1939 Movies

A short feature on boxing star "The Brown Bomber" Joe Louis.

Suren, prevented by his family from pursuing a university career, leaves home and becomes a tutor to Pramila. He falls in love with her widowed elder...

Journey to Brazil in the 1930s through its riches: tobacco in Sao Salvador, silk and coffee in Sao Paulo and sugar cane in Rio de Janeiro.

A singing, jitterbugging Goldilocks goes through her paces with the grizzly trio, but when a bear hunter gets into the house, she joins with them to f...

A western bad guy kidnaps a girl stage singer, and a Hairbreadth Harry-type hero with a small Indian companion rescue her after a shootout involving u...

Views of Ornö and Huvudskär in the Stockholm archipelago. Everyday life is depicted on the islands with work in mining, fishing and a school for child...

Mr. Jones overhears a doctor prescribe a diet he thinks is for him, but it's really for his dog.

The Vertigo of the Condors is the first film of a new stage in Peruvian cinematographic technique. New filming methods have been employed in accordanc...

It takes the form of a travelogue aboard a train that hits some California spots, including Death Valley and Pike's Peak.

Lew Lehr invades the simian world and the result is a hilarious reel about monkeys. Lehr draws deadly parallels as the reel progresses and audiences w...

Documentary on communication routes for the French section of the New York International Exposition of 1939

Londoners prepare for war.

"A 'Full-day exercise in the Bernina area' by mountain soldiers under the command of Major Charles Golay. At two o'clock, 130 men broke up in Pontresi...

Animated segments which might have originally framed live action footage of bakers at work making Wonder Bread and Hostess cakes.

short film by Bernard Lyot. Joseph Leclerc, a filmmaker of news reportage and astronomer, edited Lyon's film studies posthumously.

A desert girl goes to Cairo to search for the man from the city who promised to marry her. In the city, she falls into the clutches of a salon owner w...

This cartoon is a series of blackout gags, as we set sail in New York harbor, visit a series of ports of call in totally random order, and return to N...

A Cartune Theatrical Cartoon.