• the first of the Joe McDoakes series of one-reel short subjects began as a project to teach students at the University of Southern California movie making before being bought by Warner Bros. for $2500 in 1942?

Facts on topics related to 1942 in film

1941 in film

• Target for Tonight was a 1941 documentary filmed, acted, and written by the Royal Air Force?

1944 in film

• 1944 film Haridas was the last completed work of Kollywood icon M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar prior to his arrest in the Lakshmikanthan Murder Case?
• A. V. Meiyappan produced India's first dubbed film, Harischandra, in 1944?
• The New York Times said the 1944 Laurel and Hardy film The Big Noise "has as much humor in it as a six-foot hole in the ground"?
• the 1944 German film Große Freiheit Nr. 7 was banned in Nazi Germany and only permitted by the Allies in late 1945?

1947 in film

• the Caribbean Club in Key Largo, Florida was built by former millionaire promoter Carl Graham Fisher as "a poor man's retreat" and became famous as a filming site for the 1947 film Key Largo starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall?

1946 in film

• the 1946 Mexican film Boom in the Moon starring Buster Keaton was not commercially released in the United States until 1983?

1938 in film

• L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, wrote the story for the 1938 Columbia movie serial The Secret of Treasure Island?

1937 in film

• Kisan Kanya made by Ardeshir Irani in 1937 is India's first indigenously made color film?
• the 1937 film Natalka Poltavka (poster pictured), directed by Vasyl Avramenko, was the first Ukrainian language film produced in the United States?