1939 Movies

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

Short film.

A paunchy, monocled English character, Major Doolittle, and his valet, Jarvis, go hunting in Africa, where they try to trap a lion by dressing the servant in a skin, but are outwitted.

This 1939 black and white classroom film produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films in collaboration with H.C. Raven of the American Museum of Natural History depicts indigeonous Central African foragers, aka Mbuti, Bambuti, or Pygmy peoples of the African Cong...

Men in Danger is a documentary about health and safety in industry, covering occupational diseases and potential accidents. It also covers the effects on the health of workers where the various tasks are very monotonous.

Unemployed Anna leaves her son Olavi to be raised by Antti, a shoemaker. When the shoemaker dies, Olavi is sent to an orphanage, from which he runs away with a cat and a violin under his arm. After many misfortunes, the talented Olavi becomes a student of a pr...

A bunch of gags from many places, some of which are Bola-Mola Land.

A 1939 Mythological Bengali Drama film directed by Hari Bhanja.

Fashions for active sport and evening wear.

A homeless dog comes to a sign offering a home at a farm for a watchdog. He just settles into the doghouse straight from the road. Adorable white bunnies appear, all hauling off the vegetable crops, one by one. Dog captures one of them, lines it up for a Gener...

Melodrama about lineage and property questions. Nikhilesh (Barua) loves heiress Indira (Jamuna). A poor orphan girl, Radha (Menaka Devi),arrives claiming to be Indira's stepsister and therefore part inheritor of the family estate. Indira agrees to share her i...

Three shepherds are turned into princes by the Forest Fairy and they go live to their lively castle.

At the start of 1939 an exodus of nearly 500,000 Spanish Republicans, soldiers and civilians together, fleeing Franco's troops crossed the border to France. Louis Llech, a Perpignan based shopkeeper and enlightened amateur cineaste, owned a 16mm camera. Togeth...

David, an engineer hired to build an industrial facility, arrives at a traditional hacienda on the Peruvian coast. He travels with Ramón, a scatterbrained assistant. The hacienda belongs to the Herrera family. Among its residents are Doña Rosario, the founder'...

When Dr. Müller is delayed and postpones his own wedding his furious bride Inge leaves him and goes to see her aunt, picking up smart Fred on the way who poses as her husband since Inge is too embarrassed to talk about her busted nuptials.

“The rolling hills and wide valleys of the Chilterns are given centre stage in this travelogue aimed at boosting tourism … The Chilterns are a range of rolling hills not far from Greater London; starting at the Thames in Oxfordshire and meandering in a north-e...

Commissioned by The Committee On International Economic Policy and The Carnegie Endowment For International Peace to help stem the isolationist tide washing across America at the dawn of World War II, to prepare the citizenry for the eventual process of intern...

It takes the form of a travelogue aboard a train that hits some California spots, including Death Valley and Pike's Peak.

A narrative story of the planting of field windbreaks and shelterbelts in the prairie states, where farmers cooperate with the United States Forest Service in one of the most unusual tree-planting programs ever undertaken in an effort to reclaim land ruined by...