All Films

Aamua kaupungissa

1954 • 8 min • Finland

Helsinki wakes up to the summer morning in Jörn Donner's first short film, which goes through the landscapes of Katajanokka, Pohjoisranta, Market Square, Kruununhaka and Kallio

The Grasshopper and the Ant

1954 • 10 min • United Kingdom

A musical Grasshopper continues to play his violin while the Ant works hard to prepare for the winter. Later as winter arrives Grasshopper realizes he is not ready for winter and falls ill.

Calling All Cars

1954 • 44 min • United Kingdom

Comedy documentary centring on the Dover Harbour car terminal.

Are You Amongst Them?

1954 • 8 min • Poland

This film criticizes various types of vandalism and behavior that is socially harmful: people spitting on the street, housewives wasting water, teenagers destroying sockets, passengers storming buses without paying attention to others, pedestrians devastating greenery in the city. Are you one of them?

Wash-'em-Clean

1954 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Based on the poem by Korney Chukovskiy, about a boy who would not clean himself, so all his belongings ran away from him.

Une Nation, l'Algérie

1954 • 10 min • Algeria, France

The Land Is Waiting

1954 • 7 min • Poland

The film encourages people to settle in the so-called Regained Territories. Not only cities and towns but also villages that offer brick buildings and fertile soil. The region of Zielona Góra, Szczecin, Wrocław, Olsztyn – people are wanted there.

In the Heart of the Forest

1954 • 21 min • Soviet Union

The tale of the little badger, who did not want to learn to produce their own food and dig burrows. And once, when he told his father that he's hurt his back, and he played and lost, he realized how much need to be able to survive. Because such small animals as he is in the woods lurks so many dangers... And, above all, wolf!

Bringing Up Mother

1954 • 7 min

John Smith is a fugitive on the run, all because of the suppressive childhood inflicted on him by his mother. When he was two years old she had tricked him into exchanging his crib for a bed and later, she brought home a baby brother when he was expecting a sister. John has had enough and is running away from home but has to stop at the curb as his mother won't let 6-year-old John cross the street.

Jazz of Lights

1954 • 16 min

A pulsating city symphony of light, movement, and electronic music, transforming Times Square in the 1950s into what Hugo’s wife, the writer Anaïs Nin, called "an ephemeral flow of sensations.”

Riches of the Earth

1954 • 16 min • Canada

Colourful animation depicts the formation, through geological ages, by fire and water, wind and ice, of the Earth's crust which holds our wealth of minerals, oil, coal, arable land, and even our water power.

Look Who's Driving

1954 • 8 min

Look Who’s Driving: A super-rare UPA educational film from 1954 directed by Bill Hurtz (The Unicorn in the Garden) and designed by Bob Dranko. There’s nothing revolutionary about this short but it’s a superb bit of stylishly designed Fifties animation.

Marshals in Disguise

1954 • 54 min • United States of America

Another of the series of "movies" created by stitching two episodes of the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series together, U. S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles P. Jones are working to solve the mystery of a number of gold robberies from a stage line and expose the plot of a bank manager to buy the bank with funds stolen from it. Wrapping that one up tightly in less than thirty minutes, they move on up the road to round up another gang that has been holding up Wells Fargo offices, with Jingles posing as a medicine show magician.

The Umbrella

1954 • 31 min

This film presents a day in the life of a young boy, Charles, and the events that drove him to steal an umbrella. It examines in detail the boy's relationship with his parents and a his feeling of rejection.

Rough Riding

1954 • 9 min

This rare Technicolor entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series shows various events at a rodeo in Casper, Wyoming

Hay Rube

1954 • 6 min • United States of America

The Jingling Bros. Circus is performing for one night only in the town that farm horse Sugarfoot lives in. Paw has Sugarfoot pulling a plow. A new billboard goes up with pretty circus horse Starbrite's picture on it. She is a star at the circus. Sugarfoot falls for her and leaves his farm to meet her. Once he arrives, he sees Starbrite's trainer beating her. Sugarfoot kicks the villainous circus trainer. Sugarfoot woos the crowd with his ability to thwart the angry trainer, who keeps shooting at him with a rifle and missing every shot while, at the same time, getting the worst end of each thing he attempts to do to wrangle the horse. Paw is discouraged until Sugarfoot shows up again... this time with a bride and four little ponies.

The Big Train

1954 • 26 min • United States of America

A documentary on the importance of railroads in the United States

La Gazza Ladra Overture

1954 • 10 min • United States of America

In this short, Johnny Green leads the MGM Symphony Orchestra in a performance of the overture to Rossini's "La Gazza Ladra".

Outlaw's Son

1954 • 54 min • United States of America

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

Gazouilli, petit oiseau

1954 • 13 min

M-G-M Jubilee Overture

1954 • 10 min • United States of America

This short was released as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 30th anniversary. The M-G-M Symphony Orchestra, led by Johnny Green, plays a medley of eleven well-known songs used in some of the studio's best-known musicals.

Dixieland Droopy

1954 • 8 min • United States of America

John Pettibone (Droopy), a dog whose love of Dixieland music is not appreciated by those around him, has a lucky meeting with Pee-Wee Runt and his All-Flea Dixieland band at the circus.

Real Gone Woody

1954 • 7 min • United States of America

Woody invites Winnie Woodpecker to a sock hop, but some other bird wants to be with her too, and they fight over her.

Casey Bats Again

1954 • 8 min • United States of America

Casey is upset about having struck out his last chance at bat but his wife suggests they have a son to follow in their dad's footsteps. Eventually, a child is born but, to Casey's dismay, it's a girl, not a boy. His wife suggests they try again several more times but each time, it's still another girl. Casey is depressed but his pals tell him that in spite of everything, they still make a powerful baseball team. Casey likes the idea and accepts. However, the day of the big game, he is nervous that one of them will strike out and attempts to make the last home run himself disguised as one of his own daughters.