1940 Movies

A short documentary of macaws

A parody of the classic Beau Geste, made on the leftover sets from the 1939 version by San Diego State University students.

First color film in Bosnia. Bojko shot people bathing and cruising in their boats on the Vrbas river near his hometown of Banja Luka.

"Southward Expansion to Taiwan" describes the achievements and achievements of the Taiwan Governor's Office in ruling Taiwan for about forty years. T...

A monkey in a jungle orchestra only has one note to play, but this seemingly easy task will be more complicated than it seems.

After Hou Yao moved to Singapore in 1940, he continued to work for the Shaw Brothers and made a handful of films, including Mutiara, before being murd...

A short film on locomotives in Japan.

All the ranchers are losing cattle but are unable to find the rustlers. Posing as a prospector, Agent Ken Blair arrives and teams up with young Buzzy...

This one-reel short is comprised of footage depicting the intelligence of birds and animals when their mental processes, through training, are directe...

An enlightening film about a teacher who sees a rich student despise a poor student, and eventually the students study hard with each other's affectio...

A pro-Japanese propaganda film designed to inspire Korean fishermen to cooperate with the occupying regime.

This is a documentary feature film created with the aim of informing the public how to avoid the plague of the highly contagious disease marmoset.

A documentary looking at the manufacture of racing car parts in the factories of Mercedes, Auto Union, Continental and Bosch in Germany. It also featu...

Produced by Bell & Howell, this short explains the basic principles of motion pictures and, by animation, shows how sound is recorded on a strip of fi...

In Vaudeville Deluxe, Cornell assembles footage of performers, like a man who balances in his mouth a frame that supports a seated woman. (Release dat...

Plant movements in historical films by Wilhelm Pfeffers: geotropic bending of a horizontal Impatiens glandulifera; germination of Vicia faba; developm...

Short documentary about distributing mail and packages both in the past and with the help of the 1940’s modern technologies. The viewer can also catch...

Featuring the clash between modern thinking against traditional conservatism, the story has the troubled romance between the noble princess, RA Rusmin...