1950 Movies

Count Basie and His Orchestra playing us a boogie.

First and little-known film version of the classic story, an animated short by Coronet Films.

An elderly lady, who has lost her only son in the war, turns her house into a pension. It is also the custody of a mysterious document that his son en...

Two young boys are taught the value of teamwork and the effectiveness of putting the group's welfare ahead of their own.

The film shows Kronborg as it must have looked to Shakespeare when he visited the castle, if indeed he did, three centuries ago. The filmmakers run wi...

A fascinating glimpse of the Chinese diaspora across southeast Asia, this Hong Kong production follows a wayward husband through Southern China and Th...

A story about Manuel a sickly musician who meets Shelly a beautiful store manager.

HK horror film.

How and why feelings of depression carry over from childhood to overshadow adulthood are explained in the case of John Murray, an industrious and cons...

Young man comes into bank to open his first account as commentator tells us his story. Shots illustrate how the young man found a farm he wanted to b...

Mexican feature film

A slide about new agricultural machinery. He demonstrates the latest type of beet harvester, harrow, seeding and planting machine.

With a cast consisting exclusively of toys, a Japanese windup boy carrying a suitcase has a series of encounters with other windup toys. Large numbers...

If fire should happen at any home, then 42 99 00 was the phone number to use in order to call Oslo's fire department. Firemen and vehicles are coming...

A traveling salesman in post WWII Milan pops into a movie house and the camera searches the faces in the dark watching.

An early work highlighting the importance of yoga. Introduces viewers to the ancient science of yoga and shows certain asanas, which if practiced can...

A propaganda piece of reportage from the first Polish Nationwide Art Exhibition that was held in the National Museum in Warsaw in 1950. Makarczynski’s...

It was 1943. Burma was under Japanese control. In Pegu, a small place near Burma lived two Indian families. They were neighbors Kumar and Lata loved e...

Popular science film about the importance of light for plant life.