1947 Movies

A film fantasy of dancing music and dancing color. Listen to the Mocking Bird played by an oldtime fiddler, brilliant patterns ripple, flow, flicker a...

In the film, the summer vacation is spent hiking, swimming, eating at a restaurant, doing haymaking and tending to the vegetable garden.

Based on the short story by Georges Courteline. The story of Monsieur Badin, a model employee who can't bring himself to go to the office and suffers...

Thomas Hart Benton demonstrates the main steps in planning and executing a mural: beginning designs, sketches, layout, clay model, small painting, lar...

1947 Japanese movie

Marouf, the cobbler, lives in Isfahan. He marries an awful woman so he decides to escape. When his ship is wrecked by a storm, he finds himself on an...

The film tells the story of how Vladimir Mayakovsky created his works. He did not need the silence of a study; he created constantly—everywhere and in...

Bunkers, mines and barbed wire are removed to recover the pre-war landscape.

A rhapsody of music and images in Stockholm.

A documentary shot during the French government-funded ethnographic mission to the Ogooué-Congo river in 1946

The story of a boxer and what troubles he encounters when he meets a pretty girl.

Made by The National Film Board 1947. Directed by Catherine Duncan. Christmas in Australia is a mid summer festival, with temperatures rising high....

Takes students to England to show them the land that inspired many great writers... the London of Chaucer, Dickens and Browning...the countryside whic...

South African Film

A team of divers explores undersea animal and plant life and revels in the majesty of the underwater world.

A look at post-war American railroads during their conversion to peace, operating under the handicap of little to no new equipment. It then looks at t...

Roshan, a young man who can't see, falls for a blind beggar girl named Rani. He tries to get the money for an operation that could restore her sight,...