Cinematic Era: 1952 Vintage

A short comedy about a group of skiers who end up spending their skiing weekend in the Gatineaus enjoying themselves despite their mishaps--but never making it onto the hill.

Melati lives with her stepmother and half-sister, Kecubung. Even though she always received bad treatment, Melati never stopped praying. One time, the clothes she was washing floated away. Melati searched by going with the flow. Not long after, she arrived at a old woman's house in the middle of the forest. It turns out the cloth was found by the old woman. When she asked for fruit in the old woman yard as she was very hungry, she instead got diamonds in the fruit she picked.

The first local adaption of the life and passion of Jesus Christ.

The film tells the story of two men who work in a theater. Edi and Büdü's path falls into a theater one day. By chance, the two get involved in a play and attract the attention of the audience. The owner of the theater then hires Edi and Büdü. Meanwhile, Fahri, an actor at the same theater, kidnaps Gülendam, the star of the theater. The owner of the theater assigns Edi and Büdü to find Gülendam.

The film is a short documentary about alchemical engravings.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at how Myron Kinley and his team extinguished an out of control oil installation fire at Naft Safidi in Iran in 1951 that had been burning for 26 days.

A Hong Kong Cantonese film released in September 1952

Juan, a fisherman, finds a beautiful baby girl inside his boat. He and his wife take in the baby as their own child and name her Maria del Mar. Years later, after she turns 20, everything changes.

Masked justice on horseback. #3 of four.

Two detectives are hired to investigate the theft of essential shoes for a famous dancer.

Joe has to find a way to go to a convention.

The captain Alekos Nikolopoulos doesn't get along with his wife. One day, he receives a letter from a woman he had met before the war who reminds him that she is pregnant.

Tamin is one of the village boys who are ensnared by Japanese propaganda to enroll as Heiho (auxiliary soldiers). He joins the mission to Burma (Myanmar) during World War II in the Red Cross division. When the Japanese forces are defeated, Tamin and his friends are brought back to Java and handed over to the Dutch who are attempting to rule the country one more time. Tamin is forced to join the Dutch military (KNIL) to fight his fellow citizens. After Indonesia gains full sovereignty (1950), Tamin chooses to return to the village. But his heart remains uncertain as his friends accuse him of not participating in the struggle for Indonesia's independence. So Tamin goes to the city where he meets a fellow former Heiho, who is now in the Indonesian military force. His friend shows him that there are other ways to contribute to the national struggle. Then Tamin returns to his home, his village and his country.

Ganapathi, a wicked village head, stirs up trouble for Chandram, a hardworking young man who tries to educate the inhabitants of his village.

A social studies teacher finds herself in hot water for her lessons on Communism, but she reminds parents that we have the Freedom to Learn.

Educational documentary which extols the different forms of labor, and its importance to Puerto Rico’s progress.

The Bobby Troup Trio and Virginia Maxey perform a light and breezy rendition of the song, "Daddy," which Mr. Troup composed.

Explains that the foundations of successful selling is a systematic method of locating prospective customers. The methods of three successful salesmen are illustrated; one keeps his eyes and ears open through personal observation, one uses an initial sale to get a prospect for the next, and the third uses friends to give him additional contacts.

An evening at the jazz club Gazell in Stockholm. The place to be for the young jazz loving crowd.

A perfect fusion of poetry and film, with dense layered imagery and music from electro pioneers Louise and Bebe Barron. The writer Anaïs Nin provides dialogue from her novella “House of Incest” and appears adrift in the undersea realm of Atlantis before ascending to dry land.

Historical adventure comedy film about the beer-brewing mendicant brothers in the mid-18 Century Bavaria, who have to defend themselves against the arrogance of roaming hordes of Pandours: poorly equipped and ill-disciplined irregular troops.

Barney Bear goes duck hunting, but is forbidden by the rule book to shoot the one duck available: a duck that is asleep.

Early Lindsay Anderson industrial film promoting Sutcliffe's conveyors. Three different uses of Sutcliffe's conveyor installations.

Instructive pictures that show how to try to solve aging care.

An animated black-and-white short by Noburô Ôfuji.

The beautiful Domenica makes a student believe that her husband is a Corsican bandit, while he is a teacher.

When a Dutch wolf puts the snatch on a Dutch-damsel-in-distress, the Holland-visiting Might Mouse comes to her rescue. As always, the Super Mighty Mouse, has a few problems before the villain is dispatched, but comes though in the end. And then, just like Superman, with theme-song blaring, flies off to his next adventure as the Wolrd's Mightest Mouse.

Pompus Papa Bear takes his Terry Bears cubs on a camping trip and, since he claims to be an expert camper, he sets out to give the cubs the benefits of his camping skills. He immediately proceeds to spend his time going from the firing pan to the fire, while the cubs prove that they are the expert campers.

Springtime in White Carniola, life and customs of its inhabitants.

Fantasy from Hong Kong directed by Fung Chi-Kong.

The film tells the story of a young village girl who leaves home for a factory during World War II, lured by promises of easy money and a good life. Soon after arriving at the factory, however, she realizes that all the promises were lies, but Danka will not give in to discouragement. After the liberation of Bulgaria by the Soviet Army, she happily went to work with the other workers in the factory, which now belonged to the people.

JC Penney Company, Inc. produced sponsored film about textiles and quality control.

In order to inherit her husband's old aunt more quickly, a greedy peasant woman engages in various dishonest maneuvers.

Pista Rácz, bearer of the title "outstanding workman" is opposed to all forms of sport, and is especially antagonized by Jóska Teleki, a first-class sportsman, who seems to be a drawback for Rácz's brigade in terms of work quantity performance figures.

On display are the movement structures of Heliozoa, the expulsion of food remains, plasmogamy, separation and temporary bridging, "phobia".

A documentary looking at the British Government's atomic weapons design, construction and testing on the Australian Monte Bello Islands in 1951.

The dangers of carelessness while outside are shown in the behavior of Fred Miller. Fred's dangerous habits include jaywalking, playing near traffic, jumping on piles of leaves, hiding under boxes in driveways, and other potentially dangerous activities.

Isidoro, a poor guy, suddenly becomes a millionaire, and gets into the most bizarre situations.

The mice are having their after-hours way with a feast from the Free-Lunch counter in a western saloon when the dreaded-and-feared Cat Carson, aka Katip, shows up and starts a reign of terror in the wild west. But Herman, the city-slicker cousin of the western-rodents shows up, rescues his kin from the clutches of Cat Carson, and then goes to work on the villain himself.

A short film showing the final of the 1952 football championship between VFB Stuttgart and 1. FC Saarbrücken.

The colorful competition city presents summer Helsinki and the competition venues in 1952, set to the music of Jean Sibelius and narrated by Carl-Erik Creutz.

Radio reporter Toivo Teräsvuori gets an idea for an experimental report using a hidden microphone, but he is reported as a madman talking to himself and is taken to the Houruniemi mental hospital. At the hospital, the volatile Toivo is considered insane, and even his wife Eila's testimony does not help the matter. Instead, Professor Piukka orders Toivo to undergo brain surgery.

A marquis organizes a matrimonial contest with the aim of enriching three spinsters.

Arzu ile Kamber, another film shot by Lütfi Ömer Akad alongside Tahir ile Zühre in Iraq, is one of Akad's attempts at fairy-tale historical films. In folk literature, the story of Arzu ile Kamber, like those of Tahir ile Zühre, Leyla ile Mecnun, and Ferhat ile Şirin, is a tragic love story passed down from generation to generation, so heartbreaking that it inspired elegies to be written in their names. Arzu ile Kamber, the first film adaptation of this story about the love between Kamber, the son of a merchant, and Arzu, the daughter of a subaşı, is a fairy-tale-like story that recounts the past.Arzu ile Kamber, one of two films shot by Lütfi Ömer Akad in Iraq over a period of six months with a large crew, is another of Akad's "failed but useful experiments," like Tahir ile Zühre.

A heart-touching story about the hardship of a grandmother and her two parentless grandkids.

Kitten Miaomiao and Mimi are a pair of siblings with opposite personalities, one is hardworking and obedient, and the other is playful and lazy. When the sun came out, mother wanted them to get up, and Miaomiao got up, but Mimi had to stay in bed.

Film about the Morochucos community in Ayacucho. This film included a brief dramatic plot starring actress Nita Zapata Vélez and photographed by Eulogio Nishiyama from Cusco.