1940 Movies

A lonely girl faces several odds in society after her mother's death. Later, she gets attracted to a witty man, who decides to marry her.

Scans of Chauvet and Lascaux, ancient cave drawings discovered in France in the 1940's. Meant to be viewed under firelight, the flicker giving the ill...

The operation of a floating sea fort during WWII, and the lives of those who work on board.

Documentary-filmed events in the Carpatho-Ukraine (aka Ruthenia) during 1939 drive this history of the Ukraine's struggle for independence as a nation...

A play on the theme of hearts. Two hearts cavort, change shape, shoot arrows at one another, give birth, and finally become one heart bearing the mess...

A mouse sings a lullaby to her baby. Since he doesn't want to fall asleep, she turns to her neighbors for help.

A rebellious young woman defies her conservative surroundings and falls in love, setting off a sequence of emotional and social complications. Along t...

Dinky is scared off by hunters, finding his way to a farmyard. There he tries to join a chicken family, but is rejected until he saves a chick who's f...

A family of mice who live inside of a wall are trying to sleep, but Mom mouse is being kept awake by a dog snoring in the room outside of their hole....

An experimental film in which both sound and visuals were created entirely by McLaren drawing directly upon the film with ordinary pen and ink. The ti...

A short film showing how the Teleprinter works.

Rube Goldberg looks for a perfect Perpetuum Mobile design, while petroleum and internal combustion engine technologies open new frontiers.

Film about Ghost-Cat.

A Juan Oliva's animation short film.

An ethnographic film about net fishing in calm and stormy weather in Kalla, Kalajoki parish. There are fishermen there from as far as Hailuoto and Kok...

The Happy Tots are a group of tiny elves. They decide to build a rocket and blast off to Mars.

Lightships (ships serving the functions of a lighthouse) have for centuries been treated as neutral during wartime, but a British lightship during Wor...