10 April 1941 Animated, War 2 mins
This animated short by Norman McLaren is a publicity message for a war bond campaign. Symbols, a stick man and lettering are drawn directly on 35mm film stock and synchronized with a brass band rendition of Sousa's march "The Thunderer."
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Canada 10 April 1941
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01 January 1992
Here we have an innocent boy, a pretty princess, a treacherous merchant and a giant eagle who is fond of jewels.
27 March 2010
Edo, Japan. Calligraphists are not mere writers, they can bring drawings to life and utilize kanji. Three calligraphists from the art wielding clan join up and fight against an exiled calligraphist and his minions to protect the Tokugawa shogunate.
18 November 1943
A sideshow barker uses magic and visual aids to alert the public that proper food management is both a resource and a weapon that could be to America's advantage if conserved properly in winning the then current World War.
01 January 1991
Made when the director was at the Royal College of Art, an animated film illustrating that life is made up of a succession of meeting and partings.
17 June 2010
When Day, a sunny fellow, encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods, sparks fly! Day and Night are frightened and suspicious of each other at first, and quickly get off on the wrong foot.
19 July 2002
Ghiblies (pronounced with a hard "g" as in "gallop") is a short film aired during a TV special about Ghibli.
19 May 2007
Madame Tutli-Putli boards the Night Train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past.
10 March 1991
No Neck Joe is a kid whose torso and head are one piece. Five vignettes document the travails and triumphs of having no neck.
01 January 1992
A pretty shepherdess is in love with a young shepherd. So is a fairy. The shepherdess knows how to look after sheep and dance to the sound of her boyfriend's pipe.
31 December 1961
This newly rediscovered short was created in Jim's home studio in Bethesda, MD around 1961. It is one of several experimental shorts inspired by the music of jazz great Chico Hamilton.
25 September 1943
Elmer Fudd introduces two pieces of classical music: "Tales of the Vienna Woods" and "The Blue Danube", and acted out by Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Laramore the Hound Dog, a family of swans, and a juvenile Daffy Duck.
01 January 1987
Arbitrary Logic, an interactive audio-visual synthesiser was first presented under the working title Osnabruk at the Osnabruk festival of 1987 and later as part of an improvised and computer music performance with Keith Rowe at the London Filmmakers Cooperative, December 1989.
More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from V for Victory:
On July 19 1941 a BBC announcer read a message from Prime Minister Winston Churchill urging the people of Britain to use two extended fingers to form a "V ...
Heres an Ann Miller number I dont see very often. Dig the fire effect at the end!
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1941:
24 January 1941
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
31 January 1941
Serials usually spawned feature film versions, but with this film, it was the other way around. A 1932 Buck Jones Western, White Eagle was made into a serial nine years later, again starring Jones in the title role, a (supposedly) Native American Pony Express Rider defending his people against a gang of evil Whites.
08 March 1941
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes.
30 May 1941
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.
01 March 1941
Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.
04 July 1941
After losing nearly all of an inheritance to taxes, sisters Kay and Barbara Latimer, waitresses at a drive-in restaurant in Texas, scheme to find rich husbands.
01 February 1941
Patrik Bergman returns to Stockholm after a couple of years. He had to leave the capital when he was the suspect of a bank robbery.
01 January 1941
“During the Second World War, blackout regulations were imposed to make it harder for enemy aircraft to find their targets over Britain.
23 May 1941
This short starts out as a documentary. In a dramatization, Eadward Muybridge's photographic experiments prove that when a horse gallops, there are times when all four of the animal's feet are off the ground.
26 September 1941
When his car breaks down out in the country, Sniffles the mouse takes shelter in an old mill, where he meets up with "Batty," a non-stop-talking little bat who later save Sniffles from a hungry cat.
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