All Films

The Bear and the Hare

1948 • 7 min • United States of America

Barney Bear hunts a snowshoe rabbit, whose white fur makes him impossible to see in the snow and whose wiliness makes him impossible to catch.

Little Gray Neck

1948 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Defending a friend, duckling is attacked by fox and must learn to survive.

The Fatal Night

1948 • 50 min

A young American accepts a bet to spend a night in a haunted house in Mayfair.

Wild and Woody!

1948 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody Woodpecker gallops into a wild western town, which can't keep a sheriff very long due to the notorious outlaw (and sheriff-killer) Buzz Buzzard. Woody volunteers for the position but barely has time to shine up his badge before Buzz rides in with intent to do harm to Sheriff Woody. But Woody has no intentions of allowing Buzz to follow through on his intents.

The Photographer

1948 • 26 min • United States of America

1948 ARC Identifier 46998 / Local Identifier 306.131. FEATURES THE PERSONALITY, PHILOSOPHY, TECHNIQUES AND ARTISTRY OF EDWARD WESTON, AS SHOWN THROUGH SCENES OF THE ARTIST AT HOME, ON LOCATION AND AT WORK WITH HIS STUDENTS. U.S. Information Agency. (1982 - 10/01/1999) Made possible by a donation from Simon Phipps

Robin Hoodlum

1948 • 7 min • United States of America

Fox is Robin Hoodlum and the Crow is the Sheriff pursuing R. Hoodlum and his merry band. He escapes one trap after another until he is lured into an archery contest at the Palace---everybody plays the Palace sooner or later---and gets caught.

Spinach vs Hamburgers

1948 • 6 min • United States of America

Popeye's nephews would rather have hamburgers than spinach, so Popeye recounts some of his past exploits where spinach saved the day.

Just Suppose

1948 • 9 min • United States of America

An off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home as he does in the movies; it's a ticket to a domestic disturbance. Next, a son gets to treat his father the way his father treats him. In the third episode, to a shopkeeper's chagrin, a man shops for a hat the way a woman does. In the final sketch, we suppose a household in which the man gets pregnant and has a baby, while the mom, clueless about little children, is the one with the career.

The Monkey's Paw

1948 • 30 min • United Kingdom

The monkey's paw can make wishes come true. But not in the ways people expect. Note this should not be confused with the 1948 film with the same name.

Bugs Bunny Rides Again

1948 • 7 min • United States of America

In the Western town of Rising Gorge, Bugs faces off against Yosemite Sam, "the roughest, toughest, he-man stuffest hombre who's ever crossed the Rio Grande."

The Shell Shocked Egg

1948 • 7 min • United States of America

A mother turtle buries her eggs in the sand. While she is away, one of the egg partly hatches and begins roaming the countryside trying to finish hatching.

Meet the Pioneers

1948 • 33 min • United Kingdom

Lindsay Anderson's first feature, a documentary about the origin and processes of the Richard Sutcliffe Limited underground-conveyor company.

I'm a Monkey's Uncle

1948 • 16 min

Set in the stone age, the stooges are cavemen who must have various misadventures hunting, gathering, and otherwise coping with prehistoric life. When some other cavemen threaten to take their women ("Aggie", "Maggie", and "Baggy"), the boys fight them off with a catapulting tree branch that shoots rocks and eggs.

Jet-Propelled Germs

1948 • 1 min

Another of Richard Massingham's films about the dangers of sneezing and germ transmission, and what to do with used handkerchiefs

There's Good Boos To-Night

1948 • 7 min • United States of America

Casper makes friends with a fox cub. But the new friendship is threatened when a fox hunter and his two hounds come on the scene.

Frontier Agent

1948 • 56 min

Johnny Mack Brown is sent to the badlands to round up an elusive outlaw gang.

Karandash on Ice

1948 • 22 min • Soviet Union

Pardon My Clutch

1948 • 16 min • United States of America

The stooge's friend Claude sells them his old lemon of a car so they can take Shemp, who is sick with a toothache, camping. The car won't work and the boys are apparently out a bundle, when a car collector happens on the scene and offers to buy it at a premium. Claude backs out on the deal and gives the stooges their money back, only to discover the "collector" is an escaped lunatic.

The Last Load

1948 • 57 min • United Kingdom

David and Monty are two friends of Susan and Betty Potter whose father runs a fleet of lorries. One by one, his lorries are involved in accidents and sabotage is suspected. The children are determined to find the culprits.

R.u.r.

1948 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explored dehumanization through technology and the failure of a technologically driven utopia.

Mickey Down Under

1948 • 7 min • United States of America

Mickey, in the Australian bush, throws a boomerang that gets caught in Pluto’s mouth. Mickey then discovers an egg of an emu. Unfortunately, the parent chases him, but Pluto and the boomerang zoom into his path, leaving the emu all tangled.

You Were Never Duckier

1948 • 8 min • United States of America

Finding that the prize for best duck at the National Poultry Show is only $5.00, but $5,000 for the best rooster, Daffy disguises himself as one, but then becomes the object of Henery Hawk's chicken hunt.

The Lone Star State

1948 • 7 min • United States of America

An animated short about Texas. Includes a sing-a-long of "Deep in the Heart of Texas."

A Gunman Has Escaped

1948 • 58 min • United Kingdom

In this crime drama, three gem thieves must get out of London after they kill a man. Friction between the men increases as they hide out on a farm and then get back on the road. Trouble ensues when one of the three begins suspecting the others of treachery.