1941 Movies

Royal Air Force training film starring Trevor Howard as an RAF pilot. Focus of the film is on the importance of finding the right job for the right pe...

In this musical, an idealistic college graduate is bitten by the show business bug after he finds success writing and producing the campus variety sho...

This publicity clip for Canada Post is Norman McLaren's first film for the NFB. For this animated short, McLaren drew symbols by pen onto clear 35 mm...

A Soundie with Susan Miller and Danny Hoctor.

Hoagy Carmichael at the piano sings the title song (lyrics by Johnny Mercer). Dancing by Dorothy Dandridge and Peter Ray.

Venice Film Festival 1940

Christopher Young experiments with objects and their uses.

In this Pete Smith Specialties short, two professional dancers beautifully demonstrate the rumba and conga while actors humorously display some incorr...

In this Robert Benchley instructional video, he demonstrates the pitfalls of a homebody husband attempting to take a vacation apart from his wife.

A young woman returns from boarding school and will repeat in a certain way her mother's secret story, but she will be happy.

The film is set to the music of Franz Schubert and is very strange. Much of it consists of disembodies arms and legs all moving about to the music. Th...

A Soundie with Florence Gill, Redd Harper and The Sells.

Julia, a spoiled mistress always looks for trouble After running away from her own engagement, she must stay at the shelter of an engineer in the wood...

Edgar tries his hand at making pies for Vivien's charity bazaar with predictable results.

A jockey struggles against gamblers with the help of the stable trainer and horse owner's daughter.

Kings of the Turf is a 1941 American short documentary film about horse racing, directed by Del Frazier. This entry in The Sports Parade series shows...

Frank Faylen and Charlie Hall (a longtime Laurel & Hardy foil) star as Dolan and Doolittle, a pair of goofy druggists who join the army to escape...