1941 Movies

A factory can improve productivity by using machines, however this will mean workers are laid off.

Gai Moran & Danny Hocktor performing "Zig Me Baby with a Gentle Zag" for this 1941 Soundie.

The Arthur Johnston Singers singing "The Singing Hills".

Early footage of Sister Rosetta Tharpe when she was band vocalist with Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra.

The one and only Fats Waller with Myra Johnson performing his classic song The Joint Is Jumpin' from 1941.

Early soundie with Gwen "Verdun" dancing while Warren Jackson croons "The Girl After My Heart".

Women in tropical beach hut setting; shirtless man w/ tiki-style skirt sings 'Sweet Hawaiian Dreams' to Hawaiian girl. Silhouette of girl superimposed...

Dave Schooler and His 21 Swinghearts playing "Sheherezade".

A Soundie short singing the song "Kisses to You".

A animated promotional video from the Ford Motor Company.

Shoeshine stand scene w/ the Delta Rhythm Boys singing 'Jack You're Playing The Game'; Black women watch from windows, another dances; Black man measu...

Documentary short about the government census of unemployed but employable workers. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film Collectio...

A Training film for the British Home Guard (British Army) on unarmed combat. The instructor is none other than Capt. W. E. Fairbairn and the narrator...

Produced by Official Films and titled "When The Circus Comes to Town, featuring the Kidoodlers singing a song.

Mrs. Harwood, a lady of a certain social position, decides to research her women's club presentation on the American dairy industry by visiting Meadow...

Documentary short of Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi.

Gracia de Triana, the Calentito in "trumpeted the Albaicin," produced and directed by Joaquín Cuquerella, 1941. The themes are Perez Ortiz's "Canary f...

The film depicts the entire process of peat production in Denmark.

Finnish Defence Forces Newsreel showing the destructions of the war.

Finnish Defence Forces Newsreel Winter War period.