Cinematic Era: 1944 Vintage

Two friends, a singer and a wrestler-in-training, fall for two sisters while navigating job hunts and comical living arrangements in the city.

A little dog tries to steal some bones from a pile of wartime scrap bones (intended for a victory drive) that's being guarded by a big, mean bulldog.

British documentary on the use of Penicillin.

Carolina Cotton Yodeling with the Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang.

A black zombie talks about his life.

A Soundie with John Marshall and James Alexander.

Bollywood film

The plot involves the creatures of the sea preparing for the wedding of two fish. When the fish bride is kidnapped by an octopus all the sea creatures must team up to defeat him and rescue the bride.

Tex Williams and Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang sing "Take Me Back to Tulsa".

Training and duties of a British policeman.

In an attempt to prevent his daughter from spending her money needlessly on sweets, Mr. Moppet tells Lulu the story of The Grasshopper and The Ant. Seeing how the grasshopper wasted his money, and could count on no help from the ant, Lulu promises her father that he won't waste her money any more. But the temptation of the local candy store grows too strong, and Lulu buys all of the sweets that she can get hold of in order to "save up for the winter."

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

Opens with a short canonical statement of a theme upon which the entire film is constructed. The canon is repeated in contrasting variations by means of color. A second section poses the same image in deep film space. The image unfolds itself repeatedly, leaving the receding image to continue on smaller and smaller. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.

An animated film illustrating how the Canadian consumer price index was determined and the effect World War II had on it.

A lively sing-song in which a male quartet gives rousing performances of Billy Boy, What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor, and Marching through Georgia.

South African Film

Animated cartoon from the U.S. Army Signal Corps.

This short film describes how Chris Musser of Spring Run Farm in York County, Pennsylvania has adopted soil conservation practices--contour farming in particular--to preserve and improve soil fertility and increase crop yields on his family's farm. The increased crop production also benefits a nation at war.

Billy McDonald sings "Playmates".

Documentary short film explaining the need for increased production of war materials such as artillery shells and bullets as the pace of the Allied war effort increases.

Training film demonstrating safe and proper procedure for towing, mooring, and jacking the B-17 bomber.

As was his usual pattern, Gandy Goose is sleeping. This time he dreams of the story of the princess and the frog and how the frog later turned into a prince into a prince and married the princess.

At the Sandwich Islands, which includes the "deviled egg" island, the "hot dog on a bun" island, and the "hamburger" island (with a sign, "Hold the Onions"), we see a man on the "tunaville" island surveying the area with a telescope. He notices a crate full of musical instruments wash ashore and alerts the others. The tribe finds these instruments strange and unusual at first but eventually really get the hang of them, particularly one member who plays a hot piano, his playing being somewhat interrupted by a pestiferous crab.

A tale of a female goose consumed by adventure and urban glamour in her countryside life, who has to be saved from a cunning fox by her friends and family.

This animated short from Norman McLaren features a human skull cautioning Canadians to “keep their mouths shut” in an effort to end gossiping during World War II.

A class division melodrama centred on Mehtab’s histrionics. Kiran (Mehtab) is the daughter of a courtesan. Her lowly origins first destroy her marriage and then threaten to jeopardise her son Prakash’s (Singh) ambitions. She is blackmailed for keeping her son’s parentage a secret from him, forcing her to return to her ancestral profession. The film was a commercial success.

Directed by Juan Ortega and set in 19th Century Victorian England, a struggling single woman of the noble class , named Juana Champion (played by actress Andrea Palma), has absolutely no marriage prospects. After finally resigning herself to becoming a Spinster or "Old Maid", she decides to go live with her very wealthy Aunt, none other than the Dutchess of Meldrum. Not long after her arrival, she quickly becomes infatuated with a charming, good-looking and talented painter named Garth, who works for her prim and proper Aunt. Although there is a mutual attraction between them from the start, Garth does not truly fall in love with Juana until he hears her sing a wonderful song called "The Rosary".

The film shows in a number of pictures that Jutland, which poet priest Steen Steensen Blicher (1782-1848) loved and sung, among other things.

Justice or revenge? As Allied tanks rolled across Europe in October 1944, clearly in no mood for reconciliation or forgiveness, this film demands punishment for Germany as well as hoping for a lasting peace settlement. Includes footage from the entire conflict, as well as staged sequences.

In this animated short the Pluggers cash in a Victory Bond to purchase a new rug. However, the rug refuses to behave, so they return it to the store and buy a new Victory Bond with the money.

A Soundie with The Three Peppers.

Created by the U.S. Navy's Industrial Incentive Division and the Office of Strategic Service (OSS) during WWII, this "Nazi version" of the Normandy invasion is a translated, authentic German newsreel. The strategy at work here is taken from Frank Capra, who used authentic enemy newsreels and motion picture films in his "Why We Fight" series to provide insight into the Axis. This film, like "Why We Fight", was intended to make its intended audience — American war workers to whom these types of incentive films were shown —outraged, helping them focus on the vital task of production. - Periscope Film

How Somerton, Oxfordshire benefits from membership of the Village Produce Association during WWII.

This historic documentary focuses on why large quantities of war materials, especially steel, are needed to win the war. Also featured is footage on the sea battle and beachhead landing of the Normandy invasion.

The entire film is divided into four consecutive chosen approaches—the fourth section devoted to a reiteration and extension of the original material. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.

Japanese documentary about the submarine I-10 operating in the Indian Ocean during WWII. The film is shot largely from the prowling submarine.

Drinking chocolate flashes before your eyes and makes an offer you can't refuse.

German training film from World War II. The Unseen Weapon.

Things are peaceful around the Yokum family shack in Dogpatch, as pipe-smoking Mammy Yokum has just given Abner, Pappy and Salomey, the family's pet pig, their semi-annual baths. Salomey goes for a stroll in the mountains but is spotted by an evil butcher---a bad caricature of Oliver Hardy---while driving his Black Market truck---it was made in WWII---and trolling for pork talent. He captures Salomey and hauls the little pig off to his large packing plant, with the intent of making sausage and pork chops out Salomey. And, possibly, salami. Abner rushes to the rescue but is soon tied to the same conveyor belt with Salomey and both are well on their way to becoming mixed mince-meat. But Abner screams for HELP!, and Mammy Yokum is on her way.

Biographical data of Euclides da Cunha.

María Contreras (María Maluenda), a young girl from the Andes, wins a contest that allows her to travel to the United States and to triumph in Hollywood as an actress.

A 1944 Spanish film.

Short film about gymnastic movements and girl's dances

A Soundie with the Dixieland Jazz Band.

Autumn in Stockholm.