All Films

Stadium Highlights

1946 • 37 min • United Kingdom

A view on entertainment in 1946 at The Empire Stadium, Wembley. With a look at ice skating, boxing, table tennis, greyhound racing and more.

Ain't Love Cuckoo?

1946 • 19 min • United States of America

Gus Schilling and Richard Lane are two GIs serving overseas during World War II, and they get word that their wives, also in the U. S. military service, are missing. Meanwhile, the two wives get the same information about the husband of each. Time passes, and Gus, the widower, meets Richard's wife, the widow, and vice-versa and Gus marries Richard's wife and Richard marries Gus's wife, and all is well until they go on their honeymoons and stay at the same hotel.

The Mysterious Mr. Valentine

1946 • 56 min • United States of America

Janet Spencer is driving down a country road when one of her tires blows out. This seemingly innocuous, everyday occurrence leads Linda into a labyrinth of murder, blackmail and intrigue.

Beanstalk Jack

1946 • 7 min • United States of America

A Terrytoon reworking of Jack and the Beanstalk, and the hen/goose that laid the golden eggs; here, the hen is a Jackpot that lays/produces golden coins, and swings a mean mallet in protecting Jack from the evil giant.

So's Your Antenna

1946 • 18 min • United States of America

Harry plays a gangster on a radio show and is then is mistaken for a real one.

Midnight Menace

1946 • 23 min

A strange voodoo man kills women and moves their bodies wherever he wants. But this time, he just wants to torment Lollypop Jones with a body that keeps showing up no matter where he goes.

Strangler of the Swamp

1946 • 59 min • United States of America

A number of swamp land men have died by strangulation and the inhabitants believe that an innocent man they hanged is seeking revenge on all of the male descendants of those responsible for his death. Maria, granddaughter of the innocent ferryman, decides to operate the ferry service. Chris Sanders, a son of one of the men who did the hanging, and Maria fall in love. The "strangler" seizes Chris and Maria offers her life if Chris is spared.

Nursery Rhyme Review

1946 • 11 min • United States of America

A compilation of four Mother Goose stories "photographed in three-dimensional animation" and unified by a prologue and an epilogue with Mother Goose herself magically setting up a projector to show the films. The familiar nursery rhymes are "Little Miss Muffet," "Old Mother Hubbard," "The Queen of Hearts," and "Humpty Dumpty." Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

Beale Street Mama

1946 • 60 min • United States of America

The film is set in Memphis, Tennessee and focuses on a street sweeper who comes upon a large parcel of money. He uses the newly acquired wealth to go on a spending spree, with the hope of getting back at an old girlfriend who dumped him for another man. However, complications arise when it is discovered the money is counterfeit.

Nuremberg Trials

1946 • 58 min • Soviet Union

This riveting Russian documentary takes you inside the trials of the notorious German war criminals, brought to trial to account for their actions. The footage includes excerpts from the trials of many of the senior Nazis including Goebels and Goring.

Driftin' River

1946 • 59 min • United States of America

Eddie Dean (Eddie Dean) and his partner Soapy Jones (Roscoe Ates), under government orders, proceed to the ranch of J.C. Morgan (Shirley Patterson to buy cavalry remounts for the Army. At the ranch, they find out that J.C. is a girl. The nearby town of Dow City is under the control of a lawless trio headed by Trigger (Lee Roberts, Clem Kensington (Foxy Callahan) and Joe Morino (Dennis Moore). A member of the gang is Tucson Brown (Lee Bennett), one of J.C.'s trusted hands. When Eddie decides to buy the horses, Tucson steals the herd to prevent the sale. Soldiers, sent to investigate, are brutally murdered. The aroused townspeople elect Tennessee (William Fawcett, J.C.'s foreman, as sheriff. When the outlaws murder Tennessee, Eddie and Soapy, along with the reformed Tucson, swing into action.

Song of Joy

1946 • 21 min • Soviet Union

The girl and the animals dream of warmth, but winter does not plan to leave yet.

Okay for Sound

1946 • 20 min • United States of America

This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.

The World of Paul Delvaux

1946 • 11 min • Belgium

This was Henri Storck first art documentary, a portrait about the painter, Paul Delvaux.

Get Along, Little Zombie

1946 • 17 min • United States of America

There's a monster running around loose in the house Hugh is showing to two prospective clients.

Flying with Prudence

1946 • 43 min

A dramatised instruction film made to instil in RAF flying personnel the importance of flight safety in peacetime.

Thunder Town

1946 • 57 min • United States of America

An ex-convict (Bob Steele) returns to his ranch; he and his sidekick (Sid Saylor) prove he was framed.

Life at the Zoo

1946 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Oscar nominated 1946 short documentary

Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.

1946 • 60 min • United States of America

A Harlem nightclub entertainer arrives on the Caribbean island of "Rinidad" to perform as the headliner in a revue at the Paradise Hotel. She quickly attracts the attention of several men.

Mouse Menace

1946 • 7 min • United States of America

Porky has a particularly menacing mouse in his house; after his traps, and an increasingly nasty set of cats all fail, Porky builds a robot cat. This cat proves to be a much bigger challenge for the mouse, who ultimately builds a robot mouse packed with explosives.

Honeymoon Blues

1946 • 19 min • United States of America

Immediately after his wedding, Hugh's boss comes to him with an important job - he is to ingratiate himself with an important client's mistress and retrieve some incriminating love letters.

Fenlands

1946 • 18 min • United Kingdom

A look at life in the Fenlands (a coastal, marshy plain in eastern England) in 1940's.

Uncivil War Birds

1946 • 18 min • United States of America

The stooges are civil war soldiers who are constantly changing uniforms to avoid the opposing armies. Eventually they decide to be loyal to the south, but remain disguised as Union soldiers. Curly is detected as a spy, but Moe and Larry prevent his execution. The boys escape with a secret map and marry their three southern belles.

Gentlemen With Guns

1946 • 53 min • United States of America

While Fuzzy is waiting for his mail order bride, McCallister frames him for murder. McCallister then advises Matilda to marry Fuzzy so she will get the money when he is hung. But Billy breaks up the wedding and goes after the real killer.