Cinematic Era: 1943 Vintage

An early Indian film explored themes of faith, hope, societal struggles, and the role of prayer or devotion in overcoming adversity

Andy and Emmett try to win the affections of the town widow by presenting her with new whitewall tires.

Sándor Vedres, a painter, learns that his success is not due to his talent, but to the intervention of his model, the flirtatious Marianne, and flees to the Transylvanian mountains with a disappointed heart and shaken self-confidence. His calm is disturbed by the appearance of Klara, who looks exactly like Marianne. His barely healed wounds are torn open by the encounter, he runs away upset and falls into an abyss. She is found unconscious. Marianne's sister, the noble-hearted Klára, carefully tends to the stricken man, who soon recovers but remains mute. The mute painter discovers pure love alongside the kind-hearted girl, and his paintings of the mountains are rewarded with a prize at the exhibition in the capital. News of his success attracts the old lover, but not the love of Klára and Sándor.

Kent Smith educates about dental health.

About the war effort in the West Indies.

A new teacher arrives at a girls' boarding school; his arrival disrupts the discipline of the beautiful students.

A Czech folklorist who received a prize for a visual myth about Slovakia The Earth Sings (1933) at the Venice Biennale, made for Prag-Film a film about the culture and traditions of the Cheb district (The Egerland, practically uninhabited by Czechs by then), for which a propagandistic prologue and epilogue was shot by F. B. Nier.

A brief documentary about the history of the Royal Mail.

A Terrytoon cartoon.

The film is a war-propaganda newsreel film produced when Japan’s defeat in the Pacific War was imminent. The film covers the visit to the birthplace of the late Captain Choe Myeong-ha (Takeyama in Japanese), the first Korean-born Air Force officer who was killed in an operation to attack an airfield on Sumatra. It introduces the captain's parents and keepsakes, and follows junior officers undergoing military training at the captain's alma mater. The film also covers the training of young sailors, the process of making pine coal oil using rosin, the achievement of 1.2 billion won of savings, and mining ore for military supplies. Acquired in 1994.

Akl Pasha intends to get married after the death of his wife. His young son tries to dissuade him from this idea, but he fails. So the father contracts the marriage with a beautiful young girl. The girl tries to persuade him to appoint her father to the position of an engineer, while her father does not know how to read and write. He tries to evade the request. Strangely enough, but the girl insists, so he has no choice but to present the request to the Board of Directors. Who mocks him and ridicules the request, which drives (Aqal) Pasha into depression and retirement in the estate.

Ranchera melodrama/romance.

Animated training film demonstrating the process by which an autopilot uses gyroscopic controls to maintain an airplane in level flight.

The hunt for a precious porcelain tableware leads to the Möllegården estate, where ghosts are said to live.

Camelia, a prostitute who works in a low-class cabaret in Mexico City (called "The Blood Stain') meets Guillermo, a young man from the country who just arrived in the city looking for a better life. She offers to take care of him until he gets set up, and the initial friendship soon turns romantic. This inevitably causes problems with Gastón, Camelia's pimp.

An industrial film about a Slovak patent - the production of glycerine from sugar beet, with the young František Zvarik in an insightful lead role.

Soundies short film featuring Maurice Rocco performing "Rock It For Me" on the piano.

On the last day of the semester, Terry (Henry) and his pals enroll for a summer aviation course.

Years later, the memory of their first, unfulfilled love still haunts Miklós, a once poor schoolboy, and Eva, the mayor's daughter, separated by social barriers in the past and family ties today.

Al Donahue and friends sing us a song.

The film was shot in 1942 by cinematographers of the Leningrad Newsreel Studio. It brings together unique footage captured during the siege in the ports of Osinovets and Kobona, during the evacuation of children along the Road of Life, and during the legendary battle on Sukho Island. The film provides a vivid picture of how events on the Road of Life actually unfolded.

A victory loan film urging people not to sell their Victory Bonds. The Plugger family happily dreams of the day after the war when they will be able to make dreams come true with the money from their bonds. But the temptation to cash them in immediately to buy luxury goods is strong. The Pluggers, however, overcome temptation, and are once more on the road to victory.

An Australia propaganda war film documenting the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Nominated for the Academy Award.

This “issue” of the screen’s graphic humor magazine bears some stylistic influence of New York’s Fleischer animation studio.

A British documentary on tunneling if a building falls in ruins.

Max and Karla visit his deceased uncle's farming estate where it is confirmed that they will inherit it. Financial expert Max tries to manage the farm but collides with manager Georg whom Max soon suspects to have an affair with Karla.

Letter to a Hero is a 1943 American short documentary film produced by Frederic Ullman Jr. A school teacher in Monroe, NY writes a letter to her former student who is fighting in WWII. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 16th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject, Two-Reel.

Training film demonstrating the usage of the turbosupercharger, a device for providing greater engine capability at high altitude. Various techniques for operating and servicing the turbosupercharger are shown using a B- 17 bomber.

Pass the Biscuits Mirandy! Release Date: 8/23/43 Direction: James Culhane Story: Ben Hardaway and Milt Schaffer Animation: Paul Smith Music: Darrell Calker Notes: Production Number: C-13 A Swing Symphony cartoon James Culhane's directorial debut at Lantz

Gábor Turi, the star of the Viennese Opera retires from the stage after he inherits a huge piece of land in Hungary with the stipulation that he can't continue his career as a singer.

Screen Gems cartoon showing what really happened in those old nursery rhymes.

A steamboat ride on Lake Zurich. Filmed close up to the machines, the operators and the passengers, the short film provides a multifaceted impression of the work in the engine room and the lively activities on deck.

Khandekar’s didactic script for Vinayak continues his preoccupation with the character of a moral man whose principles conflict with practical reality. Manohar (Salvi, who plays this character’s earlier version: Bappa in Vinayak’s Amrit, 1941) is an alcoholic but idealistic public prosecutor and calls for the death sentence for the nationalist anarchist Ravindra (Vinayak). Ravindra’s girlfriend Shashi (Meenakshi) is pregnant and gives birth in an orphanage. She then becomes a nurse and has to look after Manohar who falls for her. She agrees to marry him but keeps her child a secret. When a child is found dead in the orphanage, Manohar prosecutes its humanitarian manager for infanticide. Shashi, who appears as a witness, reveals the truth of her life in court, causing a dramatic change in her husband’s world-view.

Animated film about a bird.

A dopey exterminator (from the Goode Riddance Exterminator Company) tries to rid Hardwood Hall of a hungry, but...

Three overseas servicemen take a tour of the Royal Mile - visiting the sights between Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Palace, and learning about the sometimes gruesome history of Scotland.

A brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War -- enlivened by the appearance of ghostly denizens to defend their eras against the narrator's various strictures!

Larry Clinton and his Orchestra.

Visit various Nova Scotians at home, work and leisure while giving a panoramic view of the province’s coasts, farms and forests.

Deepak goes for an interview and mistaken as possible groom for Rajasaheb's daughter Bina. They fall in love but afraid of dire consequences Deepak runs away. They meet again and Rajasaheb get Bina married off to Deepak.

Sten meets Nina on a train ride. He feels attracted to her but he is already engaged to his fiancee Marie-Louise.

A documentary on the Norwegian city Bergen made during World War II.

The hero, Handsome Harry, is poor, honest, hard-working and pure as the driven snow. The villain, first cousin to Sniveley Whiplash, is deceitful, mean, contrary, selfish and a down-right ornery cuss who would steal and hock his mother's false teeth. The pretty heroine is, at best, fickle and a front-running gold-digger but Harry is smitten with her and yearns for her hand in holy matrimony, but she opts to marry the villain and his money-bags. Years go by and Hero continues to study and work hard in the hopes his fair lady will become his. More years go by, and all concerned are aged with gray, and the heroine decides Handsome Harry is her man. The villain, takes up with young chorus girls for consolation.

The concerto for piano and orchestra of Fantasia Brasileira and its movements (Prelude, Song, Dance), illustrated by images of the performing musicians and Brazilian scenes: a raft at sea, a farm, rural workers, a church and a series of waterfalls.

War Department Training Film No. 107-C In preceding films in this series you have met the P-47 and taken it through take-off, normal flight and landing. In this film we give the P-47 some action Presented by the Army Air Forces in cooperation with Republic Aviation Corporation 1943

A peasant family composed of Don Juan de la Cruz Pizarro, his wife Doña Juliana and their six children who, like the branches of a tree, grow and detach from the trunk that gave them life ..

Johann, the trusted valet of Count Zirndorf, has an affair with chambermaid Marie, but this liaison ends, as does the count's marriage. Years later trouble ensues when the count's daughter falls for young Hans who might be her brother.

Training film demonstrating the techniques and requirements of flying the B-24 bomber equipped with a turbosupercharger, a mechanism designed to help engines function at full capacity at high altitudes.

Andrea Fontana is a lawyer who meets a girl and then marries her. But it is not long before he is called to serve in the war.