All Films

Iniquity

1953 • 14 min • Soviet Union

College assessor Miguev, returning home, finds a foundling at the porch. Having mistaken him for his son from the former maid Agnia, the frightened Miguev, in turn, is trying to toss the baby, but to no avail. Tired dad decides to confess to his wife Anna Filippovna, and, meanwhile, the true parents begin to search for their child left “for a second” at the threshold of a respectable house ...

Murder at 3am

1953 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A police detective suspects that his sister's boyfriend is a murderer.

Your Books

1953 • 21 min • Soviet Union

Children's books, which were considered a luxury in many Soviet families, were sent in large amounts to kindergartens and libraries. The former Rumyantsev Library (now the Russian State Library) had a children's reading room, where children would often choose a book based on the pictures on the card index. Which of the 1960s' writers were especially popular among them?

Roots of Happiness

1953 • 23 min • Puerto Rico

Dramatizes the case of a family in which the father respects and loves his wife and children, permitting each to develop as an individual, and contrasts this family with one where discord and hostility prevail.

Eaux d'artifice

1953 • 13 min • United States of America

A woman dressed elegantly walks purposely through the water gardens at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, as the music of Vivaldi's Winter movement of The Four Seasons plays. Heavy red filters give a blue cast to the light; water plays across stone, and fountains send it into the air. No words are spoken. Baroque statuary and the sensuous flow of water are back lit. Anger calls it water games.

The Crow and the Fox, the Cuckoo and the Rooster

1953 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Two Gun Marshal

1953 • 54 min • United States of America

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

Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor

1953 • 9 min • United States of America

Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor [also known as The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture] is a 1953 American short musical film produced by Johnny Green. The film consists of the MGM Symphony Orchestra playing the Overture to Otto Nicolai's opera The Merry Wives of Windsor, also conducted by Johnny Green. It won an Oscar in 1954 for Best Short Subject, One-Reel.

Magic Store

1953 • 31 min • Soviet Union

A school student finds a magical store where he can buy things which help to get straight A's with no working at all.

This Is a Living?

1953 • 10 min • United States of America

This "Pete Smith Specialty" features narrated clips of acrobats and stunt performers who earn their living in unusual and exciting ways.

A Railwayman's Word

1953 • 22 min • Poland

A documentary about the hard work of railwaymen transporting coke from Tarnowskie Góry to Szczecin Iron works.

How to Sleep

1953 • 7 min

Goofy has insomnia, and is desperate for some restful sleep.

Varley

1953 • 15 min • Canada

A short glimpse into the world of Frederick Varley, famed Group of Seven painter.

Flight to the Moon

1953 • 30 min • Soviet Union

A boy is by an accident a member of a crew that is going to travel to the moon.

The World of Dong Kingman

1953 • 16 min

James Wong Howe follows artist Dong Kingman over the course of a day, in which the maestro starts and finishes a watercolor of a street in New York City.

Kiss Me Cat

1953 • 7 min • United States of America

Marc Antony must convince his owner that Pussyfoot is a great mouser to keep him in the house.

The Basics of Colour in Film

1953 • 30 min • Soviet Union

Documentary film introduces the principles of color cinema, from the spectrum of light sources to the structure of multilayer film, and traces the entire process of how color is reproduced on screen.

How to Dance

1953 • 6 min

Goofy learns the basics of ballroom dancing.

Brothers Liu

1953 • 27 min • Soviet Union

Based on the Chinese folk tale. Long ago, three brothers Liu lived in China. They were so similar that even their own mother discerned them on colored ribbons. The first brother could command fire, the second could drink the sea and return it back, and a third knew the language of birds, animals and fish.

Social-Sex Attitudes in Adolescence

1953 • 24 min • United States of America

An educational film from 1953 to encourage parents talk to their children about adolescence.

In the Valley of the Rhine

1953 • 9 min • United States of America

This Traveltalk series short takes a trip on the Rhine river, with stops at Cologne, Bonn, and Koblenz.

All My Babies... A Midwife's Own Story

1953 • 55 min • United States of America

George Stoney investigates the living conditions, both good and bad, in the rural, segregated South.

Down Laredo Way

1953 • 54 min • United States of America

Rex Allen against diamond smugglers down Laredo way

The Missing Mouse

1953 • 7 min • United States of America

A moment after a bottle of white shoe polish pours on Jerry, Tom hears on the radio that a white mouse, having swallowed an explosive, has escaped from an experimental laboratory and that slightest jar of the mouse could cause it to explode and blow up the entire city. It is then that Tom notices now-white Jerry and concludes it's the escapee.