1944 Movies

“In 1944, psychologists Fritz Heider and Marianne Simmel made a very short, animated film of moving shapes. This is purist cinema. Shapes are just mov...

1944 Dutch East Indies propaganda film

A Soundie with the Dixieland Jazz Band.

A Soundie with Nick Lucas.

A Soundie with Bobby Davis.

A Soundie with The Three Peppers.

Short announcement promoting the 6th War Loan by urging viewers to buy War Bonds. Shows the importance for War workers to keep on the job: a man recei...

A Soundie with Lee Sullivan and The Dream Dolls.

A Soundie with Harry Gibson.

A Soundie with Louis Jordan and his Orchestra.

A Soundie with the Kim Loo Sisters and Bobby Davis.

Emerson's Mountaineers perform in this January 1944 Soundie music video. Polly Shaffer sings, with the Hillbillies on fiddle, guitars, and upright bas...

Soundies short film with Maurice Rocco and His Rockin' Rhythm performing "Rhumboogie".

Soundies short film featuring Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five performing "Jumpin' at the Jubilee"

Soundies short film featuring the Les Paul Trio and Carolyn Grey

Soundie short featuring pianist Harry Gibson performing "Harry the Hipster"

A panorama of winter scenery and sports in the Laurentians.

A wartime tribute to the men who built Canada's merchant ships during World War II and those who sailed in them. Alternating scenes in Canadian shipya...

During this time of war, Canadian men are battling on the front. But the chain of command and information about what happens on the battlefield is oft...

A short animated film that explains the necessity of curtailing the consumption of civilian goods in wartime.