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The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome

The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome

1954 • 38 min • United States of America
Lord Shiva wakes. A convocation of magicians in the guise of figures from mythology; a masquerade party at which Pan is the prize. The wine of Hecate is poured: Pan's cup is poisoned by Shiva. Kali blesses the assembly as a bacchic rite ensues.
Sorcerer's Orb: Part 3

Sorcerer's Orb: Part 3

1954 • 52 min • Japan
The third part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyokutei Bakin.
The Shadow

The Shadow

1954 • 25 min • United States of America
Lamont Cranston, a psychiatrist on retainer to the police department, is asked to assist in the Case of the Cotton Kimono murder investigation. Lamont and his girlfriend Margot Lane are not satisfied with Detective Harris' analysis and call on the two prime suspects: the victim's voice instructor and her boyfriend. When Harris, convinced that the boyfriend is guilty, frames the young man for the crime, Lamont is forced to assume his secret identity as "The Shadow", and cloaked by his power of invisibility, seeks to force the true killer to reveal himself.
あゝ洞爺丸 

あゝ洞爺丸 

1954 • 48 min • Japan
Sorcerer's Orb: Part 5

Sorcerer's Orb: Part 5

1954 • 54 min • Japan
The 5th and final part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyokutei Bakin
The Blazing Caravan

The Blazing Caravan

1954 • 30 min
The body of a travelling salesman is found underneath a burning caravan, and Scotland Yard is convinced it's murder! But is everything as it seems?
Muzzle Tough

Muzzle Tough

1954 • 7 min • United States of America
Tweety Bird moves into a city brownstone with his mistress, Granny. A stray Sylvester Cat watches them move in and delights on seeing Tweety. Another of Granny's pets is a bulldog who complicates Sylvester's plan to sneak up close enough to make a grab for Tweety. Sylvester unsuccessfully tries all sorts of disguises, including a moving man, a lamp, a bearskin, and a female dog. He ends up being captured by the dog catcher and placed in the back of a truck surrounded by snarling canines.
Pump Trouble

Pump Trouble

1954 • 13 min • United States of America
An anxious man in his forties quits his job and resigns himself to an early death after a supposed heart attack, but his doctor sets him straight.
Elizabethan Express

Elizabethan Express

1954 • 20 min • United Kingdom
Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along the East Coast Main Line. A nostalgic record of the halcyon years of steam on British Railways and the ex-LNER Class A4.
Ballet-Oop

Ballet-Oop

1954 • 8 min
Dance teacher Miss Placement is dismayed to learn that the head of the School of Ballet where she teaches has entered her beginners class in a contest just three weeks away. But she manages to get them ready and they are a huge success. The school owner is so pleased that he enters all of the school's 1400 students in a contest where they have to learn "Swan Lake" in just two weeks.
Gang Boy

Gang Boy

1954 • 27 min • United States of America
Danny ponders a way for rival gangs to avoid violence at an upcoming dance.
Pigs Is Pigs

Pigs Is Pigs

1954 • 10 min • United States of America
Flannery, a railway agent does everything by the book. He gets into a scrape with a customer, McMorehouse, who wants to pay 44 cents freight for two guinea pigs which he considers pets. Flannery, however, considers them pigs (freight 48 cents), a decision he begins to regret when the animals begin to reproduce.
Anything Goes

Anything Goes

1954 • 60 min
On an ocean liner, a nightclub singer tries to help a fellow American romance an English heiress who is being forced to return home to marry a man she doesn't love. The American must avoid his boss who is traveling on the same vessel and disguises himself as a gangster traveling with a minister who is, in fact, a disguised gangster on the lam.
Sorcerer's Orb: Part 1

Sorcerer's Orb: Part 1

1954 • 55 min • Japan
The first part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyokutei Bakin
Quack Shot

Quack Shot

1954 • 7 min • United States of America
Elmer Fudd goes duck hunting on a pond, where Daffy Duck proclaims himself guardian of all his web-footed cousins and retaliates against Elmer.
The Silent Witness

The Silent Witness

1954 • 30 min • United Kingdom
A man phones the police to confess to killing his wife accidentally, but investigations prove that his story is not as straightforward as it first appears
Downhearted Duckling

Downhearted Duckling

1954 • 6 min • United States of America
Jerry's little duckling friend is depressed because he's just read The Ugly Duckling and thinks that he's ugly. Jerry does his best to help. Tom gets involved when the suicidal duck offers himself as a meal.
Picasso

Picasso

1954 • 50 min • Italy
The evolution of Picasso's painting up to his “pink phase.”
Phantom Stallion

Phantom Stallion

1954 • 54 min • United States of America
Ex-cavalry buddies, Rex and Slim, band together to capture a wild stallion, solve a murder and thwart the killers from cheating a boy out of his inheritance.
Captain Hareblower

Captain Hareblower

1954 • 7 min • United States of America
Bugs will not bend to the threats of the pirate Yosemite Sam.
Skattefria Andersson

Skattefria Andersson

1954 • 36 min • Sweden
Andersson is always complaining about high taxes and dreams about a world with no taxes.
Bell Hoppy

Bell Hoppy

1954 • 7 min • United States of America
Sylvester has been "blackballed" out of membership to the Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club again. To gain the long-coveted membership, the Grand Master offers to let the lisping puddy tat place a big bell around the neck of the largest mouse he can find, so the cats can pounce on the mouse when they hear the bell. Just as that's going on, Hippety Hopper escapes from a city zoo truck. It's not long before he encounters the hapless Sylvester. Each attempt to place the bell around Hippety's neck ends with Sylvester wearing the bell (and the cats pounding the puddy into submission). In the end, Sylvester finally does get the bell around Hippety's neck, but by the time the cats are ready to pounce on the baby kangaroo-mistaken-for-a-giant-mouse, Hippety has been recaptured. The oblivious cats end up jumping in front of the city zoo truck! Sylvester now gets to serve as Loyal Order's Grand Master.
Happy Bees

Happy Bees

1954 • 15 min
This film poem evokes childhood happiness on the island of Orkney. Footage includes wildflower meadows, toddlers playing in garden, friends fishing together and images of the sea.
Harmony Lane

Harmony Lane

1954 • 27 min • United Kingdom
The first British 3D short, this delightful 27 minute short is like spending a night at the Palladium with several variety acts. They include dancing by the Jack Billings Trio; a song by the Beverley Sisters; "Swan Lake" by Svetlana Beriosova and David Paltenghi of the Sadler's Wells Ballet; precision dancing by The Television Toppers and a comedy routine with Dora Bryan and Max Bygraves.