All Films

Hare We Go

1951 • 7 min • United States of America

In 1492, Bugs Bunny sails the ocean blue, as mascot for Christopher Columbus.

Caribbean

1951 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Tradition, dance and song, modern customs and development and welfare services in the Caribbean Islands.

Ballot Box Bunny

1951 • 8 min • United States of America

When Yosemite Sam campaigns on a platform including rabbit genocide, Bugs Bunny runs against him.

World of Kids

1951 • 10 min • United States of America

World of Kids is a 1951 American short documentary film directed by Robert Youngson. In 1952, it won an Oscar for Best Short Subject at the 24th Academy Awards.

The Redwood Sap

1951 • 7 min • United States of America

This short is a rather manic re-telling of the fable, "The Ant and the Grasshopper", with Woody Woodpecker as the grasshopper.

His Hare Raising Tale

1951 • 7 min • United States of America

Bugs tells stories to his nephew Clyde derived from earlier cartoons ("Baseball Bugs", "Stage Door Cartoon", "Rabbit Punch", "Falling Hare", and "Haredevil Hare").

The Silent Order

1951 • 11 min • Ireland, United Kingdom

Filmed shortly after World War II," The Silent Order" records the lives of Trappist monks living inside the 12th-century Monastery of the Holy Cross, Roscrea, County Tipperary, as they quietly go about their business as farmers, scholars, artists, and writers—evoking 10 centuries of a shifting social, political, and religious landscape in the heart of Ireland. 

Audrey the Rainmaker

1951 • 7 min • United States of America

Audrey is so annoyed by the rain, she wishes strongly it wouldn't rain again. She dreams that drought hits the continent hard that she seeks the Rainmaker for help.

Home Made Home

1951 • 7 min • United States of America

Goofy's building a house, and struggling with the blueprints, the window glass, the paint, and finally the house-warming guests.

Rome, the Eternal City

1951 • 10 min

A Traveltalk style documentary look at Rome.

Bambini

1951 • 9 min • Italy

A short documentary film about the life of children in the peripheric areas of a big city, left to themselves as they are shown playing various games.

Bungled Bungalow

1951 • 7 min • United States of America

Mr. Magoo's house is towed-away by thieves.

A Day With The F.B.I.

1951 • 19 min • United States of America

U.S. government film that examines the duties of an FBI employee.

Merry Mavericks

1951 • 16 min • United States of America

Set in the old west, the stooges are mistaken for lawmen and manage to capture a gang of crooks. The boys then get the job of guarding some money in an old house reputed to be haunted by the ghost of an Indian Chief. The crooks escape and go after the money disguised as ghosts, but Shemp, disguised as the Indian Chief, manages to knock them out.

Tales of Robin Hood

1951 • 60 min • United States of America

The story of Robin Hood, how he met his Merry Men and Maid Marian, and saved England from Sir Guy de Clairmont and his henchman. Compiled from the few filmed episodes of an unsold TV series.

Double-Cross-Country Race

1951 • 7 min • United States of America

Popeye is driving across country against Count Noah Count. He's hopelessly outmatched; the Count has a very powerful car, and Popeye's is barely running. And to top it off, the Count doesn't play fair.

No Smoking

1951 • 6 min

Goofy (again playing George Geef) is a nicotine addict to the extreme. He smokes while doing income tax, before going to bed, after waking up in the morning, and at work. Finally, he decides to quit. He soon learns it's not as easy as that and everywhere he looks, he is tempted to start again until he finally cracks. He runs everywhere yelling, "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!" but with no luck. Finally, he asks a man for a cigar and the man gladly gives him one...an exploding cigar which finally has Goofy vowing, "I quit!".

Boo Hoo Baby

1951 • 7 min • United States of America

Casper finds that babies aren't afraid of him.

Pest Man Wins

1951 • 16 min • United States of America

The stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. The boys are hired, but must dress as guests to work unobserved. They disrupt the party and a wild pie fight ensues.

Facts and Fancies

1951 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Describes the many by-products resulting from the carbonisation of coal.

Fresh Laid Plans

1951 • 10 min • United States of America

Cold War propaganda allegory about farm markets.

Playing Fields Association: Football

1951 • 5 min

Fundraising film for the National Playing Fields Association, of which Prince Philip was president. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Droopy's Double Trouble

1951 • 7 min • United States of America

Butler Droopy gets his twin brother Drippy a job as assistant butler, causing trouble for Butch, who is trying to mooch an easy meal but can't tell the difference between the kind Droopy and the violence-prone Drippy.

Amahl and the Night Visitors

1951 • 55 min • United States of America

The historic, original, live airing of what would become an annual Christmas tradition throughout the 1950s, this opera tells the story of Amahl, a crippled shepherd boy, and his destitute mother, who provide temporary shelter to three men who are following a star to the newly-born Christ child.