1939 Movies

The escort vessel with the harpoon searches for whales. The sailor on the observation mast points to a whale. The whale is hit with the harpoon. The prey is pulled into the main ship with winches, where it is cut up and processed immediately.

Film about Ghost-Cat.

Colour amateur documentary from 1939 on life in South Africa and Southern Rhodesia, produced by Frances Hotham. Part 1 (South Africa) includes arrival at Durban, Natal and Howick Falls, war dances at Inanda (Natal) and the Rose Deep Gold Mine (Johannesburg). A...

A documentary looking at the elementary principles, illustrated by means of diagrams and models, of an internal combustion engine.

The Prowler is terrorizing Willits, California residents gobbling up all the milk and pep in the town. But fortunately Willits News Reporter Scoop Kenworthy is hot on the trail of this pesky thief.

Salon Lindblad's accessories fashion show.

Boston-based itinerant filmmaker Margaret Cram (Margaret Cram Showalter) traveled to towns in New England making “Movie Queen” films. Local townspeople were cast in the films that document a movie queen on a return visit to her hometown as the whole town show...

A short film that shows the early days of Montreal's botanical garden

The labor of sardine: fishermen at sea, patching of the fishing nets, casting and drawing of the nets.

The making of wrought iron chain at the Netherton Works of N. Hingley & Sons Ltd. Part of BFI collection "Tales From the Shipyard".

The story of Bertoldo ug Balodoy is about the romance and hilarious adventures of love-sick Filipino Siamese twins, Bertoldo (played by Ben Abeda) and Balodoy (Piux Kabahar) who do a lot of tricks at the expense of Cupid and put an end to their adventures and...

An inter-state Filipino migrant league baseball championship in front of the Field Museum of Natural History.

Newsreel footage of some of the most outrageous early flying contraptions--some of which even succeeded in lifting off the ground.

The cultivation and use of the soybean as an illustration of the relation of science to agriculture and the interrelation of science, agriculture, and industry.

Production of the Studio “Pixilated Pictures”.

An animated Danish commercial from 1939 for Houlbergs sausages.

Throughout the 1930s, Margaret Cram directed the same film again and again. An itinerant filmmaker based in Boston, she made her living by traveling to cities across New England and producing her Movie Queen scenarios with the people who lived there. In each i...

Istvan Bors was adapted from the popular Hungarian stage play by Sandor Hunyady, with a few songs added to the mixture. The title character, played by Antal Pager, is an impoverished farmhand whose lot in life is radically altered when he inherits a fortune. I...

Dufaycolor footage of a visit by George VI to the naval base at Plymouth. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".