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 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 Harry Gibson.

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 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.

The construction of chains of airfields in northwestern Canada was a difficult job of strategic importance in the war effort.

A look at the development of the Canadian northwest for World War II as well as post-war purposes.

A narrator introduces some aquatic menaces

The U.S. Navy teaches workers how to safely work in offices.