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A Texas boy tours Bavaria, then falls asleep during a concert and has visions of Santa and angels.

This video was produced by Fr. Patrick Peyton, the famous “Family Rosary Crusade” priest. It is a full-scale drama of the Sorrowful mysteries of the Rosary. It is a beautiful and reverent drama that brings to life the story and meaning of each of the mysteries of the Rosary. The lavish production was filmed in Spain in 1957 with a cast of thousands.

Erling Zackrisson takes you on a tour through Värmland in the '50s. From Kristinehamn to Sysslebäck we see Midsummer celebrations, ironworks, charcoal kilns, rafting, spring markets, and mountain farms.

Film by Allen Downs.

A sixth-grade teacher confronts the fact that one of her new students is not exactly like his older brother and will need to be treated like an individual after all.

We spend the day at a firehouse with Fireman Bill.

Explains some of the causes of normal rivalry among children in the family group, discusses the varied manifestations of rivalry, and suggests ways in which parents can keep friction to a minimum.

A celebration of transatlantic commercial jet travel: 6.5 hours from New York to London. Columbus took two months, Lindbergh took 33 hours, but by 1954, Pan-Am's Boeing 707 Jet Clipper flew 575 miles per hour at 35,000 feet, crossing the ocean in less than seven hours with twice as many passengers as prop planes. The flight begins at a new terminal at Idlewild; cargo and mail go on first; the flight is comfortable, vibration and anxiety free, with good food, capacious restrooms, and little noise. The result is a more restful flight and more time at one's destination. After a preview of London, the film ends with a quick visit to Paris, only seven hours from New York.

A documentary abut the making of the Constitution.

A short video made in the 1950's about 'choosing a partner for happiness'. Found on Youtube.

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

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

Al Gaban wl Hob coward in love

1950 Jim Davis short

Christopher Maclaine short from 1958

Jazz-musical about a two lovers.

A litter basket muses on the failure of people to feed it at a busy mainline railway station.

Uma Sundari is a 1956 Telugu movie

The influential German-born conductor Bruno Walter is captured in this 1958 telecast as he rehearses the first and last movements of Brahms's Symphony no. 2 -- at the age of 81, shortly after he had suffered a heart attack.

There's good reason why Uncle Miltie's &NFi;other&NFi_; nickname is "Mr. Television": He was the first person to appear on TV (during an experimental broadcast from New York in 1928)!. A beloved entertainer -- and notorious joke stealer -- Berle was on the air for nearly three decades. Buick sponsored this two-hour special, which features appearances by Carol Channing, Peter Lawford and Maria Riva, plus the usual comedy sketches and songs.

Rudy Burckhardt's color portrait of Manhattan's East Side strolls along at an easy pace befitting blue skies and Thelonious Monk's piano score. Where most city symphonies prize grandiose views of the urban organism, Burckhardt sticks to the walker's view.

Bollywood 1956

1954. USA. Directed by Weegee. Part of Weegee’s New York. “Weegee (Arthur Fellig) filmed, Amos Vogel edited. The preciousness of the avant-garde shown at Cinema 16 was interrupted by this breath of fresh air. Weegee’s panorama of the crowd may be the greatest single shot in cinedom.” – Ken Jacobs

Documentary produced by the INS in the 1950s regarding the internment camp in Crystal City, showing footage c. 1942-1943.

Presents Handel as a key figure in the development of Baroque music. Illustrates with musical selections his contributions to 18th century music including the oratorio form perfected in 'THE MESSIAH.'

This USAF Documentary appeared six years before the Universal-International color documentary of the same title.

Training film on correct use of the telephone.

A documentary about the Flemish city of Rupelmonde.

In this documentary short, Canadian mime Guy Hoffman, acting as Pierrot, introduces us to the art of pantomime. The streets of Montreal and the Belmont Amusement Park are the backdrop for the traditional story of Pierrot, who loses his love, Columbine, to Harlequin.

U.S. government film that examines the duties of an FBI employee.

This United States Army film tells the story of a Japanese woman who marries an American serviceman and moves with him to the United States.

If you a collector or interested in the sci fi trailers of the 50's & 60's this is the one for you.A mixture of the best & very worst of that era. A good introduction if you want to start sourcing & collecting these types of films.

A reporter goes to a rubber factory and learns about the chemistry involved in making rubber.

Short film by Carmen D'Avino.

Courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service, a short film in which singer Vaughn Monroe and his family vacation in the woods. While Vaughn sings folk songs and dispenses fire safety information, his young daughter Chris wanders off into the forest alone and has a brief encounter with a man in a cheap Smokey the Bear costume.

Short travelogue film about Egypt. Produced by Castle Films as part of their series, 'The World Parade’.

EB Films presents a documentary on the life of the freight train in America.

Thrillarama Adventure was an exhibition movie demonstrating the Thrillarama wide-screen motion picture process. The film's sequences include underwater scenes, daredevil auto driving and magnificent scenes from the Bahamas to equally beautiful ones in Canada.

The 25th International 500-Mile Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Monday, May 31, 1937. With temperatures topping out at 92 °F (33 °C), it is one of the hottest days on record for the Indy 500. To uproarious applause, Shaw, a 34-year-old Indianapolis resident, surged ahead in what remained the closest finish "500" until 1982: 2.16 seconds. Shaw finished the race with an average speed of 113.58 mph, and Hepburn was just behind him with an average speed of 113.565 mph.

Animated from chalk drawings by artist Alma Duncan and filmed by photographer Audrey MacLaren, the short film is about the exchange of goods over the American/Canadian border and the relationship forged and fostered by two trading nations sharing one very long border.

Documentary about how immigrants are helping out Canada.

This educational short film shows various towns in Tasmania along the Bass Highway. Farms are shown, and there is also a look at some historic houses.

Animated (stop-motion) commercial for alkathene (polythene) kitchenware, where the plates and cups and so on perform in a circus.

The issue of popularity, specifically amongst the high school set, is dramatized. Updated from the original.

BAMPFA presents a selection of digital copies of hand-painted glass transparencies she made while teaching at California College of Arts and Crafts. Curator Terry Cannon described them as “akin to viewing a shimmering stained-glass window.” As they were difficult to present in public venues, Arledge also documented them in several of her films, including Interior Garden II.

Demonstrates methods of securing cooperation necessary for group action. Details the objectives of cooperation. Shows typical situations requiring cooperation within a group dynamic, including the organization of a high school film projecting club and a community that needed its road paved. Presents basic techniques for achieving the assistance of others, including appealing to individuals' interests, offering a service in return, convincing people that they really want to help and demonstrating the benefit of working together towards a common goal. Explains how desired ends can be reached more easily with the cooperation of others.

When the pet shop owner goes home at night, one of the monkeys gets loose and releases some of the others. Mischief and mishaps ensue until the owner returns.

The life of Mariana de Jesus, Saint of Quito.

Two beavers, working harder than beavers, are cutting down trees in order to build a dam when they notice cords of wood piled next to a dog-house. They start hauling it off, as a labor-saving device, but the guard-dog objects and starts chasing them. They easily avoid his futile attempts to catch them and, to add insult to injury, they even dismantle the dog-house. When winter comes and the first snow, the dog, his house destroyed by the beavers, is out in the cold. Ashamed of their actions, the two beavers disguise the dog as a beaver, and the trio spends the winter in the beaver's home.

Bollywood 1954

Jim MacAndrew's interview with director René Clair was televised live in November 1959. With the cooperation of the New York State Education Department, the program aired on only a small number of stations. A 16mm kinescope copy was made directly from the broadcast feed.

Created for the U.S. Public Health Service to be distributed by the National Heart Association.

In the traditional African context, the society of masks is a school where children and adolescents learn to become men. On the Bandiagara cliff, in Dogon country, in Mali, under the strict supervision of an initiation master, young men carve masks from tree trunks with adzes and braid fibers to make hoods, skirts, bracelets and all the accessories that make up the equipment of the masks.

Educational film that shows, in the form of a "report from outer space," how the ways of mankind, and specially the contrast between the USA and more "primitive" cultures, might appear to visitors from another planet.

This fifteen-minute sales film for CBS Radio was directed by Bobe Cannon, designed by T. Hee and Sterling Sturtevant, with backgrounds painted by Bob Mcintosh, Jules Engel, and Michi Kataoka. In 1954, Cannon directed a follow-up sales film for CBS Television called Tune in Tomorrow.

The wife is unhappy that her husband has not registered with the Home Guard like the other men.

BAMPFA presents a selection of digital copies of hand-painted glass transparencies she made while teaching at California College of Arts and Crafts. Curator Terry Cannon described them as “akin to viewing a shimmering stained-glass window.” As they were difficult to present in public venues, Arledge also documented them in several of her films, including Interior Garden II.

Vernissage, in the 19th century, referred to varnishing the painting, the final step to hanging in the gallery. Varnishing Day meant there were no more changes, the work was complete. Now the word has come to mean "the opening of an art exhibition" or a "private viewing"...here, vernissage is a glimpse into the creative lives of American artists (World War Two veterans) who came to study and work in Paris, the art capital of the world. World War Two Veterans studied art in Paris during the 1950's. They formed Gallery Eight, which became the showcase for the artwork. Carmen D'Avino filmed these artists in Paris in 1950 for his silent documentary 'Vernissage.' Transferred to video, and enhanced with a classical soundtrack and introduction notes in 2002. Featuring Jonah Kinigstein, Sidney Geist, Oscar Chelimsky, Norman Rubington, John Anderson, Shinkicki Tajiri, and Herbert Katzman.