All Films

The Supreme Court

1948 • 10 min • United States of America

Follows a case from inception, through the lower courts, to final hearing before the Supreme Court. Shows the Supreme Court as the guardian of constitutional rights. Explains its various functions, powers and scope of jurisdiction.

Enterprise: A Documentary Film

1948 • 32 min • United States of America

Film sponsored by the Troy, New York–based manufacturer of Arrow shirts to explain its reasons for moving its business down south. The true story of how two World War II veterans invited the company to occupy an industrial plant that they had built in the hope of revitalizing Buchanan, Georgia. Five hundred residents signed a pledge stating that they were willing to work in the new factory. Cluett, Peabody & Co. eventually employed one-third of the townspeople.

“The Red Shoes” Sketches

1948 • 16 min

A 1948 animated film of Hein Heckroth’s painted storyboards, with the Red Shoes ballet as an alternate angle.

Colour Flicker

1948 • 2 min • Canada

An hand drawn animation merged of Colors.

Inside The Atom

1948 • 11 min

This short documentary offers a look at Canada’s Chalk River Project in the late 1940s. While humanity pondered the ultimate threat or promise of atomic energy, Chalk River scientists worked on the first set of experiments that attempted to apply atomic energy to medical and biological uses. Inside the Atom examines this frontier of science and assesses its value in terms of human progress.

Butterscotch and Soda

1948 • 7 min • United States of America

The housekeeper does her best to get nourishing food into Little Audrey, but the only thing Audrey wants is candy. And she wants lots of it. The housekeeper banishes Audrey to her room, but the cunning girl has sweets hidden in bags that hang outside her bedroom window. The angry servant finds every last piece of candy in the room and takes it away. Soon, Audrey has candy withdrawal and even gets the sweet-tooth version of delirium tremens. A nightmare sends her to a Candy Horror Land where evil candy canes and sinister licorice drops force-feed her all the candy she doesn't want.

Spotlight on the Highlands

1948 • 18 min • United Kingdom

It's 1948 and hydro-electric power is transforming Scotland's Grampians.

You Can't Win

1948 • 8 min • United States of America

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short film, a homeowner experiences a series of mishaps while taking a day off from the office.

Play Safe

1948 • 9 min • Australia

As a contribution to the cause of road safety Sir Donald Bradman world famous cricketer, played the lead in this film for children. The theme is cricket played in casual suburban small boy fashion, with a narrow street for the oval and a petrol tin for the wicket. Sir Donald comes on the scene and demonstrates the virtues of safety first as a must for those who aspire to play a test cricket for Australia.

Furnival and Son

1948 • 19 min

Story of work in a cutlery manufacturing firm in Sheffield told through story of the son who enters the business.

Pattern for Smartness

1948 • 19 min • United States of America

Do you have that "know how" look? You will after you see this concise short on becoming your very own clotheshorse. You'll definitely have a new pattern for success. Happy sewing to you all!

Diving Logs

1948 • 12 min

Diving logs of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Documentary Maritime Resources of Mahdia, Tunisia. Selected for Canes International Film 1949 and 1951.

Vegas Nights

1948 • 48 min • United States of America

After a tour of the sights and sounds of the Las Vegas strip, we enter the Club Paradise where we are treated to a night of song, comedy, and dancing.

The Flamingo Affair

1948 • 58 min • United Kingdom

An ex-soldier gets mixed up with the crooks a glamourous blonde associates and is persuaded to help in a crime.

Chucky Lou - Story of a Woodchuck

1948 • 10 min

Tells the story of a woodchuck which was taken to a state park to live and now entertains the park visitors by performing tricks. Shows the woodchuck's appearance, size, natural habitat, food, habits, and adjustment to captivity.

Seeing Ghosts

1948 • 7 min • United States of America

The undead inhabitants of a haunted house decide to scare a poor house decorator and his dog away from the property.

Before the October Festival 1948

1948 • 19 min • Yugoslavia

Motifs from the life of the Macedonian people, through their folk art presented with fabrics, carvings, architecture, agricultural crops specific to this region, up to the folk songs and dances that cultural and artistic societies have the opportunity to present at the festivals in Bitola and Shtip.

The Last Shoeshine

1948 • 13 min • Italy

A story of a kid whose only friends are a dog and the stars. The kid without a name, together with his beloved dog Matteo, tries to sell cigarettes at a street corner; he doesn't succeed, pursued by a cop. His only consolation will be stars-watching at night.

Clinic of Stumble

1948 • 16 min • United States of America

A comically solemn dance film composed of superimposed images.

Symphony in Spinach

1948 • 6 min • United States of America

Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job.

Drug Addict

1948 • 34 min • Canada

This film details how drug traffic operates, how the drug addict is made, and how this grim social reality may be curbed.

The Things People Want

1948 • 20 min

Distinctive sales training film on the hierarchy of human needs, starring a young John Forsythe.

Torachan and the Bride

1948 • 16 min • Japan

Tora-chan and Miike and playing while their big sister prepares for her wedding. Just then a letter arrives; it's from Grandfather, who writes that he won't allow the wedding as long as he lives! Bride and groom rush to the church to get married before the old cat can stop them, but his boat has just arrived! Can Tora-chan and Miike keep him distracted long enough for their sister's happy day to go uninterrupted?

The Dreamer

1948 • 30 min • United States of America

An all-black musical featuring the talent of funnyman Mantan Moreland.