Cinematic Era: 1942 Vintage

A drinking song.

Rosine, who spends her time as a model, has to deal with the advances of a disreputable young man.

Nazi spies mistake Snuffy Smith's moonshine for a new secret rocket fuel and try to steal the "formula."

The events of the film take place in a dramatic social context, where a playboy young man from a wealthy family lives with his rich, sterile uncle. Circumstances force him to work, and with his salary not meeting the requirements he is accustomed to, he accumulates debts. Someone offers him a job on the condition that he is married, and that young man is forced to search for... A wife whom he actually falls in love with.

Movietone News produced this short (two-minute) sing-along version of United States' national anthem featuring the popular chorus, "Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians." While the Star-Spangled Banner is sung, a patriotic montage of scenes appears in the background.

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra perform "Bli-Blip" with Marie Bryant and Paul White

The film picks up the story of the brilliant surgeon-turned–folk healer from the beloved “Znachor” and “Profesor Wilczur,” this time with its original author, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, co-writing the screenplay and even appearing on screen as the tale’s own chronicler. Considered lost.

Gabriela Tuzarová still loves her husband Petr very much, even though he has cooled off towards her. Petr is an accountant in a printing house. He secretly speculates on the stock market and maintains a relationship with the owner of the company, Šeborová. He speculated on Gabriela's dowry and thirty thousand crowns, which he borrowed from the company treasury. The famous conductor Štěpán Tuzar, Petr's brother, arrives in Prague. Štěpán is enchanted by Gabriela...

1942 Indian Tamil-language film

This James A. FitzPatrick TravelTalks short visits Callander, the Ontario, Canada hometown of the world-famous Dionne Quintuplets, where we meet the five girls and the doctor who delivered them, and take a look about the town.

To get the love of a famous singer, a representative threatens to commit suicide if she does not marry him, pressed by guilt she agrees without suspecting that her new husband has too many unspeakable secrets.

The bull is watching through a knothole as the great bullfighter, Woody Woodpecker, is showing off for the spectators. Unable to take it no longer the bull dashes into the arena and charges Woody so hard that he makes a shambles of the stadium. Woody, as always, equal to the task at hand is soon serving bull-burgers to the crowd.

This is the Animal Village within the forest. The Monkey Family with many children, the Bear Family, the Raccoon Family and many other animal families live happily together in this village. One night, a strong northerly wind puts the Monkey Family in panic, and the little boy bear of the Bear Family falls into the river. The Raccoon Family and the Monkey Family members all rush to the river to rescue him.

Short wartime comedy in which mister Dingemans and madam Babbel are trying to do some clandestine business in Brussels.

A man from Europe knows a secret with which he tries to blackmail the father of a young woman.

An unconsummated marriage to fool the father who wants his heir to be wed.

Popeye's nephews have been practicing their music and are getting good, but it's bedtime. After Popeye puts them to bed, they discover that many of the things in their bedroom can also be used to make music. And they are also blessed with an uncanny ability to appear to sleep every time Popeye comes to check on them.

Animation about the legend of a blacksmith who sells his soul to the devil.

The daughter of a fashion house owner falls in love with the designer of a competitor business.

Conquer by the Clock was a short dramatic propaganda film produced by the RKO Pathé in 1942 to encourage wartime industrial production. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1943.

A group of indians are dancing in boogie-woogie style. Immeadiatly comes the rain but the indians are still singing.

There's a lot of confusion about who Alejandra's parents are, and until those questions are resolved, she may not be able to get married.

As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account of the ways that a government investigative committee has been interrogating its witnesses. Joe then nods off, and imagines that he is being questioned by the committee. He envisages how satisfying it would be to turn the tables on the investigators.

"The Ingegerd Bremssen Case" - The young nurse Ingegerd Bremssen walks on a lonely road in the woods and gets attacked by a man. He rapes her and disappears. A passing car picks up Ingegerd and drives her to a mental hospital, where she is taken care of. But she has suffered a severe shock and considers her life completely ruined.

A Disney educational animated short instructing the use of the Boys MK.1 Anti-Tank rifle.

An artistic documentary film that tells the story of the hardships endured by workers behind the front lines during the Great Patriotic War.

The formidable K.O. Bouillon killed trainer Victor's colt during a boxing fight. Strongly affected, Victor returns to the south to find his wife and adopted daughter. He discovers in the person of Bernard a seed of champion which he ensures the training in secret...

A humorous but informative look at how an average man can remedy common vision problems.

Mr. Strauss, with the help of the forest animals, composes his greatest waltz.

A satire focusing on Native American life on and off the reservation. It is filled with black-out sight gags, word-play and caricatures.

This 1942 travelogue film, directed by Aldo Ermini and sponsored by the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, showcases Mexican culture during World War II, focusing on various cultural activities and popular entertainers of the time. The film features notable figures like Puerto Rican actress and singer Mapy Cortés, Mexican comedian Cantinflas, and a re-enactment of Aztec traditions.

Sally Rand performs her famous fan dance in this 1942 soundie.

A workers' strike provokes acts of violence and the death of the town's commissioner.

Smoke, sparks and steam dance together in Cornell's found-footage collage. Backwards title cards (or an alien language, if you like) punctuate this mishmash of the industrial and the ancient.

A 1942 film.

It focuses on maritime tragedy of the town and a forbidden love between Julha and João Moço, from different fisher castes, in a community where mixed-caste marriages were not allowed and dating without parent's assent was seen as a disgrace to the family, not only in respect to women, but also men.

At the army base one night, as Private Gandy and Sergeant Sourpuss are sleeping, Gandy has a nightmare.

A comedy of confusion in aristocratic Vienna at the turn of the 19th into the 20th Century: The young Bohemian Countess Antschi Dorival trades places with her friend Martina, because she wants to become an actress and applies as such at the city theatre under a false name. And so, Martina attends the Vienna Opera Ball, posing as the countess. Because of their striking similarity to one another, Martina is confused with the impostor Sonja Lubomirska, who shortly before stole a necklace belonging to the wife of Archduke Johann Sylvester.

You can get anywhere in a tailcoat. Viktor Norton, a young man imprisoned by mistake, also knows this. In Viktor’s tailcoat, he can easily get to the Excelsior Hotel, where he will meet the newly wealthy Dupont couple and their daughter Marie.

The news is on the radio: hunting season is open. Farmer Al Falfa and his dog hear it, and the little rabbits in their tree home hear it, too. All is not lost. As the hunters sneak up on their victims, the rabbits stir up a nest of bees, and the farmer and his hound can't get home fast enough.

A do gooder hopes to cure potential romantic partners of what he considers the disease of love, by putting them up in a property and having them watched over.Things do not turn out according to his plan.

Violanta lives with her parents in a poor cottage in the mountains in Austria. Her family is frowned upon by the local population since her father is a drunk and suspected by the villagers to have caused the death of one of the farmers. One day handsome Marianus Renner comes along. He sees Violanta and immediately starts courting her, They become involved in a relationship, until one day he suddenly does not come to her usual appointment.

Documentary style presentation of the work of RAF Coastal Command. Shows their work in protecting convoys and attacking enemy aircraft, ships and U-boats, all done by the actual men & women of the RAF.

Spike Jones and His City Slickers perform "Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy".

Part of the archive's Junior Biology series, this study of maize is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.

This wartime newsreel from 1942 documents the efforts of China to deal with Japanese aggression.

When she learns that the Nazis have confiscated Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece Mona Lisa, art-loving South American wanna-be spy Tamara (Jane Carr) journeys to Lisbon to snoop for the Germans in return for the iconic painting. But bumbling Nazi agents, Allied counterspies and multiple copies of the artwork soon confound her attempts at espionage.

In Canada, a democracy at war, civilian needs must be reduced. There's less to buy, more to spend. Prices go up. To prevent inflation, a price ceiling is fixed and rationing introduced. Money is needed to win the war. The motto: lend your savings to Canada.

Documentary short featuring a visit by American newsman Edward R. Murrow to the English town of Dover during the Second World War.

A young writer finds a hostile environment when he returns to his town.

Stan Kenton and his Orchestra perform "This Love of Mine" with Cyd Charisse and other dancers

To impress friends and family, Cristina pretends to be the fiancée of best-selling author Pablo Reyes. When Reyes shows up in town, he good-naturedly agrees to keep up the pretense.