Cinematic Era: 1947 Vintage

A French team of archaeologists exploring Angkor buildings to restore some.

Heckel and Jeckel fly over a country estate and decide it would do just fine as a nesting ground for them, especially since it afforded a few luxuries they could take advantage of. But the Bulldog guardian of the grounds thinks otherwise and makes his objections know. They object to his objections by attacking him with the croquet mallets, pushing him into the swimming pool and several other objectionable ways the talking magpies could come up with.

Classic satire on the Western genre, with the sheriff fighting the bad guy. Then a mysterious stranger enters. It's Mighty Mouse!

A young beaver who has run away from home learns a lesson about work and slothfulness when he attracts a wolf who wants to turn him into a fur coat.

An experimental short film of images and music made by Norman McLaren.

Short animated film.

Short film by Marie-Anne Colson-Malleville.

A day of tuna sport fishing at Wedgeport, NS

Video copy of Bill Bernstein's 8mm color home movies aboard the ship Exodus 1947. Exodus 1947 carried 4,500 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who sought to illegally immigrate into Palestine. Even before the ship reached Palestine's territorial waters, British destroyers surrounded it. Bill Bernstein, the Exodus's second officer and a Jew, was clubbed to death trying to prevent a British soldier from entering the wheelhouse on the ship. The remaining passengers were eventually transferred to DP camps in Germany.

Visual documentary about mountains, filmed in Alberta's Canadian Rockies.

The International Ice Patrol is an organization with the purpose of monitoring the presence of icebergs in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and reporting their movements for safety purposes.

In the 1940s, Brotherhood of St Laurence founder, Father Gerard Tucker, commissioned three short, silent films which were screened to audiences in the affluent suburbs of Melbourne and rural Victoria. 'Beautiful Melbourne', 'Gaol Does Not Cure' and 'These Are Our Children' were made on a shoestring budget between in 1946-47. 'Beautiful Melbourne' with its raw scenes of the pre-gentrified Fitzroy near Melbourne’s CBD exposed the living conditions of families living in overcrowded, dilapidated and vermin-infested housing.

A traffic accident occurs once every six seconds, most leading to property damage, injury, and/or death. Most of these accidents are preventable, and are caused purely by carelessness, impatience, inattention, and/or recklessness in not following basic driving rules. The basic tenets of driving include knowing the physics of movement, and knowing one's own limitations in a vehicle, which may differ in different road situations.

From the Film Australia Collection. Made by the National Film Board 1947. Directed by Geoffrey Collings. This film surveys post-war Japan and life under Allied occupation. It comments on the reception and installation of democratic practice and considers Australia’s part in the occupation and Japan’s future development.

Mildred Burke and Mae Weston battling it out for the Women’s Wrestling Championship of the World in 1949.

A musical revue featuring a variety of acts of singing, comedy sketches, burlesque dancers, and more.

This old-school educational film teaches a viewer how to develop posture consciousness and motivates them to have good habits with standing, walking and sitting postures.

A Marathi film by Jaishankar Danve.

Chiquita saves an explorer from becoming a cannibal's meal by showing him the recipe for banana scallops. Unfortunate stereotypical cannibal.

The adventures of Constance and Bud Helmericks in Alaska.

Part of Ford Motor's AMERICANS AT HOME series--tells the story of the backwoods people who live in the beauty and awe-inspiring grandeur of the Great Smokey Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee--panoramic shot of the Appalachian Mountains--cars going through winding roads up mountain--man sings folk song (bluegrass)--square dance party (country western)--boys and girls doing shores; feeding chickens, fetching water, cutting wood, helping mother w/ laundry, etc.--boys and girls in classroom--men cutting log for making cabin and shingles--boy tossing baseball into mitt as he walks--church choir sings--family makes their own sweetener the old fashion way w/ sorghum and sugar canes--man makes chair--woman using loom--woman in kitchen using modern appliances--electric generator near town helps to improve farm life--lumber industry--tobacco plantation--family eats together at dinner table.

This short from the publishers of Encyclopedia Brittanica shows the process of making a book, from the author's finished manuscript to its being turned over to a printer for typesetting, assembly, cutting, trimming, binding and actual printing.

Hydroelectric power, shipping, irrigation and salmon fishing.

Documentary film shot by Howard Triest in 1947.

A trip to Norway includes Constitution Day celebrations in Oslo, the shipping and fishing industry in Bergen, and a journey north of the Arctic Circle.

Shot and distributed in Cinecolor, this Lowell Thomas Movietone examines Australia's Coral Reef and the myriad strange creatures that live and build there.

"Non-objective" art film by Robert Boardman Howard.

Two brothers learn good sportsmanship at a local pool during a swim meet.

A formerly strict teacher takes a different tact with his unruly students.

A retelling of Aesop's fable.

Educational short about the human reproductive process.

What Makes a Fine Watch Fine visits Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for a guided tour of the Hamilton Watch Company Factory. The film focuses on the design Hamilton pocket watches, wrist watches, and clocks as well as the work of its employees.

The first Syrian talkie.

A Columbia Color Phantasy (production number 8702) that finds a professor washed up on a barren island with the only inhabitant a vulture, with an uncanny resemblance to Jimmy Durante, whose goal is to hasten the demise, and make a meal of the professor.