1939 Movies

Throughout the 1930s, Margaret Cram directed the same film again and again. An itinerant filmmaker based in Boston, she made her living by traveling t...

“Between 1926 and 1985, amateur Archie Stewart shot over seventy thousand feet of film. In 1936 he purchased a sound-on-film 16mm camera and began to...

The destruction of the city and its architectural heritage during the Allied bombing of the Second World War.

An animated short made for the Swiss National Exhibition 1939 in Zurich.

How the beavers rebuilt after the flood and drove the wolf away from their island.

Animated film about the friend of all the Moscow children, the giant Uncle Stepa.

Fashions for active sport and evening wear.

At the eve of the Second World War, one of the first color films, which has preserved for us the parade of athletes, which was held in 1939 on Red Squ...

1939 short documentary by Belgian filmmaker on pianter Hans Memling.

Detailed analysis of the famous polyptych by the Van Eyck brothers, housed in Ghent Cathedral.

A story set in 1811 as Napoleon is gathering men to go into war. Eight years later Father Joseph Mohr sits down and writes the song Silent Night.

This MGM short, part of James A. Fitzpatrick's Traveltalk series, takes the viewer to the capital of British India, Delhi. Visits to mosques and templ...

Avant-garde home movie, creators unkown, attributed to John C. Hecker.

Tanz der Farben (1939) is by no means a lost film. Created by Hans Fischinger, Oskar’s younger brother, it is considered the last abstract film made i...

Beverage commercial, made as an animated film.

Scenes from the Handba' festival on New Year's Day in Kirkwall. Winner of the Scottish Prize, The Andrew Buchanan Cup at Scottish Amateur Film Festiva...

The making of wrought iron chain at the Netherton Works of N. Hingley & Sons Ltd. Part of BFI collection "Tales From the Shipyard".

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel".