All Films

Pleased to Eat You

1950 • 6 min • United States of America

A hungry lion is captured, shortly after being tricked by a hunter. He escapes his cage and robs a hot dog stand. A chase ensues when the police pursue him.

Perugia in Umbria

1950 • 4 min

Scenes in and around the old city of Perugia in Umbria, Italy. Kodachrome

Rio Grande Patrol

1950 • 60 min • United States of America

Fowler is smuggling guns across the border and his buyer is the outlaw Bragg. The guns are hidden in the luggage of the girls that come to work in his saloon. Border guards Kansas and Chito, along with Mexican Captain Trevinom suspect them and they are trying to find the guns.

One Hour in Wonderland

1950 • 59 min • United States of America

Airing on Christmas Day, 1950, this holiday special was the first Disney TV production. It features Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd at Walt Disney's Christmas party. The show includes clips of movies and animated shorts and the first appearance of the Fire House Five Plus Two jazz band.

How Green Is My Spinach

1950 • 6 min • United States of America

To finally defeat Popeye, Bluto sets out to destroy the spinach crop.

Curious Contests

1950 • 9 min • United States of America

This Pete Smith Specialty shows newsreel footage events that live up to the title. They include, among others, a diaper derby (the father who puts a diaper on his child fastest wins), a fireman's ball (two teams of fire fighters use high-pressure water hoses to move a large ball to score goals), and a basket race (men run a footrace while balancing a "tower" of ten baskets on their heads).

Strife with Father

1950 • 7 min • United States of America

Foundling Beaky Buzzard is adopted by a couple of polite, English sparrows named Monte and Gwendlyn. When Monte tries to teach lame-brained Beaky to catch a chicken, Beaky's ineptitude results in Monte being repeatedly struck with a mallet and caught in a grenade explosion.

The Brave Engineer

1950 • 8 min • United States of America

Casey Jones is one of the best engineers there is and it is his duty to get his cargo to its destination on time via train. He sets off but is set back by a number of unfortunate circumstances such as a rain storm, a cow on the tracks, a mad bomber, and finally, when his train starts falling apart. Worst of all, he is on a collision course with another train coming in the opposite direction. After a terrific crash, the man at the train station assumes the worst when Casey doesn't show up but, to his delight, Casey finally makes it to his destination a total wreck but on time (almost).

Morris the Midget Moose

1950 • 8 min • United States of America

A bootle beetle elder tells the story of Morris, the moose about the size of a rabbit. Thunderclap the moose is taking on all challengers, and Morris decides to try, much to the amusement of Thunderclap. As a result, he meets Balsam, a full-size moose with tiny antlers (Morris' antlers are full size). The two team up, and with the help of a log that makes them very tall, defeat Thunderclap.

8 Ball Bunny

1950 • 7 min • United States of America

Bugs helps a penguin return home.

And Then There Were Four

1950 • 27 min • United States of America

Driving safety film sponsored as a public service by oil companies. Of five drivers who leave home in the morning, only four return, and we wait to learn who the victim is. The film gives considerable discussion to careless driving habits and depicts Angelenos from different walks of life as well as their homes, neighborhoods, streets, and freeways.

Mutiny on the Bunny

1950 • 7 min • United States of America

Shanghai Sam needs a new crew for his ship. Bugs signs on but rebels at the captain's cruelty.

His Bitter Half

1950 • 8 min • United States of America

Daffy Duck marries for money, but the bossy wife and her raucous, trouble-making little son soon have him wanting out.

Lonely Heart Bandits

1950 • 60 min • United States of America

Two con artists join forces and pose as brother and sister. He then meets rich widows through the "personals" sections of newspapers, marries them, and both kill the widows for their money.

Brasil

1950 • 11 min • France

Abandoned documentary on the country Brazil which director Clouzot wanted to make while on honeymoon with his wife Véra Clouzot whose of Brazilian origin. Only an introductionary section set in Paris was ever filmed.

Fast on the Draw

1950 • 55 min • United States of America

As a boy, Shamrock's parents were killed. He took possession of a pistol belonging to his father, a famous marshal. Now that he is grown, he takes the job of marshal and uses the same gun, but he still has to solve the mystery of what happened to his parents.

Spooky Wooky

1950 • 15 min • United States of America

Leon manages to get a new house in the country cheap, and the whole family finds out that a mysterious death occurred in it. No one but Leon wants to live there, and so, a wacky plan is conceived to make Leon change his mind about moving.

The Murder Club

1950 • 30 min

Based on the short story by Ben Hecht.

Pests of the West

1950 • 6 min • United States of America

Father and son coyotes try to sneak into a henhouse that Pluto is guarding.

Law of the Panhandle

1950 • 55 min • United States of America

Johnny Mack Brown follows his tried-and-true western formula in Law of the Panhandle. This time, U.S. Marshal Brown backs up Sheriff Tom Stocker (Riley Hill) in an ongoing battle against a marauding outlaw gang. The thieves, led by snarling Henry Faulkner (Myron Healey), hope to scare all the local ranchers off the land that will soon be purchased by the railroad that's coming through the territory.

Pluto and the Gopher

1950 • 7 min • United States of America

Pluto digs up Minnie's garden and destroys her house in order to catch a pesky gopher-in spite of Minnie's scoldings.

Riders of the Range

1950 • 60 min • United States of America

Out-of-work cowboys Kansas Jones and Chito Rafferty are offered jobs at pretty Dusty Willis' ranch after saving her from a beating by saloon owner Clint Burrows. Dusty's good-hearted but weak-willed brother Harry, adding to his $3000 gambling debt to Willis, reluctantly agrees to pay it off by allowing the Ringo Kid, Burrows' vicious hired gun, to rustle cattle from his sister's ranch. Kansas intervenes, deters the rustlers and persuades Harry to confess his involvement to Dusty. Kansas, sent into town by Dusty to pay off Harry's debts, suddenly finds himself on the wrong side of the law, wrongly accused of murder and must rely on Dusty's belief in his innocence for his salvation.

Harbor of Missing Men

1950 • 60 min • United States of America

A smuggler hides from hit men with a Greek fisherman and his daughter.

Goya

1950 • 16 min • Italy

Presents life in 18th century Spain as the painter Francisco de Goya showed it to us.