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A project from the Kićo series: The Enchanted Castle in Čačinci, later changed to The Enchanted Castle in Dudinci – Čačinci was found on a map, and Vukotić needed an imaginary name of the place. Screenplay was written by Fadil Hadžić, main cartoonist and animator is Vukotić, scenography (perhaps the best in his career) is created by Ismet Voljevica. Music was composed by Vladimir Kraus-Rajterić. Nikola Kostelac appears as the assistant to the main cartoonist, and Vilim Firšt as the assistant for animation. Assistant director is Irena Vrkljan.

A documentary looking at the British Government's atomic weapons design, construction and testing on the Australian Monte Bello Islands in 1951.

"Mel" is a hot-rodder who quickly conforms when he discovers the Santa Ana drag strip and the Lake El Mirage timing trials. These provide a "safe and constructive outlet," the narrator tells us, and help mitigate the "juvenile nuisance problem." "Trophies now instead of traffic tickets! He'll never speed on the highway again!"

Short documentary tracking the installation of oil infrastructure in Antwerp.

Bank robber Yosemite Sam forces Bugs to try to fly the largest airplane in the world.

A ten-minute short film that shows actor Errol Flynn and archer Howard Hill fishing for marlin and sail fish near Acapulco.

This UPA cartoon introduces a new character, Pete Hothead, a feisty little man with a violent temper. Pete Hothead was featured in only one other cartoon. In this one he receives a parrot from a store rather than the radio he ordered. In his attempts to exchange the parrot for a radio, he cause much havoc, disruptions and chaos in the store. He finally gets his radio, but then decides he'd rather have a television set.

In this retelling of the Brothers Grimm folk tale, Hansel and Gretel- here portrayed as two mice kids- get themselves lost in the woods ("Beware Witch Country," a sign warns). There, they see a house made of gingerbread, candies and cakes. They break off pieces of the house and begin to eat it. Then they meet the house's owner, an evil old witch who is riding a vacuum cleaner. She captures the two kids and prepares to cook them. The witch sends her bad cats after Mighty Mouse when he flies to the rescue. He takes care of them and then takes on the witch as she transforms into a giant buzzard! Mighty Mouse knocks the witch into her own evil cauldron, kicking her in the behind! The evil sorceress comes out shrunken to one-fourth her size, and our hero returns Hansel and Gretel to their parents. Mighty Mouse gives Hansel and Gretel's father a magic axe which cuts down all of his trees. The magic device helps to end the family's financial woes

Those rabble-rousing magpies Heckle and Jeckle are watching high-society crowds going into the theater to see a performance of "The Barber of Seville" and decide to get some culture of their own by sneaking into the show. The stage-door manager tosses them out on their first attempt, but they finally get past him, leading to a wild chase as the opera is underway.

Shown in training with the recently formed Midland Canoe Club, Nottinghamshire miner Billy Churn went on to compete in the Helsinki Summer Games, along with fellow club member Tom Hezseltine.

Cocteau takes the viewer on a tour of a friend's villa on the French coast (a major location used in Testament of Orpheus). The house itself is heavily decorated, mostly by Cocteau (and a bit by Picasso), and we are given an extensive tour of the artwork. Cocteau also shows us several dozen paintings as well. Most cover mythological themes, of course. He also proudly shows paintings by Edouard Dermithe and Jean Marais and plays around his own home in Villefranche.

Psychological thriller about an odd family with Harvey playing the older domineering son, who resents both his overbearing grandmother and his younger brother. Before long, the old woman ends up dead—murdered. Fingers point strongly to one suspect, but is he really guilty?

A recording of the performance of the symphonic poem entitled Fairy Tale by Stanislaw Moniuszko at the ‘Ursus’ Factory in Warsaw. It took place in 1952 and was performed by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Witold Rowecki.

A typical experimental film from the forties, based on a surrealistic fable by the French writer J.Cl. Lambert. In this film, colour is used for a dramatic purpose, as a storytelling element. (filmform)

Billed as the first Ukrainian art film in colour to be produced in Canada, the film received mixed reviews from the Ukrainian press despite its folksy, mass appeal. The transfer onto film of a staged musical production without fuly understanding the specific demands of the film medium is reportedly one of the drawbacks.

A family of musical instruments, the Oompahs. Conflict strikes when the son wants to hang out with his rebellious friends, going against his traditionally-based family structure. A heavy allegory for the jazz backlash.

The cat and the mouse Little Roquefort meets the canary in this Terrytoons cartoon.

Pearl Pureheart is the laundry maid beholden to Oil Can Harry, and only Mighty Mouse can rescue her.

Summer holidays of young pioneers and the report of the pioneer meeting in Dresden in August 1952.

This very short stereoscopic film by Evelyn Lambart uses drawings to suggest movement across Canada’s ever-changing countryside.

To convince Popeye to throw away his spinach, Bluto fakes his death, after showing clips of "spinach moments" from a couple earlier shows.

Mabel Beaton's marionettes star in this short about Santa trading in his reindeer for a rocket ship

Shemp's rich Uncle Phineas comes to visit the stooges who are broke and about to evicted. The boys convince their landlady Mrs. McGruder not to toss them out as Shemp is set to inherit a fortune. The boys also have trouble with a circus strongman after Shemp accidentally rips off his wife's dress. Uncle Phineas gets in the middle of the fight, and Mrs. McGruder ends it by knocking out the strongman. It turns out that Uncle Phineas and the landlady were childhood sweethearts and he marries her, leaving the stooges out of the bucks once again.

A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Harwell's nuclear research establishment and the peaceful applications of atomic energy.