1941 Movies

A young woman, member of an orchestra of young ladies, is mistaken for the eccentric conductor and causes a series of problems.

Behind the scenes in a 1940s animation studio, showing the making of a Chevrolet advertising cartoon.

An animated documentary describing the involvement of Japan, Italy and Nazi Germany as the aggressors and instigators of World War II.

Documenting the production of kerosene tins and their reuse in rural India, this early short by Bimal Roy observes industrial labor and everyday life with a restrained, humanist perspective.

Jana's beautiful niece arrives in Prague to live with two spinster aunts. Both women wish to marry her off. The son of the court councilor Petr is courting her. However, Jana has met a young official Záviš and the two fall in love. But Záviš is poor and cannot...

Produced by Official Films and titled "When The Circus Comes to Town, featuring the Kidoodlers singing a song.

Eva Cullberg (Annalisa Ericson) wants to sing in a cabaret the local military company are arranging. But her mother (Tollie Zellman) and father (Carl-Gunnar Wingård) won't let her, so she pretends to be the nanny of her sister's child. Along the way she falls...

Fats Waller is at the piano with a bunch of pretty female dancers, one of whom that sits next to him at the keys is Vivian Brown. He tells her he needs no sugar since she's that and more to him as he implies by the title song.

When a RAF plane is downed, the combined forces of the air and sea arms spring into action to rescue him, which mostly seems to consist of men in offices speaking into telephones.

A call to sort and recycle waste. Produced by a request from the Federal Office of the War and Labour Industry and the Waste Management Office. Factories are at a standstill due to the war. Waste collects to power these industries.

The arrival of spring in Helsinki in 1941, the celebration of May Day, the international match march.

A 1941 visual anthology made as part of a project to celebrate the passing of the Japanese government's controversial Film Law in 1939. This anthology included early films that existed at the time but are now lost, and a series of famous examples of the benshi...

An American Red Cross fund-raising short starring Deanna Durbin.

A unique presentation that attempts to explain why people like to appear naked.

A portrait of life in Shetland, composed of clips from the films of Shetland filmmaker Jenny Gilbertson (aka Jenny Brown).

Nisse Holm start marketing coffee made of tree cones.

Art professor Tore Stenwall is engaged to one of his young students, Anna-Lisa. He shows her a portrait and tells the story of how it came to be.

An aristocrat makes his servant, Pepe Conde, pose as him to avoid unwanted company from visitors.