1947 Movies

Produced by Celluloid College in 1947, Basic Motion Picture Technique is an educational film on the basics of filming a motion picture. The film “has...

Hydroelectric power, shipping, irrigation and salmon fishing.

Short animated film.

About a Fishmonger and his working day with a trip to Billingsgate market.

The very first Palestinian fiction feature, lost when the director had to flee Jaffa after the town was bombarded in 1948.

The efforts of some horse racing bettors to win with a racehorse named Cachafaz. Meanwhile, a large-scale scam orchestrated by an international gang i...

Compares daily activities of a secretary with those of a stenographer.

Documentary film shot by Howard Triest in 1947.

A traffic accident occurs once every six seconds, most leading to property damage, injury, and/or death. Most of these accidents are preventable, and...

Salesmanship and psychology instruction for gun dealers.

A newsreel from the 1940s about the football championship between Club Universitario de Deportes and Atlético Chalaco at the National Stadium, which b...

A newsreel from the 1940s documenting the visit of President Dr. José Luis Bustamante y Rivero to the imperial city of Cusco, accompanied by his wife,...

War reparations industry: ore enrichment at the Outokumpu factories, locomotive manufacturing.

A musical short filmed in Havasu Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park. Produced by the Arizona Motion Picture Corporation. Sound of the music is lost.

Unique in lack of commercial traffic. Contrasts river's natural state with parts dammed to provide electric power and irrigation water.

A Secrets of Life short.

In this installment of the Eye Witness series from 1947, we visit Chalk River, Canada's atomic energy project, for an update. We see the production an...

A look at the past, present, and future of Mexico.