1942 Movies

Records an expedition by motor truck along the Pan American Highway in South America.

Universal Newsreel showing WW2 soldiers of Fort Slocum in a "Girlie Show" - an all singing, dancing, and cross-dressing version of "Swing Fever".

In December 1941 shortly after the United States entered World War II, Chicago’s mayor, Edward Kelly, appointed Moholy-Nagy to a committee to investig...

This film is about the Penn School, a school for African Americans in the Sea Islands of South Carolina. It discusses the history of slavery on the is...

To hasten the harvest of the first fruits and force the land to produce early, the farmer uses warm layers (Les couches chaudes) which have become a n...

A tour of Southern Brazil in the 1940's.

NSB children's home Westerhelling, located in a park between Nijmegen and Berg en Dal. In the home, groups of Dutch and German children are fed supple...

We see a woman in an apron standing beside a greengrocer's scale. C/U of the lady's legs. Commentator says if you don't have a set of scales like th...

It was released in 1942 directed by Gajanan Jagirdar.

A documentary short about spring festival in Peking, made by the The Huabei Film Company, established as a state-owned company by the Japanese invader...

Composition no. 3 by Dwinell Grant.

Why prices for goods in Canada are rising due to World War II.

Training film for military pilots of the Bell P-39 Airacobra pursuit aircraft, examining flight techniques, cockpit layout, and armament.

Abstract experiments by Dwinell Grant undertaken in 1941 and 1942.

Describes the effects and treatment of gonorrhea. Advises possible victims of the disease to consult qualified physicians for an adequate diagnosis an...

Short film about syphilis.

Loose animated sequences, recovered by Cinemateca Portuguesa through the Tobis Portuguesa labs, from several reels of nitrate film damaged by time. Al...

Manned by veterans and inexperienced youths, hundreds of freighters braved the dangers of the sea to keep open the life-lines of the Allies. The worst...

Travelogue sponsored by a railroad company serving New York City. Approaching the metropolis by rail, the film covers major tourist destinations such...

A girl sees a bathing costume in a shop window, and as she has no money takes a kitsch painting off the wall at home in order to sell it. We follow he...