All Films

El Paso Stampede

1953 • 53 min • United States of America

The cattle that are being rustled apparently vanish as no one is able to find them. But Rocky Lane, in his last B western, is on the job and he is assisted as usual by Nugget Clark.

Dance in the Sun

1953 • 7 min • United States of America

Choreographer Daniel Nagrin performs in a studio and in the sun.

What's Sweepin'?

1953 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody is a city street sweeper and hates his job. After being abused by policeman Wally Walrus, he decides to quit and disguises himself as a policeman, kicking the rubbish can away which scoops up Wally sending him into the harbour shrinking his uniform. The angry Wally chases the disguised Woody into the circus. Because he is mistaken for a child, he is denied access but enters backstage disguised as an elephant. Finally, after a long struggle with Woody under the big top, he captures the redhead and returns him to his job as street sweeper.

The Living City

1953 • 25 min • United States of America

This short explores the early planning innovations and the subsequent mistakes that resulted in developing urban sprawl, suburbia, and gentrification in modern day US cities as well as the effects it had on its populace and industry.

Liberace's Christmas Special

1953 • 26 min • United States of America

By the Old Mill Scream

1953 • 7 min • United States of America

Casper befriends Short Tail, the beaver.

Muscle Tussle

1953 • 7 min • United States of America

Daffy Duck takes his girl to a beach, where a muscle-bound duck attracts the attentions of Daffy's fickle chick. She leaves Daffy and walks off with the hunky duck. A salesman sells Daffy a bogus strength-building tonic, and Daffy takes some, thinking it has made him into a virile power-house! He challenges the muscular duck to a series of contests involving bar-bending, chain-chewing, and weight-lifting.

Football (Now and Then)

1953 • 7 min • United States of America

An old-timer tells his grandson that old-time football players could take a modern team, so we see a game with just that match-up: Bygone U. vs. Present State. More specifically, the Bygone U. team of 11 vs. Present State's dozens of special squads and support personnel. Even the stadium, fans, and press are modern vs. old-time. The game is close, and fiercely fought.

The Crimson Curtain

1953 • 45 min • France

A twenty year old Anouk Aimée stars as Albertine, the daughter of a bourgeois couple who house a young officer during the Napoleonic wars. Newly promoted, the officer (Jean-Claude Pascal) is quartered by a dull bourgeois couple who treat him with a cold politeness bordering on indifference.

Popeye's Mirthday

1953 • 6 min • United States of America

Olive is preparing a birthday party for Popeye. He arrives too soon, and she assigns his nephews (only three in this picture) to keep him out until she's ready. They do this in their usual creative ways.

Better Bait Than Never

1953 • 7 min • United States of America

Katnip is trying to catch a really big fish, but is having no success.

Life Sentence

1953 • 30 min

An inmate tending the prison grounds notices the woman next door neighbor often watches him. He sneaks over to visit and tells her he will be released in two weeks. He says he plans on coming for her to take her away. While she has pleaded with her husband to move away from the prison, he has his reasons for wanting to stay. The prisoner could be the answer to her problem.

Let's Ask Nostradamus

1953 • 11 min • United States of America

Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the French Revolution.

Old Overland Trail

1953 • 60 min • United States of America

Anchor is building a railroad and to get cheap labor he gets Black Hawk's Indians to attack and burn the incoming wagon train. This forces the settlers to work for Anchor and he pays them in devalued scrip. When Rex figures out Anchor's swindle, Anchor gets Black Hawk to capture him. When Anchor turns on Black Hawk and shoots him, Black Hawk gets a chance to repay a debt to Rex.

1984

1953 • 60 min • United States of America

George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love. Episode 1 of Season 6 of Studio One's anthology series.

The Dark World

1953 • 60 min • Turkey

Based on the real life story, the director turned his camera towards the real world of Âşık Veysel, the great poet who wandered around the Anatolian villages.

The Chicken

1953 • 16 min • Italy

Ingrid Bergman notices that her roses have been destroyed. At first she suspects it is her dogs or her children, but later on notices a chicken walking around the area of her roses. (Originally appeared as a segment of the omnibus film "Siamo donne (We, Women)" but later presented separately as a short film.)

Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns

1953 • 6 min

Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini at a gala held in Sweden in 1953.

Six Gun Decision

1953 • 54 min • United States of America

A compilation of two episodes from the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series, Border City Election and Pony Express vs. Telegraph, edited together and released as a feature film.

Log Rollers

1953 • 7 min • United States of America

Heckle and Jeckle, the talking magpies, are in need of upgraded-housing and decide to help themselves to the logs and lumber laying unused in Big Pierre's lumber yard. Big Pierre thinks this a bit high-handed on the part of the two birds, and his objections leads to several battles and mêlées, which leads to a big explosion which causes the logs to fall and form a house. But the house collapses, and Heckle and Jeckle shrug it off and depart the premises.

White Mane

1953 • 41 min • France

In the south of France, in a vast plain region called the Camargue, lives White Mane, a magnificent stallion and the leader of a herd of wild horses too proud to let themselves be broken by humans. Only Folco, a young fisherman, manages to tame him. A strong friendship grows between the boy and the horse, as the two go looking for the freedom that the world of men won’t allow them.

The Pleasure Garden

1953 • 38 min • United Kingdom

People quietly or mischievously pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all leisure activities.

Last of the Pony Riders

1953 • 58 min • United States of America

Ex-Pony Express rider Autry ties to protect his US mail franchise as the Pony Express gives way to stage coach mail and the telegraph. Gene's last film appearance as a singing cowboy.

April paths

1953 • 12 min • France

Chemins d'avril is a French short film directed by Édouard Molinaro, released in 1953.It is about a young boy on his way to school. He finds a rabbit in a trap.