1943 Movies

Screen Gems cartoon showing what really happened in those old nursery rhymes.

Government film on the use of railroads in moving troops to support the war efort.

Experimental film by Herbert Seggelke.

In this soundie Mable Lee sings and dances to a song "Chicken Shack Shuffle" followed by other dancers.

An official U.S. War Department film restricted in nature and produced by the US Army Pictorial Service, “The Japanese Army and Navy” is a black-and-w...

The lives of the people of Malta and their endurance under the trials of the Second World War are displayed in this documentary short film.

This colour promotional documentary film addresses what was needed to produce the B-17 Flying Fortress, covering everyone from Boeing researchers to f...

Kent Smith educates about dental health.

Contemporary American artists are seen at work. Their style, choice of subject matter and methods of painting are shown along with mention of their po...

Sleeping dancers and musicians are woken up by a cheerful melody and start dancing and playing.

Made to support WWII war workers, this 1943 War Department Training film was part of a series that covers the care and use of essential tools such as...

Two bumbling, small-time detectives are hired by a client to locate showgirls for an upcoming musical. However, the girls they find are homely and una...

Well, maybe not mermaids, but WW2 pin up girls and the bathing girls of yesterday. A salute to the women of the armed services. Women from the Los Ang...

Propaganda short about the capital's efforts to adapt to the third year of war.

Rules in Fog. Sound signals. Title screen says, “Fog signals must be used in fog, mist, falling snow or heavy rain-storms, whenever visibility falls b...

This film from 1943 explains the mysteries of sound recording on film.

In "Pacific Milk Run" U.S. Marine SBDs and other aircraft attack Japanese-held Islands in the Pacific during World War II.

Excerpts compiled by OSS to try to provide a basic understanding of the social, economic, political and religious aspects of Japanese culture and how...

U.S. WWII War Department training film -- "Infantry Weapons and Their Effects" -- covers the major infantry weapons in use by the U.S. Army.