare and impeccable record of one of the greatest showmen of jazz.

Unique; one of the only Japanese cartoons that fully employs the physics of US animation (squash & stretch, follow-thru, weight variation, distortion). A silent print of what probably originated as a film with sound.

Alvino Rey and the King Sisters perform the W.C. Handy classic.

Part of the Nazi film series "Die Frontshau" (The Front Show). The series was produced to screen to German troops to prepare them for the upcoming 1941 assault on Soviet territories. It was censored from the German public during WWII.

German troop movement to the front lines in Russia--1941.

Shot in 1941, this black-and-white instructional film (featuring actor Alan Ladd) serves as a veritable time capsule on the history of the sport, with advice on ski design, schussing, lacquer, wax and toe plates.

Three sisters live above the cloud, Ratna, Laila, and Kumala. Ratna and Kumala are in dispute after they fall in love with the same man, Sultan Darsyah Alam. Kumala is turned down by Darsyah and in anger, she orders the destruction of his kingdom. Laila overhears this scheme and informs Ratna about it. Ratna then asks Bathara Guru for advice and is told that this is a trial for Darsyah who is destined to be together with her. Darsyah owns a powerful ring that is also named Ratna hence this disaster can be averted.

In Padang, childhood friends Samsoelbahri and Siti Noerbaja fall in love and kiss on the veranda, but are soon parted by their parents. Samsoelbahri goes to Batavia to study, while Noerbaja must marry the contemptuous Datuk Meringgih so that he will forgive her father's debts. Writing to Samsoelbahri, Noerbaja tells him that they can never be together as she has married. However, when she realises Merringih's violent nature she runs away to Batavia to join Samsoelbahri. They fall in love again, but must part after Noerbaja hears of her father's death. She hurries back to Padang, where Meringgih's men kill her with poisoned food. Receiving news of her death by letter, Samsu seemingly commits suicide.

The action takes place in an unspecified South American country in the 19th century. Immacolata, who married by proxy, joins her husband, an emigrant woodcutter. Upon arrival at the port, she finds a man bearing the agreed-upon signs and spends her first night with him, unaware that she is giving her virginity not to Gidda but to Pietro, a rival of her real husband who wants revenge. Immacolata's encounter with Gidda is not a happy one: the young bride is welcomed into the house only out of pity, neglected, mistreated, and finally abandoned by her husband to reunite with his mistress, a woman of ill repute named Nazaria. The rival returns to interfere and, in a shootout, ends up mortally wounding Immacolata, who was trying to protect her husband. When it is too late, Gidda realizes his dramatic mistake.

Importance of infectious diseases in society and ways to prevent them.

This Ministry of Information film does ‘what it says on the tin’. It is a straightforward, ‘no frills’ demonstration of how to store roots vegetables outside by a traditional method known as ‘clamping’, which had been used for centuries.