All Films

Camps of the Dead

1947 • 11 min

Filmed in Buchenwald, Dachau and Ohrdruf by "Allied Cameramen" there is no information about the director of the film.

Fight of the Wild Stallions

1947 • 20 min • United States of America

Fight of the Wild Stallions is a 1947 short documentary film produced by Thomas Mead about wild stallions in the wilds and the business of wrangling them. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, Two-Reel.

Kitty Caddy

1947 • 6 min

In this Columbia "Color Phantasy" cartoon (production number 9701), it's the dogs vs. the cats in a golf match. But halfway through the match, an animated, unnamed version of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby join the competition.

A Voice Is Born

1947 • 21 min • United States of America

This 1947 Columbia short, part of their Two-Reel Special series, tells the story of the Hungarian tenor, Miklos Gafni, who learned to sing while being confined in a Nazi slave-labor/concentration camp during World War II, and who had just made a successful New York City concert-hall debut. Mr. Gafni sings "The Return to Sorrento," "Vesti la Guiba," and an Hungarian love song. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, Two-Reel.

The Sixth of June at Dawn

1947 • 53 min • France

The film starts by a visit to bucolic Normandy before the events. This peaceful atmosphere is shattered by Operation Overlord, minutely described in the second part of the documentary. The landing on D-Day and the ensuing battles and bombings martyr the peaceful area giving the earth thousands of body instead of seeds. In the last part, the dreadful aftermath of the steel storm is shown both with sympathy for the victims and hope for the future, since all these sacrifices, whether military or civilians, have not been in vain.

In the Land of the Black Magi

1947 • 13 min • France

Rouch’s earliest surviving film, which depicts the Sorko of Niger on a hippopotamus hunt. - MoMA

The Dream to Be an Emperor

1947 • 20 min • China

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

Tigullio minore

1947 • 10 min • Italy

In the Tigullio region near Gênes this shortdocumentary shows the funeral of a local fisherman.

Flammes De Pierres

1947 • 20 min • France

"Flammes de Pierre" is the first documentary made by Gaston Rébuffat himself in 1947. It depicts Rébuffat in full ascent of the Flammes De Pierre, wild ridges in the heart of the Mont Blanc massif overlooking Chamonix. Like Roger Frison-Roche, Walter Bonatti, René Desmaison or Giusto Gervasutti, Gaston Rébuffat has written and filmed the great pages of contemporary mountaineering but above all, he knew how to talk about it with enough poetry so that it is not simply airtight race stories for spectators. Stories that have been triggers for many readers, who have come to know “stone flames” thanks to him.

The Colorado River

1947 • 10 min • United States of America

Unique in lack of commercial traffic. Contrasts river's natural state with parts dammed to provide electric power and irrigation water.

House of Cards

1947 • 16 min • United States of America

In this film without sound, a man awakes disheveled in a rooming house. He stares out the window seeing children playing and a well-dressed man sitting on a chair in the middle of the street reading a newspaper and looking up at him. A headline describes the murder of a child. The disheveled man, whose face expresses fear and despair, leaves, going through the city, alarmed when anyone looks at him. A woman invites him to look through a public telescope. He does then keeps going. He climbs a hill. Two fencers appear; so does a jester. Is flight fruitless?

Storm in Poland

1947 • 13 min • Poland

Short documentary about the flooding that struck Poland in the spring of 1947.

Death Camp Sachsenhausen

1947 • 37 min • Germany

Documentary about nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen.

Brooklyn, U.S.A.

1947 • 10 min • United States of America

Brooklyn, U.S.A. is a 1947 English language short film directed by Arthur Cohen, starring Ted de Corsia. It was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Short Subject, One-Reel. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

Return to Action

1947 • 19 min • United Kingdom

Bricklayers, lawyers, teachers – disabled men and women are encouraged to retrain for new jobs

Cadet Rousselle

1947 • 9 min • Canada, France

Colourful puppets illustrate the old French song about Cadet Rousselle, who falls down a ladder, who trips on battlements, and whose dogs will not obey him. The animated figures carry our hero through his predicaments with colour and verve.

Zapirón Seeks Employment

1947 • 7 min • Spain

A cat takes a job to help with a mouse infestation.

Crying Wolf

1947 • 7 min • United States of America

A Terrytoons cartoon released 10 January 1947. Amidst the rolling hills of a pastoral landscape, a faithful sheepdog diligently watches over his flock of lambs, ensuring their safety and well-being. However, trouble brews when the mischievous black sheep of the family decides to stir up chaos with his playful antics.

Schools in Harrow

1947 • 20 min • United Kingdom

State schools in the London borough.

A Present for Santa Claus

1947 • 8 min • United States of America

A brother and a sister who believe Santa is down on his luck this year decide to give Santa a gift in order to help him out.

The Circus Comes to Clown

1947 • 7 min • United States of America

A series of circus acts (fast, furious and funny gags) leads to the trapeze act and the sing-a-long begins with "The Man On The Trapeze".

Marginal Weather Accidents

1947 • 6 min • United States of America

Part of the “Flight Safety” series of animated shorts commissioned by the U.S. Air Force at the end of World War II. This one emphasizes the importance of avoiding undesirable weather for the sake of preventing accidents.

Los pueblos dormidos (por la Quebrada de Humahuaca)

1947 • 23 min • Argentina

Documentary about the kolla people living in North Western Argentina.

Rhapsody in Wood

1947 • 8 min • United States of America

Woody Herman spins a fairy tale about how his Woodchopper Grandpappy Herman chopped the wood necessary to form the clarinet Woody inherited and uses. Grandpappy formed it and put out magical enchanting sounds like the Pied Piper.