1950 Movies

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

Black and white film featuring Mish Mish Effendi, commissioned by the Royal Automobile Club against the misuse of horns.

Vernissage, in the 19th century, referred to varnishing the painting, the final step to hanging in the gallery. Varnishing Day meant there were no mor...

Manuhiri from various tribes throughout New Zealand assemble at Waiomatatini near Ruatoria for the tangi of Sir Apirana Ngata.

Short film about glider jumping in the Oberstdorf ski region.

1950 Jim Davis short

Encyclopaedia Britannica outlines the basics of sleep hygiene.

The story of a small boy who is a magician's helper. The magician is wicked. But Tommy learns his secrets and prevents him from conquering the world....

Mona's Candle Light was discovered among reels of film that Geoff Alexander, of the Bay Area-based Academic Film Archive of North America, bought at a...

Santa's elves at the North Pole are making toys for good girls and boys, while back in the suburbs a family stands around the Christmas tree singing c...

A documentary about industrial design.

A German Film Award commended short documentary about bird life.

Experimental 16 mm black/white film from Chicago from 1950 by Danish photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen (1920-2013).

A family picnic is the setting for this entertaining lecture on automotive engineering and vehicle dynamics.

The adaptation is based on the 1902 play of the same name by J. M. Barrie.

In this silent short film a young man (John Straford) falls asleep at work. During a nightmare, his ladder attacks.

With a musical score typical of a romantic drama, the camera captures, for fifteen minutes (which feel like hours),the construction workers pouring c...

The film shows a soldier - the defender of his people, his native land, convinced of the righteousness of the cause for which he is fighting, not spar...

In post-World War II Canada, a communist spy attempts to pass information to his uncle in Canada while spies try to hunt him down.