All Films

Popeye's Pappy

1952 • 7 min • United States of America

Popeye meets up with his mom, who thinks that his long-lost Poopdeck Pappy is stranded on a tropical island.

A Star Shall Rise

1952 • 29 min

Story of the Three Magi's search for the Christ child following their discovery of a new star foretold in Jewish scripture and Zoroastrain religious texts.

Desperadoes' Outpost

1952 • 54 min • United States of America

Nugget Clark has been having his stagecoaches wrecked and Marshal Rocky Lane arrives to investigate. The foreman of a nearby mine is stealing part of the mecury output and selling it in Mexico. Nugget's house has a direct pipeline from the mine and they are trying to drive him into bankruptcy to obtain his ranch. Rocky is quickly aware that the Foremen is behind Nugget's holdups but they are also onto Rocky when he accidently drops his badge during a fight.

Lunch with a Punch

1952 • 6 min • United States of America

Popeye and Olive take his nephews on a picnic. They don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye tells them about his school days, when Bluto repeatedly got Popeye in trouble and eventually stole Olive away until Popeye had his spinach and saved her from an oncoming train. After his story, Bluto grabs Popeye and the nephews eat their spinach and save him.

Triplet Trouble

1952 • 7 min • United States of America

Someone drops off three cute little kittens; Tom is put in charge of them while Mammy goes shopping. But behind her back, the three little angels are real devils.

A Bird in a Guilty Cage

1952 • 7 min • United States of America

Sylvester Cat spots Tweety Bird in a display window of an after-hours department store and sneaks inside through a mail server chute. Tweety flees Sylvester by hiding in a hat pile and a doll house, evades the shots from a rifle Sylvester uses, and escapes in a vacuum tube. Tweety sends a dynamite stick through another tube, and Sylvester swallows it, thinking it is Tweety. The dynamite blows up inside Sylvester after the cat leaves the store and walks down the street.

Gag and Baggage

1952 • 6 min • United States of America

Singalong with spot gags about the history of the railroad.

Here We Go Again

1952 • 10 min • United States of America

When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair. tempers flair and a challenge to a boxing match is met. Edited and adapted from Hard Knocks and Love Taps (1921).

Susie, the Little Blue Coupe

1952 • 8 min • United States of America

From a brand new car in a showroom that draws every eye, to a discard in a second-hand lot and ultimately Skid Row, Susie's story has the highest of highs, and plummets to the lowest of lows... an automotive riches to rags story.

Assorted Scenes/Kaleidoscope

1952 • 17 min

More urban kaleidoscopic experiments in color and B&W.

To the Rescue

1952 • 21 min • United Kingdom

Comedy of the theft of a poodle by a villain and the chase after him.

The Desert Divers

1952 • 21 min • Algeria

Les Plongeurs Du Désert, directed by Tahar Hannache in 1952, is considered the first entirely Algerian fiction film. It tells the story of the inhabitants of an oasis whose well has dried up. The village elder, Sheikh Messaoud, calls upon the renowned desert divers, artisans specializing in clearing sand- and silt-filled wells, to restore access to the vital water for the community. After their intervention, the water begins to flow again, bringing relief to the oasis and its inhabitants. The film depicts the contrast between the traditional techniques of the divers, embodied by Sheikh Ali and his son Mansour, and the arrival of modernity, represented by the machine that ultimately replaces their craft. This story symbolizes the marginalization of local knowledge in the face of technological progress and the social injustice of the colonial era.

Why Take Chances?

1952 • 10 min

The dangers of carelessness and inattention are dramatized by the case of poor little Jimmy, who has been having a tough day. Because of his carelessnss and inattention, he runs into a tree, steps on a nail, flies a kite in a rainstorm, and digs a cave in a hillside, which promptly collapses on him.

The Kill

1952 • 56 min

Jeff and his family just moved into a small, rural community. When two sinister locals tamper with Jeff's water pump, a fight breaks out among the three. Jeff is seen as a fugitive in the eyes of this bloodthirsty community...and there seems to be no way to stop them. Studio One, Season 5, Episode 1.

Wakefield Express

1952 • 33 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about the production of a small town weekly newspaper from reporting to printing.

Uncle Donald's Ants

1952 • 6 min • United States of America

Donald spills some sugar on his sidewalk, and soon the ants are in complete control of his home, stealing the cake he was baking, building a pipeline from his maple syrup to their hill, and causing general mayhem.

Kiddin' the Kitten

1952 • 7 min • United States of America

A lazy and fat cat, named Dodsworth, is ordered by his mistress to catch mice that have invaded her home and are terrorizing her. Dodsworth doesn't want to condescend to personal physical effort to catch the mice, so dons a professor's hat and dupes a kitten into doing the job for him, on the pretext that he's a teacher who is giving the kitten a valuable learning experience.

The Hawk of Wild River

1952 • 53 min • United States of America

Steve Martin is sent to Wild River to recover stolen gold and finds the town is being terrorized by The Hawk and his outlaw gang. The Hawk attempts to murder Sheriff Jack Mahoney and is captured and jailed. Steve helps the Hawk break jail and thus makes contact with the bandit gang. He sends a bungling photographer, Smiley Burnette, to warn the sheriff that the gang plan to rob the express office.

Murder at the Grange

1952 • 31 min • United Kingdom

A former police detective turned private investigator is approached by two elderly sisters, who say that someone is terrorising them, but it turns out that the man they believe is responsible is long since dead.

Crossroad Avenger: The Adventures of the Tucson Kid

1952 • 25 min • United States of America

Edward D. Wood, Jr.'s Western that tells of the adventures of the Tucson Kid, who investigates suspicious insurance claims.

Neighbours

1952 • 9 min • Canada

In this Oscar-winning short film, Norman McLaren employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors. The story is a parable about two people who come to blows over the possession of a flower.

Brief City

1952 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Styles of architecture used in the 1951 South Bank Exhibition, London.

Clown on the Farm

1952 • 7 min • United States of America

Baby Huey, the man-sized duckling, wants to play circus with the regular-size ducks, and they trick him into a barrel which almost goes over a cliff. It doesn't but it puts him into the hands of a hungry fox, who tries all manner of tricks to make Baby Huey palatable. They all fail and Baby Huey winds up as the circus ringmaster, putting the defeated fox through all kinds of tricks.

Mouse-Warming

1952 • 7 min • United States of America

A teen-aged boy mouse falls in love with the girl mouse who lives in the hole across the room. But Claude Cat literally comes between them, and also tries to stir up a feud between their two families.