Cinematic Era: 1952 Vintage

Joe uses his "contacts" to buy a new oven as cheaply as possible.

Jean-Pierre, a pianist, is also the composer of a revue he would very much like Maroni, a famous theater producer, to put on. Maroni is not interested. All he wants at the moment is to impose Violette, a pretty young singer whose career he supervises. He has her dressed up as a flower seller. When he meets her, Jean-Pierre, who does not realize that she is in disguise, falls in love with her at first sight.

GDR and West Berlin in the 1950s. Hans Nettermann, a designer at the "Komet" bicycle factory, is a favorite of the BSG road riders. His dream is to one day ride in a stand-up race. A construction error throws him back in the road race. They work for a long time to fix it. Then he is persuaded to go to West Berlin to become a professional rider. Although he makes it to the top class, he also learns about the scams in professional sport. He marries Marianne, who has followed him and tries to persuade him to return to the GDR, which he eventually does. After some difficulties at work, he is nominated for the first amateur endurance race in the GDR and wins.

Rose is a young woman who lost her husband in WW2, leaving her and their daughter behind. She gets close with his good-natured brother Drago. However, an unscrupulous smuggler Vincenzo is always around him, and things get tough for the couple.

Summer holidays of young pioneers and the report of the pioneer meeting in Dresden in August 1952.

Mabel Beaton's marionettes star in this short about Santa trading in his reindeer for a rocket ship

Duke Ellington Orchestra performing "Sophisticated Lady" for Snader Telescriptions film.

The Big Bad Wolf's proper little nephew has learned at school that his uncle was the fiend who blew the Three Little Pigs' houses down and is ashamed that his uncle could have committed such a deed, so his uncle tells him what REALLY happened.

Edward Potter, a meek clerk at Scotland Yard hunts down an escaped criminal.

A cautionary film for sailors on the chances you take by going out with prostitutes or easy pickups..

An Andalusian woman travels to Buenos Aires, pretends to be a man and travels as a stowaway.

A visiting young man prefers the household electrical appliances over the teenage daughter!

1952 / Yatim Piatu / Orphan / B. S. Rajhans / Malay Film Productions

Short film.

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A historical documentary tracing Italy’s turbulent first half of the twentieth century, from the assassination of King Umberto I in 1900 to the proclamation of the Italian Republic after World War II. Moving through monarchy, fascism, war, and renewal, the film situates political upheaval alongside cultural moments such as the Holy Year celebrations.

An optimistic overview and explanation of the stock market with animated examples.

A liar who lives in a boarding house becomes a radio star.

In 1944 Lye moved to New York City, initially to direct for the documentary newsreel The March of Time. He settled in the West Village, where he mixed with artists who later became the Abstract Expressionists, encouraged New York’s emerging filmmakers such as Francis Lee, taught with Hans Richter, and assisted Ian Hugo on Bells of Atlantis. Color Cry was based on a development of the “rayogram” or “shadow cast” process, using fabrics as stencils, with the images synchronized to a haunting blues song by Sonny Terry, which Lye imagined to be the anguished cry of a runaway slave. —Harvard Film Archive

Winnie is desperate and doesn't know what to do next. She is about to marry her lover Paul, who has returned from war captivity. Both want to emigrate to America short after marriage. But the young woman has an illegitimate one-and-a-half-year-old son, whom she has kept secret from her fiancé. The short-tempered Paul would never understand that. When she is on her way to the orphanage, the grumpy senior civil servant Hieronymus Spitz and his little dog Tobby get into her train compartment. After a short observation, Winnie is certain that the misantrope actually has a good heart, because he lovingly takes care of his dog. Without further ado she leaves little Niki with the tax accountant and disappears from the train. Only a note with a request remains. The overwhelmed old gentleman initially wants to get rid of the child, but then takes it home and takes care of it together with his housekeeper. Both take the bundle of joy to their hearts. But then everything turns out differently.

Disguising herself as a man, Hua Mulan joined the army in her father’s stead. For over a decade, she fearlessly charged into battle, proving that a woman’s courage rivals any warrior’s, and valiantly repelled the invading forces.

A comedic take on the Frankenstein story.

Comedy from Hong Kong directed by Chiang Wai-Kwong.

Cooperative bank promotional film.

A dramatization of the life story of Christopher Columbus, a young boy dreaming of proving the earth is round by finding a westward trade route to the far east.

The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.

Three young women sharing an apartment take in a man they injured in a car accident; while he's recovering, they also make friends with a homeless man. And then...

He hopped, jumped, played with a cat in the meadow, rolled barrels, did somersaults and all kinds of other comedies, and in the process somewhere he got a sharp splinter in his paw. It was a small splinter, but it hurt a lot and he couldn't step on that leg very well. Cat proceeds to cure his paw while telling him a story about the proud nightgown.

Vörös Hajnal (Red Dawn), a co-operative is the venue of skylarking, while the storm destroys the wheat which is to be harvested soon. Árendás, a middle-peasant, voices severe accusations against members of the co-operative: out of negligence, they failed to keep the ditches clean. It is always the soft option they seem to favour, while the necessity of properly taking care of the farmlands is long-forgotten. Members of the co-operative and the village people are deeply divided.

Anatole, quivering nostrils and greedy lips, is the resourceful clerk of Mrs. Paufilat, a butcher. It takes a fancy to take on the identity of the Paufilat son, Paul. He must then undergo the assaults of the tumultuous Germaine, exhilarated by the money of Paul Paufilat.

A retiring teacher tells a young teacher the story of two old pupils, who once the war begins they will become enemies ...

Daffy Duck takes shelter from a blizzard by sneaking into a cozy home owned by Porky Pig. Daffy tries to secretly mooch off of Porky for an entire winter, but Porky's dog realizes that Daffy isn't the stuffed ornament he pretends to be and keeps trying to alert Porky to Daffy's ruse.

A bloodthirsty and cruel lord increases his fortune by overpowering timid and ignorant peasants. Riccardo and his partner Hilda work to ensure that justice is done.

Chinese Opera comedy from Hong Kong directed by Yeung Kung-Leung.

A visit to the deserted city of Perast.

One man dared turn this crude, uneducated, ill-clad gutter-born woman into high society's most beautiful, exciting, tempting creature.

Amado is an employee of a brewery that dreams of success in football. Inveterate dreamer sends a letter to the pantheon of athletes. There champions Assembly decides to send the spirit of a great scorer for help. However, the devil, a fighter with no luck, decides to take the place of the player and turn beloved wrestling champion. This is one of the first incursions of Mexican cinema to the sub-genre of movies precursor struggle and many others that followed over the decades of the 50s and 60s.

The destinies of different kind of people encounter in a passenger train that is traveling from Helsinki to the North.

Die Prüfung (The Examination) (1952) is an East German documentary directed by Andrew Thorndike. Running at approximately 35 minutes, the film focuses on the reconstruction of schools in rural East Germany and the implementation of democratic educational reforms. It highlights the educational experiences of children in towns like Ducherow and Dessau, along with the significance of the "Day of the Teacher" in the GDR. Produced by the DEFA Studio für Wochenschau und Dokumentarfilme, the film underscores the importance of education and the teaching profession in shaping the new socialist state.

A holidaying family captures the picturesque Devon coastal village of Lynmouth, both before and after a tragic flood event.

Plans to take over the task of the British spy who came to Istanbul to Anatolia by Kemal’s story of said British: Lawrence.

The changing face of 1950s Scotland.

Shin Shinaki dreams of killing Taishi, the man who killed her parents. When the villain dies, she transfers her vengeful energies on to the man’s son.

Fishermen are seen leaving Peterhead harbour in search of herring. The herring are unloaded and taken to the fishcuring yard where they are gutted, pickled and cured. Entered in the Scottish Amateur Film Festival 1952.

This Oscar-nominated documentary short is from the American Cancer Society. Ed ignores his car problems and then fixes it without using a good mechanic. He also ignores stomach problems. Will he go to a doctor? Is it cancer?

Alan Simpson's lyrical, visually lush film captures the Mummers of Symondsbury as they enact their traditional Christmas play outside their village inn.

A day in the life of a train station.

One of the office boys in a company succeeds in finding a job for his newly graduated son at his employer. But the son is ashamed of his father's job. He meets a dancer, and marries her despite his father's opposition, causing a surprise to change the course of events.

This school film gives audiences a demonstration of the advantages of mechanised labour. The author mentions the digger plough invented by the Veverka cousins which was no longer sufficiently efficient at that time. The machines arrive to help the farmers work more effectively. They become a symbol of the connection between farmers and the proletariat.

Animals start to mysteriously die in a zoo in Hamburg. Is somebody poisoning the animals and with what purpose?

Yee Chau-shui is one of the best comedians in Hong Kong cinema and he first played the Tramp character in the 1939 film Song Girl White Peony, a remake (or ripoff) of Chaplin's City Lights (1931). Flower Girl is a remake of that remake, transposing the story from Great Depression America to postwar Hong Kong, where devastating poverty is compounded by an egregious wealth gap between sectors. Yee's Tramp is an inspired blend of Chaplin's slapstick gags and the Cantonese opera chou san (the clown) shtick, exemplified by his performance of the song Fantasy of Riches, in which he likely improvises lyrics to generate laughter. Leung Sing-po co-stars, in one of many pairings that feature two of Hong Kong's best comic personalities.

A biographical film about the traveler Emil Holub, conceived as an illustrative story of an exceptional man, who, however, encounters the disinterest and rejection of the domestic Czech bourgeoisie. To this is added an international perspective - Holub encounters British expansionism in Africa and indignantly rejects colonial methods, trying to help black people.

A Norwegian exploitation travel documentary in color from 1952.