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List Of World War II Short Films
Below is a list of short films or animated cartoons that pertain to World War II, or the years leading up to it. Restrictions * The film must be concerned with Hitler's rise, the Spanish Civil War, the Sino-Japanese War, or World War II itself. * Feature-length live-action films are excluded. * For documentaries, see: List of World War II documentary films. Films made before the war 1930s Year undetermined Films made during the war 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 Films made after the war 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s See also * Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons * List of Private Snafu shorts featuring Private Snafu character ;Other cartoons of feature length *''Victory Through Air Power'' (1943) *''Castle in the Sky (1986) *'' Graveyard of the Fireflies'' (1988) *'' Valiant'' (2005) ;Earlier war cartoons *''The Sinking of the Lusitania'' (1918) *'' China in Flames'' (1925) – Soviet cartoon about the Chinese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Education For Death
''Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi'' is an animated propaganda short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released on January 15, 1943, by RKO Radio Pictures, directed by Clyde Geronimi and principally animated by Milt Kahl, Ward Kimball, Frank Thomas, and Bill Tytla. The short is based on the non-fiction book of the same name by American author Gregor Ziemer. The film features the story of Hans, a boy born and raised in Nazi Germany, his indoctrination in the Hitlerjugend, and his eventual march to war. Plot At the beginning of the film, a German couple proves to a Nazi German supreme judge that they are of pure Aryan blood and agree to give their son, whom they name Hans at the judge's approval, as it is not on a list of banned names, into the service of Der Fuehrer Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. They are given a copy of ''Mein Kampf'' by the judge as a reward for their service to Hitler; their passport contains spaces for 12 more children (a hint that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anson Dyer
Anson Dyer, born Ernest J. Anson Dyer (Brighton, 18 July 1876 – Cheltenham, 22 February 1962), was an English director, screenwriter, animator, and actor. His company Stratford Abbey Films, based in Stroud, was the only Technicolor production unit and three-colour camera in the whole Western Europe in the 1940s. Filmography The following filmography, based on the Internet Movie Database is incomplete. Director *'' Peter's Picture Poems'' (1917) *'' Old King Koal'' (1917) *''Three Little Pigs'' (1918) *'' Oh'phelia'' or ''Oh'phelia a Cartoon Burlesque'' (1919) *''Romeo and Juliet'' (1919) *''The Merchant of Venice'' (1919) *'' 'Amlet'' (1919) *''Othello'' (1920) *''Dollars in Surrey'', co-directed by George Dewhurst (1921) *''Little Red Riding Hood'' (1922) *'' A Day Out In Liverpool'' (1929) *'' The Story of the Port of London'' (1932) *'' Drummed Out'' *'' Sam and His Musket'' *'' Beat the Retreat'' *''Carmen'' (1936) *'' Sam's Medal'' *'' Halt, Who Goes There?'' *'' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Nazty Spy!
''You Nazty Spy!'' is a 1940 comedy film directed by Jules White and starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard). It is the 44th short film released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959. Plot The short begins with a title card disclaimer that reads: "Any resemblance between the characters in this picture and any persons, living or dead, is a miracle." In the fictional country of Moronika, three munitions manufacturers — Messrs. Ixnay (Richard Fiske), Onay (Dick Curtis), and Amscray (Don Beddoe) — are upset over their lack of profits due to the country's king, Herman the Sixth and Seven-Eighths (the role is an allusion to the German Kaiser Wilhelm II in exile), pursuing a policy of peace instead of war. They decide to oust the king, implement a dictatorship, and go about finding someone stupid enough to be a figurehead leader. Ixnay volunteers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vom Bäumlein, Das Andere Blätter Hat Gewollt
''Vom Bäumlein, das andere Blätter hat gewollt'' ("Of the little tree which wished for different leaves") is a short anti-Semitic propaganda cartoon produced in 1940 in the Nazi movie studio Zeichenfilm GmbH. The movie depicts a "golden tree" inhabited by little birds, whose leaves (all but one) are stolen by a caricature of a Jewish man: ''Aber wie es Abend ward, ging der Jude durch den Wald, er steckt sie ein, geht eilends fort und lässt das leere Bäumlein dort...'' The cartoon is based on a poem by Friedrich Rückert of the same name. It was produced by Hubert Schonger and directed by Heinz Tischmeyer. The poem Rückert's poem begins, ''Es ist ein Bäumlein gestanden im Wald'' ''In gutem und schlechtem Wetter'' Rückert, Friedrich (1788-1866). A littl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunkirk Evacuation
The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940. The operation commenced after large numbers of Belgian, British, and French troops were cut off and surrounded by German troops during the six-week Battle of France. In a speech to the House of Commons, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called this "a colossal military disaster", saying "the whole root and core and brain of the British Army" had been stranded at Dunkirk and seemed about to perish or be captured. In his "We shall fight on the beaches" speech on 4 June, he hailed their rescue as a "miracle of deliverance". After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, France and the British Empire declared war on Germany and imposed an economic blockade. The British Expeditionary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Asquith
Anthony William Landon Asquith (; 9 November 1902 – 20 February 1968) was an English film director. He collaborated successfully with playwright Terence Rattigan on ''The Winslow Boy'' (1948) and '' The Browning Version'' (1951), among other adaptations. His other notable films include ''Pygmalion'' (1938), ''French Without Tears'' (1940), ''The Way to the Stars'' (1945) and a 1952 adaptation of Oscar Wilde's ''The Importance of Being Earnest''. Life and career Born in London, he was the son of H. H. Asquith, the Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916, and Margot Asquith, who was responsible for 'Puffin' as his family nickname.Anthony Asquith biography at BFI Screenonline He was educated at [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channel Incident
''Channel Incident'' is a 1940 British short (15 minute) drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Peggy Ashcroft, Gordon Harker, Robert Newton and Kenneth Griffith. It combines documentary footage with acting. It is placed on the ships SS Princess Louise, SS Blackburn Rovers and SS Devonia. The film was a propaganda effort, made during the Second World War, which depicts the owner of a yacht heading across the Channel Channel, channels, channeling, etc., may refer to: Geography * Channel (geography), in physical geography, a landform consisting of the outline (banks) of the path of a narrow body of water. Australia * Channel Country, region of outback Austral ... to help evacuate British troops from Dunkirk. References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Three Stooges
The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best remembered for their 190 short subject films by Columbia Pictures. Their hallmark styles were physical farce and slapstick. Six Stooges appeared over the act's run (with only three active at any given time): Moe Howard (born Moses Horwitz) and Larry Fine (born Louis Feinberg) were mainstays throughout the ensemble's nearly 50-year run and the pivotal "third stooge" was played by (in order of appearance) Shemp Howard (born Samuel Horwitz), Curly Howard (born Jerome Horwitz), Shemp Howard again, Joe Besser, and "Curly Joe" DeRita. The act began in the early 1920s as part of a vaudeville comedy act billed as "Ted Healy and His Stooges", consisting originally of Ted Healy and Moe Howard. Over time, they were joined by Moe's brother, Shemp Howard, and then Larry Fine. The four appeared in one feature film, '' Soup to Nuts'', before Shemp left to pursue a solo career. He was replace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules White
Jules White (born Julius Weiss; hu, Weisz Gyula; 17 September 190030 April 1985) was a Hungarian-American film director and producer best known for his short-subject comedies starring The Three Stooges Early years White began working in motion pictures in the 1910s, as a child actor, for Pathé Studios. He appears in a small role as a Confederate soldier in the landmark silent feature ''The Birth of a Nation'' (1915). By the 1920s his brother Jack White (film producer), Jack White had become a successful comedy producer at Educational Pictures, and Jules worked for him as a film editor. Jules became a film director, director in 1926, specializing in comedies such as The Battling Kangaroo (1926). In 1930 White and his boyhood friend Zion Myers moved to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio. They conceived and co-directed M-G-M's gimmicky Dogville Comedies, which featured trained dogs in satires of recent Hollywood films (like ''The Dogway Melody'' and ''So Quiet on the Canine Front ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boobs In Arms
''Boobs in Arms'' is a 1940 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 52nd entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959. Plot The Stooges are street peddler greeting card salesmen who anger a man on the street after an accidental altercation. As they go door-to-door, they encounter a woman (Evelyn Young) who requests that they help her make her man-hating husband (Richard Fiske) jealous. Realizing it is the same man they faced before, the Stooges defend themselves against the irate husband with their usual combatives and flee from the husband shouting his threats. In hiding from him, they line up on a queue that takes them to a recruitment office by mistake and they end up joining the army. No sooner are they getting acclimated with their new army surrounding when they meet their drill i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
