1938 Movies

Radical journalist Diwakar runs a printing press and edits a newspaper, much to the disapproval of his authoritarian middle-class father who believes...

Short animated film.

Wonderfully photographed promotional film of an Austin engine being installed into a yacht which then sails around the Cornish coast visiting villages...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 30 December 1938.

To encourage voters to approve a bond issue, the city commissioner of schools talks about some of the typical problems that students face.

The story of two young people who want to get engaged, but something always keeps happening to them and the ceremony is constantly put off. All this t...

Peg-Leg Pedro is a 1938 Technicolor cartoon sponsored film. A boy and girl on a trip are attacked by pirates while looking for treasure.

This MGM short provides brief glimpses of over sixty screen actors and actresses, all whom started in silent films.

A lot of chopping up wood to set fires to the fields.

Shows how a young fox is captured with a snare and then tamed on a farm.

England thrash Australia in the fifth Test at the Oval - but still lose the Ashes.

All the news from 1938 that was fit to print including a New England hurricane, Germany’s annexation of Austria, a promise from Roosevelt to defend Ca...

Colorful animated film.

Finnish documentary on the making of goat cheese.

Film from David MacDonald

Study on Dactylaria brochopaga's predacious strategy

A short documentary supposedly looking into the nudist movement.

Winter market/entertainment of 1938 in Rovaniemen.