Cinematic Era: 1954 Vintage

Short film featuring the Brubeck Quartet.

The high school junior class is being plagued by the antics of Jim, the class show-off.

At Slagen, Hudøy and several other places, Oslo Municipality drove holiday colonies where children from the city could vacation in the summer. At Dal there was a separate holiday colony for tuberculosis-infested children. Some children were also sent for holiday stays on farms. More than 5,000 children received a stay at municipal or private holiday colonies every summer. ***** 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.

Poetic film about Iris in different meanings.

The journey is leisurely by train and railcar.

During the bombings of the Second World War, actors and extras engaged in rehearsals at the Teatro di San Carlo rush into the air-raid shelter, and there the extra Carla and the airman Renato fall in love, but will be divided by death. This is Rossellini's segment for the omnibus film "Mid-Century Loves".

A film that clearly presents the stages of tobacco cultivation, from preparing seedlings, then planting, harvesting, stringing, tanning, and drying. The film also has educational significance, as the stages are described from a scientific perspective, with practical advice for proper tobacco cultivation, in order to obtain the highest possible yields.

The story of the love between Morad and Narges.

At a teenage party, news breaks that a friend driving with alcohol in the car has struck a pedestrian. The incident sparks a heated debate among the group, with views ranging from total rejection of drinking to peer pressure to join in for the sake of fitting in.

An educational short teaching children the importance of looking after their toys and treating belongings with care.

Documentary film about bird life in the Alps.

A little boy doesn't know what to do when his favorite animal, a cow, no longer provides milk.

A documentary about mining.

An official government (United States Air Force) film documenting "Operation Castle", a series of nuclear weapon tests on Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls in the Pacific, in the year 1954. The goal, deemed successful, of Operation Castle was to develop a deliverable megaton-size (thermonuclear or hydrogen) bomb.

"Ujala" is a 1954 short documentary film directed by Paul Zils. Specific details about the film's content are limited, but it is categorized as a documentary short.

To get closer to Rukyah (E. Zaenah), a village girl he is interested in, city youth Kadir (M. S. Priyadi) disguises himself as a driver. Rukyah seems very difficult to tame, but finally succeeds, after going through a winding road. Among other things, Rukyah is accused of stealing a necklace, although it is later proven to be Kadir's mother's mistake.

François Truffaut's father Roland Truffaut was passionate about mountains, but also cinema. He filmed his hikes, edited the footage and sometimes showed them at the French Alpine Club of which he is a very active member.

Betty Page's dance with a clown doll continues.

An art film contrasting a cat and broken glass with a masked naked woman and her lover.

1954 / 恩情深似海 / Love Deep As The Sea / But Fu 毕虎 / 万利公司 Ban Lee Film Co.

Demonstrates that man has devised ways of making work easy with the aid of simple tools, engines and motors, and by harnessing such natural forces as wind and water.

Retells the story of Johnny Appleseed against the background of pioneer America.

Kampong Nelayan (or ‘Nelayan’) / Fishermen’s Village / Jaafar Wiryo & S. Roomai Noor / Keris

The film narrator describes the assimilation and merging of ancient customs into the 20th century celebration of Christmas as portrayed with well-crafted reenactments.

A young couple separates due to their strong differences and their only child also leaves home. The woman goes to her husband's house to visit her son, but she does not find him, and after that she spends all her time searching for her missing son.

Directed by Madhav Shinde. With Kusum Deshpande, Jog, Rekha Kamat, Usha Kiran.

This short documentary illustrates what to do when you're lost in the bush. Filmed in 1954, an NFB producer and a Native guide allow themselves to be marooned in the bush with only an axe and their wits as means of survival. They eat off the land, build their own birchbark canoe and make their way out.

"500,000 to One" is a 1954 short documentary film about bugs.

This film shows how the Central Plateau of the North Island was transformed into fertile pastureland by the men of the Land Settlement Board and the Lands and Survey Department. Cobalt was imported from Canada and sulphur from Louisiana. Hillsides were burnt off and the soil ploughed, fertilised and sown with seed and phosphate.

Discusses the animal, plant, and synthetic fibers; contrasts primitive and modern methods of spinning thread and weaving cloth; and points out the abundance and value of the clothes we wear. Can you make milk, straw & coal into fibers? You bet.

A reporter goes to a rubber factory and learns about the chemistry involved in making rubber.

Mr Van Peborgh, an "artiste photographe", remained alone with his three sons Henri, Frans and Louis after the death of his wife.The household is done by the maid Beth while the graceful girl Marie helps him in the store.The eldest son Henri is engaged to Hortense and thinks he's getting married soon.Louis wants to leave for America. The big engagement party on which the whole family is present starts without worry but ends up in a disaster because "It's cruel in the world".

The life of people from the delta of Neretva and their struggle for the land. The attempts of the community to help them in the transformation of the swamps into useful land.

Shows the beauties of the Boračko lake and the mountain of Prenj in the upper stream of Neretva. People around the lake. The famous carvers of wood from Konjic.

Campaign film asking the public not to misuse or throw away the glass bottles left by their milkman, but to rinse them and put them back out for collection. Of the 320,000,000 in circulation a week, a costly 6,400,000 go missing.

A documentary on the railroad's role in public transportaitons. Produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films.

Abstract short.

"I try to leave the imagination of the spectator as free as possible by using purely invented, abstract forms rather than representational forms. In watching these films it is not necessary to search for hidden meanings of try to associate these invented forms with familiar objects. The spectator may simply relax and look at these films as one would listen to music in order to fully respond to them." -Davis

The 84th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Includes the articles: 'At Home', 'Tamworth Gala', 'Cut & Carry' and 'Balletomines'.

Converted landing craft being used for living in on the Thames; the overhead railway at Wuppertal on the Ruhr; schoolboys making string puppets.

A young man saves the daughter of a zamindar when she is kidnapped and then they both fall in love with each other.