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A documentary about a Swedish diving club's expedition to the Red Sea in 1955.

Short film about the diocese of Sankt Florian near Linz, Austria.

Short documentary about dancing hands.

A short film about the new generation.

Short educational film about water.

This classroom training film was produced by the US government to assure kids that nuclear energy was entirely safe and could even be put to good use that would benefit everybody, and to just overlook the pesky rumors that those godless Commies were going to wipe us out with them.

A Merton Park Production for the British Electrical Development Association.

Koto lives in a village in Madagaskar. His big dream is to go to school, but his father refuses him to do this, and forces him to become a shepherd instead. So Koto sneaks away from the cattle he was supposed to guard, and sits in the doorway at the school to learn to read and write.

Tells the story of the mining and manufacture of copper from the crude ore to the finished product.

An anthology of the films by Marcella Pedone, made in the fifties with an almost pioneering spirit and in conditions of absolute independence, not to to say of autarchy, from an unusual figure of photographer and filmmaker, they contemplate a vastness of interests and ways of representation.

Polish Film Chronicle was famous for its style, resembling a report, and for its witty commentaries. This special edition is about dogs and the voiceover was recorded by Kazimierz Rudzki.

Presents a brief history of Communism, its totalitarian characteristics, and how communists operate in the United States.

Ralph Staub zooms his Screen Snapshots camera in on many of the most famous newspaper comic-strip cartoonists and creators of the era. Notable in that all of the comic-strip characters referenced, with the exception of "Our Debbie" and "Smoky Stover", appeared in films or cartoons at some point or another, ranging from the silent years past 1950. Gus Edson's "Dondi" while not mentioned in this short, was also made into a feature film.

A chirpy travelogue guide to Lancashire.

On the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the signing of the Bardo Treaty, this propaganda film celebrates France's modernizing action in Tunisia.

A short documentary feature demonstrating the Blackburn Beverley aircraft on the ground and in flight.

Highlights from the 1950 Isle of Man motor cycle race won by Geoff Duke.

This film recreates the ancient Greek world through its extant art and literature. The narration is from translations of Greek authors, including Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, and Plutarch, and accompanies visual impressions of Greek religious philosophy and history through the golden age. The film features spectacular footage of Crete, Knossos, Mycenae, and the sculptures of Athens. It discusses the Persians at Marathon, then 10 years later, Xerxes at Thermopylae.

A behind the scenes look at the preparations for the live broadcast of the opening of Disneyland, filmed for ABC in July 1955. Initially provided to local ABC affiliates as background for the festivities, this black-and-white presentation is surprisingly frank. There are no claims about the magic of Disneyland’s construction. Instead, narrator John Fell provides matter-of-fact explanations of technical details.

It looks like time stands still there, but Finchingfield in Essex is changing: talk to the locals when visiting a village to find out what's new in their lives.

Clarifies the role of persuasive argument. Explains the components of a good argument, and contrasts the serious use of good argument against that of irrelevant, unsound argument.

Documentary short.

A promotional film extolling the virtues of roller skating.

Shows how a teacher, by helping a first-grade child to discover his need for learning, teaches him to read, write, and do arithmetic.

Documentary depicting the funeral of Argentinian First Lady Eva Perón in 1952.

A 1954 documentary about Japanese fishermen aboard the "Lucky Dragon" who were irradiated by the American Castle Bravo nuclear test in the Pacific.

Robert Ménégoz’s film depicting the struggles of French dockworkers in the winter and early spring of 1950 is meant to evoke the feelings of insecurity, exertion and danger of this profession whose rights were not sufficiently reflected in post-war France. At the same time, the heroic image of dockworkers is meant to mobilize against American policy, the Marshall Plan, German rearmament and the war in Indochina. Banned by the censors in France, the film won the Grand Prix for Documentary at the 1951 Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

The brazilian military campaign in Italy during the Second World War.

Campaign film asking the public not to misuse or throw away the glass bottles left by their milkman, but to rinse them and put them back out for collection. Of the 320,000,000 in circulation a week, a costly 6,400,000 go missing.

Indian documentary

Habit Patterns - Breaking bad teen habits. How to wash, care for yourself, prepare & dress for the day. Be nice, be social and organised. 1950s teen social skills. Take a good look at yourself. Learn to listen!

Alpe Devero, December 1953: employees of the Edisonvolta electricity company gather to take part in skiing competitions held in the picturesque natural setting of this well-known Piedmontese resort.

Documentary on the town of Cabo Rojo, proving relevant data on its foundation and the different social and economic activities in which it developed.

Documentary on the town of Arecibo that presents a historical background and its economic and social development to this date.

General shots of Edinburgh City Centre taken by film-maker Margaret Tait, focussing on the Royal Mile, Holyrood House and Princes Street Gardens.

London families spend a day at Southend-on-Sea.

Directed by Thomas Stobart.

This high-school educational film describes the benefits and opportunities available to young women who go to college and major in home economics. The film follows Kay, Helen, Louise, and Jean throughout their college years, as they take a variety of interesting and useful classes and eventually accept job offers in their chosen specialties. Nevertheless, the traditional middle-class ideals of marriage and stay-at-home motherhood are reinforced.

The history of the United States Air Force and the role of airplanes in WWI.

A rarely-seen documentary report on the United Nations's preservation of South Korea.

This film explains the methods and techniques used by the communists to seize power in a country.

A Ukrainian couple become refugees during and after World War Two, and they end up as Displaced Persons (DPs) in a camp in Germany, before they are eventually accepted for resettlement in Australia.

Examples from the fields of work of the Foreign Mission – the activities of missionaries, nuns, evangelists, and teachers.

Cooperative bank promotional film.

A look at modern technology and how it is used to help make life harder for lawbreakers.

There are many ways one can escape from reality. But is that a good idea?

This feature film in two parts is an exploration of the women's suffrage movement. Spearheaded by women like Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, the Suffragettes realized they would have to become radical and militant if the movement was going to be effective. There followed many demonstrations and imprisonments until the women's vote was finally granted in 1918 (Britain) and 1919 (Canada, except Quebec.)

Documentary short teaching how to shift and steer.

This 1953 film is dedicated to the U.S. Army 27th Infantry Division with a look at its history and highlighting its World War II battle record at Makin, Eniwetok, Saipan, and Okinawa.

A selection of cineradiography films from a physiological study which show characteristic reflex activity in response to 'tactile' stimulation using a probe from six human foetuses.

Andy the orangutan from the Bronx Zoo is learning his ABC's from his zoo-keeper friend. Each letter is taught by associating the name of an animal from the zoo with each letter of the alphabet.

Short film about foxes

A unique chronicle of Salvador Dali’s constructivist outrageousness. As you know, during this period, Dali began, as the newspapers wrote, “shaking the apathy of the modern world, making himself a paranoid-critical object”: he looked into the eyes of a rhinoceros or exhibited a loaf of bread eighteen meters long. In the Paris Ice Palace, he demonstrates a plastic ball: "Projection of intrauterine vision ...". The shooting was initiated by the publisher Joseph Faure. Enjoy Dali in his silver-plated alien costume, with his mustache and cane, and a general phlegmatic carnival of madness.

This United States Air Force film describes and demonstrates an experimental method for enabling a heavy bomber to tow its own fighter-escort aircraft to the target and back. Special wing-tip connectors allow a B-29 Superfortress piston-engined bomber, with minimal extra fuel usage, to tow two F-84 jet fighter aircraft.