All Films

Delhi and The North

1947 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Grand buildings and missionary work come together in the 1947 Indian tour of construction magnate John W. Laing.

Pigs and Elephants (Suiformes and Elephantoidea)

1947 • 10 min • United States of America

Pig, hippo, and elephant footage strung together with narration. Elephants were included even though they are not related to pigs.

Well Oiled

1947 • 6 min • United States of America

While travelling along a woodland highway, Woody's car runs out of gas. He intends to get some more by siphoning some from a nearby car, not realizing the car belongs to policeman Wally Walrus who immediately chases the bird. Woody temporarily eludes Wally by disguising himself as a gas station attendant who fills Wally's car to the brim with water! When Woody's disguise is uncovered, the two duel with grease guns.

Once upon a Line

1947 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Model husbands prove that size isn't everything as they get steamed up over Lilliput locomotives.

Shy Guy

1947 • 13 min • United States of America

Phil, a student who recently transferred into his high school, keeps to himself a lot, spending time in his basement building radios and record players. His dad notices that he has no friends, and tells him that, like the electronic parts he assembles, "you have to fit in with all hte other parts." Realizing that the reason he has no friends is because he's not one of the "crowd," Phil studies the most popular kids at school, in order to see what traits they admire most, so he can be like them and fit in.

Piazza San Marco

1947 • 11 min • Italy

Short documentary illustrating the buildings and monuments of Piazza San Marco in Venice.

Little Orphan Airedale

1947 • 7 min • United States of America

Charlie Dog, looking for a good home and some easy living, thinks he's found the perfect sap in Porky Pig. He tries to ingratiate himself with the pig, all the way avoiding Porky's attempts to get rid of the dead-beat dog.

Old Barak

1947 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Amateur film of fishing and geese-shooting trips by a British party in India.

Local Scenes in India and the Taj Mahal

1947 • 15 min • United Kingdom

This travelogue takes in some of the most important landmarks of Islamic power in India.

Christmas Carols

1947 • 11 min • Canada

An animated presentation of Silent Night, Come All Ye Faithful, Good King Wenceslaus, Joy to the World, and What Child Is This sung by the Leslie Bell Singers.

Passport to Nowhere

1947 • 19 min • United States of America

1947 short film that was nominated for an Oscar in the category "Best Documentary, Short Subjects"

The Village Church

1947 • 11 min • Denmark

Documentary exploring Denmark’s ancient churches.

The Way of the World

1947 • 35 min • United Kingdom

A long-retired director of early silent films recalls his exciting career as a filmmaker.

No. 4: Fast Track

1947 • 6 min • United States of America

16 mm, black & white and color, 2:16 or 6 min. Silent though possibly intended to be screened with Dizzy Gillespie's Manteca. The film starts with a color sequence showing Smith's painting Manteca (ca. 1950) with which he tried to subjectively depict Gillespie's song, every brushstroke representing a music note. The film concludes with black & white superimpositions.

Calcutta, Darjeeling & Bihar

1947 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Rare amateur footage of East India.

The First National Competition of Community Centre Groups

1947 • 12 min • Poland

In 1946, the 1st National Competition of Trade Union Member Clubs was held. Almost one thousand amateur teams took part in it, bringing together approximately 40,000 workers, women and men. The reportage was created during the performance at the Polish Theater in Warsaw.

Modern Business Machines

1947 • 17 min

An intriguing historical film, demonstrating many expensive business machines found in modern offices of the era, including electromatic and Chinese typewriters and machines for filming, stenciling, folding and lithographing. Among the machines shown are Diebold's Flofilm microfiche recorder, the Fileomatic Desk, the Pierce Electronic Wire Recorder, the Soundscriber with plastic disk, the Elliott Stencil Machine with Graphotype machine, the Davidson Duplicator for litho printing, the Davidson Folder for letters, the Varityper, the Autotypist Perforator, the IBM Chinese character typewriter, and speed typist Stella Pajunas, using an IBM Model A Electric Typewriter, who set a one-hour typing speed record in 1946 of 140 net five-stroke words per minute.

Untitled (Millicent's Dream)

1947 • 9 min

Novelist Norman Mailer’s assured first foray into surrealist cinema, starring Millicent Brower.

T for Teacher

1947 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Cartoon illustrating the golden rules for brewing a good cup of tea.

The Lone Hand Texan

1947 • 54 min • United States of America

Steve Driscoll arrives to help a friend who is trying to bring in an oil well. He finds that the well has been blown up and the workers have quit. He gets the workers back on the job and orders a new drill bit . When the drill bit is stolen he organizes the townspeople to invest in the well. But when the money is collected, a fake Durango Kid shows up to take it and flee

Lazy Little Beaver

1947 • 6 min • United States of America

A young beaver who has run away from home learns a lesson about work and slothfulness when he attracts a wolf who wants to turn him into a fur coat.

Solid Ivory

1947 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody is shooting pool at a farm house when one of his pool balls rolls into a nearby henhouse. He takes the ball back but must battle with the hen who thinks the woodpecker is taking one of her eggs. Woody makes several attempts to get the ball back from the protective poultry finally disguising himself as a macho continental rooster whom the hen falls for causing Woody to retrieve his ball. But it doesn't last long.

Rolling Down to Reno

1947 • 17 min • United States of America

Harry von Zell, a commentator on a radio show, unknowingly angers a wanted gangster with his comments on the air.

The Cane Cutters

1947 • 11 min

This short black and white film takes a look at the daily life and work of North Queensland sugarcane cutters. Five million tons of sugarcane (1016 kg) have to be cut by hand, in backbreaking conditions. Itinerant workers contract with a cane grower and work in gangs to cut the cane and load it for transport to the sugar mills. They start early in the morning, then break for a hearty lunch and a mid-afternoon nap in the tropical heat, before heading back out into the fields again to work another shift until dusk. Cane cutting is hard work and you've got to be tough, but the pay is good and the industry itself means much to the thriving state of Queensland.