1940 Movies

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

Getting Down to Earth Again, is a black and white motion picture, produced by Caravel Films Inc. for the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc., and was abou...

Film about Ghost-Cat.

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

From the Home Movies Collection.

A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour.

Instructional film concerning the launching and recovery of aircraft in ships fitted with catapults.

Shows home, work and school activities of a middleclass Japanese family.

Abandoning any figurative reference, Veronesi realizes a true "abstract" film, constructed through the rhythmic succession of splashes of color, circl...

Vers les Cimes is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in the Bernese Alps. It was directed by Charles-Georges Duvanel in 1940 and produced b...

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

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

This short films see men crafting furniture.

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

Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.

A Cartune short featuring Punchy.