Cinematic Era: 1943 Vintage

Previously thought to be lost, this film documents life in Poland in 1938. Narrated by Eve Curie. Nominated for the Academy Award.

Kulturfilm about the architecture of the city of Prague.

"We know that victory is won only through the sweat of workers and the blood of soldiers. Out there, there isn't one unimportant soldier, back here there isn't a single unimportant worker." Another film about the critical importance of wartime production brought home through stories of individual workers. Refitting of Firestone plants for wartime production. Manufacturing of truck tires, tank tracks, machine gun ammunition, gasoline tanks; anti-aircraft guns; barrage balloons; life vests; Many workers have family members in the military. The point is made many times that these workers have a special reason to work well and efficiently. "Industry started out to make it possible for these physically handicapped people to help themselves not it ends up that these handicapped people are helping their country."

The film was made by 'Sepia Productions' which company sought in part to present images of African Americans not seen in white-produced movies. The plot of this short film is that the upstairs border, Adam Jones, has been seen sneaking in the house late at night with round packages, which starts the rumor that he's building an atom bomb in his room.

Commissioned to make a film about a pilot health scheme in the Highlands and Islands, Mander decided against a straightforward documentary approach, recording doctors and nurses going about their work, and instead wrote her own storyline about a medical emergency and recruited actors to play it out.

1943 film Oscar nominated in the category Best Documentary, Short Subject

Gandy Goose takes on the classic story.

A successful attack by Soviet Catalinas on a German submarine.

Documentary film about peat extraction, peat block production and transportation.

Summer of 1943. The biggest Finnish film stars get together for charity and stop by an allotment of a veteran left disabled from the war. Helping with the harvest are, among others, Valentin Vaala, Regina Linnanheimo, Lea Joutseno, Irma Seikkula, Emma Väänänen, Hilkka Helinä, Kullervo Kalske, Reino Valkama and Joel Rinne.

In "Pacific Milk Run" U.S. Marine SBDs and other aircraft attack Japanese-held Islands in the Pacific during World War II.

U.S. WWII War Department training film -- "Infantry Weapons and Their Effects" -- covers the major infantry weapons in use by the U.S. Army.

A fascist propaganda movie.

At the end of the school year, students presented their work in an exhibition. The film begins with the production of wood hand sculptures and delicate wooden plates and bowls produced on a lathe. Moholy-Nagy in his signature white lab coat walks among students at work. Other student exercises are shown, including different forms of texture charts, a pillow of metal screening, a paper cutting exercise, weight-bearing paper struts, objects illustrating how wood can be made flexible, leading to the development of various forms of wooden springs for use in mattresses and chairs. The development of the Z-spring and its use in an armchair and in a mattress for a bed are demonstrated. Views of the annual student exhibition showing photography, hand sculptures, and paper constructions. A chair of bent plywood and the electric press used to shape it. An assortment of woven textiles from the Weaving Workshop is shown to a woman, seated in the plywood chair.

Allegory about the South Asian economy during WW2. Bapuji is an agent for the Rangoon Oil Co. Although he has made his money mainly through the black market, his daughter Vidya believes in his honesty. She meets a young man whom she scorns as he does not seem to be from her own social class, but then he turns out to be Lalnath, a director of Rangoon Oil.

An accurate description of the Finnish Waffen-SS volunteers from 1941 to 1943. Recruited in spring 1941, trained in Germany and all the way to the Caucasus. Narrated by a young TK man, front radio commentator Veikko Itkonen (1919-1990).

Ralph Richardson provides a patriotic voiceover for this glowing tribute to the success of Allied bombing of Germany.

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.

A perpetually late bell ringer, faces losing his job if he doesn't become punctual.

The Heat Waves sing and dance to the song "Zoot Suit."

The film begins with a number indicating that the number of volunteers for the army increased sharply from 1938 to 1940 (by 35 times) after the National Mobilization Law was promulgated in 1938. It shows scenes of the volunteers in a boot camp such as close-order drill, bayonet drill, and guerrilla training. The boot-camp scenes reveal the frantic urgency of the wartime system in the early days of the Pacific War that literally 'mobilized' all human and material resources. After the volunteers are summoned to boot camp in the morning, they all pay their respects toward the Japan's Ise Grand Shrine across the sea. It once again reminds us of the sorrow of losing one’s own country to invaders. Acquired in 1994.

Film records and illustrates a BBC broadcast by West Indians in Britain to explain to the British people the West Indians' contribution to the war effort

Demonstrates importance of posture and arrangement of equipment. Shows how to use tab stops, tab bar, decimal tabulator and carbon packs, and how to remove or insert words and letters, make erasures and type cards, envelopes and labels.

Our Enemy-The Japanese is a 1943 16mm propaganda film produced by the US Navy and Office of War Information to provide background knowledge about the wartime foe.

Lane Truesdale sings "Who's Yehoodi?".

Emerson's Mountaineers sing "Little Brown Jug".

From bayonet fighting to blasting bunkers, glacier climbing to sniper fire, here is the tough training that molded the leaders of Hitler's armies. This original Nazi film, enhanced by action-packed sequences and a brilliant musical score, depicts life at German schools for young men of the Waffen SS (Combat SS).

Pennsylvania Dutch farmers demonstrate how American farmers can contribute to the war effort in this documentary short subject.

Wingy Manone & Ann Lee sing us some upbeat blues.

This 1943 documentary film reports on the technical progress of the cinematographic shooting, in particular the development of the slow motion in the scientific films.

Retrospective on the history and the evolution, thanks to the technical progress, of the press filmed since the beginnings of the cinema in 1895 until 1943.

Shows the processes that crystals have to go through before they are ready to be inserted into radios to facilitate clearer communications.

The story of three eighth-grade students about to graduate from high school. Pista falls in love with a 16-year-old girl, Sárika, Gyula with a mature woman, Erzsébet, and Laci with the local theatre prima donna, Ferike. Laci buys a valuable piece of jewellery for the artist and gets into trouble. His friends go to Ferika to ask her to return the gift, which upsets Laki so much that he wounds Pista in a duel. The class in the theatre boo the prima donna who is responsible for everything. The scandal causes the boys to be banned from their final exams, but their class teacher stands up for them.

This is a newsreel on the mobilization of manpower during World War II. It focuses on how the workers on production lines produced a large volume of materials for the Allied war effort.

War Department Training Film No. 107-A This is an introduction to a fighter ... The P-47 Thunderbolt. After you have made its acquaintance in this film, you will learn more about the P-47 in other motion pictures dealing with ground handling, take-off, normal flight and landing, high altitude flight and aerobatics. Presented by the Army Air Forces in cooperation with Republic Aviation Corporation 1943

War Department Training Film No. 107-B. This is the second in a series of pictures introducing pilots to the P-47. A third picture will cover high altitude flight and aerobatics. In this film you will see GROUND HANDLING ... TAKE-OFF ... NORMAL FLIGHT ... LANDING Presented by the Army Air Forces in cooperation with Republic Aviation (1943)