All Films

Flip Flap

1948 • 7 min • United States of America

Little Flip-Flap, a seal, is unhappy in the confines of the swimming tank in a big-city zoo. He breaks out and heads for the North Pole, where he meets a pretty girl-seal. She is captured by seal-hunters and sent to the zoo. Flip-Flap decides to return to the zoo and is happy when he is reunited with his sweetheart.

Pay-Off In Pain

1948 • 11 min • Canada

The personal and social tragedy of drug addiction with its evil accompaniment, drug traffic. Over the side of the silent liner in the darkness slips the package of smuggled narcotics, introducing us to the complex problem which involves all races and classes of man. We see many aspects of addiction - the addict preparing an injection, a group waiting tensely for their dope peddler; agents preparing and adulterating the illegal product; the police catching a pusher red-handed. International and national authorities are working from two angles - suppression of the illicit traffic; and where possible, rehabilitation of the addict.

Wartość minuty

1948 • 3 min • Poland

A propaganda documentary that illustrates the essence of punctuality at work and translates it into simple real-life examples.

Picture in Your Mind

1948 • 16 min

Sent by the U.S. government as a participant in the Marshall Plan with a specific mission to assist the French in re-gearing their animation studios, Stapp discovered a Europe much-decimated by war, but in further danger of annihilation by nuclear weapons. Returning to the U.S., he produced this alarming-yet-hopeful film, replete with its lonely, Tanguy-inspired landscapes peopled with static figures casting long shadows across charcoal-colored plains. While taking the risk of leaning a bit toward didacticism, Stapp managed to urgently convey the thought that world destruction was not necessarily inevitable, provided that people embrace, rather than reject their cultural and racial differences. ‘Picture’ is a unique document resulting from the sometimes dreamy, sometimes nightmarish vision of the artist in a war-torn land, with the spectre of death hovering ever-so-slightly ahead.

Pixie Picnic

1948 • 7 min • United States of America

An orchestra of gnomes (some of whom look like they might know Snow White). As they are playing flowers and other organic instruments in the forest, there are various mishaps, all timed to music. A chef inflates a trussed turkey, which explodes, showering the pixies with various foodstuffs; a bottle of ketchup squirts out one gnome's ears as he plays.

Phantom Valley

1948 • 53 min • United States of America

The Durango Kid, along with assistance from sidekick Smiley Burnett, investigates a pair of murders that threaten to fuel a range war.

Deadline

1948 • 57 min • United States of America

A Pony Express rider discovers some mysterious goings-on during the construction of a telegraph line. When a murder is committed, he is blamed for it.

Attaque nocturne

1948 • 2 min • France

The film existed only in Jacque’s memory because all that remained were the two cardboard thief characters. Jacques called upon his memories to recreate the decor and the characters with a decorator. The operator then filmed frame by frame to reconstruct the film.

Overland Trails

1948 • 58 min • United States of America

Johnny Mack Brown stars in this above-average B-Western from Monogram, penned under the pseudonym of Jess Bowers by veteran genre specialist Adele Buffington. Mack Brown plays Johnny Murdoch, a drifter arriving in Gold Flats in search of his prospector father. From old-timer Dusty Hanover (Raymond Hatton), Johnny learns that Old Man Murdoch was murdered for his claim by Rex Hillman (Holly Bane), a hireling of Carter Morgan (Bill Kennedy).

Auschwitz Krakow Trial 1947

1948 • 32 min • Poland, United States of America

The Auschwitz trial began on November 24, 1947, in Kraków, when Polish authorities (the Supreme National Tribunal) tried 40 former staff of the Auschwitz concentration camps. The trials ended on December 22, 1947.

Robinson Charley

1948 • 11 min • United Kingdom

No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain’s economics.

The Feudin' Hillbillies

1948 • 7 min • United States of America

Cats vs. mice in the Appalachias.

Dog Tax Dodgers

1948 • 7 min • United States of America

Andy reads in the newspaper that dog catcher Wally Walrus is coming to collect $3.00 worth of dog tax from every dog owner. Being kind of a cheapskate, he hides his dog in the closet from Wally's presence but, upon entering Andy's house, Wally still suspects something is amiss. He uses a trained flea to reveal the dog who gets chased by Wally into a pond in the backyard. After "fishing" the dog out, Wally demands Andy pay his $3.00 but both are in for a surprise: the dog has an entire litter of puppies each worth an additional $3.00!

A World Is Turning

1948 • 45 min • United Kingdom

A lost chapter in black British film: extraordinary rushes from a documentary showcasing talented members of the black community.

Out Again, in Again

1948 • 6 min • United States of America

A few weeks before this epic was released, the two magpies had starred in 'Free Enterprise', a cartoon that ended with them both in prison. 'Out Again, in Again' begins like the latest chapter of a serial in progress, with a nasal-voiced narrator informing the audience that "in our last episode" Heckle and Jeckle were in prison, and then picking up the action from there.

Swab Your Choppers

1948 • 7 min • United States of America

U.S. Navy instructional film about proper oral hygiene. After prolonged dental neglect, seaman Humphrey learns the proper technique for brushing and flossing one's teeth.

A Plan to Work On

1948 • 32 min • United Kingdom

Documentary on town planning in which an architect looks at the history of Dunfermline, Scotland and its possible future development.

A Divided World

1948 • 8 min • Sweden

A ten-minute study of wild animal life in a Swedish forest; stoat, fox, hare, and owl, who stalk and savage one another, are photographed with extraordinary vividness and intimacy. It is perhaps the most striking of Sucksdorff's animal studies, in spite of an abrupt introduction and ending.

Variety Time

1948 • 59 min • United States of America

Jack Parr hosts a variety program of comedic sketches.

Gunning for Justice

1948 • 55 min • United States of America

Three fellows band together to help a woman find her uncle's cache of gold in this western. All they have to help them is a tattered map that her uncle, a prisoner of war, created in camp. Unfortunately two badguys have the map and try to turn the three goodguys against the niece. They do not succeed and justice prevails.

Heavenly Daze

1948 • 17 min

Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two stooges from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry's sales pitch, but it looks he's headed for the fires below anyway.

Mighty Mouse and the Magician

1948 • 6 min • United States of America

A quaint little village has a magic shop. While performing for his mice friends there, a magician mouse's show is interrupted by a group of cats who start chasing the mice. The magician battles them as long as he can, but they finally get his magic wand. They use the wand to make themselves invisible! The mice look doomed after the cats capture all of them. In desperation to save his friends, the magician sends a rocket into the skies to summon Mighty Mouse. Within minutes, our hero routs the cats and saves the mice and the magician.

False Paradise

1948 • 59 min • United States of America

A banker is trying to cheat people out of their silver-rich land. Hoppy learns that the banker is in league with an outlaw gang.

Back Trail

1948 • 57 min • United States of America

Back Trail is one of the livelier entries in Monogram's Johnny Mack Brown western series. Brown rides into a small town where he becomes embroiled in a blackmail scheme. The town's banker (Ted Adams), a pillar of respectability, once served a jail term. Outlaw leader Pierce Lyden threatens to reveal Adams' secret if the banker doesn't let him know in advance when the gold shipments are going through. Adams tearfully tells Brown the whole story, whereupon Johnny rides shotgun on the next shipment himself. Back Trail was one of the last films directed by workhorse Christy Cabanne, whose career stretched all the way back to the D.W. Griffith days.