1940 Movies

Gran'pop monkey runs a printing press while evading the advances of his amorous secretary and suffering the mischievousness of the two young family me...

A Cartune short featuring Punchy.

A comic look at prehistoric life.

A 1940 black and white film, production sponsored by the Colonial Empire Marketing Board. 'The East African colonies are introduced as representative...

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...

This Traveltalk series short takes viewers on a tour of old New Mexico. Starting in Santa Fe, the oldest state capitol in the USA, the city existed lo...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 8 March 1940.

While outside in a hotel garden at night, Miss Tang runs into a vampire. Mr. Li tries to find out if it's real or not. It may have something to do wit...

A mute stagehand dreams that he succeeds in the theater after having recovered his voice.

A Bevy of Beauties and a Boatload of Fun

A documentary on the anti-Japanese war, once thought to be lost but eventually a print was discovered in the archive of Taiwan.

Venice Film Festival 1940

Short film in support of the Red Cross showing civilian volunteers'work, radio and movie personalities at a fund-raising gala and encouraging recruitm...