1950 Movies

Newsreel covering a concert tour by Claudio Arrau, featuring performances at Carnegie Hall in New York and later at the Municipal Theatre in Santiago....

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"Allegretto (1950) draws on the writings of Oskar Fischinger and the best-known Veronese color movements." - Mimmo Mastrangelo

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

Logo of hand holding a globe. Africa - various scenes: Jungle, trees, swamp, elephants, a deer, a monkey, a snake, snow-capped mountain, fast flowing...

This Traveltalk series short takes the viewer to several locations in the Lake Country of northern England. The first stop is Lake Windermere, the lar...

Young Jeff learns the error of his ways.

A retelling of part of the Gulliver's Travels adventures. A short film from 1950.

A teaching film for social studies, which was developed as a new educational subject in 1947. At an elementary school in Hokkaido, children have start...

Experimental dance film by Josephine Booth.

This film is a general travelogue about Cuba from 1950.

A rarely-seen documentary report on the United Nations's preservation of South Korea.

Experimental film by Jim Davis

With texts by Santiago Ontañón, acquired by the Peruvian government for distribution in Peruvian diplomatic missions abroad.

Directed by Shih Hui.

Methods of making stone tools are demonstrated and their uses explained.

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

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...