All Films

The Ballad of the Battered Bicycle

1947 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Henry demonstrates his two-wheel tomfoolery, but there's no happy ending for this bike.

A Lively Market Garden

1947 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Swiss Cheese Family Robinson

1947 • 6 min • United States of America

A message in a bottle alerts Mighty Mouse to the plight of three mice shipwrecked on an island, which is overrun by cannibal cats.

Return of Mandy's Husband

1947 • 49 min • United States of America

In order to make some cash, buddies Mantan and Alex found the "Ghost Association," which will hold mock seances for the local residents. After studying the details of the locals' various deceased relatives, Alex insist that the reluctant Manta, who is afraid of ghost, play "Prince Alabastar Amsterdam" and fool people into thinking that he is in communication with their dead loved ones.

Doggone Cats

1947 • 7 min • United States of America

Wellington the dog is given a package to deliver to Uncle Louie, with strict instructions not to let go of it. Sylvester and another cat that Wellington has been tormenting see this as their chance to get even. Besides repeatedly filching the package, at one point they drop a duplicate off a bridge. Wellington still manages to retrieve the package a few times, but never for long.

All-Union Parade of Athletes in 1947

1947 • 42 min • Soviet Union

Fright Night

1947 • 17 min

The Stooges are managers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they bet their bankroll on his next fight.

Rainbow Over the Rockies

1947 • 58 min • United States of America

Driving a herd of cattle to market, Jimmy finds the trail has been fenced off by an old friend of his. While the two sides try to settle the matter peaceably, a man from each outfit get together to try and start a range war between them figuring they will end up with the cattle. When cattle are rustled, Jimmy finds the clue, horses with shoes that make tracks that look like cattle.

Freshwater Assassins

1947 • 24 min • France

In a freshwater pond, it's "eat or be eaten." A dragonfly larva eats a midge; a water beetle larva eats a damselfly larva. Snail larvae grow. A beetle larva eats one. Up close, we see the eating apparatus of a damselfly larva—with a retractable hook beneath mandibles. Some creatures bite and chew, others suck. A water beetle larva holds on to its prey, injects a poison that turns the victim's insides to soup, and then sucks it dry. We watch one eat a damselfly larvae and then another water beetle larva. Some have ingenious ways to camouflage themselves, like the water scorpion, and to breathe air while hunting under water. Caddisfly larvae hide in debris, then eat.

Slap Happy Lion

1947 • 7 min • United States of America

The king of the jungle, after a well spent day terrorising the rest of the animals, is petrified by a mouse.

Playing with Fire

1947 • 10 min • United Kingdom

You're asking for trouble when you play with fire - and this public information film is the stuff of nightmares.

Easy to Get

1947 • 22 min • United States of America

U.S. Army training film about avoiding venereal disease, intended primarily for Black servicemen.

Tooth or Consequences

1947 • 6 min • United States of America

The Fox, once again, is plagued with a toothache, and once again is in search for a dentist to relieve his agony, and he, once again, finds Mr. Crow, pretending to be a dentist. This leads to no end of painful consequences for Mr. Fox.

Red Hot Rangers

1947 • 8 min • United States of America

Forest rangers George and Junior try to snuff out a frisky flame with a sparky personality that threatens to set the forest alight.

The Feeling of Rejection

1947 • 21 min • Canada

Although some of the conclusions are a bit odd - the woman who had been suffering headaches and misery is shown as cured when she rejects with a smile a shoe a clerk tries to sell her - its musings on the origins of what can be crippling issues.

Diamond Demon

1947 • 9 min • United States of America

The unusual talents of Johnny Price, a minor league baseball pitcher and trick artist, are showcased in this Pete Smith Specialty. Among other talents, Mr. Price can throw two (and, in certain situations three) baseballs simultaneously to different people. The catchers can be side by side, with one high and one low, or standing on the pitcher's mound and second base while Price throws the ball from the catcher's position. He can even perform these feats while suspended upside-down.

Big House Blues

1947 • 6 min • United States of America

Flippy the canary reads a book on crime, and sees his cage as a cell and himself as stir-crazy. He escapes, only to be pursued by his enemy, the cat, now a prison guard.

Hound Hunters

1947 • 7 min • United States of America

George and Junior get a job as dog catchers and spend the picture trying to catch one measly little dog.

Should Husbands Marry?

1947 • 17 min • United States of America

Hugh's loudmouth pal crashes a dinner party Hugh is throwing for his boss.

The Hat Box Mystery

1947 • 44 min • United States of America

Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentally hidden in the box and the woman is killed. Susan is charged with murder, but Russ and his less-than-useful associate, Harvard, get on the case.

Moon Rockets

1947 • 10 min • United States of America

This short is one of Paramount's "Popular Science" series (number L6-5, or the fifth one of the 1946-47 production season) and begins by showing moon rockets, weighing 30 tons, a flight in the ionosphere, with mounted color cameras recording pictures hundreds of miles above the earth. Coming back to earth, it discourses on modern bathroom fixtures, and then demonstrates a one-man hay-bailer.

40 år med kungen

1947 • 46 min

This film celebrates the 40th anniversary of King Gustaf V's entry and shows the king in both private and public.

Code of the Saddle

1947 • 53 min • United States of America

Smokin' guns, swingin' fists, and a lovable side-kick can be found in this western.

The Sky Is Falling

1947 • 6 min • United States of America

The fox convinces the duck that the sky is falling, and the duck tells the hen, and both of them tell the pig, and the three of them tell the King and, the next thing anyone knows is that the whole kingdom is twatting and twittering over the upcoming catastrophe, with the exception of the one who started the rumor. But Mighty Mouse flies in, with a song on his lips, and sets matters straight.