All Films

A Day in the Country

1953 • 13 min

Two boys and their grandmother visit a farm. Filmed in 3-D.

Poison Ivy Picnic

1953 • 2 min • Canada

This animated film shows what happens to two picnickers who had never heard the warning 'Leaflets three--let it be.' Colour photographs of the various types of poison ivy will help others avoid their plight.

Masks

1953 • 1 min • France

An abstract animation made for Van der Elst.

The Honeymooners: The Christmas Party

1953 • 30 min

While Ralph is out on a last-minute errand for potato salad, the Kramden apartment is visited by several of Gleason's characters. Featuring Frances Langford and Eddien

Treetop Daredevils

1953 • 8 min • United States of America

A documentary exploring the tartan wearing lives of lumberjacks in the 1950's.

Christmas Jollities

1953 • 60 min

City Pets: Fun and Responsibility

1953 • 11 min • United States of America

Illustrates the need of pets for adequate care, urges children to care for their city pets and shows by example how such care is administered.

Dr Ward - Bhutan Film

1953 • 22 min • United Kingdom

The film opens with general views and shows building works and Sherpas loading up. Scenes of threshing and a campsite, with Sherpas and huts. A settlement is then shown, including people weaving. Scenes of walking in towards the mountains and climbing in the foothills. More threshing scenes and the film ends with shots of the mountains and village.

The Silver Belt

1953 • 40 min • United States of America

A Native American drama set in the 1950's about a Navajo boy's conversion from following the ways of the medicine man to following Jesus Christ.

Oslofilm: Fra Oslo Centrum

1953 • 10 min • Norway

Oslo was a small town idyll, until it became a modern and busy metropolitan city in early 1950s. Many pictures from the old and new Oslo Center are shown.

Ecseri Lakodalmas

1953 • 20 min • Hungary

The State Folk Ensemble has performed the dance game more than a thousand times, and it has traveled all over the world. The short film was shot in Ecser, Gyömrő, Dabas and in the capital, in the studio of Magyar Filmgyártó Vállalat.

Oslofilm: Oslo: Byen med de grønne grenser

1953 • 13 min • Norway

We follow the green city boundary from Ljan on the east side of the Oslofjord, up through Østmarka, Nordmarka and back down to the fjord. On the road we meet people and animals, railways, farms, agriculture and forestry.

Form Phases II

1953 • 3 min • United States of America

Breer's earliest experiments in animation are wonderfully dense yet lyrical abstractions based on Breer's own geometric paintings. - Harvard Film Archive

Radiation Safety In Nuclear Energy Explorations

1953 • 22 min • United States of America

This classroom training film was produced by the US government to assure kids that nuclear energy was entirely safe and could even be put to good use that would benefit everybody, and to just overlook the pesky rumors that those godless Commies were going to wipe us out with them.

The Emperor's New Clothes

1953 • 7 min • United States of America

The king is offered a fine new suit that can only be seen by wise people, and walks naked in the procession.

Christ Among the Primitives

1953 • 10 min • Italy

Christ Among the Primitives is an 1953 Italian language short film directed by Vincenzo Lucci-Chiarissi. It examines primitive sculptures and traces the evolution of religious motives in early man. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, One-Reel.

The Caspian Story

1953 • 52 min • Soviet Union

A story of the exploits carried out by the oil technicians of Baku for the exploitation of the black gold deposit of the Caspian Sea.

Who Are the People of America?

1953 • 11 min • United States of America

A Coronet Instructional Film highlighting America's diversity.

Nara ni wa furuki hotoke tachi

1953 • 36 min • Japan

Short documentary film on the architecture and history of Nara Kofuku-ji and Todai-ji temples.

Study in Optical Rhythm

1953 • 6 min • Sweden

Made in 1953, Study in Optical Rhythm is an examination of the visual functions of rhythm. His best known film, it was drawn and painted directly onto the film stock at intervals of 4, 8, 12, 16 and 24 frames to find concurrence with a predetermined musical accompaniment. The film was intended to be screened both with and without music to explore differing audiovisual relationships. Technically Study in Optical Rhythm is thus reminiscent of the animations of Norman McLaren, Len Lye and Oscar Fischinger.

Mushroom Picking

1953 • 14 min • China

Two little rabbits one with long ear and the other with a short tail are good friends. One day, they found a big mushroom in the woods and started a fight for this mushroom. The two good friends quarreled. It suddenly rained heavily in a thunderstorm, and short tail was washed down a waterfall to the bottom of a ravine. Long ear tried to find short tail and finally rescued him from the moat. In the end both are good friends again.

A Little Hero

1953 • 10 min

"Little Heroes" describes the story of the little animals uniting together and bravely fighting hungry wolves.

The Town of Centuries

1953 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

Short biographical documentary of the town of Jajce. From details dating back to the period when the Romans lived in the area, to those that show the centuries-old invasions of many conquerors in these parts of Bosnia. The walls of the heroic city are located near Pliva Lake and its famous waterfall.

Harvest in Orosháza

1953 • 18 min