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This 1954 film---50,000 Royal miles in CinemaScope and Eastman Color/Colour---covers the earlier-in-the-year six-months tour of the British Commonwealth by Queen Elizabeth and Philip, later joined by Prince Charles and Princess Anne toward the end of the trip. Those who wish can add the above four to the cast, but the thought here is they don't qualify as actors. At least, not in the normal sense. The footage includes visits to the Fiji Islands, Tongo, the Cocos Islands, Ceylon, Africa, New Zealand and Australia. Lots of native music and tribal dances and scenery inbetween many, many shots of the Royal pair arriving and departing. The title is the plot.

A Terrytoon that runs a couple of minutes longer than the average finds Sparky, a firefly, who loses is light and is ostracized by his own kind. His friend, the bookworm, advises him to replace his light with a flashlight bulb. His light is even more powerful than ever but his fellow fireflies now consider him a freak. But ol' Sparky saves the day when he acts as the guiding light at an airport.

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!

HANDWRITTEN evokes ... a combination of visual imagery and language for which the term filmpoem seems at last fully justified. Boultenhouse's film revolves around the slamming of a fist on a glass tabletop.

A young girl pulls a sled as she explores Philadelphia in the summer.

The Slave in the Magic Mirror hosts this tribute to Disney villains, claiming that without whom, no one would need heroes.

This film poem evokes childhood happiness on the island of Orkney. Footage includes wildflower meadows, toddlers playing in garden, friends fishing together and images of the sea.

Al Gaban wl Hob coward in love

Shows the modern family enslaved by automatic gadgets in homes and businesses. Family members go through the days with no real person to person contact because everything is done automatically. Emphasis is placed on life being more than just a robot existence.

1950 Jim Davis short film

short experimental animation from Spain

Starting from its source, this film tells the story of the Orquil Burn, Orkney.

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

experimental film by Jim Davis

Part of BFI collection "Worth the Risk?"

1950 Danish short

Part of BFI collection "Your Children and You." A simple film stating the need for more foster parents. Gives glimpses of the tragedy which comes to some children, how they are helped by the Boarding-Out Officer and placed in a "short-stay" Home until foster parents can be found.

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

A documentary featuring mid-century design. Includes footage of many products, plus some architecture.

An early film by Jordan Belson from 1952. "[Belson's] early films animated real objects (pavements in Bop Scotch [1952]) and scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images (Mandala [1953]). Belson subsequently withdrew these films from circulation as imperfect and primitive, but they already reflect his refined plastic sensibility, fine color sense, and superb sense of dynamic structure. They also foreshadow his more accomplished expressions of mystical concepts, Bop Scotch seeming to reveal a hidden soul and life-force in "inanimate" objects."

A Coronet Instructional Film highlighting America's diversity.

A short film that captures the arrival of spring in the Kashmir valley.

The threads of several simple stories - a young boy encounters an old man down on his luck, two couples meet - are wordlessly interwoven to evoke the rhythm of life in a public park (Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne) in the passing age of winter and the youthful beauty of the approaching spring. Brealey acknowledged the influence of Arne Sucksdorff (Rhythm of a city) on his approach to this film. In 'Sunday in Melbourne' (1958) he took a different approach eschewing staged narrative.

Newsreel clips, reproductions of documents, and cartoons on Woodrow Wilson.

The "Indianhead Division's" vital role, rare footage of soldiers and battle scenes.

A rare film on the history of the 24th Division, including intense battle footage.

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

Children's' serial in 10 episodes. The adventures of three London children with a gang of crooks.

Magazine film for children showing Dan Maskell giving tennis tips; a model railway at Cirecester; a collection of money-boxes; and, a family which publishes its own newspaper in the form of a typed sheet distributed to friends and relations.

The land marks of the River Thames; six-year old girls special house where she entertains her friends; girl who draws animals at the zoo; learning judo.

Open air PT class at East Grinstead school; 15 yr. old demonstrates diving; local museum in Devon; London Fire Brigade display.

Film making by children in a primary school; caring for dogs; hints on running and hurdling; children's donkey race.

Schoolgirl miming in Indonesia; Godfrey Evans shows wicket keeping to boys; children in York; making bagpipes.

Walter Cronkite's pronouncement "You are there" -- a witness to history's great moments -- greeted viewers of this popular TV series that ran from 1953-1957. Hosted by journalists such as Mike Wallace and Charles Collingwood, the show investigated major historical events as though they were breaking news. This episode covers early aeronautic history, including the Wright Brothers' first flight in Kitty Hawk, N.C., and the Graf Spee's final hours.

Susan, a little white girl, moves into a racially mixed neighborhood. Soon some of the local kids come over and ask her to play with them. She does, but her dog, Skipper, will have nothing to do with such funny-looking children (he says, via the narrator). Soon, however, Skipper accidentally gets some paint spilled on him, and the neighborhood dogs attack him, as they don't want somebody who's "funny looking" in their neighborhood, either. Skipper realizes that his intolerant attitude toward the children was just as bad as his fellow dogs' attitude toward him, and vows to change his ways.

Bollywood 1956

Musical drama starring Anjali Devi and Relangi Venkatramaiah

Film from Nanabhai Bhatt

Film starring Silke Becu, Ashly Berden and Stephanie Vanden Blink

Film starring Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari and Nanda

History of Indian Film Music

1958 film from India

Film starring Showkar Janaki and Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri

The challenges of democracy drive this pair of episodes from Westinghouse's "Studio One" anthology series. John Forsythe stars in "None But My Foe" (1951), a tale of World War II-era paranoia run amok in a small town. Set in 1753, "The Trial of Peter Zenger" (1953) stars Eddie Albert as the real-life title character, whose trial for libel against a corrupt colonial ruler led to the creation of the First Amendment.

Shots of an open air curling tournament on a frozen loch in Dumfriesshire.

The joy of fishing for Atlantic salmon in New Brunswick, Canada.

A teacher encourages his student to get into acting to enhance their learning skills.

Playful and mischievous; as the filmmaker sleeps, his clay characters come to life! Douglas Butcher made this film in the nineteen fifties at the time of a claymation revival; the nineteen fifties saw a growth in clay animation in children’s television, and in the movies of the legendary Ray Harryhausen.

“The Old Order Amish” is a color documentary film that offers an intimate portrait of the daily lives of the Amish community in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It dates to 1959 and was produced by Vincent R. Tortora – a filmmaker and author known for his work highlighting closed off communities in America from the Amish to Hasidic Jews. The film features music by composer Jack Behrens and art by Valerie Seward and Amish painter Kiehl Newswanger.

A social studies teacher finds herself in hot water for her lessons on Communism, but she reminds parents that we have the Freedom to Learn.

Little Audrey flaunts the "No Dogs Allowed" rule to take her puppy to the beach.

An industrial film sponsored by the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company promoting the "Cleveland Corridor," an 85-mile corner of northeast Ohio between the port cities of Conneaut and Cleveland, as "the best location in the nation" for industrial business. This 16mm film is from the Cinecraft Productions collection at the Hagley Museum and Library.