Film Snail

War

I tre aquilotti

I tre aquilotti

August 30, 1942

At the Royal Air Force Academy of Caserta, three students, Mario, Marco and Filippo become great friends. Toward the end of the course, Marco accidentally meets and falls in love with Mario's sister, Adriana. Mario expresses his opposition to Marco and this causes the end of their friendship. Due to an accident during a training flight, Marco is passed from the role of the navigator to the services role, thus not obtaining the military pilot's license.

Divide and Conquer

August 29, 1942

Dealing with the subject of rumor mongering, clips from Nazi films are employed to show how the ruthless invasions of neutral countries were planned in advance.

Somewhere I'll Find You

Somewhere I'll Find You

August 27, 1942

Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east.

Blitz Wolf

Blitz Wolf

August 22, 1942

Yet another variation on the Three Little Pigs theme, this time told as WW2 anti-German propaganda (the US had just entered the war), with the wolf as a thinly-disguised Hitler.

The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper

August 21, 1942

Englishman Mr. Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is persuaded to take along the two Cavanaugh children, and as his journey progresses his family keeps growing in size. Once in German-occupied northern France a new problem arises — the risk of being heard speaking English.

Busses Roar

Busses Roar

September 19, 1942

A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.

Jungle Siren

Jungle Siren

August 14, 1942

A woman - raised in the jungle - tries to help an American stop a native uprising spurned on by Nazis.

Wake Island

Wake Island

August 11, 1942

In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.

Unpublished Story

Unpublished Story

August 10, 1942

Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.

Mr. Blabbermouth!

Mr. Blabbermouth!

August 8, 1942

Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, America was rife with rumors about the size of Japan's armed forces and how well-equipped they were to wage war against the U.S. Using animation, the first part of this film dispels these rumors by showing that the U.S. had more raw materials and more fighting ships. The narrator also cautions moviegoers against spreading rumors (which are often initiated by enemy infiltrators to create fear and dissention) and believing everything they read in the newspapers. Just because "they say" something, that doesn't make it true.

Parachute Nurse

Parachute Nurse

August 6, 1942

Nurses parachuting.

You're a Sap, Mr. Jap

You're a Sap, Mr. Jap

August 6, 1942

Spinach turns Popeye into a one-man US Navy during a World War II battle against the Allies' adversaries.

The Goose Steps Out

The Goose Steps Out

August 1, 1942

Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.

Invisible Agent

Invisible Agent

August 7, 1942

The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.

Men of the Sky

Men of the Sky

July 25, 1942

A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots receiving their wings from Lt. General H.H. Arnold. An off-screen narrator introduces four of them to us; we see them before the war, during flight training, and in their first assignments as pilots.

A Yank in Libya

A Yank in Libya

July 24, 1942

American correspondent Mike Malone uncovers a Nazi plot for an uprising of the Arab tribes in Lybia. Pursued by Sheik David and his men, Mike takes refuge in the suite of Nancy Brooks, who is in the British Intelligence. He asks her to hide a gun and escapes through a window. Reporting the affair to British Consul Herbert Forbes, the latter tries to discourage him from further investigation, as the British are aware of the plot and are planning on staging a coup. He goes with Mike to Nancy's apartment, and she denies having ever seen him before. Sheik Ibrahim, next in command of the Arab tribe to Sheik David, is plotting with Nazi agent Yussof Streyer to kill David who is friendly with the British. Mike and Nancy have gone to David's camp, escape from Ibrahim's henchmen, and get back to El Moktar before the Arabs attack the garrison.

Prisoner of Japan

Prisoner of Japan

July 22, 1942

An American astronomer living on a Pacific island attempts to thwart the Japanese during WWII.

Aleksandr Parkhomenko

Aleksandr Parkhomenko

July 20, 1942

About the life and heroic death of the old Bolshevik-Lugansk resident, participant in the civil war, Aleksandr Yakovlevich Parkhomenko. In 1918, capturing Ukraine, the German occupiers sought to use the Haidamaks, the White Guards and the Greens in their struggle. By order of Voroshilov, Aleksandr Parkhomenko from Lugansk arrives in Tsaritsyn. At the same time, the Germans launched an active offensive. The "red" battalions are poorly armed, however, Parkhomenko manages to raise them to the attack and put the enemy to flight.

Four Methods of Flush Riveting

Four Methods of Flush Riveting

July 14, 1942

Flush riveting is a way of connecting two pieces of sheet metal together, using rivets whose heads do not protrude above the surface of the metal. In aircraft construction, a flush rivet reduces drag, thus increasing aircraft performance. This World War II-era Walt Disney industrial-training film teaches four methods of flush-riveting aircraft aluminum sheet metal: the Countersink method, the Double Dimple method, the Pre-Dimple method, and the Combination Pre-Dimple and Countersink method. The choice of method to use is based upon the thicknesses of the top and bottom metal sheets.

United We Stand

United We Stand

July 10, 1942

Using newsreel footage, this film reviews world events from the end of World War I to the American entry into World War II and, according to the narration, shows "how, through their disunity, democracies were led, some to destruction and others to the verge of destruction."]