1942 Movies

1942, 3 minutes, 16mm, color, silent. A self-portrait.

Denver Darling's Hillbillies and their Buffalo Gals.

An anthology of Soviet film from 1942.

Antisemitic propaganda film made in NDH (Independent State of Croatia) about the exhibition held during the month of May 1942 in the Art Pavilion, Zagreb, which portrayed Jews as the biggest threat.

Documentary propaganda film presenting the history of the Romanian people. The film shows documents, historical monuments etc. and a montage of archival footage about Bucovina, Bucharest, Transylvania and Peleș castle.

Kenneth Anger plays a "chosen adolescent" who is elected to be sent on a trip to Mars in a rocket. He awakes in a Martian maze only to find that he not the first to arrive from Earth, as evidenced by the human bones littered about. Although circulated on 16 mm...

Skits by Charlie Chaplin dramatizing the bonds of friendship, love, marriage, and victory.

The arrival of the German army in Riga. Registration of Latvian volunteers, parade in Dome square, parade in Riga streets. The first volunteers go to work in Germany, a farewell and a rally. Latvian girls go to work in Germany. Latvians hand over warm linen an...

An affectionate portrait of the Colombian scientist and writer César Uribe Piedrahita. Shot in the quiet intimacy of his country home in Sasaima, the film is a tribute to a cherished friendship and an exceptional man.

Training film for military pilots of the Bell P-39 Airacobra pursuit aircraft, examining flight techniques, cockpit layout, and armament.

American training film, made by the OSS (Office of Strategic Services),about what a body search may entail, and advice on how an agent could avoid detection.

60 "4th Julys, games, wedding, birds" scenes of men with an octopus, a procession of people coming out of a church and going back into church, row boat arriving at a dock, waves crashing against the shore, ship, whale spout, construction of a large dam, footba...

58 "Natives 1," and "St. George, Road Building, P. Manderville[?]," and contains images of men carrying wooden planks, men on shore and near a house, man killing fox [this is sensitive content], a small boat arriving and men pulling the boat ashore, crates on...

Short documentary on the clandestine press in Belgium during the WW II German occupation.

The circus comes to a small boy's town.

This film was produced by the Film Service of the NSB, the National Socialist Movement. As a result, these films may contain inaccurate, one-sided, and politically extreme ideas.

Commissioned film shot on 16mm Kodachrome film between 1939 and 1941 at the Quebec Provincial Exhibition. Restored by TECHNÈS and MELS from the original camera elements kept by the Center d'archives de Québec of the Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québe...