1948 Movies

The March of Time was an American newsreel series sponsored by Time Inc. and shown in movie theaters from 1935 to 1951. This episode covered the Dutch...

A Chinese film by Lu Dun

A newsreel from the 1940s about the awards given by the State to stimulate intellectual and artistic production, that year Raúl Destua was distinguish...

A man can't understand why prices on everything have suddenly risen sky-high. He mentions it to his grown son, and is told that the main reason for th...

Three elementary pupils learn that everyone attaches personal meanings to words and that the wording of newspaper stories, conversations, advertisemen...

Experimental film by Jim Davis

Shows many accidents on a farm, and describes how they can be prevented. Joe the Special in-the-meantime agent magically appears and tells a farmer ab...

"...a psychodrama of an alienated young man in New York City."

A rough but powerful film made by anti-apartheid crusader, Rev. Michael Scott, this is the first anti-apartheid documentary. The purpose of the film...

Do you have that "know how" look? You will after you see this concise short on becoming your very own clotheshorse. You'll definitely have a new patte...

Animated film.

Directed by César Miró, with photography by Manuel Trullen and production by Huascarán S.A., it reconstructed, in the style of a "living tableau", the...

Postwar adjustment is easy for a young World War II veteran who is welcomed back to his job at U.S. Steel with a position, training courses, and couns...

Newsreel from the 1940s about the funeral with honors for the officers, cadets and troops of the armed forces, civil guard and police for the bravery...

A portrait of the African American community of Durham, North Carolina, including the Hayti business district later destroyed by urban renewal.

The Standard Oil Company of Chicago describes how gasoline was refined and used in the early 1950's. The film features a combination of animation and...

Business produces Mother's pen, the bread on the breakfast table, and the pop-up toaster into which the bread goes.

A blonde woman drops by her sister's apartment unexpectedly and discovers her brunette sister having sex. While hiding behind a curtain, the blonde si...

A Bet with Satan is the second film by César Miró that follows the drawing-room comedy formula.

Part of the “Flight Safety” series of animated shorts commissioned by the U.S. Air Force at the end of World War II. This one tells the story of the h...