Most Viewed Year 1940 - 92

David Bradley creates a faithfully suspenseful adaptation of a story by Saki which boasts an inadvertent post-modern attitude.

Spunky is kidnapped and sold at an auction to a cruel Italian peddler. It's up to Hunky to save him.

A middle-aged auto sales manager is having poor results with his staff, so he gets some advice from his hanky-wearing father.

1940 Hindi film

Scans of Chauvet and Lascaux, ancient cave drawings discovered in France in the 1940's. Meant to be viewed under firelight, the flicker giving the...

Commemorates the (primarily voluntary) efforts by which Londoners coped with the start of the Blitz when, the commentary says, 1200 people were made...

Short propaganda film encouraging swedish aid in the Winter War.

Commercial for Hylins Rakin shaving cream where Lasse Krantz uses the shaving cream to get smooth skin and become more believable when he dresses up...

Short film of Esso Station in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 1940. Depicts refueling, the price of gas on a pump, and car driving off, past another station.

1938–1940 film made in Palermo, Maine by Milton Dowe. 8mm. Kodak Safety Film (B&W reversal).

In Tang Dynasty China, poetry exams for officials drove young men to study. Zhu Yingtai, a scholar's daughter, disguised herself as a man to attend...

A commercial film for the Bulgarian beer, Shumensko pivo, showing manual and automatic washing of bottles, pouring beer, a bus decorated with the...

At the summer baths in the village of Lujene (today a district of Velingrad) a competition for “Queen of the Beach” is held. In addition,...

Recorded footage from the New York World's Fair in 1939.

Naval Instructional Film A63.

The Jungle Yachts referred to in the title are International Caravan Camper Trucks. This film shows how well these trucks handle the Belgian Congo...