Cinematic Era: 1951 Vintage

A look at life in MacKenzie District in Canada's Northwest Territories.

A married industrialist maintains three mistresses. On the instructions of his wife, the tax inspector seizes the small notebook where he records his illegal dealings. After a stormy marital explanation, the industrialist decides to reduce his costs by getting rid of his mistresses and expresses the intention of returning to legality. But he realizes that everyone, even his wife, prefers the old situation, fraud and mistresses, thanks to which everyone found his little profit.

In the orderly and happy life of a married woman, an old lover reappears and disrupts her peace of mind. His reappearance threatens her family peace and her relationship with her husband, a relationship that is being tested irreparably.

Scalli is a gangster who manages women wrestlers as a front for his bookmaking, drug, and prostitution rackets. He trusts the wrong people and ends up trying to run away from both the police and mysterious mob boss Mr. Big, to whom he owes $35,000.

Report on the Waldeck district.

The final Screen Songs short. Blackout gags involving various Michigan-related scenarios, from Traverse City all the way to Detroit. Along with that, a "follow-the-bouncing-ball" singalong to Irving Berlin's "I Want to Go Back to Michigan (Down on the Farm)".

Herbert, a hound who has never seen a fox, joins the Foxhound Academy to get his foxhound credentials. The instructors describes a fox, and tells Herbert to remain at the back of the pack during the hunt and blow a bugle if he sees a fox. The lead dogs pass by a fox but not Herbert, but the fox takes Herbert over to a sleeping bear and identifies the bear as a fox. Herbert blows his bugle, but the hunt resume, without Herbert, when the dogs see the bear. The fox returns and, at Herbert's invitation, joins him for a spot of tea.

On the Franco-Belgian border, large and small traffickers engage in their illicit activities. For his part, a policeman is working to put an end to smuggling in the area.

A brief history of British aviation and the development of both civil and military aircraft. Made for the Festival of Britain.

First Swedish puppet film. A witch offers a soldier a wealthy life if he retrieves a tinderbox from a hollow tree.

Early Short by Adolfas Mekas, apparently credited as "George Binkey."

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren and collaborator Evelyn Lambart.

Promotional film for Capitol Records

Two sisters fall in love with the same man. Plus fatal illness.

One of Santa Claus' "brownies" (elves) introduces the story of the Fairy Snow Queen, who plays a trick on Santa Claus by bringing all the toys to life just before Claus is due to deliver them to children around the world. She shows Claus what she's done and the toys demonstrate their abilities. The toys are distraught when Claus says they must be turned back into inanimate objects in time for Christmas, but the Fairy Snow Queen comes up with a plan to make everyone happy.

Archduke Johann, whose liberal leanings and bourgeois lifestyle have brought him into disfavor with the Viennese court, falls in love with the postmaster's daughter Nandl. Against the wishes of the court, he wants to make her his wife...

In this outing, Huey goes to a birthday party, causes his usual havoc and the baby ducks blindfold Huey and send him away playing pin the tail on the donkey.

This is one of four fairy tales master animator Ray Harryhausen made between 1949 and 1953 by hand, using stop-motion photography perfected as an apprentice under mentor Willis H. O'Brien of "King Kong" fame.

Canada's progress in jet aviation is seen in relation to that of other countries.

Ambros Fornes owns two large farms and stunning four horses. These horses comes to fill his life because his young beautiful wife, Lisle, does not manage to love him as he loves her.

Balzac is a 1951 short documentary film by French director Jean Vidal. It is a biopic on the work, life, and loves of the French playwright and novelist Honoré de Balzac, his evolution as a writer and how his individual works fit into the design of La Comedie Humaine. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in 1952 and won first prize for best director at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival the same year.

Popeye is climbing the Alps, and Olive is being hauled up behind him on a rope, taking pictures. Mountain guide Bluto spots them through binoculars, and goes crazy over Olive. He immediately intercepts them and tries to convince them they need a professional guide. Popeye resists, so Bluto uses a number of tricks: cutting the rope, burning a bridge they are crossing, using a magnet to break Popeye's climbing pick. Olive finally has had enough, and goes off with Bluto, who promptly gets her alone in a dark cave. Her screams bring Popeye, whose battle with Bluto carves a Mount Rushmore replica in a mountain-top. Bluto knocks Popeye into a snowbank, where a Saint Bernard dog revives him with spinach (after consulting a handy Popeye comic book). Popeye bashes Bluto into a mountain, forming a Paramount logo.

A put upon, middle-aged employee receives a small sum of money as a gift and uses it to take a trip to Rome.

Rodgers’ friends and colleagues pay tribute to him. Among the original Broadway cast members reprising the songs they introduced are Vivienne Segal (“Bewitched” from “Pal Joey”) and Alfred Drake (“People Will Say We’re in Love” from “Oklahoma!”). Vera Zorina dances “Rodgers in Three Quarter Time,” a ballet created expressly for the show set to three Rodgers waltzes, and Mary Martin sings “Wonderful Guy” as Rodgers himself accompanies her on piano.

Good-grooming film for women that was funded by the meatpacking and consumer products giant to showcase the company's Dial soap. The Clean Look teaches how to apply makeup, bathe, develop proper posture, apply shampoo, and comb one's hair.

Alma liberada is a black and white film from Argentina directed by Edmundo del Solar that premiered on August 9, 1951 and starred Josefina Ríos, Iván Grondona, Edmundo del Solar and Pilar Gómez.

The film portrays alcoholism as a mental health problem and as an illness that can respond to treatment. Demonstrates that the causes of this illness are imbedded personality difficulties often relating back to the early formative years of the victim’s childhood. The film discusses different forms of alcoholism and the different treatment required for each type. The role of Alcoholics Anonymous is covered and a plea made for increased public facilities for the treatment of alcoholics.

Mexican feature film

A short film about the new generation.

An authoritarian boss interferes in the love live of two young lovers.

When the cat's away the mice will play, and are on their way across the kitchen to the cheese in the refrigerator, but the cat's not away and Katnip makes his appearance and runs the mice away. Of course, Cousin Herman ---or 'Hoiman as his Brooklyn cousins call him--- shows up and he is more than a match for Katnip.

A 1951 Egyptian film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Assia Noris, Youssef Wahby and Rushdy Abaza.

Filipino horror movie from 1951.

Barbara Florian is in love with Renalto Baldini. After the latter goes off to a distant job to make enough money to marry her, the girl discovers she is going to have a baby. Marco (Otello Toso), posing as a friend, exploits the situation to his own gain, and uses the situation to shock the girl's ailing father to his death. Marco then marries the widow, Valeria (Franca Marzi), the girl's stepmother.

Casper the Friendly Ghost befriends a Boy Scout.

This short is a rather manic re-telling of the fable, "The Ant and the Grasshopper", with Woody Woodpecker as the grasshopper.

Strange things begin to happen to a student when he rents a room once belonging to the poet ETA Hoffmann.

Harishchandra is a 1951 Indian Nepali-language film based on the story of the legendary king Harischandra from Hindu mythology. This is credited as the first Nepali language film however, many don't acknowledge as so, since all of the production and filming was in India.

A group of young boys break some windows at a warehouse. The security guard recognizes one of them as a neighborhood boy, Harry. Harry is hauled into the police station and told things will go easier on him if he tells who his accomplices were. Harry must decide which is better, shouldering the blame for the entire incident or ratting out his friends.

Canada's tenth province--its people, its resources, its way of life. The camera shows us St. John's, the capital city; Cornerbrook, pulp and paper centre; and Bell Island with its iron mine. The greatest wealth of Newfoundland is her people, and a visit with Fred Greeley, inshore fisherman and his family, introduces us to our fellow Canadians. Finally the importance of Newfoundland's airports is stressed, and we visit Gander, where international air travellers come and go from the four corners of the globe.

This documentary describes the process of building and the first days of the combine and the city of Nowa Huta. Andrzej Munk realizes the postulates of socialist realism decreed in Polish cinematography in 1949.

Newsreel magazine from December 1951.

Spanish bullfighter and a Mexican one have a friendly rivalry spanning decades.

Pongrácz, an employee of the railway company and participant of the movement called "two thousand tons", is killed in what looks to be an accident. Szabó, his friend, having found the workbook, goes on with the fight.

Handicapped songwriter falls for bad girl. Again.

While all the animals are working, the lazy snail sleeps. The people of the forest decide to teach him a lesson.