Cinematic Era: 1943 Vintage

A Soundie with The Four Ginger Snaps.

Training film demonstrating technique for repairing larger holes in an airplane's surface skin, using wooden reinforcements for the patch.

Soundie with a Latin theme.

It depicts a crime scene — the exhumation of bodies and personal belongings found with the remains of Polish officers in a mass grave in the Katyn Forest, murdered in 1940 by the Soviet NKVD political police. The film also shows members of the International Medical Commission established by the German authorities, journalists, former Polish Prime Minister Leon Kozłowski (1934–1935), and Russian peasant Parfien Kiselev, one of the witnesses to the Katyn massacre. The Germans sought to exploit these crimes for maximum political gain, and the film’s narrator, in the spirit of Nazi propaganda, argues that in the face of “Bolshevik barbarism,” people would fare much better under German than under Soviet rule.

The Captain and crew are met with a sea storm.

Quirino's last release, a short animation film in black and white.

The owner of an artists agency meets a soccer player who sings, and sets out to make him a star.

A Bulgarian movie

A little music and dancing.

Reports on the capture of Munda and Rendova in the Solomon Islands. The role of medical instruments and supplies as weapons in these battles is emphasized as well as the battle against death by wound and infection. Shows the "heroes" at home who donate blood plasma and prepare medical supplies for the front lines. "The camera record of the opening attack against Rendova and Munda, the Japanese counterattack, and the magnificent job done in evacuating American wounded and saving their lives. In these front-line scenes is vividly shown how medical supplies from America meant the difference between life and death of our fighters"

Documentary short film revealing the vital work done by women in American defense plants.

Military training film exploring techniques of aerial dive bombing.

A stately film about the history of St Paul’s Cathedral in London, with a focus on the architecture and individuals buried there, and the impact of the Blitz.

A group of young people from the Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires recount their wanderings and their days in high school at the time of the National Organization in Buenos Aires.

Chubby Harry Korris plays thespian stalwart Mr. Lovejoy putting on a show with the help of a pretty disparate and desperate lot, that in the words from Hellzapoppin turns out to be a bust. They decide to put a musical comedy on instead.

Dutch Nazi Cartoon.

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

One of Grant's most interesting and important films is Color Sequence (1943) which consists only of pure solid-colour frames that fade, mutate and flicker. He made the film as a research into colour rhythms and perceptual phenomena, and although it now appears not only visually exciting but also as a precedent for the work of younger film-makers like Paul Sharits, Grant himself found the film to be too disquieting when it was first screened (cf. the Film Exercises), and it received little further play until the 70s.

Amphibious Fighters is a 1943 short directed by Jack Eaton. In 1944, it won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (One-Reel) at the 16th Academy Awards.

Fox has a furnished apartment which he desires to rent to a nice, quiet, respectable citizen like himself, and he especially wants no riff-raff tenant. What he wants and what he gets are two different things as along comes Crow with his own furnishings and decides to move in. Crow proceeds to make himself at home by tossing out Fox's fine furniture and fixings' and brings in his own junk, including a player piano, a juke box and a set of drums, all of which the jitter-bugging Crow plays all night. The Fox tries to evict him the next morning, but the crow simulates a raging snowstorm outside his window and the soft-hearted landlord allows him to stay. And then, although it is mid-July and hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk, Fox hustles down to the basement and starts shoveling coal into the furnace.

The lives of the people of Malta and their endurance under the trials of the Second World War are displayed in this documentary short film.

Restored Film released in 1943, directed by Jay Bonafield

A Soundie with Patterson and Jackson.

A Soundie with Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five.

A look at British glass manufacturing.

An overview of the free healthcare available for children, and the environmental improvements that led to increased public well-being in Britain.

Eddie Peabody charms three women with music.

The fox, determined to keep the Crow away from his garden, reads a box, "How to Fox Crows", which explains, "Crows are allergic to scarecrows." So he offers to hire a scarecrow willing to take the job. The crow disguises himself as a scarecrow, is hired, and instantly devours the fox's entire farmyard crop and even gets the fox blown up in a dynamite trap. Later, the bandaged fox hears a radio broadcast saying the scarecrow he hired is really the crow and suggests he get even with the fowl. He disguises himself as "Sidney Scarecrow" and chases the crow to an amusement park where they eventually make up.

The foreman of the "Lazy S Ranch" is getting much work out of his shiftless cowhands until a black cowboy on a donkey comes riding' along singing "Cow Cow Boogie."

A film about forestry work using old and new methods. Forestry work and the use of wood before and during the war.

Arctic Passage (RKO "This Is America" series) is a documentary showing the construction of the highway from British Columbia to Alaska: the seemingly insurmountable barriers to be overcome, the boom towns that ro se up on the way, the mud, the mosquitoes, the cold-and, finally, a trip with the first truck convoy to cover the route. It is an effective, well-edited story of a real happening.

A Screen gems cartoon

Rules in Fog. Sound signals. Title screen says, “Fog signals must be used in fog, mist, falling snow or heavy rain-storms, whenever visibility falls below 2 miles”. This 1943 era, black and white, U.S. Navy animated film, was produced by the Walt Disney Studios as part of its wartime cartoon production program.

A short documentary on German mines and their deployment in the campaign for North Africa during WWII.

Enemy national Japanese-Americans board a ship in preparation for a voyage to Goa, India.

In memory of the Swedish composer Wilhelm Peterson-Berger(1867-1942). The film was shot three months before the composer's death, on Frösön island, home of Peterson-Berger.

Boat trip from Savonlinna to Kuopio.

Based on the writings of Bertha Rachel Palmer, the film tells the story of a young man injured after drinking too much. The doctor who is treating him explains the effect alcohol has on his body.

Once the Spanish Civil War has ended, the heir of an aristocratic family is missing believed dead. The butler has the idea of presenting his own daughter as the son's fiancee.

A Marathi film by Pendharkar.

Nazi documentary

A Soundie with Diana Del Rio.

A Soundie with Sam Manning and Beryl McBurnie.

A Soundie with The Delegates.

A Soundie with Rosalie Allen.

Images from the towns of Akersund, Lindesberg and Nora (all in Sweden) as they all celebrate 300 years in 1943.

A Soundie with Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica Rascals.

Harry Leighton’s musical number in a dance performance with three pairs of women and servicemen.

1943 Soundies musical short starring Larry Clinton

Royal Navy instructional film A191.

Vigdis (20) loves to have fun, but her strict parents are afraid she will ruin her reputation.

A young man, discharged from the army, returns to his coal town.

Propaganda film produced by the British Colonial Film Unit depicting the role of African servicemen during World War II.

"Maravillas del Toreo", (Marvels of the Bull Ring) from Mexico City native, and writer-director Rafael J. Sevilla, is among the most successful of several movies which focused on bull-fighting that were released in the 1940's. This one even made a very respectable showing with U.S. audiences. Reasons for the film's cross-cultural appeal is likely because of interest in its stars. hilean-born Conchita Cintron, called the Golden-Haired Goddess, was the sport's first and only real-life female bullfighter. She was paired with Mexico's most famous Matador at the time, the legendary Pepe Ortiz.