This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a...

At a nightclub, Charley fails to recognize his newly blonde wife.

Venice Film Festival 1939

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...

Small stories from a grammar school.Děj je poskládán z celé řady epizod, které během jednoho školního roku prožívají septimáni. Jejich...

This MGM short, part of James A. Fitzpatrick's Traveltalk series, takes the viewer to the capital of British India, Delhi. Visits to mosques and...

A man beset by creditors invents a fictitious partner

This travelogue across America is filled with sight gags such as the 'Old Reliable' geyser spitting into a spittoon, cliff-dwelling Indians who walk...

A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.

During the Ethiopian war, thirteen boys embark clandestinely on a merchant ship bound for Africa. Following the shipwreck, they are castaway on a...

A lancashire singer buys a pub in Clydebank and hits money troubles when the shipbyards are closed. She takes a petition to London to try to get them...

Hardworking Minnie (Cora Green) marries "Dollar" Bill (Bud Harris) a shady gambler after her money and her attractive daughter, Sue (Izanetta...

Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley.

The Lone Stranger is sleeping when his faithful, if overly caricatured, Indian scout sees stagecoach driver Porky being robbed by a bad guy. The...

The first film ever distributed by the NFB, The Case of Charlie Gordon focuses on an unemployed young Canadian who has never held a job. In the late...

In this Eric Porter animation of ‘the grasshopper and the ant’ fable, Willie Wombat lazes and plays all summer. He laughs at his animal mates...

A Cartune cartoon featuring Baby Face Mouse.

Gandy Goose goes to Mexico and falls in love with a beautiful senorita. But her father objects and, hoping to get rid of what he thinks is an...

Begins as a "Day in the Life of London", but quickly becomes a story of romance on the London Underground as two Londoners meet while walking their...

Gandy reads a book about detectives and decides he should become one. He wears a Sherlock Holmes-style cap and uses a magnifying glass, but he...

Through stop motion, a car is built piece-by-piece in 3-D with the added enhancement of music and sound effects. Each part becomes "alive" and has...

In this 1939 short in the Melody Master series, that was re-released in 1948 and 1955, Artie Shaw) leads his orchestra in "Begin the...

An experimental animation film in which the images were hand-drawn directly onto clear film by Guy Glover. The colourful moving forms capture the...

A documentary demonstrating the evolution of lubrication since Egyptian times and how modern machines have advanced.

Sourpuss the cat and Gandy Goose are fishermen who end up getting chased by a whale.

A wolf plays ice hockey and lures some rabbits into the game, then traps them, all the while a pig man stumble on his skates, often falling through...

Cel-animated cartoon made by George Pal for Lever Brothers Rinso Soap Company loosely borrows from the English nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of...

A hungry cat swallows a bird from a cuckoo clock. He is rushed to a veterinary hospital, where every effort is made to remove it.

Outlaws Dale and Tucson quit Wolf's gang. Just as the two are about to rob the stage, Wolf and his gang beat them to it. Dale breaks it up saving the...

Avant-garde home movie, creators unkown, attributed to John C. Hecker.

Shoe clerk Krazy gets beaned on the noggin, and the entire contents of his shoe shop comes to (musical) life! Features caricatures of Mae West,...

The history of America's familiar Stars and Stripes flag is chronicled, alongside the historical events that shaped America from its colonial roots...

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Mother) in the royal carriage.

This celebratory 1939 film, sponsored by a local gas company and introduced by LH Keay, architect and director of housing in Liverpool, is an...