All Films

Along the Valley of the Vardar

1950 • 43 min • Yugoslavia

The film presents a comprehensive view of the development of the region along the Vardar River. It covers its industrial development, the development of agriculture, the cultural benefits of the new socialist society, the cultural and ethnological characteristics of the inhabitants, archaeological and historical characteristics, and the last sequence is dedicated to the exodus of Macedonians from the Aegean part of Macedonia.

Sunny Italy

1950 • 7 min

In this "operetta," Oil Can Harry has Pearl Pureheart in his clutches at the Leaning Tower of Pisa, from which she is hanging by a thread.

The Pipe and the Pitcher

1950 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Girl named Zhenya goes berry picking with her family but struggles to find any berries. She meets an old forest spirit who offers her a magical pipe that reveals hidden berries in exchange for her jug. After realizing the pipe doesn't help her gather the berries, she learns the value of hard work and eventually fills her jug by picking the berries herself.

Appreciating Our Parents

1950 • 10 min • United States of America

A boy realizes that he could help his parents by doing things around the house.

Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill

1950 • 60 min • United States of America

An elderly man leaves Wyoming to visit his daughter in a small Massachusetts town because, even though she didn't say so, he believes she needs his help. When he gets there he discovers that his daughter, a lawyer, is under great stress because of her biggest client, an old geezer who is the wealthiest and most powerful man in town. The girl's father decides to make the old man "disappear" by performing a rain dance he learned from an Indian chief back in Wyoming--and lo and behold it starts to rain and the old man does indeed disappear. The local sheriff, however, suspects foul play and arrests the girl's father.

The Grandpa and His Little Grandson

1950 • 17 min • Soviet Union

The bear cub, who was in winter hibernation, was brought by friends in the forest to the Forest Sports School, where he learned figure skating.

How Do You Know It's Love?

1950 • 12 min

It's 1950 and a young woman asks her mother what love is.

Mirror of Holland

1950 • 9 min • Netherlands

In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and afterwards put the images ‘up right’ again in the film. By doing this, we see the ‘usual’ waterfront, but transformed by the rippling of the water. In this way Mirror of Holland became a modern looking experimental film. However this did not devalue the Dutch sentiment regarding waterfronts that are so trusted to so many.

A Letter at the Editorial Office

1950 • 20 min • Poland

The documentary shows the work of journalists and the importance of the press in building socialism. It is an exemplary implementation of the socialist-realist convention imposed on Polish cinema in 1949, in which all elements of the film structure were subordinated to the persuasive function.

Miyah: A Story of Water

1950 • 38 min

Short educational film about how Saudi Arabia preserves, draws, and conserves water.

Little Women: Jo's Story

1950 • 60 min • United States of America

Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.

Little Women: Meg's Story

1950 • 60 min • United States of America

Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.

Cue Ball Cat

1950 • 7 min • United States of America

Tom is in a pool hall after hours; as he soon discovers, Jerry is sleeping in the corner pocket. Tom chases Jerry around the table and the rest of the pool hall. Tom's energetic game of pool is more than Jerry can cope with. Soon, the table becomes a battlefield.

Punchy De Leon

1950 • 7 min • United States of America

Fox and Crow attempt to find the fabled Fountain of Youth.

The New Art

1950 • 16 min • Poland

A propaganda piece of reportage from the first Polish Nationwide Art Exhibition that was held in the National Museum in Warsaw in 1950. Makarczynski’s film is a typical example of a socialist realism documentary, realized in accordance with the instructions that had been presented to the filmmakers during the Wisla 1949 summit.

Gentleman Jekyll and Driver Hyde

1950 • 8 min • Canada

This short doc is a novel look at driver safety and the consequences of a change from Jekyll to Hyde behind the wheel of a car.

Musical Whim

1950 • 10 min • Italy

A short film by Mario Bava about the representation of music, the very language of the soul.

Last Date

1950 • 19 min • United States of America

Jeanne, a high school girl, dumps her dull boyfriend Larry for Nick, a local thug and hot-rodder she finds exciting. Nick terrifies everyone with his dangerous and reckless driving, but that only turns Jeanne on even more. Until one night, zooming around the countryside terrorizing motorists, Nick and Jeanne smash into another car...

With These Hands

1950 • 52 min • United States of America

Produced by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, the film used actors to recreate the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and compare working conditions of the early 20th century to that of the 1950s.

Family Tree

1950 • 14 min • Canada

The story of the settlement of Canada, illustrated with cheerful animated cartoons. The arrival of Jacques Cartier, the fishing and fur trades which followed, and the rival colonization by the French and British, climaxed by the battle of the Plains of Abraham, are depicted. The coming of the United Empire Loyalists is seen; then the west-coast gold rush and the completion of the transcontinental railway. New branches were added to the family tree when many European settlers came to fill the great spaces of the Prairies. Finally, we see the whole country matured into a nation, its traditions enriched by those of many peoples.

The Deer and the Wolf

1950 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A predator rescued from a trap deceives its liberator. A classic cartoon based on an Estonian fairy tale.

Tomb Itmay Concern

1950 • 11 min • United States of America

An archaeologist and his assistant discover two female mummies in an Egyptian tomb with a warning in hieroglyphics not to wet them with the water in an urn. When they do, one mummy gets up to hi-jinks, while the other, Princess Itmay, does a burlesque dance.

Grandma Moses

1950 • 22 min • United States of America

1950 short film portrait of the octogenarian folk artist. Nominated for an Oscar in the category "Best Short Subject, One-reel".

I Shot Billy the Kid

1950 • 57 min • United States of America

Although the Lincoln County War has come to a conclusion, Billy the Kid turns his back on a gubernatorial pardon and continues his lawless career.