Cinematic Era: 1952 Vintage

A film of safely in the army.

A couple of boys take their Scotty and her eight pups down to the beach to have some fun.

April Stevens performs "Lover Man".

Hop farming in Tasmania.

An Academy Productions documentary on public transport in 1952.

Fire and how to make and prevent, is the topic.

Short educational film about setting a table.

Directed by Achyut Govind Ranade.

A film by Achyut Govind Ranade.

Directed by Dinkar D. Patil. With Ramesh Deo, Ganpat Patil.

A film by Madhav Shinde.

Short documentary tracking the installation of oil infrastructure in Antwerp.

Students at a school in Podkarpacie spend the entire spring and summer collecting herbs, and in the fall they enjoy the projector they earned themselves.

A boy learns how to count groups of objects.

A film about the sculpture "Belt Buckles" by J.P. Molin.

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

Later Soundie featuring June Valli.

During his field work in the region of Omarakana, H.A.Powell filmed various sequences from which the film is assembled. In spite of the technical handicaps under which he was operating — shooting with a single, fixed-focus lens, 16mm camera without tripod — the film is nevertheless useful as a teaching aid. The commentary concentrates on the ethnography of Trobriand life.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the lives of the Negombo fishermen of southern Ceylon.

A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Harwell's nuclear research establishment and the peaceful applications of atomic energy.

Canadian Headlines from 1952

Documentary about curling in Canada. It shows: slow motion shot of sweepers clearing the path of the rock; Ken Watson, head of a Canadian championship curling team, demonstrating curling shots; taking care of the curling rink; scenes from Scotland, where granite is made into curling stones); women curling; rules of the game; overhead shot of children curling with homemade cement stones in the jam tin league in Regina (named for the jam tins filled with cement to make stones); high school curling leagues in Western Canada; highlights of a game between two teams skipped by Ken Watson and Jimmy Welsh; outdoor march by curlers and kilted marching band; and scenes of Canadian Curlers.

Three teenage girls pull a fast one on their fathers and get them to buy new washing machines. They then take their mothers on a vacation, leaving the fathers alone at home to do all the laundry, and giving them an idea of just how much of a chore washing and drying dirty clothes can be--and how much easier it is to do with Whirlpool (which produced this short) appliances.

Produced to reassure Minnesotans that iron mining would continue to spur economic development.

Mexican feature film

Documentary depicting the funeral of Argentinian First Lady Eva Perón in 1952.

A UCLA student film by Flora Mock. The award winning experimental collage film utilizing both live action and animation techniques to illustrate the frustration of individuals who wait from birth to death for the age of happiness that always seems to be just around the corner in time, yet never arrives.

A jingoistic American short for American children, voiceover narration by an American narrator blustering over miscellaneous bits of American stock footage.

A stage magician learns how to perform some real magic... with Campbell's Soup.

A look at beer and those blessed souls who labor to produce it.

Two brothers are educated about water purity and municipal waterworks.

Short documentary about a hostel in 1950s Bayswater that houses African and Asian students.

Short by Franz Schömbs.

A demonstration of Mobilcolor at a 1952 Guggenheim showing.

Three community projects in Naguabo, Fajardo, and Río Grande.

Pearl Pureheart is the laundry maid beholden to Oil Can Harry, and only Mighty Mouse can rescue her.

'This Wall is not a Party Wall' was directed by the Peruvian modernist painter Fernando de Szyszlo in 1952—its somewhat formulaic Freudianism locates it squarely in the historical avant-garde.

In 1950, Edgar Monsanto Queeny returned from equatorial Sudan with 80,000 feet of exposed footage. From this mass of images, Queeny, the chairman of the Monsanto Chemical company, fashioned a fifty-minute color film about the "savage" Latuko tribe.

A Saturday matinee cine-magazine for the boys and girls' cinema clubs. Sections include, Percussion Band of the London Fields Primary School, Model Decoration, Warm Waters, and Standstill Speed.

1952 film from India

Educational film on the Cold War conflict

How can we protect ourselves against the threats of germs and toxins? Cold War America gears up to fend off threats from unconventional bioweapons.