Most Viewed Year 1939 - 89

This is not a "Scrappy" cartoon - A two-year-old horse is trained and primed to run in the Hollywood Sweepstakes, but catches cold and has to be...

A play of colours, shapes and music: colourful dots, lines and surfaces move to the rhythm of the music. A short film by Hans Fischinger, the younger...

A look at London Film Productions' studios at Denham.

The last Yiddish feature made in Poland before WWII, this 1939 film is based on a 1907 play by the prolific playwright Jacob Gordin.

The automotive glass industry was one of the most competitive industries in America in 1939. Automobile makers were very slow to adopt the much more...

Scrappy runs a rodeo in a vacant lot, with a lot of mistreated cats standing in for cattle to be roped, and so forth. A little girl wants to be part...

Slobbish magician Ali Kazam tries to win the princess' hand in marriage by producing a large quantity of jewels, but is challenged by a youth (our...

Yip Yip Yippy is a 1939 Fleischer Studios animated short film. The short was the final official entry of the "Betty Boop" series. Although this was...

About the construction of the Ferghana irrigation canal.

Everyday island life is depicted in the Stockholm archipelago, with work in mining, fishing and a school for children.

Short documentary.

Between captured images, animations and scientific descriptions, the puraquê electric fish is presented through the eyes of Humberto Mauro and...

This dramatic tale of immigrant hardship highlights some of the traumatic problems of the immigrant experience, including alcoholism, separation and...

A dishy dolly of a brunette hitchhikes while taking lunch to her blacksmith husband. She gets a ride from a dastardly masher once she shows some leg....

The Shell Film Unit's free-enterprise history of technology.

Going Places With Graham McNamee (1939–1940) is a news series featuring radio broadcaster Graham McNamee as reporter.