1947 Movies

Film on the movement of material from the Chicago and Northwestern System.

Hydroelectric power, shipping, irrigation and salmon fishing.

State schools in the London borough.

Short educational film about modern bog cultivations. It is also considered to be the first educational film made after the second World War.

This short from the publishers of Encyclopedia Brittanica shows the process of making a book, from the author's finished manuscript to its being turne...

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...

Mildred Burke and Mae Weston battling it out for the Women’s Wrestling Championship of the World in 1949.

A young woman starts a new job as a secretary for a realtor. At first she struggles, but she really hits her stride with the McDonald letter and its...

A documentary of Varala, a physical education institute for women in Tampere, Finland. Filmed in the summer of 1947.

A French team of archaeologists exploring Angkor buildings to restore some.

A newsreel from the 1940s documenting the visit of President Dr. José Luis Bustamante y Rivero to the imperial city of Cusco, accompanied by his wife,...

Documentary on Greece and preservation of historical artifacts.

Documentary

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

An instructional film on sewing different types of seams.