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Four popular songs with animated backgrounds, sung by the Four Gentlemen Quartet: Oh Susanna, with a short cartoon sequence of two couples in a square dance, Carry On, Short'nin Bread, and Pack Up Your Troubles.
The Fox is overweight and his doctor has put him on a light diet, which lasts only until the Fox arrives home hungry and prepares himself a large meal. The Crow, hungry as usual, decides to throw a fright into the Fox and get the meal for himself. The Crow does such a good job that the Fox imagines that he himself is dead.
Chahine’s first film, made while he was still a student at the Victoria School in Alexandria, titled “School Life”
Tells the story of how the 8th American Air force’s daylight bombing raids on Germany helped the Allies to win control over the skies of Europe. Recreating the events of Operation Argument (or Big Week) during 20-25 February 1944, which helped secure Allied air power over Europe.
The film invites Latvian youth to join the auxiliary ranks of the fleet. The film uses documentary footage of devastated Riga. Helpful training was filmed in late July and early August 1944 in Riga, Torņakalns-Ziepniekkalns district (near Zennītis), and in Jūrmala, between Lielupe and Bulduri (near spotlights). Zigfrīds Pūders is also seen among the youthful helpers.
This short film is about the disease infantile paralysis (possibly polio) hosted by the actress Ms. Greer Garson in 1944. There are several settings showing children of all ages and varying degrees of the disease progression and recovery. One setting is a group treatment home, the children are cared for round the clock by caring competent doctors, nurses and physical therapists. They use toys and games that are typical for their age/development and the era to challenge and encourage the children to learn to use their affected limbs to overcome the disease's devastating effects. Ms. Garson encourages the public to donate their time, effort and funds to help the medical community in their efforts to halt, cure and eradicate the disease. It is encouraging to see these smiling and happy children, who although affected by this terrible disease, nonetheless have a bright future. It is a warm short treatment for a difficult subject.
This 1944 frontline documentary chronicles the Red Army’s entry into Bulgaria, showing its collaboration with Bulgarian partisans and the expulsion of Nazi occupying forces. Produced as Front-line Special Issue No. 8, it features operators from multiple Soviet documentary units capturing both military advance and civilian reactions. While some sources (e.g. Barnouw) place Roman Grigoryev in a field role, the official credit is for Mariyana Fideleva as director.
Explains the design and functions of the components in the air brakes system used in large military vehicles. Shows what happens when the brake pedal is depressed and released.
Pictures from the Finnish reconstruction work in Karelia.
A Soundie with the Burch Mann Dancers.
Soundies short film featuring Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five performing "Jumpin' at the Jubilee"
A narrator introduces some aquatic menaces
Documentary about the cultivation of cassava, a plant used to make tapioca. The film begins with a presentation of Madagascar and its capital Tananarive, then shows us how cassava is grown.
A story of sappers in the field clearing mines.
A Japanese propaganda film that the fate of romusha is better and honorable than workers in the Dutch colonial era (Rodi).
A singer is employed in a boite to find the murderer of his mother.
A documentary that was short-listed for the 1944 Academy Awards.
A Puppetoon by George Pal.
An adaptation of the play The Two Orphans by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon.
Combat Bulletin was a new reel type series keeping folks up-to-date with the combat of World War II.
Combat Bulletin was a new reel type series keeping folks up-to-date with the combat of World War II.
Combat Bulletin was a new reel type series keeping folks up-to-date with the combat of World War II.
Second World War British Ministry of Information animated cartoon newsreel trailer encouraging the public to make fewer social telephone calls in order to leave the telephone lines free for important calls in support of the war effort.
This documentary depicts the American effort to support the Chinese government before and during the Second World War, by means of transport flights of materiel from India to China, by the fierce defense of China skies by the pilots of the American Volunteer Group (The Flying Tigers), and the subsequent absorption and augmentation of that unit by the U.S. Army Air Forces' Fourteenth Air Force. Also depicted are the millions of refugees fleeing the Japanese armies and the relocation of equipment, personnel, and (sometimes) civilians in advance of the invaders.
This short documentary from the Canada Carries On series celebrates the contribution of Canada’s railroads to the war effort. The film includes a sequence from Buster Keaton's 1926 silent comedy The General, as well as a re-enactment of Lord Strathcona driving the final spike into the Canadian Pacific Railway Line.
Documentary short film depicting the successful Allied advance into Rome, freeing it from German control during World War II.
Shots of Canterbury Cathedral and the surrounding countryside are accompanied by choral songs and a sermon by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr William Temple, on the history and significance of the cathedral.
Animated short.
Some happy mice are listening to an old radio program that features their hero, Mighty Mouse!
The tiny toy helicopter which all the little mice didn't think was worth bother with, comes to the rescue of a mouse that has been trapped by the cat. The helicopter saves the day and becomes a mouse-hero icon.
Frigidaire plant converts to military production during World War II.
Argentine woman stranded in plane-crash, falls for Mexican plantation-owner.
1944 short film nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Short Subject, One Reel
A Soundie with Harry Gibson.
Raunaq (1944), directed by Dwarka Khosla, is a Hindi social drama set in 1940s Bombay. It stars Swaran Lata, Noor Mohammed Charlie, Chandra Mohan, Motilal, and Subarnalata .
An animated short about the work of Canada's Mutual Aid Board and the necessity for this cooperation between the Allied countries.
Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.
The waves have washed up a skull from the sea. A rambler tries to connect the find to a nearby mill. The film as a whole is association and mood.
The film is the simultaneous portrayal of the wedding ceremony and honeymoon of a city and a country couple.
Delta Rhythm Boys sing "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me".
A documentary giving a short history of China and how it was being affected by the Japanese invasion during World War II, aka The Second Sino-Japanese War.
This film, produced by the Aetna Life Insurance Co., shows parents how their children can be prevented from descending into a life of crime, immorality, drugs, perversion, licentiousness, voting Democratic and cigarette smoking by the purchase of an Aeta Life Insurance policy.
Achim and Vera are friends and live an uncomplicated and happy life .... that is, until they get into their first serious argument on how they should spend New Year's Eve. Vera wants to celebrate with friends, while Achim wants to go off to a lonely mountain hut. And so, he goes off alone into the mountains. In the hut, he meets the student Susanne, with whom he spends New Years' Eve; gets to know well; and falls in love with. Unfortunately, through misfortune, they lose sight of each other afterwards...
A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines, covering cover and concealment, ambush techniques, etc.
Highlights the history of balloons.
Smallholder collaboration and courses.
Shows people in activity, playing and doing their every day activity.
1944 Indian Tamil-language film
A little-known film through which the Soviet propaganda tried to tell the story of Katyn in its favor.
Ventures beyond the Copacabana beach to explain how Brazil – rich in minerals, oil and rubber and strategically vital for access to Africa, and at the time under the dictatorship of Getulio Vargas – was wooed by the USA’s ‘Good Neighbor Policy’ and came to join the Allies during World War II.
Life during wartime for Sweden meant a carefully balanced neutrality in order to avoid the fate of Norway. This newsreel explains the concessions Sweden made to the Nazis in order to remain neutral, while highlighting the ways in which the country was also helping the Allies and defying Germany.
A short feature aimed at British schoolboys in 1944 encouraging them to register for apprenticeships in the building trade.
Harold Richards and Jeanne Claire sing "Sweet Leilani".