Cinematic Era: 1947 Vintage

A documentary about how trading goods with the rest of the world works to help the UK economy after WWII.

Adaptation of an Arabian Nights Story: The adventures of a Cairo cobbler who leaves his wife after she has had him arrested for buying her the wrong kind of vermicelli and honey cake.

Young Roger Windsock loves airplanes. One day Roger discovers he has grown a pair of wings, but is dismayed to find out that he cannot fly.

This documentary starts with the theory as proposed by John Dalton in 1808, and outlines the progress made during the nineteenth century bringing in Faraday's early experiments in electrolysis, Mendeleeff's Periodic Table, and ending with ideas of the size of molecules and atoms then current. (Part 1 of 6)

Freely inspired by the story of the Ceará native, jangada (traditional fishing boat) leader and abolitionist Francisco José do Nascimento, known as "Dragon of The Sea," who instigated strikes against slavery in the early 1880s. The film is set among the jangada fishermen, on the beaches and dunes of Fortaleza at the end of the 19th century, and narrates the struggle waged against the slave system.

Model husbands prove that size isn't everything as they get steamed up over Lilliput locomotives.

Lupe, an adventurer and film specialist, takes advantage of her strong resemblance to the actress she has to voice to defraud her fiancé, a banker.

The newly appointed director Hugo Henriksen gets into a fight and accidentally hits a prostitute. When Hugo is trying to leave the scene the girl dies.

Compares daily activities of a secretary with those of a stenographer.

In this film without sound, a man awakes disheveled in a rooming house. He stares out the window seeing children playing and a well-dressed man sitting on a chair in the middle of the street reading a newspaper and looking up at him. A headline describes the murder of a child. The disheveled man, whose face expresses fear and despair, leaves, going through the city, alarmed when anyone looks at him. A woman invites him to look through a public telescope. He does then keeps going. He climbs a hill. Two fencers appear; so does a jester. Is flight fruitless?

In an isolated house, in Brittany, live two sisters around whom gravitate a whole series of strange characters. Between the eruption of the vagrant voyeur and that of the couple in love, the youngest kills her eldest and goes mad.

Explains the scientific background and Biblical teaching about blood.

Universal newsreel recounts the proceedings at the House Un-American Activities Committee

Directed by Ibrahim Lama.

In this 1947 film by diving pioneer Hans Hass, marine biology work is shown with the help of early diving equipment. During the expedition Hass was able to observe and film shark behaviour and collect plant samles from underwater caves.

In this installment of the Eye Witness series from 1947, we visit Chalk River, Canada's atomic energy project, for an update. We see the production and handling of radioactive isotopes destined for medical and agricultural research. Then we visit South Africa for a report on the Canadian trade mission while surveying the industrialization that's taken place and affected the Commonwealth nation.

The film gives a picture of the busy life that moves throughout the day in the Radio House, and it shows us the people behind the voices as well as the technical means needed to complete the broadcasts. Reportage and department manager Aksel Dahlerup (later radio director from 1959-1967) takes the viewer on a tour through the radio house's many studios, where orchestras rehearse, choir singers rehearse, actors record audio plays and speakers advertise the press radio newspaper. We also drop by the director's office, the music archive and the Marketenderiet, where the house's many employees meet over a bite to eat or a cup of coffee.

A choreographic interpretation of a dancer's anxiety before starting her theater routine.

Short film by Mary Ellen Bute

The story of two young people in love and a jealous lover who wants to separate them.

After the Continuation War and the Lapland War, Eino Mäkinen photographed the devastated Lapland rising from the ashes in 1945-1947. Lapin sisu is a harrowing depiction of a family arriving at the ruins of their home. But a new home is quickly built by a volunteer team. “Remember, Kansanapu is calling you too!”

1947 Indian Kannada-language film

Antar dies and he orders his son to complete the mission. Since Antar's son inherited his father's courage and boldness, he takes it upon himself to fight polytheism and paganism. He works to strengthen the religion of Islam and wages wars against the pagans, until he falls into Gharam, the daughter of an Arab prince, falls in love with him, but there is someone who threatens this nascent love: a pagan prince who wants to marry her.

Documentary short about job opportunities for British ex-servicemen in post-war Australia.

This travelogue takes in some of the most important landmarks of Islamic power in India.

The beautiful wife of a mediocre and good-natured butcher falls in love with a cerebral philosophy professor who little by little reveals to her a horizon that conflicts with her innocence.

A short grotesque by Josef Váchala (it had 4 screenwriters), which had the working title "The World in Reverse". Film amateur František invites a lot of friends to a screening of his film "Svagrovo odpoledne". During the screening, he is drawn into the action on the screen. He travels through a strange world where everything happens backwards...

Fashion Means Business (MARCH OF TIME) compactly investigates that heavy, nervous industry which whets woman's desire to improve, with various fabrics and gewgaws, upon the pelt God gave her. The film ranges, within 18 minutes, from the elegant fountainheads of Parisian and U.S. design, to those frenetic dress foundries along Manhattan's Seventh Avenue in which as many as 100 identical garments are cut in a few swerves of power-driven super-scissors. There are also instructive glimpses of the machinery which stamps a season's fashions upon a whole continent at once: the fashion magazines, the provincial fashion editors, the out-of-town buyers. Respects are also paid to I.L.G.W.U., a strong, shrewd union which realizes that management's Golden Goose needs feeding as well as bleeding.

Hong Kong horror movie from 1947.

A detective uncovers a crime. The suspects are numerous and it will take all the insight of a journalist to discover the culprit.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

A look at contemporary art in Québec.

There's a great deal of excitement on a small North Sea island: A millionairess has arrived, accompanied by her elderly secretary. No one knows why the lady is vacationing here of all places. It's particularly strange that Ellinor, as the sophisticated city woman is called, is snooping around everywhere. She's being watched suspiciously by all the islanders. But it's all just a game! In reality, the elderly secretary is a millionaire – his name is Jan Remmers, and he left his home island many years ago to pursue a career overseas. Now he's returned, but he doesn't want to reveal his identity until he's found out whether the community would welcome him warmly even without his millions. Unfortunately, Remmers discovers that no one is expecting him in his old home: His former fiancée, Berta, has married the fisherman Hinnerk, and his son, Peter, is a very independent engineer. Proud of his son, Remmers is secretly supporting a major construction project Peter is working on.

A brother and a sister who believe Santa is down on his luck this year decide to give Santa a gift in order to help him out.

O'Voutie O'Rooney was marketed as a short film by indie distributor Astor Pictures, who tagged it along with feature films made for all-black cinemas.

Information film about the tuberculosis study in Copenhagen. The film effectively polemicizes against the widespread but erroneous notion that the disease does not affect the older age groups.

This musical short features four songs associated with the western United States.

A documentary about the first Belgian king, Leopold I.

Glimpses of Nova Scotia, from Halifax to Digby. The off-screen narration cites history, tradition, the contributions of Scottish and French immigrants, the strategic importance of Nova Scotia's coast, each village's churches, the stained glass windows at St. John's in Lunenburg, the Acadians' annual apple crop, Port Royal (now Annapolis Royal), a history of wars between France and England, and the tides of the Bay of Fundy.

Jessie Matthews relives, with Alvar Liddell an appreciative listener, the delights of a holiday spent in Devonshire.

A pair of Poles deported to Siberia are taken to the army formed by General Anders and along the battle trail.

In 1975, on his 70th birthday, Dr. Carlos Miranda watches a TV special about his life. Displeased with it, he uses his futuristic TV set to interrupt the host and provide his own retelling of the story to the audience.

The Teachers’ Crisis (MARCH OF TIME) puts the pointer on one of the biggest U.S. problems—education. By narrative, charts and acted episodes, the film dramatizes the fact that, with public school enrollments bigger than ever before, and constantly growing, the U.S. has fewer public-school teachers than it had in 1939. Of these teachers many are pitifully ill-trained “emergency” amateurs. (The film shows the too common spectacle of a teacher unable to work a problem she has given students.) Still others are psychologically unfit to teach (the film shows a stupid teacher calling a pupil stupid).

A woman is forced to travel to Egypt, leaving her daughter there in one of the Levant countries. She meets Hafez, the head of a drug smuggling gang, and settles down in Egypt. The woman meets Hafez and consults him on this matter, as she had made her daughter believe that she was wealthy in Egypt, Hafez reassures her and rents her a huge villa to hold the engagement party there.

1947 Tamil film

"Community" is a 1947 documentary directed by Paul Zils, a filmmaker known for his significant contributions to Indian documentary cinema. Unfortunately, specific details about the film's content are scarce, and it appears that the film may be lost.

A rhapsody of music and images in Stockholm.

In every youth camp somebody needs to stand guard by the flag. After an eventful stealth game however Drats desides to leave his post to go swimming.

A team of divers explores undersea animal and plant life and revels in the majesty of the underwater world.