All Films

Big Trains Rolling

1955 • 24 min • United States of America

A production of the association of American Railroads outlining the wonders of America's rail system.

Study IV: Liberation

1955 • 9 min • Sweden

A surrealistic and symbolic depiction of the liberation of the self in a series of associative scenes. The main character moves between different rooms, rooms of significance for him, dragging something that constantly changes form but eventually turns out to be himself. It is an old and consumed I that disappears from him.

The Tilted Tenderfoot

1955 • 55 min • United States of America

Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.

Helter Shelter

1955 • 6 min • United States of America

After a dog destroys a couple of Woody's houses, Woody finds warmth from the rainstorm in the same house that the dog lives in. Hijinx ensue.

Christopher Crumpet's Playmate

1955 • 6 min

Christopher Crumpet has an imaginary elephant for a playmate. Christopher's father begins to see the elephant. Mr. Crumpet reveals this to his co-worker, Mr. Bilgewater, who quickly plays office politics by telling their boss that Mr. Crumpet is crazy. The boss has recently awarded Crumpet a junior partnership, which Bilgewater thought he had deserved. The boss visits the Crumpet home, and finds that Crumper does indeed see his son's imaginary playmate. But instead of taking the junior partnership away from Crumpet, he makes him a full partner. The boss himself has an imaginary hyena.

Sulfur Mines

1955 • 11 min • Italy

Harshness and beauty exist side by side in this look at the lives of sulfur mine workers and their families in southern Italy.

Blinkity Blank

1955 • 5 min • Canada

A playful exercise in intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. Playing with the laws relating to persistence of vision and after-image on the retina of the eye, McLaren engraves pictures on blank film creating vivid, percussive effects.

The Last Reunion

1955 • 53 min • United Kingdom

While holding their annual reunion, the former members of a Royal Air Force bomber crew begin to sense the supernatural presence of their old squadron commander, the only member of the group not to return from their last mission of the war.

The Gold Express

1955 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller (produced by H.G. Wells son) with an ace reporter coming up against crooks intent on stealing a gold shipment on the Scotland to London express. A scatterbrained scientist, a gun-toting dame with revenge on her mind and a pair of eccentric spinster crime novelists – who steal the film – round out the motley band of passengers who cross the path of our intrepid hero as he tries to get his big scoop.

That's an Order

1955 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Children's comedy about an inefficient grocer's boy and his passion for eating.

Men Against the Arctic

1955 • 30 min

This Academy Award winning short subject documentary follows the United States Coast Guard icebreaker ships Eastwind and Westwind for four months as they work to clear navigational paths for ships traversing the arctic sea.

Old Bazaar

1955 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

Skopje's old bazaar depicting the old, already ancient crafts carried out by tailors, coppersmiths, goldsmiths, silversmiths, leather craftsmen, etc.

A Pipe and a Bear

1955 • 10 min • Soviet Union

There was the morning in the forest, which means that it's time to get up, do exercises and wash. The most healthy resident of the forest is a Bear. He makes exercises every morning, and fresh forest air fills him with mighty health. Once walking in the woods, he discovers someone's smoking pipe, which was still smoking. Gently creeping up to the tube, he grabs it and runs off into the thicket of the forest. The next day our Bear no longer exercises, he lies under his tree and smokes. So it goes all summer and autumn comes.

The Steadfast Tin Soldier

1955 • 13 min

This is the tale of the tin soldier with one leg who won the heart of a ballerina, but was swallowed by a fish before he found his way back to her. The film is a delightful presentation of Hans Christian Andersen's story, employing puppets and clever camerawork.

Dove Dio cerca casa

1955 • 10 min • Italy

A group of Italian priests struggle to convert a disused building into a church.

Four Coins

1955 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Old Ahmed with his grandson and dog goes to the market, having only four coins. But the tax collector and the rich take his money. Wanting to take revenge on them, Ahmed pretends to be a wizard and threatens to turn them into donkeys...

Wreath of Songs

1955 • 10 min • Czechoslovakia

Blanca

1955 • 19 min • Romania

Adaptation after Fat Frumos din tei by Mihai Eminescu

The Mad Masters

1955 • 28 min • France, Ghana

The subject of the film was the Hauka movement. The Hauka movement consisted of mimicry and dancing to become possessed by French Colonial administrators. The participants performed the same elaborate military ceremonies of their colonial occupiers, but in more of a trance than true recreation.

Poet and Peasant Overture

1955 • 7 min

A rendition of the Poet and Peasant Overture by the MGM Orchestra

Man in Space

1955 • 51 min • United States of America

With a combination of documentary footage and animation, the science and history of rockets, and the effects of space travel on man are illustrated.

Pappy's Puppy

1955 • 7 min • United States of America

Butch, a mean bulldog, teaches his young son about the facts of life, including how to attack cats. The pup is at first frightened when he encounters Sylvester, but the youngster (remembering his father's lesson) soon becomes a thorn in the pussycat's side.

The Matchmaking Marshal

1955 • 54 min • United States of America

Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.

Atomic Energy as a Force for Good

1955 • 28 min • United States of America

Drama showing the reactions of citizens of a small town to the construction of a nuclear energy plant in their community, and their acceptance of the peaceful aspects of atomic energy.