1947 Movies

Created by Theodore Andrica and narrated by him, CHILDREN OF EUROPE is an emotional, and disturbing portrait of post-WWII Europe. It shows the plight...

The International Ice Patrol is an organization with the purpose of monitoring the presence of icebergs in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and reportin...

This film provides an overview of Australia's primary and secondary education system in the late 1940s. It looks at the various types of schools in th...

This 1947 film depicts the process of gasoline production from prospecting / surveying to consumer consumption. Detailed graphics describe the oil ref...

The highlights from the All Ireland Football Championship Final of 1947.

Abstract Film, Color, United States, Short Film, Mono.

"Thumbelina" is a shadow puppet animation based on the Andersen fairy tale.

A six-part instructional film produced by the Shell Film Unit explaining the fundamentals of heavier-than-air flight through live-action aircraft foot...

Another of the Power Primer series of GM American Industrial Films, this one looking at the internal combustion engine.

Three songs: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, Rock-A-Bye Baby, One More River to Cross, and the piano exercise Chopsticks, illustrated by animated...

In the 1940s, Brotherhood of St Laurence founder, Father Gerard Tucker, commissioned three short, silent films which were screened to audiences in the...

Short film by Marie-Anne Colson-Malleville.

Floating, log cabins at work and in their free time.

SHOWS THE WORK OF A CATALOGUER, THE SCHOOL LIBRARIAN, THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN, THE LIBRARIAN WHO WORKS WIITH CHILDREN & THE LIBRARIAN WHO SPECIALIZES...

Swiss documentary on the ascent of the Eiger by the Mitellegi ridge. After spending the night in the hut located 625 meters below the summit, two rope...

A Documentary on the railways and their role in supporting the United States

A retelling of Aesop's fable.

A Marathi film by Vishram Bedekar.

Describes the making of a puppet in detail from the carving of the head to the fitting of the strings. Close-ups show how the movements of the various...