1940 Movies

This absurdly pro-business film tells the story of a young man who learns a lesson about capitalism and how his town is dependent upon its factories f...

Vocational guidance film showing the radio industry as it existed in 1940, along with potential occupations at every level. Introduces the new industr...

Health film using unusual imagery and metaphors to impart lessons in hygiene.

A nostalgic, slightly syrupy tour through the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco by way of archive footage and a chuckling...

Impressions of the different jobs in automotive service and suggestions on training leading to entrance and to advancement in the trade.

A training documentary describing basic flight information for pilots of the Curtiss-Wright P-40 Warhawk pursuit aircraft.

Shows home, work and school activities of a middleclass Japanese family.

“Peter will an die Landi” (1940) humorously broaches the issue of failing: Without success Peter is trying to reach an exhibition in Zurich by differe...

Short World War II documentary showing examples of how skilled craftsmen of peacetime apply their skills to essential wartime production.

The car of a male and female mouse breaks down en route to a football match. A cat in a sleek roadster takes her, leaving the male behind. At the game...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 July 1940.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 June 1940.

Rupert is the smallest pig of the litter, and all the farm animals bully him and won't give him a spot at the feeding trough. Sulking in the woods, he...

A cartoon that illustrates the old adage that you can take a pig to Switzerland, lead him to the snow, but you can't teach him to ski. But he might le...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 5 April 1940.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 23 February 1940.

Edgar, a broken-down race horse, becomes a fugitive from a glue factory and is ousted from his park bench and chased by the police. He upsets a peddle...

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

Venice Film Festival 1941