All Films

Sea Salts

1949 • 7 min • United States of America

'Mac' Bootle Beetle tells, referring to the ship's log, how he and captain Donald Duck were sole survivors of a shipwreck. The insect always suspected the duck wasn't quite fair, actually he was constantly cheated out of his rations share and used as angling bait without realizing it, both on the wreckage raft and after they drifted onto a deserted island, but ultimately they were rescued and stayed together for life, although even at their ripe age Donald.

Prejudice

1949 • 58 min

Joe Hanson, who believes himself to be tolerant of other races and religions, gradually comes to realize that he is prejudiced against many of them.

Sheep Dog

1949 • 7 min • United States of America

A coyote and his rather dim son stalk the sheep that Pluto is guarding.

Ragtime Bear

1949 • 7 min • United States of America

At the Hodge Podge Lodge, a crotchety, near-sighted Mister Magoo takes a banjo-playing bear to be his nephew, Waldo.

Western Renegades

1949 • 54 min • United States of America

Brown's principal antagonist this time is the town boss, an outlaw who has killed the community's leading citizen. The dead man's grown children want to investigate the killing, but the outlaw puts a stop to this by hiring a dance-hall dame to pose as the kids' long-lost mother. Johnny isn't fooled by this subterfuge nor is his sidekick.

Porky Chops

1949 • 7 min • United States of America

Lumber jack Porky Pig intrudes upon the peace of a hipster squirrel vacationing in the Northwoods by trying to chop down the squirrel's tree. The squirrel retaliates by enclosing the base of his tree with steel so that Porky's axes cannot penetrate. The ensuing conflict between Porky and the squirrel awakens an angry bear.

Curtain Razor

1949 • 7 min • United States of America

Porky, a talent scout for "Goode and Korney Talent Agency," auditions various acts. A final gag has a wolf performing this "stupendous act" where he wears a devil hat, cape and the like, drinks nitroglycerin, gasoline and other explosive stuff, then swallows a match. KABOOM! Porky thinks that the act is really good until the wolf's ghost comes in and says that there's a catch... "I can only do it once!"(Source: bcdb.com)

Mississippi Hare

1949 • 8 min • United States of America

After getting mixed in with a bale of cotton, Bugs ends up on a Mississippi riverboat, where he meets up with the notorious gambler Col. Shuffle.

Crashing Thru

1949 • 54 min • United States of America

When Ranger Raymond is killed during a stage holdup, Wells Fargo Agent Whip Wilson assumes his identity.

Tennis Racquet

1949 • 7 min • United States of America

Two Goofys play a tennis match in typical Goofy style. The announcer sometimes has trouble following the action. The groundskeeper seems to always be present, trimming the grass, filling in holes (in one case with a tree), and delivering the oversized trophy.

Range Land

1949 • 56 min • United States of America

Monogram's Whip Wilson western series occasionally produced a better-than-average entry. In Range Land, Wilson and saddle pal Andy Clyde try to get the goods on a gang of stagecoach bandits.

Haunted Trails

1949 • 58 min • United States of America

Singing cowboy Whip Wilson, the foreman on a cattle drive, quits his job to pursue five bank robbers who murdered his brother.

Toy Tinkers

1949 • 7 min • United States of America

When Donald Duck chops a Christmas tree, the inquisitive chipmunks Chip and Dale follow and see him decorate it with nuts and sweets. So they sneak in his home, determined to 'harvest' it all, using the toys for the Duck nephews, as if Christmas came early for them, so to say. Donald puts up an equally 'playful' yet grim defense, so it all rapidly escalates into a bitter miniature two-to-one-giant war over the Christmas-treats.

Triple Boogie

1948 • 4 min

Experimental film using animation and live action, set to music.

Martin Block's Musical Merry-Go-Round #1

1948 • 10 min • United States of America

We visit Martin Block at his studio desk at 11:30 AM at the height of his popularity as a disk jockey, when more than 400 radio stations carried his show. Block opens the show with Freddie Martin's first big hit, "Tonight We Love," an adaption of a Tchaikovsky piano concerto; he dedicates it to a listener in Wyoming, and we see her daydreaming as she listens. Then Keenan Wynn stops in for a chat, asking Block about being a DJ. Between bits of conversation with Wynn, Block plays three more Martin records, including "Cumana," and we see the band in action.

Pop Goes the Weasel

1948 • 10 min

The English nursery rhyme, Pop Goes The Weasel, has had various interpretations and by giving the title to this HM-Treasury sponsored picture, the memorable lyrics helped to remind a 1948 audience that their taxes were divided up to pay for various post-war commitments and services that would benefit them.

Aborigines of the Sea Coast

1948 • 19 min • Australia

The coast of Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory has been the home of Aboriginal people for many many centuries. Some still live a traditional lifestyle. This film is a record of a 1948 expedition to Arnhem Land led by anthropologist Charles Mountford. It depicts the ancestral fishing, hunting, building and boatmaking techniques used by the communities of the region.

Latter-Day Saint Leaders: Past and Present

1948 • 19 min

LDS Leaders from the Past. This rare black and white video includes motion picture footage of Church leaders from the first half of the 20th century. (19:55)

Christmas Rhapsody

1948 • 10 min

A pine tree longs to be used for something.

Spotlight On Australian Ballet

1948 • 48 min • Australia

This film reveals the roots of ballet in Australia and the story of the overseas dancers who brought their art to Australia. This encouraged the rise of local dancers who proved themselves adept in the classic ballets of Russia, France and Great Britain. It traces the birth of Australian choreography, decor and mounting with Australian dancers shown performing an Australian musical composition with Australian themes. Influential figures such as Edouard Borovansky, Tchinarova and Margot Stevenson are featured as well as the Borovansky Ballet, the Ballet Guild and the Bodenwieser Modern Expressive Ballet.

Building An Outline

1948 • 10 min • United States of America

Part of Coronet's Study Skills series, this film instructs viewers how to use outlines when writing a composition.

A Story About Breadmaking in the Year 1255 A.D.

1948 • 5 min

An animated film showing the sowing, reaping, and milling of wheat, the baking of bread and service to the lord of the manor in medieval Britain.

How to Be Well Groomed

1948 • 10 min

The importance of good grooming is emphasized by showing how Don and Sue, a brother and sister, keep up their neat appearances. The benefits of not wearing red nail polish, "loud" sport shirts and "inappropriate" blouses are driven home by reminding students that "all through the day, other people are looking at you."

Attitudes and Health

1948 • 10 min

A teenager eager to make the high school basketball team fails the tryouts. Devastated, he turns to the family doctor to find out what happened. The doctor tells him that he failed because of his "poor attitude", and proceeds to show him a parade of losers, rejects and derelicts who let their "bad attitudes" get the best of them. Shaken to his very core, the young man vows to improve his attitude, and begins to succeed in life.