Cinematic Era: 1942 Vintage

A short presenting the World War 2 favourite song, The White Cliffs of Dover.

Two rival newspaper editors in New York send journalists to the South Pacific to dig up new material.

After the great fight, Saint George, instead of killing the dragon, decides to take him home and teach him how to be nice. After the conversion, the dragon tries to make friends with other animals and people, but his efforts are always destroyed by his appearance.

The story of the innocent who gets caught, charged and executed while the real criminal is like an innocent baby watching.

A short film portrait of Småland landscapes, with countryside views of lakes, forests, bridges and a rocky beach.

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 singer married to a gambler is accused of murder.

In the Asturian town of Llanes (Spain), we see an example of Asturian pilgrimage, with the festival dedicated to San Roque.

This joyful short animation features a dancing hen that transforms into an egg. The film was made without a camera by Norman McLaren, who drew directly onto 35 mm movie stock with ordinary pen and ink. Colour was added optically.

In this short, members of the California Water Bugs club demonstrate new ways to get thrills when water skiing.

Rich girl with progressive ideas goes undercover as a sales clerk at her father's department store.

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

The Mothers' Aid is a state-funded institution with branches all over Denmark. Erna, a young pregnant woman, has asked a doctor to carry out an abortion, but instead he advised her to go to the Mothers' Aid for consultation.

The story of the film revolves around a married woman with children who discovers that her husband is cheating on her, and the same thing happens with the wives of her husband’s friends, so they all decide to leave the marital bed as a discipline for their husbands, which is beneficial for them, as each husband returns to his wife again after abandoning the betrayal.

A Soundie with Buddy Clark and Dolly Mitchell.

A documentary about the precursor to the Arts Council, the wartime Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), featuring an introduction by education minister R A Butler, an art exhibition in a factory and live music and theatre performances in various English locations.

A tour of the bright lights of New York City, where the various advertising signs come to life.

Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa and His Orchestra perform "Let Me Off Uptown".

Vivid colour footage of the wartime devastation wreaked on Bristol and Bath - and the barely affected village of Chew Magna.

In Paris in 1905, Madame Lou runs a brothel with five employees. The six women take in a boy who had become an orphan on Christmas Eve. Under the care of women, the boy becomes a righteous young man. On Christmas Eve 1925, he returns to the Women's House and has dinner with them. They have now become righteous women and tell the man their life stories.

Documentary on the evolution and introduction of modern coal burning locomotives on the Norfolk and Western Railway line.

Whirring, gliding and twisting machinery produces sumptuous Scottish woollen fabrics, captured in Technicolor by legendary cinematographer Jack Cardiff.

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

A Terrytoons cartoon.

A documentary about World War II, also known as the "Holy War" while Romania was an ally to Nazi Germany. The propagandistic nature of the film is evident through its overt anti-semitism and ultra-nationalist tone.

The short film is about the heroism of Azeri soldier.

The film is a testament to puppet animation during the Nazi era. The story centers on Hohnsteiner Kasper, who no longer relies on a frying pan or a beating to solve his problems and difficulties, but instead uses humor and ingenuity. The Hohnstein Kasper, however, is no paragon of virtue who bores children with moral lectures. "He acts in an exemplary moral manner, but he does not preach."

Presented by the U.S. Navy, this WWII-era color film "Your Ship in Action" shows the construction and launch of a Cleveland class light cruiser, USS Denver (CL-58), as well as one of the ship’s missions in the Pacific.

1942 Soundies musical short starring The King's Men

A Soundie with Dorothy Dandridge and Billy Mitchell.

Wartime propaganda film loosely based on the attack on Pearl Harbour in which Fuku-chan assaults a den of thieves who had been terrorizing the town.

A Walter Lantz Andy Panda cartoon released December 21, 1942.

A pelican blacksmith is bedeviled by a tree, which drops its burred-covered chestnuts on a horse just as he is trying to shoe it.

A group of artists loses a contest, but then they succeed in the theater.

Bank manager wants to hire younger employees. Fired cashier decides to teach him a lesson.

This film is about the Penn School, a school for African Americans in the Sea Islands of South Carolina. It discusses the history of slavery on the islands and the school's role in educating African Americans to teach them the skills needed to be self-sufficient and to contribute to society.

A documentary on the paintings of Gerolamo Bosch.

An expedition into the Rockies is chronicled.

With Tschaikowsky's music on the sound track, this parody of long-hair, temperamental orchestra conductors and concert pianists is a long string of sight gags. The pianist has a new hair-do in every scene he is in, all designed to help him see the piano. One fat musician nonchalantly wanders in in the midst of the concert, takes off his hat, coat, muffler and gloves, unpacks his instrument, a triangle, hits one note, repacks, puts on his gloves, muffler, coat and hat, and goes home.

A Second World War documentary film produced for and by the National Film Board of Canada in 1942 as part of the "Canada Carries On" short documentary series. It uses stock footage, dating back to the First World War, in its theme of showing how dependent modern war vehicles are on having a fuel supply source. In the First World War, Britain's sea power was preserved through the maintenance of a series of coaling stations dotting the Seven Seas. With the change to oil, rather than coal, the necessities for European nations, without home supply, are dependent on the Near-and-Far East where the pipe-lines and oil production have to be defended against attacks by the Axis powers. Canada's role in oil production is also highlighted.

1942 Short restored in true form

A documentary film about Västerbotten County, with visits to several points of interest.

The Jam Handy Organization introduces the television.

An Italian documentary.

Excerpts from the 1942 propaganda film Toyo no Gaika celebrate the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II. Named after a Japanese victory song, the film uses the power of the cinematic image for ideological purposes. A parade of visual symbols, emphasizing the patriotism of the victor and the defeat of the enemy, includes portraits of captured American generals and a trampled American flag.

Documentary record of the Santuranticuy Fair in the city of Cusco

An early Indian social drama revolving around a visitor or unexpected arrival whose presence impacts the lives of others, likely leading to drama, complications, or revelations within the household.