Most Viewed Year 1939 - 91

Scenes from the Handba' festival on New Year's Day in Kirkwall. Winner of the Scottish Prize, The Andrew Buchanan Cup at Scottish Amateur Film...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 27 January 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...

The story of "Malicious," one of the great race horses of the era, narrated by Joe Hernandez, the "voice of Santa Anita", that opens with the race at...

READIN' RITIN' AND RHYTHM 1939. Here is a neat short featuring some lindy and shag dancing.

This film was the main attraction at the Texas exhibit at the New York World's Fair of 1939-1940.

A Italian documentary about fascist Spain.

Between 1933 and 1935, the painter Wilhelm Eggert and his wife Dora Kuster traveled the African continent. Their expedition took them from...

Short film directed by Anton Kutter

Film about Ghost-Cat.

Juan Pedro De Tavera‘s classic 30s melodrama.

Mothers of Today features the first motion picture performance of radio star Esther Field, best known on the airwaves of the 1930s as the 'Yiddishe...

An advertisement for Jaffa brand oranges.

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...

Directed by amateur filmmaker Nils Hallström, father of Lasse Hallström.

Avant-garde home movie, creators unkown, attributed to John C. Hecker.

A look at London Film Productions' studios at Denham.

Chinese film released in 1939.