Cinematic Era: 1952 Vintage

A short film from artist Adaline Kent documenting her adventures in the Sierra Nevadas.

Two naturist girls spend an afternoon in the sun.

A fictionalized military documentary.

Animated experimental film using only black and white, with a musical score.

A young doctor from a prestigious biomedical research center must deal with his rival's attempts to bring him down.

Scenes of the lochs and mountains of the Highlands.

A documentary looking at Britain's new diesel "Fell" 10,000 locomotive.

How a sheep dog is responsible for the rescue of two children trapped in an old mine.

A dramatized documentary about juvenile delinquency, its causes and prevention, juvenile prison, and the care, education, and adaptation to civilian life of released juvenile prisoners.

Documentary short on Mexico’s electric power industry.

In the first years of the State of Israel, numerous new immigrants were tasked with establishing agricultural “immigrant settlements” to bolster the country’s agricultural sector.

A BAFTA Special award nominated documentary that illustrates the need for and uses of lubrication across engineering.

An insight into horse breeding in Celle.

Story loosely based on Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Bottle Imp".

Chinta Murni / Pure Love / Armaya (A. R. Tompel) / Nusantara

The Norwegian climbing expedition to the Tirich Mir mountain in Pakistan in 1950. Per Kvernberg, Arne Næss, Henry Berg and Tony Streather became the first people ever to reach the top of this mountain - in July 1950.

The true-to-life story of a bootblack who worked his way up to become a college president.

Andy Panda runs into car trouble while driving with Miranda, so he calls Oswald the Rabbit at the Auto-Lite-authorized service station. After a tune-up, the electrical parts in the car once again work as a team.

A precious pearl necklace is stolen from a dying widow and repeatedly changes hands because many covet it, leaving behind a long trail of blood.

Fatima lives with her mother, working with her as a seamstress. Disappointed by her mother’s gambling addiction, she decides to work as a singer at a nightclub. There, Fatima meets Abdullah, a businessman whose wife, Endon, constantly mocks and humiliates him. Abdullah soon falls in love with Fatima and they begin an affair. However, Abdullah’s colleague is also smitten with her, and when Endon finds out about her husband’s relationship, she plots with his colleague to expose the affair. It is the first Malay film helmed by a Singaporean Malay under the Malay Film Productions, Shaw Brothers. Made in 1952, the musical drama witnesses an abusive relationship that results in an extra marital affair.

Blood Battle in Furong Valley

The cat and the mouse Little Roquefort meets the canary in this Terrytoons cartoon.

An animated film about a kid goat who ignores his mother's advice and runs away from home. But he has no idea that a wolf is about to find him and eat him! At the very last minute, the kid goat's mother learns of the wolf's intentions and asks a brave dog for help. Will they manage to save the kid goat?

Documentary short showing folk singing and step dancing traditions in a Suffolk pub.

Style documentary about the movement of feet in Stockholm with arranged features. Images of feet, walking on streets, statue feet, horses' legs and ballet dance. An arranged fight turns into a study of legs and feet in a dance hall. (filmform)

A movie by the Shell Oil Company traces the history of the development of the diesel engine from the Otto 'SILENT' gas engine of 1877.

Those rabble-rousing magpies Heckle and Jeckle are watching high-society crowds going into the theater to see a performance of "The Barber of Seville" and decide to get some culture of their own by sneaking into the show. The stage-door manager tosses them out on their first attempt, but they finally get past him, leading to a wild chase as the opera is underway.

This USAF Documentary appeared six years before the Universal-International color documentary of the same title.

Following the birth of the helicopter, from the imagination of Leonardo da Vinci through the advent of helicopter technology in the early 1952.

Report on the Meeting of Young Builders of People's Poland, which took place in July 1952 in Warsaw.

Various amphibious pond dwellers, including grass frogs, tree frogs, common toads and other amphibians are shown moving around, feeding, mating, fertilizing and evolving. Also on display are natterjack and midwife toads, yellow-bellied toads and water frogs.

Benjamin Peret narrates Aztec myth

Shot in Manhattan’s St. Vincent Hospital, creating what would be the antecedent of the direct cinema (or cinema verité) movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

A 1952 experimental film by director Jim Davis.

The brazilian military campaign in Italy during the Second World War.

An early documentary examining reports and hypotheses about flying saucers.

A close-up study of a spider at work.

Documentary short about barrel organ players in Italy.

The City Hall of Oslo has its unique artistic decoration. **** Oslofilm was a series of public information films about life in and around Oslo, produced between 1940 and 1980. Funded by the state, the films offer valuable insight into postwar Norwegian society. A wide range of Norwegian filmmakers contributed to the productions, resulting in a rich variety of styles and expressions. Several of the films also possess notable cinematic qualities, standing out as more than just informational material. The Oslofilms represent a unique and important chapter in Norwegian film history.

A documentary demonstrating the De Havilland "Comet 1" jet airliner with it's four 'ghost' engines.

An early 3D ballet short from UK

The story presents the achievements of the Student Union Singers during the Rengasmatka revue, both on stage and off stage. The performance is organized to raise funds for the choir's trip to America, which is being organized by Risto and Kale. The evening is colored by travel tickets that have fallen into the wrong hands, which the travel agency girls Mirkku and Kikka are feverishly searching for behind the stage.