1939 Movies

Venice Film Festival 1939

Focusing on Cracow's Jewish quarter, this film intermingles old and new, using music to enhance the images. Streetcars share tree-lined streets with h...

This Traveltalks short focuses on the city's preservation of the architecture, apparel, and customs of the antebellum South.

In his first cartoon, Sourpuss has bright colored fur. He romances an Owl and takes her out on his boat, like the nursery rhyme has it. She seems mesm...

Spanish war propaganda documentary.

Gandy is hitch hiking next to his trailer. A dog comes by and latches on to it. They spend a restless night, fighting off hundreds of mosquitoes. Even...

Giácomo is an Italian man in his forties who is single, dedicated to earning money in his business. He strikes up a relationship with a Spanish singer...

Ages before man proclaimed himself a superior being, the tiny ant had developed the art of agriculture — a practice which was later to be the backbone...

British television adaptation of W.W. Jacobs‘ short story from 1939.

A young couple, Muhammad and Fatima, fall in love and get married. However, their bliss is cut short when Muhammad loses his job and is forced to work...

Scientists demonstrate the wonders of magnified objects.

Made for the Zurich National Exhibition in 1939, Die Börse als Barometer der Wirtschaftslage charts the increase of stock exchanges in the history of...

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