All Films

Shorty on the Farm

1949 • 9 min

Shorty the chimpanzee dresses as a scarecrow in clothes which he has “borrowed” from boys swimming in the river.

Drawing For Beginners: The Triangle

1949 • 11 min

An instructional short which teaches beginning artists how to... draw triangles.

Friendship Begins At Home

1949 • 16 min

How a strong family group helps teenagers learn to form strong friendships.

Let's Play Fair

1949 • 9 min

Sharing, taking turns and obeying rules are the basic elements of fair play.

Your Family

1949 • 11 min

The virtues of families doing things together is shown in this classroom training film. It follows the Brent family, as they go about helping strangers, and each other, throughout the day.

Sharing Work At Home

1949 • 10 min

The Taylor family lives in a pretty sloppy home, and don't seem to really care very much about its condition. One day daughter Martha brings home some tips she has learned in her Home Economics class, and, before they know it, the Taylors are happy, well adjusted and just like every other family on their block--as, of course, all right-thinking American families should be.

African Visitors to the Tower of London

1949 • 6 min • United Kingdom

An African entourage makes a spectacular appearance in postwar London.

How a Watch Works

1949 • 19 min • United States of America

A simple demonstration of the basic design and operation of a watch, including stop-motion animation showing a watch being assembled from many parts.

The Sixth Chair

1949 • 17 min

Problems of underfunded and outdated schools.

Developing Responsibility

1949 • 10 min

Frank Harris is a hard-working kid with a paper route that he diligently maintains. He is given a dog, Pal, by Mr. Morgan, one of the customers on his route. For one week with the new dog he must prove to his parents that he can maintain his responsibilities in order to be able to keep Pal.

The Tobaccoman's Sixth Sense

1949 • 10 min

Film detailing the processes used in quality control of tobacco.

In This Age

1949 • 13 min

The first film to be made directly by and in the name of a gay organisation, the Dutch gay rights movement COC.

Unconscious Motivation

1949 • 41 min

Produced by Dr. Lester F. Beck of the University of Oregon, this astonishing 40-minute motion picture is an unrehearsed, authentic clinical record, showing the inducement of an artificial neurosis by hypnotic suggestion in a young man and a young woman. Upon reawakening, the subjects, by means of dream analysis, ink blot and word association tests, gradually realize first the existence of a traumatic experience and then its content by slowly reconstructing the bogus events which caused it. Their reactions, discussion and self-analysis were spontaneous, unrehearsed and unpredictable: the result is a most unusual motion picture.

Daguerreotype Likenesses

1949 • 6 min • United States of America

The March of Time: Policeman's Holiday

1949 • 19 min

An episode of "The March of Time" - a theatrical newsreel series created by the editors of Life Magazine and Time Magazine.

A Summer Day in Ottawa in 1949

1949 • 4 min • Canada

Produced for the National Film Board of Canada

Pan Piórko śni

1949 • 11 min • Poland

A dream journey of a certain official who dreams of fulfilled love and a better life with himself as the office director.

Life in Iceland

1949 • 55 min

From Reykjavík, the capital city’s modern architecture, to traditional weaving and herring fishing, Iceland is presented as a progressive country, proud of its historic Norse legacy including Glima – or Icelandic Wrestling – the nation’s favourite sport created by the Vikings. The power of thermal springs, created by volcanic activity, is shown alongside Iceland’s most famous glacial waterfalls, including Gulfoss, or ‘Golden Falls’ in the River Hvitá.

Vermehrung und Veredlung von Obstbäumen

1949 • 13 min • Germany

Short educational film about the breeding of trees.

Lucky Strike

1949 • 19 min

This amateur short film was created by the Edmonton Cine Club in 1949. It features two oil drilling companies competing for the same oil lease, with one driller courting the land owner's granddaughter and the other drillers resorting to sabotage and violence to try to win the day.

The Honest Woodsman

1949 • 10 min

Using puppets, this film is an adaptation of an ancient Greek legend of how an honest woodsman meets Mercury, the god of good fortune.

Oslofilm: Akerselva: Med filmkamera fra Puttmyrene til Nyland

1949 • 18 min • Norway

We follow the Akerselva from Puttmyrene where it starts, through Nordmarka, Maridalen, Sagene, Grünerløkka and all the way down to the outlet in the Oslofjord.

Leapfrog

1949 • 1 min • Canada

An hand drawn animation of Frogs.

Islam

1949 • 23 min • France, Algeria, Morocco

"Islam" by Georges Régnier (1949) is a documentary about Islamic art in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and Spain. The documentary received a special mention at the Venice Film Festival in 1949. Georges Régnier, a French documentary filmmaker active in the post-war period, was interested in North African cultures and colonial issues. In this film, he traces the history of Islam and its architectural art across these regions, and describes the expansion of Islam from Arabia to the Maghreb and Andalusia, highlighting mosques, minarets, and palaces such as those in Kairouan, Algiers, and Marrakech, all accompanied by the sounds of the Arabic call to prayer.