Cinematic Era: 1949 Vintage

An episode of "The March of Time" - a theatrical newsreel series created by the editors of Life Magazine and Time Magazine.

Documentary film about the historical and cultural development of the two largest cities in East Bohemia - Pardubice and Hradec Králové.

A look at the mail carriages on the night train between Stockholm and Malmö, featuring a poetic dance sequence choreographed among the postbags and outside the train.

This newsreel featuring Middlebury College was produced by Paramount Pictures in 1948.

Documentary about the ethnographic festivities in Strážnice in the summer of 1949.

This short documentary profiles a 1949 meeting of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers in Guelph, Ontario. The IFAP plans to help solve the dire problem of world hunger—a problem sharpened by the birth of 55,000 more human beings, arriving "for breakfast," each day. Delegates emphasize the plight of the many nations who face starvation while others have a surplus of food. The conference challenges the world to succeed at implementing a proposed plan for the fair distribution of food.

Problems of underfunded and outdated schools.

Shows the agriculture, trade and infrastructure of California's Central Valley, all made possible by irrigation.

Mexican movie

Experimental short by Dorsey Alexander.

Comic short starring Hal Monty and Max Bygraves as two sailors on leave. Hal tries his hand at boxing, but gets more than he bargained for.

Black and White | 16 mm | ca. 21 min. | Production:Louis De Rochemont | Published by United World Films Inc., New York | Released on DVD from the National Archives of the United States by the U.S. Information Agency, 2008.

"Around the World in Two Hours" is a documentary from 1949 directed by Rasmus Breistein. He traveled the world with photographer Arild Nybakken and put these clips together into a feature film. This was the first feature-length color film made in Norway.

1949 film starring Ajitprakash, Manoranjan Bhattacharya and Bharati Devi

This Theatre of Life short focuses on heart disease, and how bad diet, lack of exercise, and the stress of fast-paced living contribute to the rising rates of heart disease and heart attacks.

In "The Lead Shoes", we can neither thrust in our eyes nor our ears to help us understand how time flows or how space is. Therefore, Peterson forces us to take both space and time as relative experiences. The consistent disorientation in the film and our consistent inability to perceive them in absolute terms become the main subject of the film. Peterson makes us aware that space and time are more complicated than we think they are and they should be experienced in a more open-minded way. —Yoel Meranda

The mint produces Finnish markkas.

Bacterial diseases are caused by infinitely small beings, called microbes or bacteria, and are accompanied by physiological disorders such as hollow heart, black heart, etc. This documentary presents the main characteristics of these diseases as well as means of repression or prevention.

An hand drawn animation of Frogs.

Shyam and Manglu , who, finding themselves recently unemployed, take to the streets, masquerading as lame and blind in order to make a few bucks begging from passersby. After being discovered as fakes, and then severely chastised in public, a by-stander offers them a job as caretakers of an old bungalow which is rumored to be haunted and has been all but abandoned by its owner, Sethani, and her beautiful daughter, Prema. Soon they discover the dead body of a former employee and now they are suspected to be hired killers.

A film on soil conservation, showing problems facing farmers in different areas of Canada. Many scenes of soil eroded, gouged and leached out by water, and of soil blowing away, prove the ominous necessity of understanding and preserving the land if we are to continue to reap vital crops. The development of soil through the centuries, the particular conservation problems in eastern and western Canada, and how soil fertility may be restored and maintained are dealt with in detail.

A film popularising Healthcare in Czechoslovak spa facilities, specifically Luhačovice. Several stories from the lives of patients depict both medical procedures and cures as well as social life and leisure activities in a spa environment. The film highlights spa amenities and emphasises looking after one's health as a key responsibility for workers.

A filming of a burlesque act in 1954 Harlem, complete with singers, baggy-pants comics and "exotic" dancers.

The first documentary produced by the Division of Community Education (DivEdCo) featuring modern and experimental audio techniques with aerial shots of Puerto Rico showing its topography, educationally inserting the island within a world-wide historical context and highlighting its agricultural and social landscape.

Experimental short. 16 mm, color, silent, 2:30 or 6 min. Sequel to No. 4.

A short economic history of the world from Neolithic man through the present day which espouses free trade and global economics.

"The imaginative experiments with animated clay figures begun last year in No Credit have, in this year's Proem, proved out as a suave and wholly integrated art form. The unique and wholly delightful work of Leonard Tregillus and Ralph Luce, jr., has here come handsomely of age — both technically and creatively. Proem, conceived as a preface to the theme of Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, is of far greater filmic stature than its already rented status permits it to be rated." Movie Makers, Dec. 1949, p. 470.

A study of the human hand and its many functions.

The film presents Finnish design and interior design accessories.

Introduction to the city of Turku and its history.

Ion Marin writes a letter to the editor of his local newspaper extolling the virtues of collective agriculture.

Algernon Blackwood narrates his tale in this theatrical short film. Presumably lost.

This color educational film is about how lubricants are derived from crude petroleum and how to improve the quality of lubricating oil. This is a 1949 film.

In Australia with its rapid development there is a need for insistence upon town planning. This film illustrates what has already taken place in our leading capital cities, where planning has been haphazard.

A Documentary surrounding the activities of a sampan fisherman and his family along the Min River in China's Fukien Province.

Musical TV movie, Schubert's Forellen-Quintett played on Schubert's original piano by the Boskovsky-Quintett, conducted by Willi Boskovsky

Demonstrating a U-shaped kitchen developed by the housing staff of the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics

Kronblom wins a little pig in a lottery and starts to build a sty for his new friend.

"The Story of a Mother" (Danish: Historien om en moder) is a story by the Danish poet, travel writer, short story writer, and novelist Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875).

Film staring Kamini Kaushal, Madhubala and Amir Ali

Gandy and sourpuss goes inside a book to get a rarest of all creature, the dingbat.

The parodied life of bad boys at the beginning of the 20th century in Paris.

Made by the National Film Board 1949. Directed by Bern Gandy. The expanding activities of the Post Office to cater for communications in an ever growing nation. This film also deals with the rapid expansion to cater for post-war demands, especially in supplying more telephones and exchanges. Australia’s vast distances make an efficient system of communication most necessary and this film stresses all the main factors involved in maintaining its efficiency.

A self-promoted and bragging mongrel is trying to prove his status to a doubting-parrot and accidentally swallows the cuckoo from a clock. The parrot tries to extricate the cuckoo from the dog, where the cuckoo seems to be content. The cuckoo and parrot are engaged in combat within the dog, which is not a pretty picture, and following the brawl, the cuckoo is now seen emerging at intervals from the parrot's mouth, which is also not a pretty picture.

Shorty the chimpanzee dresses as a scarecrow in clothes which he has “borrowed” from boys swimming in the river.

Description of the film production in Triglav film.

"The imaginative experiments with animated clay figures begun last year in No Credit have, in this year's Proem, proved out as a suave and wholly integrated art form. The unique and wholly delightful work of Leonard Tregillus and Ralph Luce, jr., has here come handsomely of age — both technically and creatively. Proem, conceived as a preface to the theme of Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, is of far greater filmic stature than its already rented status permits it to be rated." Movie Makers, Dec. 1949, p. 470.

A study of the human hand and its many functions.

The film presents Finnish design and interior design accessories.