All Films

Crazytown

1954 • 6 min • United States of America

The story of a town where everything is topsy-turvy.

Atomic Attack

1954 • 50 min

A family living 50 miles away try to flee from the fallout of an atomic bomb that fell on New York City.

Operation Undersea

1954 • 52 min • United States of America

Fish Tales

1954 • 9 min • United States of America

In this short film, champion fisherman Ernie St. Claire tries to catch a large salmon in Oregon's Rogue River.

Boo Moon

1954 • 7 min • United States of America

Casper the Friendly Ghost comes to the aid of King Luna and his people after being attacked by invading Tree Men. On the 3D Bluray 3-D Rarities Volume 1, this appears as an extra in 3D.

The Plague Summer

1953 • 16 min • United States of America

Adaptation of Kenneth Patchen's novel, 'The Journal of Albion Moonlight'.

Magoo's Masterpiece

1953 • 7 min • United States of America

There is a sculpture contest with large prize money for the winner, and Mr. Magoo decides to become a sculptor and do some sculpturing. He borrows a friend's studio and goes to work on his creation. When a police-pursued jewel thief enter the studio, he convinces the near-sighted Magoo that he is a beautiful model, and Magoo, happy to have a beautiful woman as his model, sculpts away. The police finally arrive, and Magoo gets a reward for the thief's capture, and his sculpture wins the first-place prize money in the sculpture contest.

Here's Hockey!

1953 • 11 min • Canada

Featuring Jean Beliveau, this short film focuses on hockey from the inside out. Known as Canada's national pastime, this film demonstrates why hockey is such an exciting spectator sport. From east to west, the connection between fans and players is evident in the excited cries of "we've won!" From Pee-Wee to Bantam, from the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association to the big league pros, Here's Hockey! shows what it takes to make a great hockey player.

Juno Helps Out

1953 • 19 min • United Kingdom

A Great Dane helps the children with the housework while their mother is ill.

Pertaining to Marin

1953 • 10 min

1953 Jim Davis short

Good Health Practices

1953 • 10 min

Young Jim and Judy learn about proper eating, keeping clean, proper rest and good toilet habits.

Thru the Looking Glass - A Fantasy

1953 • 8 min

Gossip

1953 • 10 min • United States of America

A popular high school girl is the victim of malicious gossip, spread by a jilted boyfriend, and it nearly ruins her life.

Story-Telling: Can You Tell It in Order?

1953 • 10 min • United States of America

A teacher uses a puppet clown, the black-board and mounted pictures in teaching primary school children to arrange events chronologically when telling a story.

Doom Town

1953 • 15 min

Documentary short about the 1953 atomic bomb test in Nevada.

Building Better Paragraphs

1953 • 11 min • United States of America

The members of a sixth-grade class learn to construct good paragraphs by composing a topic sentence, by relating other ideas to it in proper sequence and by composing an effective concluding sentence.

Selling As A Career

1953 • 11 min

Typical day of work for Art Williams, salesman of sporting goods. Preparations at home for next day's work, fills out reports, estimates sales prospects, schedules calls. Focuses on procedures & personal characteristics.

Skippy and the 3 R's

1953 • 30 min • United States of America

Shows how a teacher, by helping a first-grade child to discover his need for learning, teaches him to read, write, and do arithmetic.

Things to Come

1953 • 3 min • United States of America

A vibrant animation by Patricia Marx. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Mind Your Manners!

1953 • 11 min

How teenagers can cultivate good manners by manifesting a real desire to get along with others.

The Good Loser

1953 • 13 min • United States of America

Ray Medford, newly elected class president and star of the debate team, is used to winning. But when he unexpectedly loses a speaking competition to Marilyn Jackson—a classmate he once coached—Ray struggles with disappointment and considers quitting before the state championship. The film asks whether Ray, and those around him, are handling the loss the right way.

Let's Be Good Citizens at School

1953 • 9 min

Shows the importance of being neat and careful and of helping in such ways as picking up another's coat and making a new child feel he belongs to the group.

Beginning to Date

1953 • 11 min

An insecure young teen boy who has just reached dating age learns how to plan and enjoy a date (with a girl at least one foot taller than him). With Studs Terkel (Swimming Coach).

New Neighbor

1953 • 25 min

Building a steel mill from scratch and a city for its workers (Levittown, Pa.).