1950 Movies

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...

With a musical score typical of a romantic drama, the camera captures, for fifteen minutes (which feel like hours),the construction workers pouring c...

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

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

The film compares living in an apartment building and a detached house and idealizes the latter.

Bob used to be a loner, keeping to himself and thinking "my own thoughts"--until he meets Joe, a "sincere and real" young man who befriends Bob, and s...

At one time New York City had many "Els", or elevated trains. By 1950, however, there were few left. This short showcases one of the few remaining one...

Animated dish washing liquid commercial from Denmark.

Short agitprop film supporting democracy.

A short which presents water-based activities popular in various locations around the United States.

The degree of intelligence with which a variety of animals solve deliberately-posed problems is shown as proof that animals do not act on instinct onl...

Kent steals some wood from a lumber yard for some construction work on a baseball field. Afterwards he feels guilty about it, and goes to see a lawyer...

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In post-World War II Canada, a communist spy attempts to pass information to his uncle in Canada while spies try to hunt him down.

It's 1950 and a young woman asks her mother what love is.

A trip around England meeting various oddities and obscurities including a hair raising Taxi drive around 1950s central London.

How Bill overcomes his fear of the water through understanding its sources.

The difficult journey to Los Llanganates in search of the treasures of the Atahualpa Incas.

An British Columbia Social Services Documentary.