Cinematic Era: 1949 Vintage

In the Buenos Aires of 1900, a man seeks to avenge the death of his brother, killed at the exit of a fight.

A short subject by Fred Sarlié.

In a rural area, an insect receives a letter with an invitation to participate in the Insect Ball, to be held in the city and with no end date. There, flies, mosquitoes, mosquitoes and cockroaches have fun and dance, until a robot, named Detefon arrives to end the party, pouring an insecticide, exterminating all the insects. Animated advertisement for the insecticide Detefon entitled "Baile de Bugs", directed and animated by Eugenio Marcus and produced by the company Rex Filme.

An UN produced French documentary attempting to illustrate the many causes of juvenile delinquency with particular reference to adverse environmental influence.

Two children get involved in the adventure as the bustling caretaker Mrs. Aaltoska and crime reporter "Hawkeye" Lipponen start chasing the mysterious criminal league.

Leon Errol needs to keep his guests apart at dinner.

An engine moves from the roundhouse to a track where it couples with several passenger cars. At 2:10 in the afternoon, it starts a trip out of the station through the countryside to its destination. The film consists of a montage of shots, some close up, of the engine and its gears and wheels. With the accompanying ambient sounds and an orchestral score, the emphasis is on the engine's power and speed. Parallel lines of multiple tracks, telephone wires, and trees confirm a careful composition.

During socialism, Konzum was a chain of grocery and general stores, but it was also a place where unexpected events took place after dark. In the poetic interlude between the last and first customers, between dusk and dawn, herring and coffee come to life with stories from faraway places. The mundane everyday routine is transformed into a frenetic swarm of ships, conveyor belts, machines, and human hands working collectively to supply goods.

Film noir about a physician who sets aside his altruistic quest for a cure for polio when a femme fatale coerces him into murder and blackmail.

Educational short that details the inner workings of an ant hill and compares this 'ant city' with a human city.

Meena is running away from two blackmailers Sohan and Mohan (IS Johar and Manju); who are blackmailing her for a a crime that she did not commit.

A documentary on the International Festival of Democratic Youth in Budapest.

Joe McDoakes takes advice on how to be more likeable from his only friend Homer Hotbox

Dr. I.C. Spots is an African witch doctor about to prepare a potion which needs as one of its ingredient a rabbit.

A short retelling of Cinderella, the fairy tale by Grimm.

To avoid the abandonment of her husband, a woman rents three children with the intention of making him believe that he is the father. Sudden maternity will bring complications in triplicate.

Documentary about old castles and palaces in the Münsterland region of Westphalia.

The 24th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine, featuring the articles: 'Holiday Camp', 'Beside the Sea', 'Up River' and 'Pitmen's Derby'.

A young woman who works as a music store saleswoman falls in love with a popular singer.

A naughty, love-smitten teacher sets in motion an audacious scheme to woo a charming final-year student who is in love with her fisherman beau.

An employee progresses in the factory where he works by having his wife pass by an attractive Cuban singer.

This Traveltalk series short takes the viewer to Quebec, the city that was called the "New France".

Directed by Nigel Byass.

Fishing village drama concerning the adoption of a baby boy, the only survivor of a wreck. He grows up only to lose his life as a member of the lifeboat crew.

Documentary short

A series of sight gags, followed by a sing-along of "A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight."

The struggle of a female doctor against superstition and healers.

"Whenever You Eat" (1949) is an educational film produced by the National Dairy Council and Atlas Film Corp, emphasizing the importance of physical well-being and its connection to good living habits and a proper diet. Through a 12-minute narrative, the film likely promotes balanced nutrition, healthy eating routines, and the role of dairy in maintaining overall health. Targeting families, students, and general audiences, it serves as a mid-century public health message encouraging better dietary choices for improved daily life and long-term wellness.

This educational film from the 1940s teaches the fundamental definitions of, and the physical concepts involved in, volt, ampere, ohm and watt.

The Tsimshian legend of a blind old medicine man and the origin of the distinctive white pattern on the neck of the loon.

A shy person is confused with a man that saved a woman from drowning, and he is seen as a hero.

An experimental short film shot in slow motion and set to Ottokar Nováček's violin composition Perpetuum mobile, the film depicts a love triangle between two men and a woman.

The relationship between a suffered gauchito and a foal.

Paul Whiteman, the orchestra leader, is a resident of the town of Libertyville, New Jersey, a quiet community where the farmers, including Mr. Whiteman, raise Black Angus cattle. His story is how the townspeople got to together in a town meeting to find a solution to the helter-skelter activities of the local teen-agers Saturday nights.

There was dancing in the street and tea on the river front when the Jacaranda Festival sprung to life in the last week of October in 1949. The Jacaranda Queen was the "most popular and prettiest girl in town" and the whole of the Clarence Valley descended on Grafton for the festival.

Short documentary about civil life.

This is an actual burlesque show, filmed in 1948 at the Hollywood Theater in San Diego, California. It is not a drama or a documentary, it is what you would have seen if you'd been sitting in the theater.

Propaganda film produced by the British Colonial Film Unit that covers the Colonial Exhibition on Oxford Street held during Colonial Month in the summer of 1949.

Experimental film by Curtis Opliger.

The agitated and tragic life of poet Castro Alves, and his romance with actress Eugênia Câmara.

Comedy duo try to raise a foundling baby.

Benjamin, an adolescent boy, arrives on a bus with other boys who are new arrivals at the village. They are introduced to the class. He is still suffering from trauma and begins to hoard bread taken from storage even though the village has no lack of food. He watches other children at work but feels foreign and alienated

This short 1949 documentary studies the impact Canada's National Health Program has had on people who might otherwise not had been able to obtain medical help.