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Three hip, Little Pigs are travelling entertainers, moving from straw to wood, to brick nightclubs, playing swinging tunes for high-class, "with it" crowds, but an uncool Big Bad Wolf keeps intruding on their act with with his "corny horn" and uses it to blow their nightclubs down when they throw him out- until they are playing in their brick club and the Wolf tries a more drastic, explosive method for destroying the "House of Bricks".

An exploitation film primarily culled from footage of a Hindi film titled "The Journey of Dr. Kotnis." Producer Lloyd Friedgen added real and staged footage of wartime atrocities.

A kitten is dropped in a sack out of a car and rolls down a hill, to arrive at the door of Clyde and Matilda Mouse...

A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shipping magnate, and her growing love for a handsome young political prisoner who is scheduled to be put to death when the vessel reaches its destination.

A Terrytoons cartoon.

A man invents a new cleaning machine. His brother in law offers to help him promote it and they get help from the Purity League.

The stooges don't know it, but they are all engaged to the same girl, a gold-digger who plans to get an engagement ring from each of them and then abandon them. When all three show up at her house at the same time, a wild fight ensues, as each stooge accuses the others of making time with "his" girl. The stooges knock each other senseless and the girl escapes with their rings.

Joan and her boyfriend Johnny are both singers at a nightclub. Mobster Vince arrives, causing trouble and jealousy with Johnny. When Vince is later found murdered, Johnny becomes the prime suspect.

Film by the National Dairy Council about how to lose weight by adjusting daily caloric intake. Discusses the dangers of being overweight and the importance of maintaining a healthy weight through proper diet. It follows a group of overweight individuals, including students and adults, who participate in a weight reduction program at Michigan State College. The program involves a low-calorie diet plan, regular physical activity, and close monitoring of food intake. The participants are taught how to select nutritious foods, control portion sizes, and make healthier choices to achieve and maintain a healthy weight. The video shows the progress of the participants over a period of several months, highlighting successful weight loss and improved overall health.

This short documentary offers a look at the life forms on the Queen Elizabeth Islands within the Arctic Circle. Even in this frigid zone of icebergs and glaciers a surprising variety of wildlife and vegetation is seen. Writings from the logbooks of early explorers provide vivid descriptions of scenes as arresting to them in their century as to today's explorer. Note: Originally produced for the television series Perspective, this film was distributed separately on 16mm for schools and libraries, qualifying it as a standalone documentary.

Eddie Quillan and Wally Vernon are barbers who have invented a new, flexible steel blade. They think they have a fortune made if they can find a backer to invest some money. One day, Eddie shaves off part of a customers toupee, and he departs vowing vengeance. They go to a party honoring a rich, steel magnate, in the hopes of getting him to invest in their new razor, and he turns out to be the irate, toupee-shaved customer.

In this one, one wolf who's become a vegetarian tells another of his species why he no longer catches lamb. It seems despite the dumb guard dog always getting one step behind this wolf, this wolf is always defeated. Why? Well, because Mighty Mouse is always around...

Sylvester Cat takes his son, Junior, on a mouse-hunting expedition in an old, broken-down, mouse-infested house near some railroad tracks.

An unfinished animated short from the late 1950s.

The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.

This documentary depicts the colour and pageantry of the coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, as well as Canada's participation in this momentous event.

This Traveltalk short concentrates on Holland's historical relationship with its main industry: growing tulips. The country's windmills are also highlighted.

A story about the optical halo effect, which appears as a secondary glow around a light source. The scientific approach to the halo is opposed to superstition and outdated ideas.

Magoo is mistaken for a foreign spy.

The introduction of electricity into the village of Bigga in New South Wales.

When the Candlestick Maker resigns from his famous storybook trio, the Butcher and the Baker seek a new member for their group.

Gil Lamb, window washer at the "Daily Record" has aspirations of becoming a reporter and marrying Carol Hughes, the city editor's secretary. When he hears of the disappearance of a town millionaire's nephew, he sets out, disguised as a nurse, for the millionaire's mansion to solve the case

Katnip, the mean Kat, is chasing a group of nice little mice, who are playing and having fun in a toy shop, until Herman, the good mouse,appears in the uniform of a sergeant in the U. S. Army, who has come home on a furlough. Because Katnip has had military training, Herman puts him through a few military exercises, and eliminate the chance that Katnip will be in shape to bother the little mice when Herman's furlough is over.

On their way to Night School, Casper the Friendly Ghost and his pal, Spooky Ghost, pass a zoo, and Spooky has a good time scaring the animals until Casper, posing as the ghost of the scared denizens of the zoo, scares Spooky.

Priest defies the gods by refusing to sacrifice his daughter. Also: conquistadores.

A Hollywood singing-cowboy star with a big heart and an even bigger secret (he uses a double in most scenes because he can't ride, fight or sing) comes to the aid of a rancher about to lose his home on a rodeo bet.

A charming short film about Great Yarmouth, a beautiful town rich in history, situated at the mouth of the River Yea and in the county of Norfolk.

A man wakes on a clifftop with no memory of who he is or how he got there and has to piece toigether what happened to him.

A collection of twenty short films, averaging 2-3 minutes, by various filmmakers depicting American life, intended to be shown in a continuous loop at the American Pavilion of the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. Some releases of the film include ten extra minutes of rough cuts.

This Traveltalk series short visit to southern Germany begins in Berchtesgaden. After a boat ride on the Königssee and a look at the Neuschwanstein castle, we visit the village of Mittenwald, renowned for making violins, and then go to Oberammergau, where the famous Passion play is performed by village residents every ten years. The last stop is a village on the shore of the Tegernsee, where we see traditional Bavarian dances performed.

Story about two boys who want ponies for Christmas but their family can only afford one. The horse owner, who is bitter about the loss of his son in the war, is softened by the boys' sacrifice for each other.

The adulterous Mrs Griffiths' corset has, unbeknown to her, a fortune stashed in it by her drunken, money-loving husband.

Several stories linked by a hat.

A motorcycle cop buys a used car to take his family on vacation to the East Coast. Minor car trouble along the way causes him to meet first a reckless driver, and then a highway patrolman who shares stories of bad drivers with him. Various dangers of careless driving - both fictional and real - are depicted as the patrolman continues on the job, later crossing paths with the reckless driver again. When the police officer makes the return trip from his vacation, he finds that the situation has changed in a surprising way.

A group of male office workers, bored with their daily routine, decide to stop in at the local burlesque house.

For most of us, including actor Fred MacMurray who presents the film, the noun atom and the adjective atomic are synonymous with devastation, period. Of course, there was Hiroshima and Nagasaki but atomic energy is also - at least according to Father James Keller, who produced the documentary - "a Gift from God". For atomic power can also (and should only) be beneficial for mankind. In 1952, it is already effective in various fields, such as industry, agriculture and medicine. Let the atom be a blessing instead of a curse.

For decades, pirates roamed the seas, searching for booty to plunder and coastal villages to terrorize. Who were these men and women? As you dig beneath the myth of Blackbeard, Captain Kidd and other legendary warriors of the waters in this docudrama, you'll discover who they were and what motivated them to wreak havoc wherever they sailed. Includes the movie Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island.

Shortly after WWII, students at Valparaiso University in Indiana come together to raise funds and construct a new building on campus, so the school can offer a four-year engineering degree.

Fess Parker heads to the set of The Great Locomotive Chase in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Nearly everyone knows that if you want to succeed, you have to plan. For everyone else, Coronet has made a film: PLANNING FOR SUCCESS. Here's how to do it. You can do it!

16 mm, color, silent or mono, 1:30 or 20 min. Untraced red-green anaglyph 3-D film.

From the time he was a baby, Little Davy Crewcut learns to shoot at bears with a variety of weapons, but when he gets grown and starts taking serious potshots at Mr. Bear with a rifle, Mr. Bear gets rightfully upset at being shot at, and suggest to Davy Crewcut that he turn his shooting in the direction of a more suitable target, such as a woodpecker. The woodpecker turns out to be Woody, and Woody also objects to being shot at.

Bugs Bunny boards the Chattanooga Choo Choo and finds Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton, from "The Honeymooners" TV show. Ralph and Ed are starving, and when they set eyes on Bugs, they yell, "It's foooooood!"

This short ethnographic film presents comparative scenes of children of the same age in Bali and New Guinea responding to maternal attention given to another child. Produced as part of Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead’s Character Formation in Different Cultures series, the film documents culturally distinct approaches to sibling rivalry through observational sequences involving infant care, ritual ear-piercing, and experimental interaction with a doll.

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

This 1954 classic follows an outback mailman as he travels along the Birdsville Track.

Feature film derived from edited episodes of the television series "Secret File, U.S.A."

Mr. Magoo and his nephew Waldo are vacationing at a ski lodge in the Swiss Alps. Magoo is intent on braving the slopes while Waldo tries to flirt with a pretty girl he meets up with. Unfortunately, Magoo takes the wrong turn while climbing the mountain pass and instead of going to the ski summits, he instead climbs to the top of the steep Matternot. A professor sees Magoo and, sensing danger, sends a St. Bernard up to rescue him. Magoo mistakes the St. Bernard for Waldo and takes the dog with him when he starts skiing eventually causing an avalanche.

A seal who can sing is taken advantage of by Willie, who has him sing from the inside of a guitar to impress a girl.

A film composed of the out-takes from Brakhage’s The Wonder Ring (1955), which Cornell had commissioned. There has been a long-standing misconception that the film "Gnir Rednow" is simply "The Wonder Ring" mirrored or projected in reverse. However, Mark Toscano of the Academy Film Archive has definitively established that the original roll of each one of these two films is "unmistakably, completely comprised of camera original Kodachrome," and that no two shots are precisely the same from one film to the other.

Two kids embark on far-fetched desperate schemes to prevent their parents from divorcing.

Black and white UCLA student film, preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A dramatic short about the wooden horse that is witness to the chaotic late night of a mother, awaking her son. Student film from Tom DeSimone, known for directing gay pornographic films such as Confessions of a Male Groupie or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Electric Banana (1917) and cult films such as Chatterbox (1977), Hell Night (1981), and The Concrete Jungle (1982), Reform School Girls (1986).

Things are peaceful in John Doormat's neighborhood until he gets a new neighbor, and the new neighbor comes with a dog that likes to grab and gnaw on John's leg every time he sees him. Doormat buys his own large mutt which chases the neighbor's pest-pet home. When the two men meet to exchange some bitter words, the neighbor's dog clamps on John's leg, and John's dog is chewing on the neighbor's leg.

Popeye and Bluto are manning a fire station when the alarm comes in: it's Olive's house.

The "boys" from Pine Ridge visit Europe and try to help a Yugoslavian ballerina find her American lover, become involved with French jewel thieves, and take on posh society in Monte Carlo.

A bold attempt, full of visual sensibility, to use living animals, innocuous of their roles, as abstract counters in a tone poem of color and chiaroscuro. – Parker Tyler

The devil poses as a business tycoon to try and raise the price on home living to start another war and it's up to John Q to stop him.

hong kong film

Considered to be the earliest surviving example of a British play-to-screen drama, this served as a pilot for an anthology series called ‘The Man Who Walks by Night’ where a Silver Shroud type figure tells a different tale of mystery and suspense each week. It was approved of generally, but a freeze on funding brought it to a premature end. In this entry, a wealthy man who’s made many enemies, including his soon to be ex-wife, his ex-partner in crime and the son of a business partner he drove to suicide. He invites them to dinner to tempt fate, the sheer thrill enthralling him. But will he survive?

Agitprop short made in West Germany. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.