All Films

Studio Visit

1946 • 9 min • United States of America

This humorous Pete Smith Specialty short looks around various studios on a film lot.

Sports Day in Peterborough

1946 • 6 min • United Kingdom

The children of Peterborough run rings around comedian Tommy Handley and other dignitaries during a city sports day.

The Call Of The Peaks

1946 • 23 min • France

L'Appel Des Cimes, directed by Alain Pol, is a documentary commissioned by the CAF and the various French ministries on the practice of post-war mountaineering. In 1946, climbers trained at the Fontainebleau Climbing School. Guy Poulet and Jacques Poincenot try to climb the Aiguilles de Chamonix but fail during the climbing phase. After a night in a refuge with Denise Rouzeau and the guide Pierre Allain, the mountaineers make a new attempt. Successful demonstration for those who continued the approach walk then the passage of the seracs of the glacier. On the rock, the roped party crosses a chimney and a crack to reach the summit and abseil down. Led by high mountain scouts, Guy and Jacques rediscover the glaciers and needles of the Mont-Blanc massif during the next lesson.

A Little Phantasy on a 19th-century Painting

1946 • 4 min • Canada

Taking "Isle of the Dead," a work by the Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin as his starting point, Norman McLaren creates a deeply disturbing surrealist dream.

The Island Fling

1946 • 6 min • United States of America

Bluto is Robinson Crusoe; Popeye and Olive approach his island on a raft.

The Martins and the Coys

1946 • 8 min

The Martins and the Coys are two feuding clans. One day, Grandpa Coy gets caught in the Martin henhouse, and a massive battle erupts, leaving only a Martin girl and a Coy boy. Love conquers all for a while, anyhow. Originally released as a segment in Make Mine Music.

All the Cats Join In

1946 • 4 min

A hep teen hears a tune on the jukebox at the malt shop and calls his girl; She rounds up a crowd and soon the whole place is jumping.

Hiss and Yell

1946 • 17 min • United States of America

Vera thinks she's witnessed a man decapitating his wife. Actually, she's only seen magician Bluebeard the Great rehearsing his act. Still convinced that the magician is a killer, Vera goes through all sorts of comic agony when she is forced to share the same train compartment with Bluebeard (who doesn't help matters when he offers her a sandwich consisting of "scrambled brains and tongue").

A Peacock's Tail

1946 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Soviet animated cartoon film of 1946 based on a fairy tale by Korney Chukovsky, created by directors Leonid Amalrik and Vladimir Polkovnikov. United with similar creative aspirations, the directors found their own style.

Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet

1946 • 7 min • United States of America

This segment told the romantic story of two hats who fell in love in a department store window. When Alice was sold, Johnny devoted himself to finding her again. They eventually, by pure chance, meet up again and live happily ever after together, side by side. The Andrews Sisters provided the vocals. Like the other segments, it was later released theatrically.

Easy Does It

1946 • 25 min

The cartoon is believed to be a propaganda film by Stokely Van Camp beans against Heinz. There is a strong reference to Heinz in the beginning of the film as, "that British [UK] brand." As well as how unknown, unpopular, and not as strong if a product as Van Camp's.

Let There Be Light

1946 • 58 min • United States of America

The final entry in a trilogy of films produced for the U.S. government by John Huston. Some returning combat veterans suffer scars that are more psychological than physical. This film follows patients and staff during their treatment. It deals with what would now be called PTSD, but at the time was categorised as psychoneurosis or shell-shock. Government officials deemed this 1946 film counterproductive to postwar efforts; it was not shown publicly until 1981.

It's Your America

1946 • 35 min • United States of America

This short--long rumored to have been directed by John Ford--was produced by the US government specifically for veterans returning home from World War II, showing them what their responsibilities as citizens were now that they were returning to civilian life.

Terrors on Horseback

1946 • 55 min • United States of America

Fuzzy's niece is killed in a stagecoach hold-up. Billy and Fuzzy quickly learn that the culprit, who not only killed all the passengers but also absconded with $40,000, may be holed up in lawless Pecos City.

Home on the Range

1946 • 55 min • United States of America

Two brothers settle a wilderness, one builds the largest cattle ranch in the state while the other creates a game preserve to protect the wild life. Trouble lies ahead.....

The Talking Magpies

1946 • 6 min • United States of America

The magpies move into a nest in a tree right outside an old man's bedroom window. Chaos ensues as the magpies and the old man each try to best each other, the old man trying to get the magpies to be quiet, and the two of them being anything BUT quiet.

Roughly Squeaking

1946 • 7 min • United States of America

Scheming mice Hubie and Bertie convince a cat that he is, in fact, a lion.

Smart as a Fox

1946 • 10 min • United States of America

Smart as a Fox is a 1946 short documentary film supervised by Gordon Hollingshead. In this short film, a fox cub experiences life in the forest. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short, One-Reel.

Bacall to Arms

1946 • 7 min • United States of America

Movie patrons watch and interact with a variety of short subjects and a spoof of the film "To Have and Have Not."

The Missing Lady

1946 • 60 min

While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible sleuth Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow (Kane Richmond) finds himself being blamed for the crime. It doesn't help the Shadow's claims of innocence when more bodies begin piling up. Good thing he knows exactly who's guilty among an increasingly smaller group of suspects.

Ghost Of Hidden Valley

1946 • 56 min • United States of America

Dawson is running rustled cattle across the abandoned Trenton ranch and has given it the reputation of a ghost ranch to keep people away. When Henty Tenton arrives from England to take over the ranch, Dawson tries to get rid of him. But Billy and Fuzzy are on hand to help Henry and it's not long before they have to go into action.

Visiting Vera Cruz

1946 • 10 min • United States of America

This Traveltalk series short looks at the people, customs, and landmarks in Vera Cruz, the main port city of Mexico.

Follow That Blonde

1946 • 18 min • United States of America

Comedic mixups are inevitable when Leon Errol borrows a car.

'Neath Canadian Skies

1946 • 41 min • United States of America

Canadian Mountie investigates a murder posing as a criminal.