All Films

Chimp The Aviator

1945 • 9 min

A short documentary about an aviator chimp who flies on a bi-plane.

Cats Can't Dance

1945 • 3 min • United States of America

Mable Lee performs "Cats Can't Dance" along with Deryck Sampson's Band.

La venganza del brujo

1945 • 9 min • Spain

Camelón and the princess Golosina become prisoners of the wizard Malastripas and are taken to the castle of queen Murriega, where they are incarcerated in a dungeon. Their loyal friend, Tobalito the dog, will rescue them through wit and some beatings.

Aktion Storch

1945 • 6 min • Germany

"50,000 come to the countryside", headlines a Berlin newspaper in October 1945. The British have decided to evacuate children from their sector in Berlin to their zone in West Germany. There the four to 14-year-olds are to recover.

Faites du cinéma

1945 • 13 min

Promotional film for camera equipment shop "Radio Armor".

Visual Variations on Noguchi

1945 • 4 min • United States of America

A voice occasionally says a word or two: "on the sidewalk" or "lithium" or a woman's name. A hand-held camera frames parts of sculptures, or moves across their surfaces, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, almost always in close-up. The soundtrack, in addition to the voice, is discordant music. Light and shadows are paramount. Sometimes the camera repeats up and down movements; once, a set of jump cuts brings an object closer. The music can be shrill in contrast to the sculptures. Almost entirely of wood, they are the work of Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988): Abstract, usually smooth and rounded (but not always).

Spade Cooley: King of Western Swing

1945 • 10 min

This short chronicles the rise in popularity of Spade Cooley and his unique blend of country and swing music.

Along the Navajo Trail

1945 • 3 min • United States of America

A group of African American cowboys sing the title track.

The Right Spark Plug in the Right Place

1945 • 17 min • United States of America

A motorist whose engine is running poorly pulls into a garage, where the mechanic, rather than simply replacing his spark plugs, goes into extensive detail on the various kinds of spark plugs available (heat ranges, etc). The motorist and mechanic are seen (except for the opening and closing shot of the motorist driving) as shadows on the wall of the garage. Goofy and Pluto appear in brief cameos to show us an unconventional model of automobile.

Despotism

1945 • 10 min • United States of America

A lecture-style voice over explains the concept of different scales used to determine if a community (or nation) is free or despotic. Illustrated with acted vignettes and motion graphics.

O Segredo das Asas

1945 • 48 min • Brazil

A FAB officer makes a forced landing on the pasture of a countryside and arrives at a house, where he is greeted by Maria, a paralyzed lace maker. Without a phone so that he could report the accident to the Aeronautics School, the officer decides to tell everything about the School.

Spook to Me

1945 • 17 min • United States of America

Andy, the leader of the "Bloodhounds" boys patrol, investigates a house that is supposedly haunted.

Health for the Americas: Hookworm

1945 • 10 min • United States of America

Non-theatrical government - war short Produced for Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs

Another Chance

1945 • 4 min • United States of America

An animated film from the U.S. Army Signal Corps explaining the functions of the United Nations.

Health for the Americas: Tuberculosis

1945 • 11 min • United States of America

Non-theatrical government - war short Produced for Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs alternative version is known to exist.

Our Changing World: Pearl Of The Orient

1945 • 10 min

Post-WWII documentary short detailing some of the ethnic groups of the Philippines and their customs.

Heja Goliat!

1945 • 9 min • Sweden

Goliat Svensson falls asleep and dreams that he is a great football player, who takes the victory for the Swedish national team.

Vicente de Carvalho - Palavras ao Mar

1945 • 10 min • Brazil

The story of Vicente de Carvalho through the cities of Santos, Bertioga and São Paulo. The recitation of poems by Vicente de Carvalho illustrated by images of beaches and waves that burst.

Blowtop Blues

1945 • 3 min • United States of America

Cab Calloway performs "Blowtop Blues".

Foo a Little Bally-Hoo

1945 • 3 min • United States of America

Cab Calloway sings "Foo a Little Bally-Hoo".

National Capital

1945 • 18 min • Australia

Produced by The National Film Board 1945. Directed by Maslyn Williams. When this film was made, Canberra was one of the world's youngest planned cities. This film briefly outlines how the Australian colonies became one nation in 1901 and how the need was felt for a city to be the symbol of national unity. Canberra, a tiny hamlet in the rolling countryside of New South Wales, was chosen as the site. It turned into a thriving city of Federal Government, growing according to plan yet retaining all of its rural charm. This film features some of Canberra's most dignified buildings - Parliament House, the National War Memorial, the Institute of Anatomy - as well as broad tree-lined roads and lawn-fronted homes. It also looks at the people who have come to live in the nation's captial.

Duce Narrates...

1945 • 7 min • Greece

The first Greek animated film was shot by the cartoonist Stamatis Polenakis (1908-1997) with the title "The Duce tells...". The seven-minute "Mickey-Mouse-style" film, as its creator mentions in the credits, satirizes the Italian invasion of Greece on October 28, 1940, and especially Mussolini, who recounts his exploits, but reality constantly contradicts him. Stamatis Polenakis, one of the leading Greek cartoonists of the 20th century and a pioneer of animation in our country, began drawing the sketches for the film in 1942 in his hometown, Sifnos, where he had taken refuge during the Occupation. He worked under the boot of the Italian conqueror, risking arrest. The film was lost during the Civil War and it was not until 1980 that a negative was found and restored.

Target Tokyo

1945 • 22 min • United States of America

The story of the first bombing raid on Tokyo by B-29 Superfortress bombers of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Crews are followed from their training staging at Grand Island, Nebraska to their bombing embarkation point on the island of Saipan. From there, the B-29 attack on the Nakajima aircraft plant outside Tokyo is depicted.

Jasper's Close Shave

1945 • 7 min • United States of America

A Puppetoon by George Pal.