All Films

Stapelstaden on the Lidan

1946 • 24 min • Sweden

The Swedish city Lidköping's 500th anniversary.

Chants populaires nº 6

1946 • 7 min • Canada

"Là-haut sur ces montagnes" sung by Madeleine Lachance is illustrated with drawings and in "C'est l'aviron" a boat sails to the rhythm of the melody in a nostalgic and distant landscape.

Dancing Flowers

1946 • 2 min

A stop-motion film of primroses dancing to a Strauss waltz.

Songs in Greece

1946 • 10 min • Greece

A short music documentary.

Negro Leagues Baseball

1946 • 8 min

Footage of Reece 'Goose' Tatum and other players, taken prior to a game between the Indianapolis Clowns and the Kansas City Monarchs.

Jan Savitt and His Band

1946 • 10 min

This "Melody Masters" short traces Jan Savitt's career from first violinist in a symphony orchestra to leader of a top-rated jazz and recording outfit. It features the Jan Savitt Band and vocalists Shirley Van, Bob Arthur and Helen Warren. Savitt and band accompany while an acrobatic act known as the Lipham Children do their stuff, and some bathing Beauties show up in the beach scene. Songs include "Some Sunday Morning", "Too Marvelous for Words", Dearest Darling" and "I'll Always Love You."

Mr Jones Takes the Air

1946 • 10 min

Perhaps the characters in this film are stupid or even laughable. Before YOU laugh at them remember that people behaving like them often cause accidents on the roads - and country roads are no exception.

Flight Safety: After the Cut

1946 • 5 min

A wartime cartoon short that teaches the basics of flight safety.

El Torero de Cordoba

1946 • 17 min • Spain

A short documentary about the life and death of the bullfighter Manuel Rodriguez Manolete. It recounts his career this celebrated Spanish bullfighter who was the inspiration for the ill-fated Montalvo in Pandora and The Flying Dutchman.

Health for the Americas: Environmental Sanitation

1946 • 9 min • United States of America

The short film looks at this problem from a city development aspect rather than farm living. The film proposes solutions to the clean water and sanitation issues in third world countries.

Klee Wyck

1946 • 15 min • Canada

This short documentary from the Canadian Artists series presents the art of Emily Carr, the Canadian painter who found exciting subject matter on British Columbia's Pacific Coast, with its giant trees and its Indigenous villages, totems and carvings. When Carr visited the Ucluelet Indian Reserve on Vancouver Island in 1898, the Nuu-chah-nulth people gave her the name Klee Wyck, meaning “Laughing One.” Her canvases are shown here amidst the landscapes and places where they were painted.

Seasons Greetings

1946 • 2 min

This little trailer looks to have been produced for theaters, and looks to be most likely animated by Joop Geesink in Holland/The Netherlands, who continued to produce films for Phillips and others after George Pal moved to Hollywood, starting the Puppetoon series.

A Winter Night's Dream

1946 • 58 min • Romania

A young girl harbors a secret crush (sincere and pure feelings) on a famous writer. She read his every book, so when she hears of the opportunity of delivering a gift to his house she does everything in her power to become the tansporter (and succeeds). Manea is a handsome man, not only a successful writer , women of the elite of Bucharest's society swarm around him all the time.He has just broken up with one of them... It's New Year's Eve,he invites her to spend some time with him...a dream built on snowflakes and champagne. In her naivety and pureness , Dorulet-as Manea caresses her,touches the unseen strings of his heart and soul , which he taught to be long dead,she awoke adolescence (like) emotions in the sleeping lion. I loved this movie and I would like to see it at least one more time.

You And Your Family

1946 • 7 min

Early "interactive" film attempting to train teenagers to negotiate, not fight, with their parents.

The Fascist School

1946 • 20 min • Italy

A document of public school in Mussolini's Italy

Optical Relays

1946 • 5 min

"Optical relays" - a research work, known only among film industry experts. The video is used as a textbook for students of VGIK and GITR. His full version for ordinary viewers has never been published.

Operation Crossroads

1946 • 26 min • United States of America

Footage of the Able Day and Baker Day nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946, accompanied by a narrator who explains the purpose and benefits of the testing.

Redwoods: Anatomy of a Giant

1946 • 60 min • United States of America

Unbelievable but True, World's Largest Group of Natures Living Wonders.

We of the West Riding

1946 • 21 min

Exploring the daily life of a large family in Yorkshire, at work in the textile mills and at play.

Routine Job: A Story of Scotland Yard

1946 • 22 min • United Kingdom

Methods used by Scotland Yard in tracking down and arresting car thieves.

The Swing To Sports

1946 • 16 min

Made for hardware retailers, this promotional film talks about how selling firearms and ammunition is good for business.

Dynamic Posture

1946 • 23 min

Presents a study of dynamic posture in action, in motion and in preparation for motion. Demonstrates, using a woman subject, correct and incorrect posture in sitting, walking, running.

Camera Magic

1946 • 10 min • United States of America

This wonderful movie from Castle Films shows some of the classic illusions that can be created with a still and motion picture camera.

Enjoy Your Food

1946 • 11 min • Egypt

The final Mish Mish cartoon. Mixture of live action and animation. Mish Mish Effendi and his friend Fayyumi are seated at a restaurant and stuffing themselves, but since they don't have any money they leave without paying. Nightmares haunt their sleep that night. They are awoken the next morning by a loud knocking on their door: their creditors have come to collect.