All Films

À la culotte de zouave

1949 • 25 min • France

Testfilm Greta Garbo

1949 • 6 min • United States of America

A screen test for a planned adaptation of Balzac's The Duchess Of Langelais, which was never made.

Lumberjack and Jill

1949 • 6 min • United States of America

Popeye and Bluto are lumberjacks who compete for the affections of their new cook, Olive Oyl.

Crocodile Hunters

1949 • 11 min • Australia

In the estuaries and lagoons of the Northern Territory, freshwater and saltwater crocodile are hunted for their hides by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous hunters. This film shows Aboriginal people using age-old hunting techniques to land crocs either for food or for skins. The methods employed by the professional hunters, who earn as much as 3000 pounds during the season, are also depicted, followed by a brief look at how the hides are skinned and prepared before being transported to the leather factories of Sydney and Melbourne.

En tierras del silencio

1949 • 18 min • Argentina

Short documentary that narrates the lives of the villagers in the Quebrada de Humahuaca

Thorvaldsen

1949 • 10 min • Denmark

Documentary short film about the work of Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), one of the most famous Danish sculptors, who spent a good part of his life in Italy.

Our Funny Finny Friends

1949 • 7 min • United States of America

A comical survey of the various denizens of the sea, followed up with a Follow the Bouncing Ball song ('The Three Little Fishes').

Lock Your Door

1949 • 15 min • United Kingdom

In a relaxed and conversational style, famed writer of uncanny and fantastical fiction Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) retells his story of the old lady and the pockmarked railway porter. The author's delivery is thoughtful, as if he is recounting the incident for the first time, and was filmed in 1949 for a series of short films sharing the title A Strange Experience. The story itself was unpublished in his lifetime.

Glasgow Today and Tomorrow

1949 • 8 min

Glasgow in the post-war years and the Corporation's futuristic plans for the city's development.

Le capiage

1949 • 6 min

Short documentary on the wool industry.

The Joint is Jumpin'

1949 • 60 min • United States of America

Star-packed, tune-filled, screen event.

Nočná romanca

1949 • 8 min • Czechoslovakia

So You Want to Be a Baby Sitter

1949 • 10 min

Joe McDoakes does NOT want to be a baby sitter.

Perpetuum mobile

1949 • 4 min • Norway

Three-minute-long commercial for a cigarette brand.

Measurement of Electricity

1949 • 11 min • United States of America

This educational film from the 1940s teaches the fundamental definitions of, and the physical concepts involved in, volt, ampere, ohm and watt.

Little Citizens

1949 • 13 min • Poland

Ania, a few years old girl, starts attending to a new kindergarten. The film shows the difficult moments of a little girl's adaptation to a new environment, and the impact of the institution's educational methods on assimilation with her peers.

Ruy Barbosa

1949 • 28 min • Brazil

Paint Pot Symphony

1949 • 7 min

A trio of house painters, a cat, a dog and a bird, undertake to decorate the exterior of a skyscraper, and end up, involuntarily, performing a ballet---set to symphony music---on the high scaffolding.

Drooler's Delight

1949 • 6 min • United States of America

A thoroughly thirsty Woody Woodpecker overhears a radio advertisement for the "Drooler's Delight" ice cream soda. Armed with his only quarter, he heads to the malt shop to relieve his thirst. Unfortunately, his quarter is stolen along the way by greedy Buzz Buzzard and a free-for-all ensues between the two over it culminating with Woody disguising himself as a woman to earn Buzz's affections and retrieve his quarter.

Rumpelstiltskin

1949 • 10 min • United States of America

Marionette puppet version of the tale about a little man who grants a miller's daughter the gift of spinning straw into gold.

Heart to Heart

1949 • 21 min • United States of America

This Theatre of Life short focuses on heart disease, and how bad diet, lack of exercise, and the stress of fast-paced living contribute to the rising rates of heart disease and heart attacks.

Spring Song

1949 • 8 min • United States of America

Winter comes to an end as a wood nymph plays his flute to Mendelsohn's "Spring Song".

No. 5: Circular Tensions (Homage to Oskar Fischinger)

1949 • 3 min • United States of America

Experimental short. 16 mm, color, silent, 2:30 or 6 min. Sequel to No. 4.

Picnic

1949 • 22 min • United States of America

Beginning in the reality of American middle-class life, Picnic portrays the idealistic dream-quest of the protagonist, from which he is finally cast off. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.