All Films

Operation Vittles

1948 • 15 min • United States of America

Operation Vittles is a 1948 American short documentary film about the Berlin Airlift, from the initial closure of the city in 1948 through 1949. It explains how, what, and why that supported the city. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2013.

The Dreamed Valley - Soria Moria

1948 • 11 min • Sweden

In the Norwegian mountains, young Ragnhild drifts into daydreams of the fairytale castle Soria Moria when she is supposed to be fetching milk, blurring the line between chores and imagination.

Let's Sing Grandfather's Favorites

1948 • 9 min • United States of America

A retrospective of popular music from the 1890s and the turn of the century, with words for the audience to join in.

Waverley Steps: A Visit to Edinburgh

1948 • 31 min • United Kingdom

Waverley Steps - subtitled ‘a visit to Edinburgh’ - is an evocative minor classic. John Eldridge’s film takes the semi-documentary form of a collage of scripted vignettes, at first disconnected but gradually overlapping. With visual grace, and a certain wit, the film entwines a coalman’s working day with students’ revels by night, the proceedings of a court with the rituals of a courtship.

Initiation into the Dance of the Possessed

1948 • 22 min • France, Niger

Ritual of introduction, for a Songhaî young woman from Tillabérie, in Niger, to the dance of possession devoted to "Kirey", genie of thunder.

Spotlight on the Night Mail

1948 • 18 min

Once again the moving beam of "Spotlight" swings across the city of today to pinpoint a new story for the screen audience of tomorrow. This time we start from an office building in London, late on a summer evening, when the timeclocks have rung in the evening's freedom for London's daytime workers.

Safe Living at School

1948 • 10 min

An educational short focusing on school safety.

Hospitals for All

1948 • 22 min

Made as a promotional film for the new nationalised health services, it looks at a number of hospitals throughout central Scotland including the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Ballochmyle, Strathcathro and Killearn hospitals; their medical staff at work and the services the hospitals provide.

Bloody Kingdom

1948 • 9 min • Brazil

Two friends travel into the Amazon Rainforest, where they find a hidden kingdom ruled by a bloodthirsty sultan. One of José Mojica Marins' first efforts into filmmaking, shot in 16mm when he was only 12 years-old.

Another Cup Of Coffee

1948 • 13 min

Seeks to create in minds of Prudential salesmen a favorable attitude toward prospective insurance buyers. Points out variety of prospect sources & presents five fundamental points of prospecting.

Capitalism

1948 • 10 min

A group of students who put on a radio debate show discuss what capitalism is. While they tend to agree on the general idea, they each have a different emphasis for what is important to capitalism: profit, competition, free enterprise, or something else.

How To Judge Facts

1948 • 10 min

Money for the football team is being used to buy a film projector and causes a big stink! A/V Geeks and jocks on the brink of gang war! Helps students establish a judicious mental attitude toward fact-finding. Jim, high school sophomore, who writes a "sensational" story for his school newspaper, learns to guard against platitudes, false analogies, assumptions, double meanings.

Esprit de Famille

1948 • 14 min

A blonde woman drops by her sister's apartment unexpectedly and discovers her brunette sister having sex. While hiding behind a curtain, the blonde sister is so aroused that she begins to masturbate and is discovered. Angry that their sexual liaison has been disturbed, the man grabs the blonde and proceeds to spank her and then whip her with his belt. When the brunette objects to her sister's treatment the blonde helps the man bind the brunette's wrists and string her up from the ceiling and then beaten. The blonde and the man proceed to have sex while the tied-up sister watches. Later the sisters engage in mild lesbian familiarity.

Carpaccio

1948 • 15 min

Carpaccio is a 1947 short film directed by Umberto Barbaro and Roberto Longhi and based on the life of the Italian painter Vittore Carpaccio.

Tuna Fishermen

1948 • 15 min • Yugoslavia

Film director Branko Belan follows the journey of fishermen as they set out to catch tuna around the Velebit Channel.

Martin Block's Musical Merry-Go-Round #3

1948 • 11 min • United States of America

Radio personality Martin Block interviews Ray Noble and Buddy Clark and introduces a few performances by Clark singing with Ray Noble and His Orchestra.

Oslofilm: Oslo: Sommerbyen mellom fjord og fjell

1948 • 13 min • Norway

Oslo is loved by people who enjoy recreation areas, including land and fjord.

Capturing the Turtle in the Jar

1948 • 11 min • China

A satirical animation short on Chiang Kai-shek made by communist party.

Do Words Ever Fool You?

1948 • 11 min

Three elementary pupils learn that everyone attaches personal meanings to words and that the wording of newspaper stories, conversations, advertisements, and politics, for example, needs careful analysis to prevent confusion.

The Train

1948 • 21 min • Sweden

Images from a train ride through Sweden.

Cab Calloway Home Movie #5

1948 • 16 min • United States of America

Compilation reel of 16mm color home movies of Cab Calloway and his family in Long Island, New York at Easter. The film also has footage of Calloway's tour of South America in 1951 including carnival and beach scenes in Montevideo, la Plaza Independencia, a horse racing track in Rio de Janeiro, and an airport in Puerto Rico.

The Olympic Games

1948 • 8 min • United Kingdom

The 1948 London Olympics see Wembley stadium host the athletics plus diving and the swimming at the Empire Pool.

These Are Our Children

1948 • 21 min • Australia

Social documentary short from Australia, on the welfare of children, especially those from a poor background.

What Is a Contract?

1948 • 9 min • United States of America

Uses a real-life situation to clarify the elements of mutual assent, competent parties, legal bargain and consideration--both in oral and written contracts.