1942 Movies

A Soundie with John Feeney and Charles Devlin.

A Soundie with Denver Darling and His Texas Cowhands.

Old lady from the countryside travels to the bustling city of Xinjing to join her children in the "10th Anniversary Celebration of the Founding of Man...

The Hollywood Theater presents Movies of Local People. Photographed in and around Chapel Hill, N.C. April 16-17 1941

Soundies short film in which Gracie Barrie sings "I've Got to Get Hot"

Why prices for goods in Canada are rising due to World War II.

This is a 1942 United States Navy Training Film, designated as MN-324A-D. Walt Disney Studios provides animation depicting a German gas attack.

Three men (Harry Hilfinger, Robert Davis, and Fred Kautzman) encourage people to follow rules set by the air raid warden in the event of an air raid....

A film of the Clyde, from its source at Elvanfoot to its mouth at Glasgow, from rivulet to mighty waterway. Street scenes in Glasgow, shots of factori...

Big Band Soundie starring Johnny Johnston, Ann Carmichael, and Don Kent

Commissioned film shot on 16mm Kodachrome film between 1939 and 1941 at the Quebec Provincial Exhibition. Restored by TECHNÈS and MELS from the origin...

A girl sees a bathing costume in a shop window, and as she has no money takes a kitsch painting off the wall at home in order to sell it. We follow he...

A short guide around St Pauls Cathedral.

Whirring, gliding and twisting machinery produces sumptuous Scottish woollen fabrics, captured in Technicolor by legendary cinematographer Jack Cardif...

A Soundie starring Barry Wood.

Documentary short on American war production accompanied by Jan Peerce's singing of the title song by Rodgers and Hart.

A popular science film, which captures historical places scattered across the Gyeongju, the capital of the ancient Korean state of Silla, with local f...

One of H. Lee Water's community portraits in his "Movies of Local People" series.