All Films

Ebb-tide

1948 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Go with the flow: to gentle but spellbinding effect this innovative natural history film glimpses marine life astride rising tides at Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae. Urchins, lugworm, weaver-fish and crabs are the shy-but-elegant stars coaxed onto the screen (with the assistance of Millport’s local research station) for this archetypal edition of Gaumont-British Instructional’s 1930s cinema series Secrets of Life.

Three for Breakfast

1948 • 7 min • United States of America

Donald Duck gets into a lot of trouble while he's cooking pancakes for breakfast - Chip and Dale are up to their mischief. Donald tries a number of plans to get rid of them, but they repeatedly foil Donald's plans.

Hidden Danger

1948 • 55 min • United States of America

Johnny and Banty come in contact with a cattlemen's protective organization. Ostensibly an honest venture, the association is the front for an extortion racket, headed by a gent named Carson.

Mickey and the Seal

1948 • 7 min • United States of America

Mickey accidentally takes a seal home, after it sneaks into his picnic basket. When Mickey takes a bath, the seal is discovered and Mickey returns him to the park. Later, however, Mickey and Pluto discover that the bathroom is filled with seals!

Siete Dolores

1948 • 56 min • Philippines

A story about a mother and her seven sons.

Queen Esther

1948 • 48 min • United States of America

A Jewish woman, born as Hadassah but known as Esther, becomes queen of Persia and thwarts a genocide of her people.

Base Brawl

1948 • 8 min • United States of America

At the zoo, the animals have all gone to play baseball. Animals fill the stands as they watch the antics that can only come about from exotic animals who play baseball.

Tornado Range

1948 • 56 min • United States of America

Tornado Range is one of five Eddie Dean westerns originally produced by PRC in 1947 but released the following year by Eagle-Lion. Cast as a troubleshooter for the U.S. Land Office, Dean is assigned to settle a deadly range war. Sure enough, the warring homesteaders and cattlemen are being whipped into a frenzy by a third party, who hopes to "divide and conquer," claiming the land for himself. Surprisingly, all-purpose PRC villain George Cheseboro isn't the culprit in this one; instead, he's cast as the father of heroine Jennifer Holt. Roscoe Ates is once more on hand for some questionable comedy relief.

Buccaneer Bunny

1948 • 7 min • United States of America

Yosemite Sam as a pirate makes the mistake of trying to bury his treasure chest in Bugs' hole, and pays with the loss of his ship.

Silver Trails

1948 • 53 min • United States of America

Jimmy and Cannonball find the body of Don Muquel after he has been shot and robbed by henchmen Ramsay and Sturgis. Jimmy is accused of the crime by Jose Esteban but the latter's rich uncle, Don Esteban, clears his friend Jimmy. Jose accuses the the settlers, led by John Chambers, of confiscating the land of the native Californians, through murder and theft. Actually, surveyor Willard Jackson is making forged copies of stolen land-grant papers after his men have killed the rightful owners. Playing both ends against the middle, Ramsay urges Chambers and his daughter, Diane, to drive off the Californians.

Pickled Puss

1948 • 7 min • United States of America

The cat and mouse are in their usual game of chase-and-pursue until the mouse hides in a pickled-herring barrel. The cat gets intoxicated from inhaling the fumes and immediately becomes the mouse's newest best friend. He defends the mouse from a mean alley cat, and the mouse invites him to come home with him. There, the mouse takes care of him and sobers him up, and the cat immediately begins to chase him again. He reaches the barrel again and regains his newest best friend. Charlie Chaplin deserves an (uncredited) story listing.

Inferior Decorator

1948 • 6 min • United States of America

A bee is flying among Donald's flowers when he notices a veritable paradise of flowers in the guise of wallpaper Donald is hanging. The bee is rather frustrated when he is unable to stay on the flowers so Donald has some fun with the bee tormenting him with the fake flowers. The bee gets his revenge when Donald is accidentally pasted to the ceiling by the wallpaper making him an easy target for the bee's stinger.

Superstition

1948 • 9 min • Italy

Short documentary about superstition in southern Italy.

Designing Women

1948 • 23 min • United Kingdom

Part of BFI collection "Design for Today."

Courtin' Trouble

1948 • 56 min • United States of America

Jimmy Wakely a lawman goes undrrcover with a singing job at Dawson's saloon....

Campus Sleuth

1948 • 56 min • United States of America

A photographer is murdered just outside a college dance. The body is found by Lee Watson, but promptly disappears, as it's being whisked from one point to another on campus by an ex-con night watchman. However, he isn't the killer, and Freddie, Dodie, Betty and Lee set out to find the culprit who put a big damper on their big event.

Caged Fury

1948 • 60 min • United States of America

Big cats are killing people... after being trained by a twisted lion tamer.

New Horizons

1948 • 18 min • United States of America

Production for the Seaboard Railroad company outlining their railroad activities in the 1940s and heading into the 1950s

Bone Bandit

1948 • 7 min • United States of America

Pluto discovers that a gopher has been stealing bones from his hidden stash.

Disaster

1948 • 60 min • United States of America

A construction worker wanted by the authorities is vindicated by virtue of his heroism when an airplane crashes into a skyscraper.

Oklahoma Badlands

1948 • 59 min • United States of America

Oklahoma Badlands is a western film directed by Yakima Canutt in 1948. Oliver Budge is after the Rawlins ranch. His henchman Sanders kills Ken Rawlins but when he tries to kill Leslie Rawlins, Rocky Lane breaks it up. But Leslie is a woman and knowing the bad guys are looking for a man, Rocky now poses as Leslie, an Eastern dude, and goes after the man that killed his friend.

Haredevil Hare

1948 • 8 min • United States of America

Bugs is the test rabbit shot to the moon. There, he meets Commander X-2, who is intent on destroying the Earth with his Aludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.

Mining Review 1st Year No. 1

1947 • 8 min • United Kingdom

The first issue of the long running industry cinemagazine, featuring the articles: 'Cutter Loader', 'Five Day Week?' and 'The Miner's Song'

Dream of a Snowy Night

1947 • 10 min • Japan

Silhouette animation about an orphan, relating to Christmas.