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Glen is sad, lonely and can't seem to make friends. But then one night he gets a visit from Mr. X!

Pompus Papa Bear takes his Terry Bears cubs on a camping trip and, since he claims to be an expert camper, he sets out to give the cubs the benefits of his camping skills. He immediately proceeds to spend his time going from the firing pan to the fire, while the cubs prove that they are the expert campers.

Joe has to find a way to go to a convention.

Hand painted directly onto film stock by Margaret Tait, this film features animated dancing figures, accompanied by authentic calypso music.

Short film by Hilary Harris.

Mickey Rooney, plugging his latest Columbia film, stops by Ralph Staub's editing room and film vault, and the two of them watch clips from Rooney's films, dating back as far as the Mickey McGuire comedies.

Mexican feature film

The curious image of figure and the name "Mingoloo" comes to an artist in a dream. Short film directed by Theodore Zichy.

A PR short that chronicles the Hillsdale Shopping Center in San Mateo, California.

Short about the titular choir, made after the announcement of the retirement of the choir's conductor, Sir Hugh Roberton

Follows the efforts to gain the right to vote for Negroes through a succession of legal decision and social changes. Dramatizes the case of Smith vs. Allwright et al. Reviews the long conflict to extend voting rights to a large electorate beginning with the Constitutional Convention's compromise over dropping property requirements through and including the enactment of the 15th and 19th Amendments to the Constitution. Cites legal precedents established by the U.S. Supreme Court through their decisions concerning the control of state primaries in 1918 and 1935 and the later reversals in 1941 and 1944. Points to the issues involved in Federal encroachment upon state's rights.

Sunny-sweet the prune shows us how prunes are made from certain kinds of plums, why they're so good for you, and, in live action, some recipes made with prunes. As a subplot, he also explains why California prunes are better than those from the Pacific Northwest and other areas. (Of course, Sunny may be a bit biased, since this film was sponsored by a California organization of prune growers).

British Pathé version of the Woomera atomic tests.

hong kong film

1954 Bengali film directed by Nihen Lahiri

Richard Massingham's 'Uncle Bob' character helps his family move house.

A cat is being driven mad --- a short distance --- by an aching wisdom tooth and discovers in the Remedy Book a remedy that requires only the eating of a crow. The cat captures the first crow that comes along, but the crow is smarter than the cat, and offers other remedies, none of which call for crow-eating.

Johnny Green conducts the MGM Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Tchaikovsky's "Capriccio Italien".

Two desert vultures, flying around over the desert, see a menu tossed out of a passing train. They acquire it and get an appetite for Rabbit Stew, the featured item of the day on the AT&SF diner-car. They track a bunny rabbit but are foiled by a Dingbat (no, not Edith Bunker) in their efforts to make stew out of the little bunny rabbit. Just as they think they have completed their quest they learn, that the Dingbat has substituted a hornet's-nest for the rabbit.

This film illustrates Debussy's works "En bateau", "Arabesques", "Reflets dans l'eau" and "Arabesques en sol". As a visual counterpoint to the music it shows playful reflections, transparencies, and iridescence of water.

Describes some simple techniques for good communication, to the end that people may know where they stand with one another. Illustrates how failure to give clear instructions can cause misunderstandings, trouble and dissatisfaction to those receiving the instructions.

Case film produced at the University of Rochester, held at Eastman House.

This film presents scenes in Amsterdam including canals, Rijksmuseum, the harbor and home life of a typical family.

A film about a trip to Japan.

A day in the life of the famous Coney Island Amusement Park in Brooklyn, NY.

A Terrytoon cartoon with the Terry Bears where the kids tries to wake up Papa Bear on his rest day.

The two magpies are wanted criminals, complete with "Wanted" posters being spread everywhere. They come across Dimwit and the tough Bulldog, and the pursuit is on!

Little Roquefort is being chased by the cat. The cat crashes into the catnip, and suddenly Roquefort is his friend, until the catnip wears off. The first time, he brings food, but slips on a banana peel. The second time, the two of them dance, until they crash into the radio. Roquefort then figures out the catnip is to blame, and ties the besotted cat to a rocket, blasting him into the sky. He then hauls the refrigerator into his hole.

It all takes place in Italy with various amusing gags concerning the country's shape (the obvious boot and foot one), the Leaning Tower of Pisa (where people going in come out in a different position), abstract modern painting, spaghetti eating, and a singer trying to break a wine glass (which results in all the other window glasses broken instead).

In Loving (1957), a couple make love in the sun and their optic system flares -- it's really the nervous system's ecstasy -- in oranges and yellows and whites. - Stan Brakhage. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2009.

A commercial for the new 1955 Chevrolet.

They Planted a Stone is a 1953 British short documentary film directed by Robin Carruthers and produced by James Carr. The film portrays how dams, barrages and irrigation canals were constructed on the Nile in Sudan, to generate hydroelectricity, irrigate the desert and create such projects as the Gezira Scheme. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

A school teacher/wheat farmer is solicited by several oil companies for the rights to drill on his family's farm. After accepting an offer, he realizes that North Dakota is again a new frontier in America.

Dances of the Kwakiutl is composed of fragments filmed in 1950 in Fort Rupert, British Columbia. They were made during a performance by those still familiar with the tradition of ‘Hamatsa’ or cannibal dancing. This type of dance was brought to impressive artistic heights by the Kwakiutl people of the Northwest coast.

British Movietone version of the Woomera atomic tests.

In this film produced in 1958 by the FLN Information Service, Pierre Clément shows the damage caused by the French Army following the bombing of the Tunisian village of Sakiet Sidi Youssef on February 8, 1958. The toll varies between 72 and 75 dead and 148 injured, including a dozen primary school students and Algerian refugees grouped by a Red Cross mission.

Half-Pint, a stage-struck baby circus elephant, is forever getting into and messing up somebody's act. Although the ringmaster thinks he is too young to perform, Half-Pint cannot resist the applause of the crowd, and is continually turning up in the center-ring in impromptu acts which are not part of the circus-manager's plan. He joins the band making music with his trunk; performs as a unicycle artist, and generally disrupts the execution of the show.

An interesting little short about the exploitative system of the 1930's-50's that used cheap Mexican workers (that "cross the border on temporary work permits to *help* with the harvest").

How a sheep dog is responsible for the rescue of two children trapped in an old mine.

Two scientists awake an creature in their private laboratory.

In this musical, an ambitious young singer and her band leave their small hometown to head for the Big Apple in hopes of finding fame and fortune.

The history of the BRS (British Road Services), the general haulage network of the UK. Part of BFI collection "Points and Aspects."

"Marx was born in Queensland, Australia, and was a landscape painter and model there before moving to San Francisco. However, when she arrived, she found herself in the midst of fascinating non-objective painting and filmmaking activity. She was greatly influenced by the work of Harry Smith and Jordan Belson, and changed her own style to non-objective, receiving graphic inspiration from Jungian brain drawings, symbols in the occult sciences, and the design used by Eastern cultures, all of which being important elements in the San Francisco school mystical school of non-objective art." -Robert Pike, A Critical Study of the West Coast Experimental Film Movement. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Lowell Thomas travels across Europe and the Middle East on his way to attend the coronation of King Mahendra in Nepal.

Olive is playing nanny in the park as Popeye and Bluto bicycle past. They fight over her, waking the baby. Then they take turns trying to stop the baby crying or sabotaging the other's efforts. Popeye does impressions of a dog and an airplane and juggles cannonballs; Bluto does some rope twirling and a snake-charmer act.

A nervous cat tells the story of the origin of Mighty Mouse.

Dangerous Dan the desperado enters the barbershop run by Hackle and Jackle with guns blazing, and that is his highlight as the Magpies use their barber equipment to teach him a lesson and drive him crazy.

Two naturist girls spend an afternoon in the sun.

The Terry Bears, to Papa Bear's distress, try to train their hound Pago to be a rabbit dog. When Papa takes Pago hunting, the rabbits prove to be smarter than both him and the dog.

A Terrytoons cartoon.

Abstract experimental film set to music.

The pilot episode in a series about a little girl named Amy and her clown doll, Bozo, who comes to life when nobody else is around. In this episode, Amy finds herself trying to convince her father that Bozo is real and that she can talk to their dog, Truesdale. Meanwhile, a neighbor's hen disappears and Truesdale gets blamed. Bozo and Amy help to prove that Truesdale was not the culprit. In the process, they take "shrink pills" in order to make themselves smaller, talk to a squirrel and an owl, and Bozo makes himself invisible.

The story of a postman who applies the basic Christian law of love toward others as he covers his neighborhood mail route. A grouchy landlord, a struggling young widow and her son, a neighborhood gossip, an eligible young bachelor, and others are affected by his philosophy.

While birds can be heard singing a shrill song, lines crisscross wildly as if they aimed to form shapes. Their efforts seem hopeless until the very end.

A woman suspects that the local council is corrupt and building defective drains that could cause public health issues.

A documentary about firemen and some of the spectacular blazes they fight.

In this "operetta," Oil Can Harry has Pearl Pureheart in his clutches at the Leaning Tower of Pisa, from which she is hanging by a thread.

A short sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Inc.