All Films

The Adventures of Mickey Mouse

1955 • 48 min

Walt looks at the career of his longtime associate, Mickey Mouse.

A Brave Hare

1955 • 18 min • Soviet Union

The tale about the brave hare - long ears, slanting eyes, short tail. He was so authoritative like a boss of all forests that even the wolf scared him.

Git Along Lil' Duckie

1955 • 6 min • United States of America

The over-sized Baby Huey wants to join the little ducks in their cowboy game but they don't want him. A fox comes along and the ducklings flee and leave Huey to fight the enemy. The fox uses an exploding-cigar, a shotgun and dynamite against him but Huey is too tough and the fox winds up being the pursued.

The Secret of Beauty

1955 • 15 min • Soviet Union

In the city hairdressers' school there are exams. The incapable pupil Kukushkina, having spoiled everything on the head of the next client, asks her suitor - the stylist Edik - to sit in her chair. In love, Edik agrees, and says goodbye to his stylish coke for a long time.

Look Out, Hooligans!

1955 • 12 min • Poland

A staged documentary that started the Polish Black Series. The film takes the form of a warning against indifference to the rogue behavior of hooligan groups and their pernicious effect on young people flowing into the cities.

The Vipers

1955 • 9 min • Netherlands

Short film about the experience of taking psychoactive drugs. ‘I wanted to make a short documentary-style film about marijuana and hashish, psychoactive drugs that in 1955 were still relatively unknown to the general public. They were mainly used by a small group of artists, jazz musicians, intellectuals, and North Africans. I wanted to visualize the ritual of rolling and lighting up a joint, and then put a series of seemingly unrelated images next to each other to represent the feeling of being high. When the movie was finished, we took it to the festival for 16mm films at Cannes, and won the Golden Lion for ‘Best Use of Film Language’. (Shinkichi Tajiri, Tajiri, 1993)

The Rise of Duton Lang

1955 • 7 min • United States of America

Professor Duton Lang is an obese scientist who has made many great discoveries. When he finally weights 497 pounds he develops a compound which permits him to eat as much as he wants and still lose weight. He gets down to 150 pounds in weight but is still the same body-size as when he weighed nearly 500 pounds. Eventually, he becomes a minus-weight and floats off into outer space.

Hide and Shriek

1955 • 6 min • United States of America

Casper the Friendly Ghost's cousin Spooky comes for a visit.

Davy Crockett at the Alamo

1955 • 53 min • United States of America

The third of five programs about Davy Crockett involves him, Georgie and a riverboat gambler they meet searching for a new adventure, which leads them to the Alamo, which they must defend.

Mr. Prokouk, The Animal Lover

1955 • 10 min • Czechoslovakia

When the Talkies Were Young

1955 • 20 min • United States of America

Warner Brothers looks back to the early days of talking pictures. Dwight Weist narrates film clips from five movies: "Sinner's Holiday," introducing James Cagney with a glimpse of Joan Blondell, "20,000 Years in Sing Sing," with a young Spencer Tracy and a younger Bette Davis, "Five Star Final," with Edward G. Robinson and a cameo from Boris Karloff, "Night Nurse," starring Barbara Stanwyck with a small role for Clark Gable, and "Svengali," with John Barrymore and Marian Marsh. Each movie is summarized and each star celebrated for work early in the history of sound cinema.

Gym College

1955 • 8 min • United States of America

In this Sportscope series entry, members of the Florida State University gymnastics team demonstrate their athletic skills.

The Brush Roper

1955 • 26 min

An old rancher, a spinner of tall western tales of his former derring-do to impress his young grandson, decides to capture a dangerous bull single-handed.

A World Is Born

1955 • 20 min • United States of America

Using the segment "Rite of Spring" from Fantasia (1940), this educational film depicts the Earth's first billion years of existence, from its birth and throughout the Dinosaur age.

Island of Mistakes

1955 • 26 min • Soviet Union

A short animated film about poor student Kolya Sorokin, who is dragged by two swans to the island of errors. On the island, incorrect solutions cause a lot of problems for Kolya. These trials force the hero to approach his responsibilities in a different way.

Boac

1955 • 6 min

The neon lights of Time Square’s BOAC sign…in Kodachrome kaleidoscope.

Teenagers on Trial

1955 • 9 min • United States of America

A look at the dangers and possible causes of gangs and teenage delinquency including over-crowded and under-funded schools with few after-school activities and over-worked parents who have little time to spend with their children.

Penny Antics

1955 • 8 min • United States of America

A virtual remake of Customers Wanted, with Popeye and Bluto running competing penny arcades showing customer Wimpy clips from past shorts, though in this case, rather than each arcade owner showing clips from the same story, they show different stories.

A Summer Discord

1955 • 17 min • United Kingdom

David Gladwell (Requiem for a Village) was just 20 years old when he made A summer Discord, an imaginative amateur, silent short film set in the countryside which tells the story of a little girl who is reprimanded by her mother. Of particular note is the film’s dark nightmare sequence which is shot in colour (unlike the rest of the film) and which anticipates Gladwell’s later, highly poetical films.

Beaus Will Be Beaus

1955 • 6 min • United States of America

Popeye and Bluto both show up to take Olive to the beach. Olive agrees, but only on the condition they promise to stop fighting...

General Electric Theater: Into the Night

1955 • 26 min • United States of America

A husband and wife are driving on a trip to Palm Springs. They stop for gas and are kidnapped by a pair of criminals, who have just killed a store clerk during a robbery. They plan to flee to Mexico and need the couple to help get them through police roadblocks.

Tim Driscoll's Donkey

1955 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Story of how a young Irish boy loses the donkey he has reared from birth.

A Hazel Tree Twig

1955 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The girl Mariuka goes in search of her brother Grigorash - he was carried away by the evil sorceress Kloantsa. On the way, the girl helps the Walnut Bush and the Giant. The bush gives her a magic tree twig...

Two Little Frosts

1955 • 12 min • Czechoslovakia

Two mischievous frost spirits make things chilly for a pair of travelers in this wintry comic folktale.