All Films - Short Movie Database

McLaren in Ottawa

1949 • 4 min • Canada

A Norman McLaren Animated Film

Sausalito

1949 • 11 min • United States of America

Impressionistic documentary of Sausalito, California, a small town near San Francisco, in its pre-beatnik days when it was still an artist's colony.

The Rising Tide

1949 • 29 min • Canada

This film shows the growth of cooperatives in the Maritime provinces and how they brought new life and hope to poverty-stricken fishermen. The Rising Tide is a 1949 Canadian short documentary film directed by Jean Palardy. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Light Reflections

1949 • 7 min • United States of America

Early experimental film by Jim Davis.

How to Build an Igloo

1949 • 11 min • Canada

This classic short film shows how to make an igloo using only snow and a knife. Two Inuit men in Canada’s Far North choose the site, cut and place snow blocks and create an entrance--a shelter completed in one-and-a-half hours. The commentary explains that the interior warmth and the wind outside cement the snow blocks firmly together. As the short winter day darkens, the two builders move their caribou sleeping robes and extra skins indoors, confident of spending a snug night in the midst of the Arctic cold!

Our Film

1949 • 19 min • Yugoslavia

Description of the film production in Triglav film.

Savage Splendor

1949 • 60 min • United States of America

The film tells of the Armand Denis/Lewis Cotlow expedition that had the two men cover 22,000 miles through Tanganyika, Belgian Congo, and British East Africa. The high points of their ten-month trip are an impressive elephant hunt by the Pygmies of Belgian Congo, the crowning of King Mbofe Mabiashe and the capture of a rhino.

Paper Moon

1949 • 4 min • United States of America

UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film. Color film combining paper cut, collage, and hand drawn animation. A love story set to Nat King Cole's Paper Moon, played out with photographs, drawings, and paper-cut shapes.

Cooking: Kitchen Safety

1949 • 8 min

(1949) Presents common kitchen safety hazards and the precautions to be taken.

Alcohol and the Human Body

1949 • 13 min • United States of America

This educational short shows how alcohol is produced and its effect on the human body.

Law and Social Controls

1949 • 10 min

Uses the story of teens trying to extend the hours of their "Teen Canteen" as a vehicle for explaining customs, moral codes, and laws.

You and Your Parents

1949 • 13 min

Teenager and parents in conflict learn to develop mutual understanding.

Scientists Go to Antarctica to Study Weather

1949 • 3 min • Australia, Heard and McDonald Islands

This black-and-white newsreel segment shows a team of scientists making their way to Heard Island in 1949 to relieve the previous year's team. The segment, entitled Scientists Go to Antarctica to Study Weather, opens with HMAS Labuan leaving Melbourne, followed by scenes of the voyage. As they near shore, Big Ben volcano comes into view. Stores for the team's 12-month stay are then brought on shore. After a sequence showing local fauna, humorously described by the commentator, the segment ends with the outgoing team briefing their replacements.

Life in the Central Valley of California

1949 • 10 min • United States of America

Shows the agriculture, trade and infrastructure of California's Central Valley, all made possible by irrigation.

Canadian Headlines of 1949

1949 • 10 min • Canada

Growth in all aspects of Canadian life. Sequence on babies in maternity ward, immigrants arriving by ship, Newfoundland being welcomed into Canada. Governor General Alexander does the honors on Parliament Hill. Sequence on Birthday Celebrations: 200th in Halifax, 75th in Winnipeg, float parades and warships. Hotel Vancouver is shown being demolished. Ships are launched, the Avro jetliner takes to the air, the Toronto subway is begun and an atom smasher goes into operation in Montreal. In sports: largest crowd ever attends running of King's Plate in Toronto, Maple Leafs win Stanley Cup for third time, Allouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders. Sequence on Calgary Stampede. Shots of Miss Canada and Mr. Canada contests. Camera focuses on search for 6 year old boy; on the Noronic fire. Final sequence on election campaign and on Louis St-Laurent as Prime Minister.

Ski in the Sky

1949 • 10 min • Canada

Documentary about skiing in the Rockies. It shows: skiers coming out of a lodge; attaching seal fur skins to skis to give traction for climbing; protecting eyes with sunglasses and skin with face cream; skiers with their guide; two skiers risking their safety by skiing without a guide; the guide racing to stop the two skiers from skiing over a precipice; the two skiers joining the group; and the skiers arriving at a cabin for a rest.

A Merry Evening

1949 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Ifan, a farmer’s son living in the Welsh hills, dreams of an academic career.

Mary Had a Little Lamb

1949 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A puppet animation film about road safety.

Palestine, 1949

1949 • 12 min

A 12-minute, silent film, shot in color, brings the viewer right into the camps. Camels come and go frequently. Men generally wear long tunics and flowing traditional headdresses that protect them from the sun. Women and children are very shy in front of the camera at first, but soon enjoy showing how they balance large water jugs and bundles on their heads, even while carrying a baby. Most tents appear to be in poor condition and there are long lines for virtually everything, from milk to grain to classrooms. In Nuseirat, school takes place in very crowded tents, with girls and boys learning separately.