Cinematic Era: 1942 Vintage

The relationship of the young night school teacher with her students.

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

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.

1942 Oscar nominated documentary about wartime Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Part of the Broadway Brevities series.

A bandit is accused of killing a young man who was actually killed by his girlfriend's stepfather who was in love with her.

The misadventures of eccentric Dr. Erasmus Quackenbush, African explorer, as he travels to see the Eastern Slope Region of New Hampshire’s White Mountains.

Two teenage gang members are forced to be page boys at a hotel where a criminal gang are operating.

Smoke' Wells sings "I Got Her in the Mail."

When the handsome doctor Sadashiv sets up a new clinic in Pune, he finds himself with no patients but is beseiged with marriage offers. Chintu, son of the crusty patriarch, tricks him into coming home to examine his supposedly ill sister Sarala. One of the major scenes in the film is a cross-talk as Sadashiv asks medical questions while her father examines him as a prospective son-in- law. Sarala and Sadashiv get married, when suddenly Lily, Sadashiv’s old girlfriend who is related to the local village gossip, surfaces.

Our Gang's dog, Rover, gets to audition for a movie studio.

Exemplary social care by the state for Slovak workers in a convalescent home, with a beautiful Slovak backdrop.

Jella lives in a village in the mountains of Transylvania. She fights a solitary battle against the men courting her aggressively and the malevolence of the village community, her ill-reputed mother being expelled from the village for her immoral lifestyle. One day, she is attacked by a group of lads from the village. Thrown into a fright, she tries to escape across the forest, ending up near the house of Balogh Péter, a track-watchman.

Burlesque presentation of "fan dance" by the original performer Faith Bacon.

The US Marine Corps Band and chorus perform several songs associated with the Marines and the Navy. As the songs are played, we see monuments in Washington, DC, various battle scenes, planes in flight, and other scenes designed to instill patriotism in the audience.

Feri, a young director general in Sopron, and Ilona, his secretary, are in love with each other. Feri's mother, however, has a different woman in mind for her son to marry. The girl, disappointed, is off to Pest.

The Front Show is a series of World War II era German military training films shown to German soldiers before being shipped off to the Eastern Front. They were directed by the veteran propagandist Fritz Hippler, best known for Der Ewige Jude.

A propaganda film shot in Nazi-occupied Latvia (1941-44). It outlines the horrors the country experienced during the Soviet occupation the year prior (remembered now as Annus Horriblis) and includes historical footage. However, to twist the narrative to suit its ideological means, the film also tries to influence the public perception of the Jewish people, stating they were appreciative of the Soviet invasion and happily took part in their attrocities. The film was dubbed in over 20 languages and distributed in other Nazi-invaded countries.

Proliferation of outdoor advertising billboards through Chicago and the methods of analyzing potential advertising sites.

On a Marseille film set, a street urchin who has been hired as an actor is suspected when both a star and a baroness are robbed.With the help of the boy's neer do well friend the real crooks are tracked down.

A Soundie featuring Hoagy Carmichael and Mi Chee.

Aankh Micholi is a 1942 hindi movie directed by R. S. Choudhary, Starring Nalini Jaywant and Satish.

Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.

The popular dance band plays four songs.

Andy Panda is very happy running his tailor shop until a huge, hungry moth flies through the keyhole, and starts making a buffet dinner out of all the clothes in Andy's shop. Andy's attempts to get him out are unsuccessful, until the moth has had his fill---all of Andy's stock---and departs the premises.

An unemployed graduate uses his charm to help a blind beggar. He then falls for a rich heiress and convinces her industrialist father to open a factory for the poor. It's a success, but a jealous fiancé tries to shut it all down and frame our hero. Can truth prevail and save the struggling community from returning to poverty?

A black maid leaves the baby of the house she works at with Butch. The bulldog tries to keep the rambunctious baby from harm in the city, but all hell breaks loose.

Surdas, a blind poet, embarks on a spiritual journey. He transforms into a revered saint, dedicating his life to crafting devotional poetry for Lord Krishna.

A young man returns to his neighborhood after spending ten years locked up in a reformatory.

A compilation of week journals made for Nazi-puppet regime in Croatia during WW II which show the warfare of Ustasha forces against Yugoslav partisans and Chetniks in eastern Bosnia.

Documentary examination of the battle for Tobruk in the Second World War. British empire troops assault the German Afrika Korps in North Africa in order to win control over the seaport city of Tobruk in Libya. Field Marshall Montgomery is seen leading his troops in a massive infantry and tank battle.

In December 1941 shortly after the United States entered World War II, Chicago’s mayor, Edward Kelly, appointed Moholy-Nagy to a committee to investigate the possibilities of camouflaging important landmarks and potential targets. György Kepes taught a certified course in camouflage at the school in the fall of 1942. The exercises and solutions were presented in an exhibition that year. The film footage begins with natural examples of camouflage in the animal world and then presents examples of military use in different settings. Various structural solutions, such as painted patterns that confuse contours, textures and hiding buildings and equipment such as train cars and airplanes beneath structures covered by netting are shown.

A documentary short about spring festival in Peking, made by the The Huabei Film Company, established as a state-owned company by the Japanese invaders during the Second Sino-Japanese War in the North China region.

A lecturer on domestic difficulties, having previously discussed the subject from a woman's viewpoint, now proceeds to present the man's perspective. He emphasizes that he wishes to avoid generalizations that would apply to all women. Instead, he plans to present a series of sketches that illustrate possibly isolated examples of some of the ways that particular women have baffled or frustrated their husbands by their behavior.

Cab Calloway performing his famous hit "Minnie the Moocher".

A Soundie with John Feeney and Charles Devlin.

Two identical women, city-bred Chandni and village teacher Devi, swap clothes on a train, leading to their husbands mistakenly taking home the wrong wife. As chaotic domestic lives unfold, their interwoven fates unravel through illness, mistaken affections, and a final public revelation of their switched identities.

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 short history of movie music is presented, from silent films accompanied by a single piano, to the elaborate song scores for musicals (with scenes from MGM's musicals) and background music for dramas. Conductor/composer

A bohemian reluctant to marriage and work will get sudden wealth.

The diary of a typical non-stop working day of a wartime district nurse.

Andy Panda is helping his pop out in his blacksmith shop and expresses a desire of his to shoe a horse. Pop tells him he couldn't even shoe a fly (laughs!!!) and decides to prove it to him by taking him up on the offer... namely by disguising himself as a horse (named Charlie) to fool his son. Andy agrees to shoe "Charlie" but the plan goes awry when all manner of disaster befalls the disguised pop culminating in his swallowing several magnets. The magnets within him attract first a heavy anvil and then a pile of burning hot horseshoes! Eventually the disguise comes off and Andy promptly shoes the disguise (thinking it's still Charlie) and proudly tells Pop, "Told ya I could shoe a horse!" Pop, still fleeing the horseshoes, asks Andy, "Tell your mom I won't be home for dinner!"

A film about the N-th airborne school.

Gandy and Sourpuss have been patching up their worn-out tires, due to wartime civilian restrictions on rubber. But finally they give out for the last time, and they seek out replacements at a garage.

48 Seals entering the water. 49 "White People, etc." contains scenes of a man and woman picking flowers, a truck driving along a wooden track or road, people posing at a house and boarding a ship, men with cameras filming fur fox. 50 "Seals," and contains images of large groups of fur seals on rocks. 51 Scenes of rocky shorelines, birds including murres and puffins nesting on rocky cliffs, eggs in a basket, men in small boat. 52 "Our Friends," contains scenes of Pribilof fur seals. "Pribilof Bird Life" are scenes of puffins and auklets and people gathering eggs. "Blue Foxes," are scenes of fur foxes in summer and winter. Reindeer in winter, and in corral. Men working to row a boat away from a rocky shoreline and toward a larger vessel. "Winter - Snow and ice scenes in March.” "Native Church service” is a procession, then an unidentified church building. "St. Paul Island sunset on Big Lake," and "A Bering Sea sunset."

Kate Smith sings four United States patriotic songs and invites the audience to sing with her.

The arrival of the German army in Riga. Registration of Latvian volunteers, parade in Dome square, parade in Riga streets. The first volunteers go to work in Germany, a farewell and a rally. Latvian girls go to work in Germany. Latvians hand over warm linen and skis to the army. The servants prepare the firewood. Townspeople help farmers to weed beets. Residents of Latvia hand over scrap metal to the army. Burial in the Brethren Cemetery. Captain Alexander Mateas and soldier Kiwi are awarded for the Iron Cross.

Electricity must be saved in wartime to keep power plants in full production for more urgent needs.

In the 1600s, Hungary is plundered by the Turks and the Laban. Kecskemét, the free royal city, is not exempt from this. Miska, the wily son of Lestyák, a master tailor, suggests to the town council that they should ask for a permanent beacon from Buda, thus protecting Kecskemét from the harassment of raiding troops. The town assembles its gift of jewellery, cloth and a beautiful girl, and Miska sets off for Buda. On the way, the young gypsy girl falls in love with Mishka, who elopes with her in a boy's dress. He can do this because instead of the bewitchment he hopes for, he is given only a fancy robe to protect the city. Little do they know at the time how much the robe is worth. Before its wearer, all true believers will crumble to dust and do his bidding.

Soundie of Louis Jordan performing "Old Man Mose."

Sailor and tomboy Else (Gerd Gjedved) is fighting for the family's schooner 'Nordstjernen'. Shipping-heir Steen (Hans Kurt) has fallen from his rich father's grace to serve as a 'Nordstjernen' sailor. Will Else and Steen be only colleagues?

This animated short produced during WWII shows how Plugger helped the war effort by renting out his spare room so that a new worker could be brought in to work an idle machine at the munitions plant.

It shows how the border guards arrest the enemy who has violated the border thanks to the vigilance of the common people. The story of the film is told through the story of border soldier Bold and his girlfriend Tsengel.