All Films

Spring Tale

1949 • 18 min • Soviet Union

About the return of the leader of the geese Gumennik and his flock from African regions to their native places in Russia.

So Much for So Little

1949 • 10 min • United States of America

Little Johnny Jones, to be born in the next year, is shown growing to a ripe, healthy old age, thanks to the efforts of his local public health officers. But without them, he might be one of the 5% or so that dies in the first year. The price for the public health service: about 3 cents a week. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.

Offended Toys

1949 • 11 min • Soviet Union

An animated film about cubs who did not know how to carefully play with their toys and constantly broke them.

Sports Oddities

1949 • 10 min • United States of America

A Pete Smith Specialty showcasing athletic stunts.

Let's Go to the Movies

1949 • 9 min • United States of America

What goes in to the phrase, "Let's go to the movies"? An off-screen narrator takes us back to the earliest days of film: clips remind us of early stars and blockbusters. He explains how sound came to motion pictures: we see Jolson singing "Mammy" and John Barrymore playing Richard III. Next is a salute to the 30,000 people working in Hollywood at 272 different crafts. A montage shows us some of those jobs. It ends with a look at the physical production of celluloid (cotton and silver) and the many aspects of movie making. The narrator promises more short films about each step in production. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Dunked in the Deep

1949 • 17 min • United States of America

The stooges are tricked into becoming stowaways by their neighbor "Borscht", a spy for an enemy country. Stranded on a freighter on the high seas, they discover that their friend has concealed some stolen microfilm in watermelons they brought aboard for him. After a wild chase, they subdue Borscht and recover the microfilm.

Forest Story

1949 • 55 min • Soviet Union

Forest drama about the life of a beaver family.

The Story of Little Red Riding Hood

1949 • 9 min • United States of America

Based on the classic European fairytale. A young girl is pursued and tricked by a big bad wolf who wants to eat her. Animated by Ray Harryhausen.

Cat-Tastrophy

1949 • 6 min • United States of America

Kitty's owner introduces her to a puppy who will befriend and Kitty realizes that when the puppy grows up he becomes Kitty's enemy because dogs hate cats and makes a chase in the yard at the end of the flashback of kitty for the puppy and kitty chases the puppy and the horse gets into the garbage can.

Breakdowns of 1949

1949 • 10 min • United States of America

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1949.

Jerry's Diary

1949 • 7 min • United States of America

The kiddie radio host, Uncle Dudley, reminds his listeners that it is "Be Kind to Animals" week. Tom resolves to be kind to his mouse-nemesis, Jerry, but the cat changes his mind after sneaking a look at Jerry's diary.

Super-Wolf

1949 • 16 min • United States of America

Hugh is a dead ringer for a criminal terrorizing the city.

Begone Dull Care

1949 • 8 min • Canada

In this extraordinary short animation, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly onto their filmstrip. The result is a vivid interpretation, in fluid lines and colour, of jazz music played by the Oscar Peterson Trio.

Miracle in the Rain

1949 • 60 min

A lonely man and woman meet on rainy afternoon in New York. Season 1, Episode 21 of the The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre

Flowers from a Stranger

1949 • 59 min

The mental condition of psychiatrist's wife Lorna Baylor begins to deteriorate as an anonymous delivery of flowers arrives at her home, awakening her phobia of white carnations.

Burlesque in Harlem

1949 • 56 min • United States of America

A filming of a burlesque act in 1954 Harlem, complete with singers, baggy-pants comics and "exotic" dancers.

Family Life

1949 • 10 min • United States of America

Impossible drama proving that proper management of schedules, responsibilities, privileges and finances leads to a happier home.

Love That Pup

1949 • 8 min • United States of America

When a bulldog threatens Tom to keep away from his puppy, Jerry realizes that sticking close to the boy is the best way to keep away his feline tormentor. But Tom is not about to let the mouse evade him so easily.

Christmas U.S.A.

1949 • 13 min • United States of America

Things spin: amusement park rides, a phonograph record. A man wakes, shaves, and takes a phone call. Another man, in a kimono, walks in the woods, stops, and opens a small decorative box on the forest floor. People at an amusement park called Little Harlem enjoy themselves. A man walks through another amusement park, called Cavalcade Worlds, as midway rides spin. At a house, an older woman cleans; a pre-teen girl sets the table; a teenaged boy showers. After he dresses, he holds a candle high above his head and walks swiftly toward a young man standing bare-chested, his arms extended. A man arrives home where the girl has set the table. The youth sleeps. Christmas?

Someone Else's Voice

1949 • 10 min • Soviet Union

An obnoxious magpie returns to the forest from abroad and finds a most unenthusiastic audience for her jazz music.

Palle Alone in the World

1949 • 24 min • Denmark

A young boy wakes up to find all other people have gone, leaving him free to do whatever he wants.

Jane Eyre

1949 • 60 min • United States of America

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Waiting in the Lurch

1949 • 16 min • United States of America

Joe's fiance doesn't like his obsession for chasing fire engines.

A Cuckoo and a Blackbird

1949 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The cuckoo does not incubate its chicks and does not have a family. But the starlings were able to prove to the cuckoo that the family is a support in trouble and joy, and therefore everyone needs it.