Cinematic Era: 1948 Vintage

LDS Leaders from the Past. This rare black and white video includes motion picture footage of Church leaders from the first half of the 20th century. (19:55)

Bollywood 1948.

Santa magically creates a Punch and Judy puppet show to the delight of children at a Christmas party.

An impression of national park De Hoge Veluwe in the Netherlands. Flora and fauna, park management and the legend of St. Hubertus.

Amateur filmmaker, James Poppleton, delivers an account of WWII from the home front in Melbourne, Australia. Newspaper headlines set the scene and provide a timeline, starting with the declaration of war and various wartime activities such as air raid drills, marching, sandbagging and trench digging. Poppleton concludes with the end of World War II and marks the occasion with the Victory Day celebrations and marches that took place on the streets of Melbourne.

A documentary by Humphrey Jennings about the modernization of coal mines in Cumberland.

A quaint little village has a magic shop. While performing for his mice friends there, a magician mouse's show is interrupted by a group of cats who start chasing the mice. The magician battles them as long as he can, but they finally get his magic wand. They use the wand to make themselves invisible! The mice look doomed after the cats capture all of them. In desperation to save his friends, the magician sends a rocket into the skies to summon Mighty Mouse. Within minutes, our hero routs the cats and saves the mice and the magician.

Nahid and Farhad met each other at one of the night parties of the National Music Association and soon fell in love. Nahid's father is a wealthy businessman who opposes his daughter's marriage to Farhad and gives her to a rich man. Despondent, Farhad focuses all his efforts on his career and soon gains status and wealth.

Directed by Esmail Kushan.

A rebellion movement outbroke in a country causing almost all of its people being murdered. Among those who survived was a loyal slave who saved the princess. They both manage to runaway to a fisherman's village. There he brought up the princess as if it was his own daughter. Few years passed by the rebellious King had passed away and was succeeded by his Prince. As the new king made his normal visits to the villagers his eyes was attracted to the young Princess who has grown up. The King and the princess have fallen in love deeply and was so happy on how things are going on with their relationship. But, will she ever take her rightful place on the throne over her country?

Cats vs. mice in the Appalachias.

Anthology film made from clips from films starring Swedish actor Edvard Persson. The film was produced for Persson’s 60th birthday and starts off with a prologue created for this movie, portraying the star’s youth.

Six-year-old Betty visits a poultry farm, where she helps feed the chickens, sees them at various stages of development, watches a boy clean the eggs for market, sees eggs being gathered, and watches a truck bring grain and take the eggs away.

Documentary about the social and economic policy of the country in the first years of the Justicialista government. Considered a lost film.

Mexican movie

The film existed only in Jacque’s memory because all that remained were the two cardboard thief characters. Jacques called upon his memories to recreate the decor and the characters with a decorator. The operator then filmed frame by frame to reconstruct the film.

The common house-cat's imagination exceeds reality.

Jonckheere, the patriarch of a farming family, has two sons: Fons and Walter. Fons leaves the farm and goes astray, while Walter continues to run the homestead. Eventually, Fons realizes that his true calling lies in the land. He returns to the farm and is welcomed back with open arms by his brother.

Promotional film for the National Health and Insurance Acts which came into force on 15 July 1948

An insight into Göttingen's transportation and train system.

An hand drawn animation merged of Colors.

Examination of the harsh living faced by many in Ireland in the lead-up to the 1948 general election.

Educational short about the Duisburg harbour.

A fictional story of a Dracula-type character who terrorises the Coltness Estate in Wishaw.

This film shows the variety of London Transport's country bus services, featuring new commuter housing and industrial developments around London's green belt including various country towns and tourist attractions.

An abstract experimental film by Hugo Latelin.

This campaigning film claims that well-meaning Labour politicians such as Prime Minister Clement Attlee are stepping stones to a communist state, and it is only the Conservative Party that can protect the UK from such a fate. An inventive animated sequence of a snake swallowing a trembling rabbit is used to demonstrate the manner in which communism feeds on socialism.

A tour of Shakespeare country.

An evocation of the childhood of the great French writer François-René de Chateaubriand at his father's château in Comboug in Brittany. The text supporting images of the château and its surrounds consists of extracts from the writer's famous "Mémoires d'outre-tombe".

After a farm child becomes sick, a visit from the sanitary inspector points out various precautions for maintaining a clean water supply and preventing the spread of disease. The local school is also given pointers on better sanitation.

A rough but powerful film made by anti-apartheid crusader, Rev. Michael Scott, this is the first anti-apartheid documentary. The purpose of the film was clearly to generate international support for dealing with the plight of the African and Indian population in South Africa and South West Africa. Indeed, the very title, Civilization on Trial is a direct take-off of Arnold Toynbee’s influential 1948 book of the same title.

A portrait of Reykjavík in color.

A propaganda movie made about the seafarer town of Matosinhos.

A short animated retelling of the rhyme in the "follow the bouncing ball" style.

A short animated retelling of the rhyme in the "follow the bouncing ball" style.

It shows through the life of a couple the different customs of Montevideo at the beginning and middle of the XX century.

The 1948 episode “Nomads Of The Jungle (Malaya),” part of the educational film series The Earth and Its Peoples, directed by Victor Jurgens and produced by Louis de Rochemont Associates, follows a nomadic tribe in the jungle of the Malay Peninsula and captures nomadic life through the eyes of the chief’s son Alune.

An educational film about how food is distributed and sold in markets in London in the late 1940s.

How the Port of Oslo was in 1948, and the technical facilities the port could offer with loading, unloading, transit, forwarding, etc. // Oslofilm was a series of public information films about life in and around Oslo, produced between 1940 and 1980. Funded by the state, the films offer valuable insight into postwar Norwegian society. A wide range of Norwegian filmmakers contributed to the productions, resulting in a rich variety of styles and expressions. Several of the films also possess notable cinematic qualities, standing out as more than just informational material. The Oslofilms represent a unique and important chapter in Norwegian film history.

Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra with Dottie O'Brien, The Mello-Larks and Bill Lawrence.

Produced to encourage farmers to take the advice of Government Agricultural Officers, the film compares two black farmers. One is keen to improve and listens to the advice of the agricultural officer, while the other is lazy and ignores all advice. The keen one improves his crop, the other's crop remains poor.

Money for the football team is being used to buy a film projector and causes a big stink! A/V Geeks and jocks on the brink of gang war! Helps students establish a judicious mental attitude toward fact-finding. Jim, high school sophomore, who writes a "sensational" story for his school newspaper, learns to guard against platitudes, false analogies, assumptions, double meanings.

Business produces Mother's pen, the bread on the breakfast table, and the pop-up toaster into which the bread goes.

This educational short demonstrates how important the state of Alaska is by showing the many valuable resources it provides.

Film about telephone courtesy. A friend of the boss comes visiting, and he's amazed at all the friendly and efficient switchboard operators he has. It wasn't always like that. Before, they were rude and unorganized! Luckily, a trip to the phone company and a large meeting with all the employees solves the trick!