Cinematic Era: 1946 Vintage

An introductory film about the town of Forssa and a dramatized part of the town's creation around the brick manufacturer Wahren's company.

Minesweeping at the Gulf of Finland

Documentary on animal babies and their treatment by their elders.

Crates and boxes unloading in the morning, lonely men sitting on half-broken docks in the afternoon, sailor bars at night with one poor bum actually getting the heave-ho, a mighty waterhose washing it all away, overlooked by the skyline.

Narrated travelogue covering the Andes Mountains portion of Bolivia, and three very different areas of Peru, the traditional cities of the Andes Mountains, the modern cities of the coastal plains, and the upper Amazon jungle.

A Turkish girl decides to escape from her family to Cairo after they forced her to marry a wealthy man. On her way there, she falls prey to a conman who steals all her money. Then she meets a poor family and falls in love with their son who He works as a mechanic, but she is afraid of her family's rejection because of the social difference between them.

Made in the late 1940s or early 1950s, this Pan Am travelogue takes the viewer on a journey to Ireland aboard the DC-6B Clipper Mermaid. The film begins with landing at Shannon Airport, and from there begins a storybook-like trip through villages and the countryside to Cork, Tipperary, the Blarney Stone, Tipperary, the Trinity Library, and Dublin.

A history of the U.S. Army's First Infantry Division, known as "The Fighting First" and also as "The Big Red One" for the soldiers' distinctive shoulder patch.

Valaida Snow sings and plays trumpet backed by the fez-wearing Ali Baba Trio in a post-war soundie.

Deuce Spriggins' Band teaming with Carolina Cotton for "Down the Trail to San Antone."

A short silent film about mountaineering expedition on Triglav during winter.

"Là-haut sur ces montagnes" sung by Madeleine Lachance is illustrated with drawings and in "C'est l'aviron" a boat sails to the rhythm of the melody in a nostalgic and distant landscape.

"Meeting the art" - about how we look, examine, review and analyze a painting, and what happens when we try ourselves to create art.

An urgent call to arms for city workers to help bring in the post-war grain harvests to avert famine around the world.

The Swedish city Lidköping's 500th anniversary.

A Cannes film festival nominated short feature.

A Soundie featuring The Cactus Cowboys with Bobby Gregory.

A Soundie with The Harem Trio and Arica Wild.

A guide to vegetable self-sufficiency in postwar Germany.

Documentary film about the Berlin state elections in the Soviet zone in October 1946

An overview of national radio in Canada in 1946, describing the networks and showing clips of programming in English and French, from Don Messer to a young Oscar Peterson.

With the help of his friends and wife, Magritte films sketches without any narrative coherence, a series of filmed installations (sometimes involving the painter's favorite iconography) that revel in the burlesque spontaneity of the shoot. “'Cinema for intellectuals' never amuses me and I expect nothing from cinema other than amusement, futile if you will, but which few films manage to arouse” --René Magritte

A mid 40's "first" on hot interracial sex, A statesque black man and his white friend play strip dice with a willing girl. All lose their clothes and inhibitions. A bawdy "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" with everyone eating their fill!

Shows Scottish settlers in the Highlands of Cape Breton, much like the Highlands of Scotland. Small flocks of sheep like the crofters of the old country wander on the hills and provide wool for spinning and weaving, while the plain-spired churches and the only Gaelic College in the world keep alive the faith brought from other highlands across the sea. Gaelic language is heard in the church, singing in community and casual exchanges between passers-by.

Background process plate produced for an unidentified feature film, shot from an automobile driving through Bunker Hill and downtown Los Angeles.

Musical short with divers Jeanne Fairbrother, Steve Acardi and Tony Zukas with music by Jimmie Wallington.

Some puppets demonstrate road safety to school children. (A public information film)

Traces the development of the animated cartoon from a 19th-century children's toy to modern Disney cartoons. Includes a complete animated show as it would have looked in the 1890s.

Careless Harry learns about gun safety.

Follows a small, rural Canadian family as they struggle to keep a hard-working farmhand employed on their land during the winter months.

Set of three news stories

This post-WWII toothpaste ad feels years ahead of its time, featuring a gang of wacky stop motion puppets that revel in a plaque problem. The set inside the mouth and the germ characters manage to be successfully charming and grotesque at the same time. Animator Edwin Shorter patented his puppet construction process, but failed to make a career from it.

Etiquette guidance, here, displaying how to throw a tea party.

Promotional film for Boeing's new commercial transport, the 4-engine double-decker Model 377 Stratocruiser.

A Technicolor film on the principles and practicalities of crop rotation, illustrated with diagrams and models.

This documentary short addresses the problems of finding housing for returning WW2 veterans and offers possible solutions for the housing shortage.

The trio from DOG, CAT AND CANARY return for more hijinx in this late screen gems cartoon. Once again, the cat wants to eat the canary and the dog doesn't want that to happen.

A studio recording by the poet Johannes Jørgensen, who reads the poems "Fagerø" and "Behind all the blue mountains". At the request of J. Øhlenschlæger Johansen.

This film speaks to the need for solidarity between all maritime unions, vividly recounting the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike, which culminated in a police riot in which two workers were killed, and led to further strikes and greater solidarity. Includes a great score with union hymns performed by Pete Seeger and Joe Jaffe, and a filmed introduction by Joseph Curran, president of the NMU.

Unpublished corporate documentary on the famous captain of industry Adriano Olivetti and on the history of his factory activity in Ivrea. The project was never completed, so the images are based on a comparison between the original negative and a colored working copy, belonging to a different montage.

A collection of six Christmas song favorites, produced for the home-gauge market.

Biographical account of Leopoldo Miguéz with sung and illustrated fragments of some of his compositions.

Educational film demonstrating the benefits of magnesium, which, because of its lightness, can save energy. The film was made for Dow Chemical Co. Lost Film

April 9, 1940, an aircraft warns Norwegian merchant ships that German naval forces are heading for Norwegian waters. The pilot signals to a Norwegian-flagged ship that responds to shooting at the aircraft. The pilot is hurt but is able to land on the water. He is picked up by a Norwegian boat on his way to Kristiansand. Before he dies, he tells Captain Knut Viker and the governor Harald Bakken if this happened.

A story of progress in railroad transportation

Far away in the northern lands lived a brother and sister. The boy went hunting, and the girl stayed at home. A bear and a hare came to visit her, and she told them about spring and all the wonders it brings. But the evil guardian of winter did not like the cheerful songs full of love for warmth. She stole the girl...

The Building of a Tire is a 1946 Disney animated short film. It was sponsored by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company.

Commissioned by the newly founded SED for the first regional elections (October 1946) in the Soviet occupation zone.

In Là-haut sur ces montagnes, Mclaren used for the first time a chain-of-mixes (chiaroscuro) on a pastel-drawn landscape. The idea for such a technique had been planted by seeing Alexandre Alexeïeff’s Night on Bare Mountain in the late thirties.