1947 Movies

In this installment of the Eye Witness series from 1947, we visit Chalk River, Canada's atomic energy project, for an update. We see the production an...

A Documentary on the railways and their role in supporting the United States

Grand buildings and missionary work come together in the 1947 Indian tour of construction magnate John W. Laing.

Filmed in Buchenwald, Dachau and Ohrdruf by "Allied Cameramen" there is no information about the director of the film.

Film illustrating the scope of London Transport activities at their most extensive. These include shaping the transport system by collating numbers of...

This edition of the series, Volume 7, Number 2, examines the concerns in the medical profession regarding the shortage of qualified nurses. It takes a...

Wilskracht’ (Willpower) extensively highlights all facets of the socialist health insurance funds, their founders and staff, their hospitals and holid...

Made to foster relations between the local residents of Rhymney, in south Wales, and the church.

Video copy of Bill Bernstein's 8mm color home movies aboard the ship Exodus 1947. Exodus 1947 carried 4,500 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who soug...

Newsreel from the 1940s about the race organized by the Touring Automobile Club of Lima, in homage to the national anniversary of Colombia, the route...

A 1940s newsreel shows young women from Lima modeling elegant Vogue fashions, with makeup and hair done by the Elizabeth Arden Beauty Institute, and c...

A day of tuna sport fishing at Wedgeport, NS

A musical short filmed in Havasu Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park. Produced by the Arizona Motion Picture Corporation. Sound of the music is lost.

Salesmanship and psychology instruction for gun dealers.

From the Film Australia Collection. Made by the National Film Board 1947. Directed by Geoffrey Collings. This film surveys post-war Japan and life und...

Let’s get this show on the road. The Ministry of the Information, and its peacetime successor the Central Office of Information, weren’t the first to...

This film provides an overview of Australia's primary and secondary education system in the late 1940s. It looks at the various types of schools in th...