1939 Movies

Pictures of the mining area, extraction, concentrator, workers' housing area and recreational opportunities.

A Pete Smith Specialty explaining the finer points of meat carving, shown by an expert.

Music film with all star colored cast.

A cat is bullying the poor mouse population. The have a mass meeting to decide what to do, and resolve that by putting a bell on him they'l hear it an...

After many years in Africa, a man returns to his village in East Prussia to marry his intended bride. However, he finds himself drawn to another girl...

As a narrator describes the scene, we watch the whole Katzenjammer clan camping in the park of the title, a composite of several national parks in the...

Gandy is hitch hiking next to his trailer. A dog comes by and latches on to it. They spend a restless night, fighting off hundreds of mosquitoes. Even...

The Old Man of the Propeller can be seen as a comedic amalgam of “King Lear” and “Christmas Carol”. A neighborhood loan shark is hounded by his relati...

Advertising cartoon showing advantages of using gas supply and gas cookers.

The story of the conquest of the Colorado River by 'Buzz' Holmstron, an Oregon filling station attendant, who was the first man ever to navigate the r...

Singer Jimmy Williams' father Joe is a chemist who recently lost his job to George Elliott. Since then, Joe has been investigating the "Adam and Even"...

Mariquilla lives with his uncle in the village of Las Canteras, where she is beloved for his grace and cheerful nature. Her uncle wants her to debut i...

An orphan Mihato Mari works as a secretary at a spinning factory.

Sniffles the mouse has to get an owl's egg for a scavenger hunt, but once he's gotten it, the egg hatches and draws the attention of the mouse-eating...

Four friends pretend a cruise to escape their wives and go clubbing, but they are forced to go through face-saving shipwreck, becoming castaways.

Produced shortly before the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, If War Should Come was one of the last films to be produced by the GPO Film Un...

The French ballet girl Janine, a gifted tap-dancer, dreams of a musical career in Paris. But first she wants to take revenge on Count René who stood u...

The feisty boss of a chain of cafes wants to push the youngest of her daughters off on a husband, who would be well-suited to take over the business o...

The cheerful and optimistic character of Sly Peter emerged in Bulgarian folklore during the distant times of Ottoman bondage and served as an outlet p...