Most Viewed Year 1942 - 84

This film explains what makes up the national income and how it is spent. It also suggests that savings be invested in war bonds and certificates.

Smoke' Wells sings "I Got Her in the Mail."

Charles Dorn with the novelty number My Little Grass Shack.

Charles 'Buddy' Rogers Soundie with Twelfth Street Rag.

Made by Paul Rotha Productions for the Ministry of Information. Wartime documentary about agriculture made to bolster morale on the “home...

The Charioteers perform the classic title song in this early music video format.

The soundie begins with the guys in the bandbox playing nurdy stuff & the dancers in the street chanting "No, No, No!" until at long last Walter...

Jazz Soundie with Stan Kenton and his players.

Redd Harper and his Minnie the Mermaid.

Horror over the Pacific in the form of Japanese perfidy is the theme of this special two reel. The amazing story of the Jap double-cross from the...

"Cajuns of the Teche" was directed by André de la Varre and released by Columbia Pictures in August 1942.

A Soundie with Bill Robinson and the tune "By an Old Southern River."

Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt arrives in London and visits St Paul's Cathedral and Stepney.

After a presumably hard day at work, Dudley Dickerson plunks down at the kitchen table and sings a dry lament about his wife’s roving eye....

This animated short produced during WWII shows how Plugger helped the war effort by renting out his spare room so that a new worker could be brought...

It was released in 1942 directed by Gajanan Jagirdar.

A musical short featuring Maxine Sullivan and friends.

'Speaking of Animals in South America' is another very interesting and well done entry from the series, if not quite one of the best. As said before,...

A Soundie featuring Moore and Revel with the Dixieland Jazz Band.

A Soundie with Gayle Mellott and Ralph Young.