Cinematic Era: 1946 Vintage

Propaganda encouraging people to vote "yes" three times in the (falsified by the communists) June 1946 referendum.

A summary of the main events of 1946 as captured in newsreels.

Animated documentary about Flight Safety.

Mexican movie

Three sisters discover that the men in their lives are philandering trash and band together to build new lives for themselves instead of continuing to enable their unworthy partners.

Reconstruction and war damage after the Lapland War.

Anna Mae Winburn and the The International Sweethearts of Rhythm brings us "Jump Children."

Who Dunit to Who, with June Richmond's Soundie.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

In Cordoba, Spain, a girl singer and her mother are falsely accused of stealing a donkey. They are saved by a famous painter who becomes infatuated with the girl and asks her to be his model for a painting. Things get complicated when a Mexican bullfighter arrives in town and falls for the same girl.

A short film trying to stop people in the North of England from worrying about losing their cotton industry jobs.

Christmas sign homes were special shelters for newborns whose mothers had contracted tuberculosis. The film presents the operation of a Christmas sign home.

A film by Slavko Vorkapich.

Travelogue following a journey from Inverness to Skye in Scotland.

Mohsen has a bad opinion of the Egyptian girl and decides to marry a foreign girl, but Fouad, who raised him and thought he had been rewarded for her, tries to convince him to change his view and idea of ​​Egyptian girls and that they are more attached to customs Traditions and honor.

A look back on the history of Swedish radio broadcasting.

This documentary short shows how a dry, semi-barren piece of desert that had been the object of conflict between two neighboring tribes in Morocco can be transformed by modern farming methods--including irrigation canals, mechanized forms of planting and harvesting--and can result in peace and cooperation between the two tribes instead of war.

This vintage railway film was produced by the London, Midland and Scottish railway in 1946, on behalf of all the British railways to portray all the work the British railway industry accomplished during World War II.

Documentary about the Slovak-Hungarian resettlement activity in the south of Slovakia. The film explains - from the Slovak perspective, of course - how the exchange took place, how picturesque it looked, what its “numbers” were, and what its cultural effects were supposed to be. Although it was never an explicit trauma (similar to the German expulsion), Slovak-Hungarian relations, thanks to the ineptitude of later politicians, have still not completely stabilized to this day.

The content emphasizes the importance of agility, stamina, and judgment in various aspects of life, including sports, academics, and everyday decision-making. It highlights the physiological effects of alcohol on the body and mind, explaining how it impairs judgment and coordination, which can lead to dangerous situations, especially when driving. The message advocates for self-discipline and moderation, urging individuals to make wise choices regarding alcohol consumption to maintain their physical and mental capabilities.

Part of The March of Time series, this episode (Volume 13, Number 1) deals with the question of whether people are happy. Despite new technology and labor saving devices everywhere, people seem to have no more time on their hands and in many ways seem unhappier. The correspondence with advice columnist such as Dorothy Dix, seems to be growing. Health and fitness advocates, like Charles Atlas, have a booming business as people search for something that will make them feel better. Fortune tellers and self-styled counselors on the radio are popular but, in the opinion of doctors, dangerous.

The arrival of partisan troops in Ljubljana in 1945 and manifestations that accompanied this event.

How to sew a brat onto a ewe hogg, and everything else you wanted to know about sheep farming in the Highlands.

One of the earliest post-war German productions to warn of the deadly dangers of typhus.

Highlights of the films shown on BBC Television since it reopened in June after a seven-year gap caused by World War II.

The Germans destroyed all bridges in Warsaw during the war. The reconstruction of the Poniatowski Bridge began in July 1945. Workers from all over Poland were involved in this process. The inauguration ceremony took place on the Day of the Rebirth of Poland (the 22nd of July 1946).

Post-war Japanese documentary.

Norwegian war documentary.

A rare document of Singapore cinema, Spirit of the Overseas Chinese was made by pioneering female Chinese filmmaker Wan Hoi-Ling, who had directed films in Singapore for the Shaw Brothers. Her partner Hou Yao, who tragically died during the war, collaborated with her on her films. Made just a year after World War II ended, the film begins before the war comes to Malaya and reflects upon the struggles of newly-emigrated and affluent Chinese immigrants who have to choose between the comfortable luxury of their lives in Singapore and returning to their motherland to fight the enemy.

Plicka's work is an extreme case of the multilingual version and its war and post-war form recalls many period cultural and political contexts. After the war the original version was supplemented by Czech commentary and the soundtrack was replaced by new music consisting of pieces by Baroque Czech composers.

A film suite divided into three parts showing successively the defeat of Warsaw, the gradual awakening of the capital and the first post-war Warsaw spring. The film has no commentary, only music, whose mood and rhythm are closely related to the character of the presented images.

The Bronco Busters perform "Silver Spurs."

Mexican movie

A landowner Gáthy and his wife adopt an orphaned infant at the birth of their own son, only to realize too late that they can’t tell which baby is which. They raise both boys as their own until, on the brink of the sons’ marriages, questions of lineage brought up by prospective mothers and meddling mothers-in-law threaten to unravel their family.

In this documentary we get a glimpse into the world of submarines and have access to rare archive footage. From the first attempts during the American Civil War to WW2 and the nuclear subs of today, the history of the submarine has been fraught with difficulties.

This is an entry in Universal's "Name Band Musical" series of shorts. Welk and the band open with a medley including "Josephine", Stumbling", "Honey" and "Running Wild" and vocalist Betty Jane Pettit sings "No Can Do." Kenny Stevens does "Alone" while comedienne-singer Judy Clark offers her versions of "Playmates" and "I'm Nobody's Baby." The dance team of Jon and Inga Bergy is also in the mix.

The prehistory of the cinema as we know it today, with its great inventors: Marey, Muybridge, Reynaud, Edison, the brothers Lumière and their great inventions: the kinetoscope, the praxinoscope, the chromophotograph, the film camera.

A live-action visualization of the poem, blended with animation.

Tony Bacillus & Co (1946) is a comical public information film about the threat of tuberculosis in which TB is represented by a menacing puppet, who attempts to infect a little boy puppet by placing various hazards - spitting, coughing and drinking unpasteurised milk - in his path. However, the boy puppet is well versed in disease prevention and T. Bacillus is foiled.

A young Mexican boy, his girl, and his mule go on a picnic, and are having a good time when they come upon a temperamental volcano and, then, almost anything can happen and almost does.

Methods used by Scotland Yard in tracking down and arresting car thieves.

Mexican movie

"Optical relays" - a research work, known only among film industry experts. The video is used as a textbook for students of VGIK and GITR. His full version for ordinary viewers has never been published.

When a young orphan who works as a teacher in an orphanage falls in love with the marine officer Adel, her uptight manager fires her. Forced to work in a disreputable hotel, she is assaulted then arrested on prostitution charges.

An introductory film about an Ostrobothnian city.

The Last Shot is a 1946 British film directed by John Fernhout.

Various shots of jail on Alcatraz island, an aeroplane flies over and coastguard boats sail around during the gun battle as prisoners stage a revolt. Various shots as prison wardens wave journalists away from the island. M/S as Pathe cameraman Frank Vail films the battle. Grenades are thrown into the convicts' stronghold by the marines, various shots of smoke coming out of the windows, bushes on the island are set ablaze by the return fire.

The film encourages people to support the referendum of June 30, 1946. It presents the referendum questions and precedes them with selected images that justify a positive answer. Are you in favor of abolishing the Senate? Are you in favor of the agrarian reform? Are you in favor of the new western borders of the country?

A farmer's son, Jan (Pierre de Wet), works on the farm for his strict father (Jan Brill). He realizes that he is not valued, and his father does not want to know anything about modern farming methods. They get into an argument and he decides to look for work in Johannesburg.

This wonderful movie from Castle Films shows some of the classic illusions that can be created with a still and motion picture camera.

Nat 'King' Cole performs his hit "Errand Boy for Rhythm."

A wartime cartoon short that teaches the basics of flight safety.

Six reels of home footage shot in and around his house in Oosterbeek by the Dutch dentist Philip Clous from September 1944 to September 1946. The 1944 footage shows Allied forces walking along the Utrechtseweg during Operation Market Garden and the destruction left after the Germans recaptured Oosterbeek shortly afterwards. The 1946 footage shows behind-the-scenes footage from the filming of the British 1946 war film *Theirs Is the Glory*, about Operation Market Garden.

Autumn arrives, the leaves fall from the trees and finally the first snow covers the ground.

A documentary about mine clearance in Lapland during the first summer of peace in 1945. Over 70,000 mines were left behind in the devastated Lapland after the war. The dangerous clearance work progresses with the help of mine rakes, mine dogs, and even Argentine canned meat.