All Films

C. G. Jung at Bollingen Tower Retreat

1951 • 21 min

In 1951, Jung was filmed at his Bollingen retreat by two Americans, Jerome Hill, an artist and film-maker from Minnesota, and Maud Oakes, an author and researcher, whose book Where the Two Came to Their Father was the first major publication of the Bollingen Foundation. That book described a ritual and ceremonial sequence given to Maud by and old Navajo Medicine Man, along with its accompanying sand paintings. Maud had long been interested in Jung and his new psychology of the collective unconscious. She had met him in 1937 in New York, when she, along with her friends, Paul and Mary Mellon, attended a lecture he gave there.

Answering the Child's Why

1951 • 13 min • United States of America

By encouraging children to ask questions, we help them understand the world.

Robot Three

1951 • 24 min • United Kingdom

Fictional story following the lines of a Frankenstein type horror movie: A grim scientist, when two of the robots he has created fall in love, orders his third robot to destroy the male one. The female robot subsequently seduces her creator scientist into drinking from a poisoned cup, and makes her escape..... Robot Three was awarded the Victor Saville Trophy (for most outstanding film) and the Alfred Hitchcock Cup (for best Fiction Film) at the 1952 Scottish Amateur Film Festival.

The First Four Years

1951 • 42 min • United Kingdom

An industrial epic plays out in steelmaking South Wales.

Miners of Kryvyi Rih

1951 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Israel 1951

1951 • 6 min • Israel

Silent color home movie by JDC Executive Vice Chairman Moshe Lewit, showing the arrival of a ship bringing new immigrants, presumably to the port of Haifa, and scenes of a temporary immigrant camp. One of the locations is likely to be the Sha’ar Aliyah clearing center near Haifa, often referred to as Israel’s Ellis Island. Sha’ar Aliyah was opened by the Jewish Agency in March 1949. Later scenes depict agricultural training and irrigation projects. There is a brief shot of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion greeting members of the visiting group.

USSR Air Fleet Day

1951 • 50 min • Soviet Union

The film tells about the aviation holiday in Tushino on July 8, 1951.

The Hawaiian Islands: The Chief Industries

1951 • 9 min • United States of America

The Hawaiian Islands, located 2,000 miles from the U.S. West Coast, primarily rely on agriculture for their economy, as they lack significant minerals and manufacturing. Sugar cane and pineapple are the two main crops. Sugar cane, first cultivated in Hawaii over a century ago, is harvested after 1.5 to 2 years of growth, with fires used to clear leaves before gathering. Pineapples are planted using a paper mulch technique, and the ripe fruit is quickly processed for canning. Shipping plays a crucial role in transporting these products to the mainland U.S. and bringing necessary goods to Hawaii, making it vital for the islands' prosperity.

Newsreels No. 58

1951 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Newsreel magazine from December 1951.

Cuba

1951 • 7 min

Unedited film of rural shore Havana, Cuba. Footage includes scenes of the old stone buildings and lighthouse along the ocean, mountain landscapes, people fishing and boating. Shot by Metro Movie Club member Ed Diller.

Spotlight on the World We Live In

1951 • 14 min

This newsreel short spotlights several interesting feature stories from a number of countries including: the Hospice of St. Bernard monks and rescue dogs; fishing and cooking in France; and London rabbits who walk only on their front legs.

Living Storm

1951 • 23 min • Sweden

One of the so-called “Marshall films,” Living Storm was produced under the U.S.-backed European Recovery Program to illustrate postwar reconstruction. It presents images of business and industry in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, emphasizing the interdependence of the Scandinavian countries and their economic ties to the wider world.

Loony Tom the Happy Lover

1951 • 11 min • United States of America

A short black and white film from James Broughton with Kermit Sheets in a Chaplinesque role.

Pen Point Percussion

1951 • 6 min • Canada

A documentary showing Norman McLaren working on the hand-drawn sound process he uses for his short film, Loops.

Cemeteries in the Cliff

1951 • 18 min • France, Mali

Dogon funerary rites in the village of Ireli at the foot of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali.

The Home Economics Story

1951 • 25 min • United States of America

This high-school educational film describes the benefits and opportunities available to young women who go to college and major in home economics. The film follows Kay, Helen, Louise, and Jean throughout their college years, as they take a variety of interesting and useful classes and eventually accept job offers in their chosen specialties. Nevertheless, the traditional middle-class ideals of marriage and stay-at-home motherhood are reinforced.

Beauty in 3rd Dimension

1951 • 3 min

Beautiful models are willing to be photographed in the nude for the sake of 3-D.

Painel

1951 • 16 min • Brazil

Documentary on the fresco paintings of Candido Portinari, who contributed to the development of a more realistic and modernist style in the art of Brazil.

The control of water

1951 • 14 min • Turkey

Agriculture in Turkey.

Learn To Argue Effectively

1951 • 11 min • United States of America

Clarifies the role of persuasive argument. Explains the components of a good argument, and contrasts the serious use of good argument against that of irrelevant, unsound argument.

Getting Ready Physically

1951 • 10 min

Korean War-era film encouraging high school boys to use the physical training, health and recreational resources of their communities so as to be ready for military service.

Hockey Stars' Summer

1951 • 11 min • Canada

What Hockey player do on their time off.

The Organ of a Thousand Moods

1951 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Enjoy pre-dinner cocktails in the company of organ maestro Nick Olson, tickling the ivories at Uncle Tom's Cabin, Minnis Bay, Birchington.

Williamsburg Restored

1951 • 43 min

This documentary which opens with a ten-minute period drama about the importance of Williamsburg in 1774, explains the mission of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin in the 1920s to restore Williamsburg to a colonial American icon. Through the painstaking research of curator, historians, and architects, the town's restoration plan is mapped out. Construction tradesmen from the twentieth century transform rundown exteriors into period edifices. Interiors are modified and restored to livable, sometimes elegant, period condition. This vast undertaking leads to mid-century historical interpretation about the importance of the people and ideas of Williamsburg that forged a new nation.