1946 Movies

This post-WWII toothpaste ad feels years ahead of its time, featuring a gang of wacky stop motion puppets that revel in a plaque problem. The set insi...

Instructional film on methods of camouflage during wartime.

This documentary short addresses the problems of finding housing for returning WW2 veterans and offers possible solutions for the housing shortage.

"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 ve...

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

Another instructional short from Young America Films. This one is about Tommy and how he spends his day.

A sweet musical about a poet and an independent woman, two friends who really love each other, with a bit of a Cyrano twist when the poet's best frien...

Among the first movies to deal with the subject of the Holocaust, this documentary about Jewish war orphans opened in New York in September 1948 and h...

A Secrets of Life short.

A Marathi film by Pendharkar.

A newsreel from the 1940s depicting the celebration of King Momo's festival shows a parade of floats and a flower procession that drew large crowds to...

How to sew a brat onto a ewe hogg, and everything else you wanted to know about sheep farming in the Highlands.

Careers in photography and cinematography. From the Preligner Archives.

A document of public school in Mussolini's Italy

A short documentary made for the British government illustrating the end of the war in Europe. Part of a series that runs from the invasion of Italy t...

This vintage railway film was produced by the London, Midland and Scottish railway in 1946, on behalf of all the British railways to portray all the w...

Experimental film by Hal McCormick.

Soldiers from the far reaches of the British Empire arrive in London to take part in the official commemoration of the end of war in Europe, a lavish...

Documentary on the former country railway lines in the Zurich Oberland region. Coal and water are refilled before the steam engine can take off. The t...

Newsreel from the 1940s about the construction of Neighborhood Unit No. 3, a new housing project carried out during the government of Dr. Bustamante y...