All Films

Cindy Goes to a Party

1955 • 9 min • United States of America

Cindy, a 12-year-old tomboy, is devastated when she learns that she hasn't been invited to a neighborhood birthday party. That night in bed, her fairy godmother visits her, tells her enough with this tomboy baloney, gives her a frilly new party dress and some rules on how proper young girls are to behave at parties.

Why Study Home Economics?

1955 • 10 min • United States of America

Two sisters are trying to decide which classes to take next semester. When one wants to take home economics, the other is stunned. Why should anyone need to study home economics?

Prickly The Porcupine

1955 • 10 min

The adventures of a salt-loving porcupine.

Call It Free

1955 • 23 min • United States of America

A 1955 promotional short in which an even-tempered gas jockey goes out of his way to explain a car's cooling system to a dizzy dame and her hotheaded husband.

Little Bear’s Adventures

1955 • 18 min • China

It tells the story that the small animals in the forest organize a travel group and set off at eight o'clock the next morning for an autumn trip. It was already nine o'clock when Little Bear arrived at the meeting place due to sleeplessness.

Viggen Viggo

1955 • 34 min • Sweden

A documentary about a family bringing up a tufted duck.

The Sap of the Earth

1955 • 2 min • France

An abstract animation made for Esso.

Tunglið, tunglið taktu mig

1955 • 18 min

First and only Icelandic Sci-Fi film. Nonni falls asleep while watching the fireworks on new years eve. He wakes up in an aircraft heading to the Moon.

The Dutch in Latin America

1955 • 11 min • Aruba, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Suriname

A documentary film about the Dutch colonies in Latin America, Netherlands Antilles - St Maarten, Saba, St Eustatius, Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, Dutch Guiana, Suriname.

Why Study Science?

1955 • 12 min • United States of America

During a camping trip, a group of students learns about the importance of science and its role in understanding the world around us.

Under One Sky

1955 • 19 min • Poland

The documentary with commentary by Tadeusz Różewicz shows the everyday life of children a few years after the war and juxtaposes it with the children's experience of the "black seasons" - the loneliness, terror, hunger and misery of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Schizophrenic Model Psychosis Induced by Lysergic Acid Diethylamide

1955 • 24 min

This film provides footage of University of California medical tests with LSD.

Zagreb Film Commercials (Selection 1954/55)

1955 • 5 min • Yugoslavia

The Sofia Girls in Greece

1955 • 10 min

A gymnastics performance by the Sofia girls at the Acropolis.

Waconichi

1955 • 20 min • Canada

Report on a trout and pike fishing excursion on Lake Waconichi.

In the Shadow of Magic

1955 • 22 min • Yugoslavia

Educational film that shows all the horrors that witch-doctors caused in backwards villages before modern medicine took over.

Sakhalin Island

1955 • 45 min • Soviet Union

Fishing Vagabonds

1955 • 9 min • United States of America

Two couples go fishing in Florida during the 1950s.

The Town That Came Back

1955 • 27 min • United States of America

This documentary film from the 1950s explains how the citizens of a small midwestern town restore community spirit through a 4-H club.

Keep in Step, Comrade

1955 • 39 min • Yugoslavia

Photographs, rare film material and dynamic editing, portray the triumph of socialist ideas and the way symbolically Yugoslavia moves toward the future dreams of the generations.

Be-ta-ta-kin

1955 • 11 min

Arizona Anasazi cliff dwellings.

Where Mountains Float

1955 • 36 min • Denmark

The confrontation between Inuits and the industrialismen.

You and Your Sense of Touch

1955 • 8 min • United States of America

Jiminy Cricket explains the sense of touch, its four components (heat, cold, pain, pressure), and its unique dispersed nature.

Dervishes

1955 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

Dervisi: This 1955 documentary reveals the strange practices of one of the most ancient Muslim denominations and rites that aim to achieve mystical ecstasy.