Most Viewed Year 1939 - 97

A class of expectant mothers practise ante-natal exercises designed by Kathleen Vaughan at Paddington (LCC Hospital), London. The purpose of each...

Colour amateur documentary from 1939 on life in South Africa and Southern Rhodesia, produced by Frances Hotham. Part 1 (South Africa) includes...

A chemical scientist mocks his wife. She is unable to resist the violence and tries to commit suicide.

An exposition, by means of diagrams and models, of the working principles of the compression ignition or oil engine.

Boston-based itinerant filmmaker Margaret Cram (Margaret Cram Showalter) traveled to towns in New England making “Movie Queen” films. ...

This is a propaganda film made after the establishment of the wartime total mobilization system. The film includes various war efforts, including...

Three shepherds are turned into princes by the Forest Fairy and they go live to their lively castle.

Lady Luck smiles on a reckless secretary who takes a punt on the Irish Sweepstake … but not everyone’s a winner.

Aimed at promoting active Korean participation in the war for the Imperial Japanese Army, the film sees the people of Joseon mobilized into a string...

This celebratory 1939 film, sponsored by a local gas company and introduced by LH Keay, architect and director of housing in Liverpool, is an...

The second film in the Fantasmagoria series.

Taking advantage of their uncle's absence, André and Raymond Rafet organize a New Year's Eve party at his house. The uncle returns...

Throughout the 1930s, Margaret Cram directed the same film again and again. An itinerant filmmaker based in Boston, she made her living by traveling...

“Between 1926 and 1985, amateur Archie Stewart shot over seventy thousand feet of film. In 1936 he purchased a sound-on-film 16mm camera and...

An animated short made for the Swiss National Exhibition 1939 in Zurich.