Cinematic Era: 1952 Vintage

Wombat attempts to hunt a crafty rabbit.

A teacher gives her third-grade class a "posture test". Four students--two boys and two girls--fail it. The teacher then suggests that the four become each other's "posture pals" and point out to each other when they're slouching, slumping or engaged in other such deviant non-good-posture activities.

Message to the Nation from President Manuel Arturo Odría Amoretti on the occasion of the promulgation of the Petroleum Law No. 11780 of March 18, 1952

Directed and produced by Luis F. Masías.

Documentary. Produced by the Italian-Peruvian Film Art Company.

Short documentary film. Directed and produced by Monroe Martin.

Short documentary film. Produced by Raúl Beraún.

Short documentary film. Produced by Raúl Beraún.

Short documentary film. Produced by Raúl Beraún.

Short documentary film. Produced by Raúl Beraún.

Filming took place between January and March of 1952 in Cusco and the cloud forest under the direction of American Ken Krippene and the photographic supervision of German Hans Helzig. The film was never released due to technical deficiencies that made its exhibition impossible. The filming of this movie gave rise to a story that fascinated Lima's journalists in the 1950s: the romance between John Wayne—who had come to the country in search of locations for a personal project—and the star of Lila Tihi's Emeralds, Peruvian Pilar Pallete, which culminated in marriage.

Documentary short about Italian soldiers stationed in Rome interacting with the population.

This educational film shows how to achieve the highest possible yields in raising cattle and cultivating crops using the Kačice agricultural cooperative as an example. Following the lead of the Soviet Union, the Kačice collective farmers decide to operate in working groups and to evaluate their work using work actual units of labour, thereby becoming a role model for other cooperatives.

Documentary footage shot in the Department of Apurímac. It featured the participation of actor Carlos Prentice.

Made at the invitation of the United Nations, this film illustrates the principles and operations of UNESCO with particular reference to Australia’s participation in the plan for the extension of education to promote better understanding between member nations.

Having read a lot of crime and fantasy novels, a boy starts to identify with fictional heroes. Soon, he grows tired of the game and the books end up in the dustbin.

Short documentary. Plot unknown.

A 1952 Burmese black-and-white romantic-drama film, directed by Tin Maung starring Tin Maung, Kyi Kyi Htay, Thein Zaw and May Lwin.

This short film provides four feature stories about Canada and its people, including the monetary value of the human body's chemicals, Magnetic Hill in New Brunswick, radio broadcaster Foster Hewitt, and dinosaur fossils found in Alberta.

Demonstrating the work of the British police force, based on actual incidents from the files of Brighton Borough Police, and illustrated through a case of housebreaking.

Produced by the University of Southern California Department of Cinema.

In Sweden's California, Skåne, the fruit industry has never been better with apple sorting in five different quality classes. At Skansen, the seals get a sudden visit from an avid winter bather and in Saltsjöbaden a sales course is organized for the latest tights. It all ends with a song by the singing teacher Inger Lindblad.

A film that uses multiple and distorted images and color of soap bubbles.

A film directed by Richard S. Brummer.

A feature length instructional video for the Admiralty on coastal navigation and pilotage.

The very first Sudanese feature film.

The towns that once populated Death Valley during the gold rush era and what has been left behind.

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Surreal interpretive dance of a tormented woman. A woman dances up to a spinning mobile with a diamond necklace hanging off on part and a web at the center. Mesmerized, she mimics the mobile's movemnents in dance. She approaches a clock where every place reads 12, calling out for help. She finds a man, approaching him with desire, kissing him and oral sex is insinuated. The film becomes inverted as she pirouttes repeatly. Back to a positive image, she encounters a door into the heart of the mobile, the web. Sbe closes the door and encounters another version of herself, then again the mobile spinning. She then stabs herself repeately with a knife and screams.

Vägarna kring Rovaniemi is a poignant and impressive little masterpiece about the final stages of the war and the post-war period in Lapland.

Snoddas performs at a midsummer gathering.

The film begins by depicting the social courtship of the drakes. With increasing intensity of the instinctive movements actual pair formation is reached and mating follows, accompanied by prelude and postlude. The fight of the males follows and finally the attempt of a rape.

This film shows the drama of the wheat harvest played out on millions of western Canadian acres. In late summer great combine harvesters surge into the golden fields, and so begins the flow of a river of grain—from combine to truck, to prairie elevator, to grain cars, to marshalling yards and, finally, to Great Lakes terminal elevators and freighters. Grading and inspection at each stage of transit ensures top-quality export wheat; scientists strive to produce still hardier varieties. The film ends with a sequence on breadmaking in a large bakery.

The St. Joseph's University boys choir performs several songs.

Discusses the mental attitude of automobile drivers. Points out that a driving permit is a privilege which carries the responsibility for respecting the rights of others. Talking driver's license narrates this hymn to the beneficial effects of highways, cars, and driving.

A propaganda film about how to be warned about a attack and what to do when under fire from a foreign power as provided by Bell Telephone System.

April Stevens performs "Meant to Tell You".

Educational film for children, about dairy farming.

Joe, a college student, decides it's about time for him to get married and settle down. He's drawn to two girls: Ann, a "sophisticated" coed who is so independent that--horrors!--she doesn't even go to church anymore, or Elsie, the sweet young thing he left at home (take a wild guess which one he winds up with).

Starring Usha Kiran and Sulochana.

Damuanna Tirle along with her daughter-in-law - Sushila, comes from Vilaspur to her son-in-law Gharuanna Chikte in Pune.

A film by Ram Gabale.

Shyam is a poet and also writing songs which are sung on Radio by a rich girl Rekha. His painter friend Ramnath falls in love with Rekha. Rekha's father Gokhale agrees for their marriage and gives him one lakh rupees to spend in one month to see the ability if he is able to live a luxury lifestyle.

Short film about Deutsche Bahn as a major steel purchaser

Documentary with the Malan Family

A story about the activities of the Youth Palace in Katowice.

Horror movie telling the story of the character Mae Nak Phra Khanong.

Stereoscopic film produced for Shell.

A typical experimental film from the forties, based on a surrealistic fable by the French writer J.Cl. Lambert. In this film, colour is used for a dramatic purpose, as a storytelling element. (filmform)

Inspired by the surrealists, this short movie is made of found film reels bought from flea markets.

Norwegian documentary in color from 1952. Director and producer was Johnny Bjørnulf. He also plays himself with Reidar Lunde and the illustrator Audun Hetland.

Stars Manher DesaiNigar SultanaMurad

A film shot in the early 1930s and revised in 1952 which covers Moscow, the tribal areas of the Caucasus Mountains, avant-garde and Jewish theatre preformances, dance festivals, the newly established U.S. Embassy, as well as local daily life.