1948 Movies

Spending the summer in Helsinki, Tampere and Naantali - in the water and on dry land.

Film by Emiel van Moerkerken

Emphasizes the importance of proper punctuation and its basic rules. Tom and Beth, showing scenes of their puppet show, find that without punctuation,...

Film produced for the campaign of Vito Marcantonio, a former republican, who was running for re-election in New York’s 18th Congressional District on...

Shows how Jim and Bob use protractor and ruler to study such figures as rectangles, triangles and circles, and such principles as congruence, similari...

Explains how to judge an authority by considering his evidence, his experience and the validity of his decisions. Explains that authorities can differ...

This film shows the variety of London Transport's country bus services, featuring new commuter housing and industrial developments around London's gre...

Paramount British newsreel coverage of the funeral of Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi on January 31st, 1948 in Rajghat.

A film about Gotska Sandön in the Baltic Sea and its history. At the station, the staff live with their families.

Amateur review film of the Talbot Ten. With shots of Lake Como in Italy, the Swiss mountains, historic towns in Germany and the canals in Belgium.

Three children on a picnic learn the process of fire making and the principles involved. The dangers from fire and methods of control are shown.

Bottle of Magic traces the development of the electron tube from the pioneering efforts of such scientists as Lee de Forest, Thomas Edison, and John F...

The footage shows the interior of factory buildings, presumably the Ford factory in Cologne, as well as workers operating machines. Transport vehicles...

This film treats the subject of vandalism. It is intended to show children that by wantonly damaging public property they cause mischief not only to...

Experimental short by Elwood Decker. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

The story of the British Sailors Society, a voluntary welfare body.

The 1948 episode “Nomads Of The Jungle (Malaya),” part of the educational film series The Earth and Its Peoples, directed by Victor Jurgens and produc...

Travelogue promoting air travel to the Caribbean. During a glamorous trip to Cuba, Jamaica, and other islands, an animated figure periodically pops up...

Tom Puss and Mr. Bumble buy a magic hammer from an Oriental magician, which they use to conjure up various musical instruments and eventually a Philip...

A short animated retelling of the rhyme in the "follow the bouncing ball" style.