1939 Movies

A pair of circus clowns, played by Vlasta Burian and Jaroslav Marvan, take in an abandoned child and care for them even when they have to make a livin...

This black & white educational film is about the United States Navy showing off its skills on the high seas during a mock war-games session.

A romance between a man and a ghost woman,

Several men of different nationalities have decided to free themselves from the clutches of women and have vowed to help each other in case one of the...

With James A. Fitzpatrick, we visit Sydney's Bondi Beach, the Blue Hills and onto Melbourne.

Men in Danger is a documentary about health and safety in industry, covering occupational diseases and potential accidents. It also covers the effects...

Film about a police force exposing the activities of a group of smugglers.

A Color Rhapsody cartoon in which children flood the house then proceed to go to sleep.

The King declares a Festive Day in Happy Tots Kingdom and all his subjects, the Happy Tots, are invited to the celebration. Once there, they all have...

The title is a take-off parody of Billy Rose's Aquacade, and uses an ordinary bathtub, as aqua-mice perform aquatic ballet dances and water sports. Th...

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

Two con-men end up at a country estate, where they thwart some jewel-thieves.

For the 1939 World's Fair on San Francisco's Treasure Island, Wah Chang was hired to animate a promotional film for a wax company called Pabco.

The film follows a group of young girls in a boarding school.

Commissioned by The Committee On International Economic Policy and The Carnegie Endowment For International Peace to help stem the isolationist tide w...

"A 'Full-day exercise in the Bernina area' by mountain soldiers under the command of Major Charles Golay. At two o'clock, 130 men broke up in Pontresi...

An MGM cartoon adaptation of the classic fairy tale featuring Hugh Harman's Bear Family.

A boy is obsessed with the comic book hero Zhong Kui, an eccentric ghost catcher armed with a magic sword and sack. When his mother and younger sister...