Cinematic Era: 1954 Vintage

The first French short shot in CinemaScope; begins in a car and ends with a plane ride over the Alps.

An evocation of the wartime exploits of the Moroccan "Tabors" in Tunisia, Italy, the French campaign and Germany. During the landings in Corsica, a light-hearted love affair develops between Adjutant Lenoir and a nurse. Fights, escapes and heroic actions lead to victory.

A Chinese film

Glorious… as his love! Inspired… as his Music!

A young girl works as a stripper in a New Orleans nightclub. Her prudish young boyfriend doesn't know anything about it, until one night he happens to wander into the club and sees her.

General Mills industrial short film

Zamindar of a village has no children and adopts a boy from an Orphanage. The boy grows up as Anandarao (NTR) and returns to the village after higher education. Zamindar, while dying, hands over the estate affairs to Ramaiah (Doraiswamy), who gains good reputation and prestige. He has a son Satyam (ANR) and a daughter Sundaramma (Savitri). Anandrao feels jealous about Ramaiah. Chalapathi (Ramana Reddy) and Pitchaiah (Chadalavada) adds to his jealousy. He insults Ramaiah and stops the donation program running on the name of Zamindar. Satyam as unemployed joins as a Bus conductor and Ramaiah dies of helplessness. Anandrao purchases the Bus and dismisses Satyam from the job.

A man looks at stacks of canisters of film on shelves. He pulls out a few to show real-life events caught on camera. He pulls out spools of film that include clips of the effects of heavy rain, of early attempts to fly, of an auto race with a spectacular series of crashes, and, last, of the destruction of a suspension bridge newly-built near Tacoma, buffeted and then ruptured by wind. None of these events were staged, and the camera caught them.

Documentary produced for Burmah-Shell about changing social patterns in India. It illustrates the breakdown of traditional life-styles and the introduction of a more fragmented society with the growth of India's industrial development. [Part of the 'Life in India' series.]

Bettie Page dances in white lingerie.

A historical overview of Sisak, the city on three rivers, from the Roman era to the post-WWII industrialization.

A brunette Lana Turner stars in this live song and dance performance of "A Great Lady Has An Interview" to celebrate MGM's 30th anniversary on "The Ed Sullivan Show". The song was previously performed by Judy Garland in the 1945 musical film "Ziegfeld Follies".

An anxious man in his forties quits his job and resigns himself to an early death after a supposed heart attack, but his doctor sets him straight.

Jealousy and rivalries in a newly married artist couple.

Few films wield the awesome spiritual power of Jazz Dance, on which Leacock was one of two cameramen charting the slow, smoldering build of a Manhattan dance club from idle space to explosive, carnal bacchanal. Employing handheld cameras, limited light and sheer proximity, the film achieved an intimacy never before witnessed in a documentary.

Twelve adventurers set out to seek the holy grail.

"Classic Of The Screen" (Vitaphone #2341-A) features shots of famous boxers John L. Sullivan, Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzimmons, Jack Johnson, Jes Willard, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Tommy Gibbons, Max Schmeling, Jack Sharkey, Primo Carnera, Max Baer, Joe Louis, Ezzard Charles, Jersey Joe Walcott, and Rocky Marciano.

With Charlie Norman through the ages. Charlie presents jazz history from 1900 to boogie-woogie. May Thompson sings.

The changed lives of Vecdi and his family with the death threat they received.

In a mysterious farm house, a drug is made to resurrect people.

Highlights from the All-Ireland Football Championship Final 1954.

This 1954 classic follows an outback mailman as he travels along the Birdsville Track.

1954 film by Vijay Bhatt

A documentary on the Fourth World Festival of Youth and Students that took place in the summer of 1953 in Bucharest.

Animatad adaptation of Ukrainian folk tale about crafty Fox and credulous Hedgehog.

A tribute not so much to the river that runs through the Eternal City, but to that part of Rome that very often remains invisible to the eyes of tourists-the suburbs, with their streets and rituals.

German television adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s story The Tell-Tale Heart.

Machine manufacturing of glass bottles at the Riihimäki Glass Factory and use of finished milk bottles.

A ballerina has a dream dance with an octopus woman.

The life and work of British Impressionist painter, Walter Sickert (1860-1942).

Emphasizes the role of a citizen in a democracy and explains that, before making decisions, all citizens should get the facts, weigh the facts for all possible solutions, and decide on an answer that is for the greatest good of all.

Shows that poems can be written about many subjects. Points out that choral speaking and impromptu composition can increase the enjoyment of poems.

The voice of an officer counts out the last tense seconds- 'Three Two One - Zero!' - and another atomic explosion rends the stillness. This film, made in America by the National Broadcasting Company, tells the story of atomic energy and discusses the problem that now confronts the world: "It is the people... who must come to know what atomic energy can and will do, for good and evil... The real problem does not rest in scientific mechanisms, but rather it rests in the minds and hearts of men".

A Lost Persian Film. A young man who works with a group of jewel and precious stone smugglers falls under the suspicion of the police. A detective pursues the young man, but each time an incident prevents him from discovering the truth. Finally, with the young man's help, the detective catches the gang of smugglers.

Open air PT class at East Grinstead school; 15 yr. old demonstrates diving; local museum in Devon; London Fire Brigade display.

For four centuries cod has been fished off the coast of Newfoundland. This film shows the exacting work of splitting, salting, drying and grading the fish, as well as the more recent methods of quick-freezing.

When the young man foreman fulfilled his plan ahead of time and told his mother that he had celebrated the New Year in advance with his friends, the young man's mother mistakenly thought that he and the lady from the neighboring family were going to get married. works are reflected.

In this short, Johnny Green leads the MGM Symphony Orchestra in a performance of the overture to Rossini's "La Gazza Ladra".

A war film set during World War II, which delves into the psychology of the inhabitants of a city waiting to be bombed. Described by critics as an "artistic essay" and a "experimental film".

A spy adventure intertwined with the famous magic lamp from the story of One Thousand and One Nights.

An Italian documentary.