All Films

Royal Destiny

1953 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Produced by British Movietone for “Her Majesty’s Central Office of Information”, Royal Destiny traces Queen Elizabeth II’s young life up to her ascension to the throne.

Ancient Fistory

1953 • 7 min • United States of America

It's the middle ages (sort of); Popeye is working in Bluto's Beanery. Bluto is going to the ball where Princess Olive will choose her mate. Popeye's fairy godpappy appears and it's a reverse Cinderella story, with a car created from a can of spinach.

Hrnečku, vař!

1953 • 21 min • Czechoslovakia

While all the inhabitants of a small rural village are working hard to survive the harsh daily routine, the mayor and his wife are gorging themselves to death. Without generosity, they even refuse alms to a penniless old lady. Among the hard workers trying to subsist, a little girl works courageously to help her exhausted mother. One day, during her lunch break, she goes into the forest to fill her cup of water in a river. There, a poor old lady asks for alms from the young lady, having nothing but her little piece of bread, willingly offers it to her. It is then that the old lady, as a reward, enchants the cup of the little girl ...

Child Sockology

1953 • 6 min • United States of America

Olive invites the boys over for dinner. They play briefly with Swee'pea, but when the inevitable fight starts, they ignore him and he wanders off to a construction site. The boys alternate between fighting each other and rescuing the tot, with Bluto concentrating on fighting and Popeye on saving.

Toreadorable

1953 • 7 min • United States of America

Popeye and Olive are at a bullfight selling snacks. When toreador Bluto throws the bull, Olive falls for him.

College Capers

1953 • 15 min • United States of America

A slapstick comedy about the antics of a fraternity pledge who is forced by upper-classmen to stage a panty-raid in a sorority house.

Herring Hunt

1953 • 11 min • Canada

Herring Hunt is a 1953 French-English language documentary about the operations of a herring boat off the coast of British Columbia, directed by Julian Biggs, written by Leslie McFarlane, and produced by Guy Glover. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, One-Reel.

Upswept Hare

1953 • 7 min • United States of America

Penthouse dwelling Elmer Fudd brings home a beautiful flowering desert plant and - unknowingly - Bugs Bunny.

Snow Business

1953 • 7 min • United States of America

Sylvester Cat and Tweety Bird are snowbound in a mountain cabin, and though Tweety has lots of bird seed, Sylvester will starve unless he can cook the unsuspecting Tweety. Meanwhile, a starving mouse thinks Sylvester is edible.

Don's Fountain of Youth

1953 • 6 min • United States of America

While traveling with his nephews, Donald is disgusted that they are only interested in comics. He stops at the "fountain of youth" and tricks the kids into thinking he is a baby again. However, he gets tangled up with an aggressive mother alligator and her babies, and makes a hurried exit with the nephews.

Dear Uncle

1953 • 8 min • United States of America

Lost industrial cartoon from late 1940s or early 1950s telling everyone to PAY YOUR TAXES!. Directed by Carl Urbano. Produced by John Sutherland. Sponsored by harding College.

Communism

1952 • 10 min • United States of America

Educational film on the Cold War conflict

The Anti-Concept

1952 • 60 min • France

The film was shown for the first time on 11 February 1952 at the 'Avant-Garde 52' cinema club. It consisted of blank illumination projected onto a weather balloon, accompanied by a staccato spoken soundtrack. The film was banned by the French censors on 2 April 1952—when the Letterists visited the Cannes Film Festival the following month, they were forced to restrict the audience to journalists only. The text of the soundtrack was published in the sole issue of the Letterist journal Ion (1952; reprinted Jean-Paul Rocher, 1999), and later reissued in a separate edition augmented with associated texts (Editions Allia, 1994). Ion also included the text of Guy Debord's film Howls for Sade, which was dedicated to Wolman and featured his voice in its own soundtrack.

Esta pared no es medianera

1952 • 10 min • Peru

'This Wall is not a Party Wall' was directed by the Peruvian modernist painter Fernando de Szyszlo in 1952—its somewhat formulaic Freudianism locates it squarely in the historical avant-garde.

Our Magazine No. 2

1952 • 10 min • United Kingdom

A Saturday matinee cine-magazine for the boys and girls' cinema clubs. Sections include, Percussion Band of the London Fields Primary School, Model Decoration, Warm Waters, and Standstill Speed.

Kujira

1952 • 10 min • Japan

A whale swallows women and men.

Improvisations in Black and White

1952 • 4 min

Animated experimental film using only black and white, with a musical score.

Progress on the Rails

1952 • 15 min • United States of America

A production from the Pennsylvania Railroad outlining the advancement of the country on the back of the locomotive.

Borth-y-Gest: August 1952

1952 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Rowing on the estuary, driving onto the beach for a quick dash into the waves and making friends with the local felines - this wonderful record of a family seaside holiday in Borth-y-Gest, near Porthmadog on the edge of Snowdonia, has it all. Shot by prolific amateur filmmaker Harold Street, the abrupt ending and the placement of an end title card in the middle suggests this isn't his finished version - but the film nonetheless shows off a cinematic eye for framing and a sophisticated sense of narrative.

Physical Aspects of Puberty

1952 • 17 min • United States of America, Canada

This short animated film explains the primary and secondary characteristics of sexual development during puberty of boys and girls. The problems associated with physical and glandular growth in both sexes are covered, as are the general problems of adolescence.

The California Zephyr

1952 • 9 min • United States of America

The tale of The California Zephyr, part of the Blackhawk Railroad Series

Racleurs d’océans

1952 • 30 min • France

Snow on the Run

1952 • 18 min • United States of America

Southern Pacific film on clearing snow from the tracks to get the trains through

What It Means To Be An American

1952 • 22 min

A jingoistic American short for American children, voiceover narration by an American narrator blustering over miscellaneous bits of American stock footage.