Most Viewed Year 1939 - 98

Dufaycolor footage of a visit by George VI to the naval base at Plymouth. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Lady Luck smiles on a reckless secretary who takes a punt on the Irish Sweepstake … but not everyone’s a winner.

This celebratory 1939 film, sponsored by a local gas company and introduced by LH Keay, architect and director of housing in Liverpool, is an...

For the 1939 World's Fair on San Francisco's Treasure Island, Wah Chang was hired to animate a promotional film for a wax company called Pabco.

The second film in the Fantasmagoria series.

Scenes from the Handba' festival on New Year's Day in Kirkwall. Winner of the Scottish Prize, The Andrew Buchanan Cup at Scottish Amateur Film...

The making of wrought iron chain at the Netherton Works of N. Hingley & Sons Ltd. Part of BFI collection "Tales From the Shipyard".

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel".

Scenes showing work at the various London docks is followed by shots of buildings and places of interest near the river including Billingsgate and...

An animated Danish commercial from 1939 for Houlbergs sausages.

Footage shot by German troops and confiscated by Allied forces of an attack in Warsaw.

Short subject about futuristic fashion styles.

Chinese film released in 1939.

Sci-Fi/Fantasy - A military intelligence officer and a pretty reporter try to find a scientist whose inventions can destroy the world.

Little Bo Peep discovers that one of her sheep-students is missing when she counts noses at school. The missing lamb is wandering in the woods and is...

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings