01 January 1942 Factual 6 mins
Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII.
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United Kingdom 01 January 1942
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05 December 1942
This Traveltalk series short visits Ontario, the second largest province of Canada. Toronto is the province's largest city, sitting on the shores of Lake Ontario.
02 June 1942
The romance between an actress and a young man provokes the rejection of the class to which he belongs.
27 July 1942
A financially strapped college is transformed into a summer holiday resort with the help of music and radio stars.
26 June 1942
Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in order to develop a nitroglycerin bomb.
27 March 1942
Yvonne De Carlo sings herself to sleep, in her dreams she dances with a Latin dancer. She awakes to sing again.
30 March 1942
A Soundie with Ginger Harmon and Harry Barris.
02 April 1942
It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison.
21 August 1942
Pavel Hora offers his friend Jiří Pulpán a place to live. When they get home, they find out that the landlord has evicted Pavel to the yard because he found a love letter from his daughter Zuzanka.
22 June 1942
Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.
23 September 1942
In 1906, François left the Basque country with his father, who had decided to settle in Argentina following an incident between him and Esteban.
10 July 1942
Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon gives him the brush.
07 June 1942
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr.
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