All Films

Night Raiders

1952 • 52 min • United States of America

Whip arrives to investigate why night raiders are ransacking cabins but taking nothing....

Old Oklahoma Plains

1952 • 60 min • United States of America

One-time cavalry officer Rex Allen, between jobs as a star rodeo rider, is asked by his former commanding officer, Colonel Bigelow, to help settle a dispute between the army and local ranchers. The cavalry has commandeered a large parcel of land needed to test their newly-designed tank and prominent rancher Jenson has encited the locals to rebel at this intrusion. It is up to Rex and his sidekick, Slim, to thwart Jenson and convince the residents that these army tests are essential.

The Pigeon

1952 • 44 min • Japan

Isamu is a high school student who raises a pigeon at home amidst his father's opposition.

A Portrait of Ga

1952 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Another early experiment in portraiture from Tait. In filming her mother she asks the wider question of how much the camera can reveal of the person.

Teachers Are People

1952 • 7 min • United States of America

As the narrator explains, educating children is one of the most important things today and the heroic man who takes on this role is "the school teacher" (Goofy, naturally). After taking role call, Goofy tries to teach the class but keeps having to deal with a mischievous trouble-maker named George who enjoys sneaking out of class to go fishing, eating the teacher's apple, squeaking chalk, making faces while teacher gives a geography lesson, and terrorizing the other students with his water pistol. In the end, George's mischief goes too far when he destroys the school with an exploding bomb and is forced to write "I will not bomb the school again" 100 times!

Youth of the Son

1952 • 45 min • Japan

The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls.

What Makes Us Tick

1952 • 12 min • United States of America

An optimistic overview and explanation of the stock market with animated examples.

The Kid from Broken Gun

1952 • 55 min • United States of America

Charles Starrett makes his final appearance as The Durango Kid, this time as Steve Reynolds, a postal inspector who has gone underground to catch the bad guys. His longtime sidekick, Smiley Burnette appears as an itinerant optometrist who is hardly in the plot line of the film. Jock Mahoney plays Jack Mahoney, an eastern educated dude who has come back home. The Durango Kid teaches Jack how to draw and fire a six-gun, and the two ultimately work together to bring the outlaws to justice.

Termites from Mars

1952 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody's home is beset by an invasion of voracious alien termites.

Madeline

1952 • 8 min • United States of America

This short from the UPA studio was nominated for the 1952 Oscars. Based on the Madeline series of children's books.

Stage Hoax

1952 • 7 min • United States of America

Weary Woody Woodpecker is hitchhiking across the desert trying to thumb a ride on a passing stagecoach. He adds artificial limbs and dresses like a girl and has no problem in getting on the next one but is tossed out when his disguise is discovered. After eating a huge meal he decides to get even with the driver and uses a poster of the wanted Buzz Buzzard as a tool. But the real Buzz shows up and, when Woody resorts to his female disguise, the dastardly villain makes a play for him.

The Land

1952 • 60 min • Turkey

The film deals with the harsh realities of village life and the problems of landholding The film, in an almost documentary style.

Popalong Popeye

1952 • 6 min • United States of America

Popeye is hosting three of his western-obsessed nephews on his ranch. To get them to eat their spinach, he tells about how he arrived at the ranch and was humiliated by foreman Bluto until, of course, he ate his spinach.

Forgotten Children

1952 • 25 min

The story of Martha Berry, who brought education to the impoverished children of rural Georgia after the Civil War.

True Boo

1952 • 6 min • United States of America

It's Christmas Eve, and what Casper wants for Christmas is a friend. When his uncles steal his note for Santa, he goes out to find one.

L’invidia

1952 • 17 min • Italy

Starring Andrée Debar and Orféo Tamburi and based on Colette’s La chatte, this visually compelling short forms the fourth part of The Seven Deadly Sins.

Sono yoru no tsuma

1952 • 40 min • Japan

Hiroo Ikeda movie

The Rough, Tough West

1952 • 54 min • United States of America

Charles Starrett returns as the Durango Kid in Columbia's Rough, Tough, West. For most of the film, however, Starrett is known as "Steve Holden," a former Texas Ranger who comes to a wide-open mining town to visit an old friend (Jack -- later Jock -- Mahoney). Alas, said friend has turned bad, and is busy arranging a major land grab when Steve arrives on the scene. With deep regret, our hero dons his Durango disguise to thwart his ex-friend's criminal activities.

The Little House

1952 • 8 min • United States of America

A small house has to try to compete with progress and the encroaching press of the big city.

Wyoming Roundup

1952 • 53 min • United States of America

When newcomers Whip and Bob break up a saloon fight they are made town Marshals. This puts then in the middle of the range war between large ranch owner Howard and the small ranchers. Everyone thinks Howard is the culprit but Whip believes otherwise.

Fighting Yasubei

1952 • 50 min • Japan

Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno to borrow money from a moneylender in the amount of 13 ryo in order to save Oteru, the daughter of a merchant. However, the next day, Rokuroemon was killed in a fight by the Murakami brothers. Yasubei rushed to the scene, took revenge and became the husband of Miya, the daughter of Horibe Yahei.

Water Birds

1952 • 30 min • United States of America

Water Birds is a 1952 short documentary film directed by Ben Sharpsteen. The film delves into the still waters of lagoons and marshes to the wild blue wilderness of the vast oceans, to experience the beauty and variety of their majestic birds, each perfectly designed for its habitat. It won the Oscar for Best Short Subject, Two-Reel.

Listen Judge

1952 • 17 min • United States of America

The stooges are fix-it men who are brought before a judge on a charge of chicken stealing. They escape from the courtroom and wind up getting hired in the judges' house after their antics attempting to fix the doorbell cause the servants to quit. The boys are discovered when the cake they bakes explodes all over a political supporter of the judge and he loses his chance for re-election.

Shuteye Popeye

1952 • 6 min • United States of America

Popeye's snoring is keeping his resident mouse awake. The mouse fights back.