Cinematic Era: 1942 Vintage

A Pete Smith Specialty. The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.

The life and career of the founder of Southwestern Ontario, Thomas Talbot.

A report on the work of the Detroit Tank Arsenal, and the manufacture and testing of the M-3 Lee tank.

The Charioteers perform the classic title song in this early music video format.

"Cajuns of the Teche" was directed by André de la Varre and released by Columbia Pictures in August 1942.

A propagandistic documentary.

Helen Young sings, and Johnny Long leads his orchestra as they perform a song.

A Soundie with Ginger Harmon and Harry Barris.

A Soundie with Ann Pennington.

A Soundie with Cindy Walker and Lou Fulton.

After Hou Yao moved to Singapore in 1940, he continued to work for the Shaw Brothers and made a handful of films, including Mata Hantu, before being murdered in 1942.

Commissioned film shot on 16mm Kodachrome film between 1939 and 1941 at the Quebec Provincial Exhibition. Restored by TECHNÈS and MELS from the original camera elements kept by the Center d'archives de Québec of the Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec.

1942 Soundies musical short

Fifth film in the Hedda Hopper documentary series.

A documentary showcasing the various ways gondolas are used in Venice.

The son of a sailor goes to sea despite his mother's objections.

A cat literally uses his nine lives to get a bottle of milk off of a porch guarded by a bulldog.

Musical number intended to promote mexican culture around the world.

Highlights the increasingly important roles women occupy on the various fronts of WW II. In England, their more active jobs include ferrying planes from factory to airfield and operating anti-aircraft guns. In Russia, they are fighting on the front lines as well as acting as parachute nurses, army doctors and technicians. In Canada women have joined active service auxiliaries, and thousands labour day and night in factories turning out the tools of war. From the Canada Carries On series.

"Let's Scuffle" is a short subject -- a single song-and-dance number -- that appears to have been cut from a feature-length movie: to be precise, a 'race film'. (This was the term used by American cinema exhibitors in the 1940s and earlier for any movie with an all-black cast, intended primarily for distribution in black neighbourhoods at a time when many American cinemas were segregated.) The song-and-dance performer here is none other than the great Bill Robinson.

Footage of the Basque leader, Jose Antonio de Aguirre during his time spent in exile in New York.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 26 June 1942.

A Rooster finds that none of the housework, cooking or chick-minding is going on when the hens join the WAACs. Throwing themselves into a first-aid course, they manage to tie up the Rooster with bandages and nearly run him down with a jeep.

Borrah Minnevitch and His Rascals play popular songs on their harmonicas.

Nancy and Sluggo do their bit for the USO.

Desert Wonderland is a 1942 American short documentary film directed by Russ Shields and Jack Kuhne exploring the Grand Canyon. It was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Short Subject, One Reel. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Loose animated sequences, recovered by Cinemateca Portuguesa through the Tobis Portuguesa labs, from several reels of nitrate film damaged by time. Although incomplete, it is the oldest known portuguese animated film from which some original film actualy survived.

Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt arrives in London and visits St Paul's Cathedral and Stepney.

This film explains what makes up the national income and how it is spent. It also suggests that savings be invested in war bonds and certificates.

A comic short featuring Whitey's Lindy Hoppers.

This film shows how a vicious spiral of inflation would threaten the country if wartime controls were relaxed. In peacetime, prices are stable--raw materials plus transportation plus manufacture plus packaging plus distribution make up the price of commodities. But in wartime bidding starts for goods which are hard to get. Raises to employees to meet higher prices result in higher costs of production. Prices rise again. Without wartime controls, the spiral would mount up, up and up--and ruinous inflation would be the horrible climax.

Asha, a rich woman, is in love with Ashok, a poor but academically brilliant man. However, her father does not approve of him and wants her to marry Dr Ramesh who is equally wealthy.

Stories in a boarding house where an actress, a bank employee and a trickster live.

Women from a variety of professions sign up to join a volunteer group looking after barrage balloons. Working through all weathers and all hours, after an eleven-week initial training period, they are committed to their work as well as their leisure-time activities.

Musical short

A young blind girl is the only witness to the murder of a greedy, but repentant, landlord.

NSB film footage of the solemn swearing-in of 3,000 NSB officials in the Galgewaard stadium in Utrecht. Among these officials are Max Blokzijl and De Bruin. Van Geelkerken leads the ceremony, during which the officials swear allegiance to Mussert. After this ceremony, Mussert delivers a speech.

This film was produced by the Film Service of the NSB, the National Socialist Movement. As a result, these films may contain inaccurate, one-sided, and politically extreme ideas.

Documentary about the heroic battle of the Black Sea Fleet against the German-fascist invaders during the Great Patriotic War.

A documentary film by Erkki Majava (1919-43) about Pirkkala, where a work service center for young girls operated during the war years. Each course lasted six months, and during that time the girls did all the work themselves. The closing ceremony of the course was held at Haikka Manor, after which these wartime working girls left their workhouses to go their separate ways.

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Children's Beach Colony of "The Century".

Based on Nandan, a low caste farmer's deep devotion towards Shiva.

A silhouette animation version of Princess Kaguya, also known as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, a 10th century folk tale.

Anatomical doc

Moonlight Becomes You, Eddy Howard.

Charles Dorn with the novelty number My Little Grass Shack.

Denver Darling's Hillbillies and their Buffalo Gals.

Soundie with Marc Platt wondering Who Calls.

Soundie with Ginger Harmon singing "Tica Ti Tica Ta."

The soundie begins with the guys in the bandbox playing nurdy stuff & the dancers in the street chanting "No, No, No!" until at long last Walter Fuller bursts into a wild, rapid jazz rendition of "After I'm Gone," setting the dance competition in motion.

A Soundie from Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens.