1948 Movies

Series of eleven loop films, uncut, illustrating various techniques in athletics, hurdles, sprinting etc..

Experimental film using animation and live action, set to music.

A nostalgic and fast-paced history of the TTC and Toronto.

Part of the Adventure Parade series: A chimp decides to be a fireman. He rescues a little girl from a fire, then returns to rescue her doll.

Paul Campani's second short. Made on 35mm film. Right now this is considered lost media. The short is thought to be between 5 and 10 minutes long.

Shows how Jim and Bob use protractor and ruler to study such figures as rectangles, triangles and circles, and such principles as congruence, similari...

About the film: Based on the eponymous book by the Norwegian skier Tomm Murstad, Skiing with Per and Kari shows two children who receive skis for Chri...

Emphasizes the importance of proper punctuation and its basic rules. Tom and Beth, showing scenes of their puppet show, find that without punctuation,...

LDS Leaders from the Past. This rare black and white video includes motion picture footage of Church leaders from the first half of the 20th century....

This late 1940s film pays tribute to Manolete, one of the great Spanish bullfighters and one whose death after being gored in 1947 remains as one of t...

Amateur filmmaker, James Poppleton, delivers an account of WWII from the home front in Melbourne, Australia. Newspaper headlines set the scene and pro...

Experimental film by Jim Davis

Boy uses his radio equipment to demonstrate how sound is produced and transmitted.

A short film about Oslo as a summer city for outdoor enthusiasts, with the surrounding forests and the fjord serving as recreational areas. // Oslofi...

The 1948 episode “Nomads Of The Jungle (Malaya),” part of the educational film series The Earth and Its Peoples, directed by Victor Jurgens and produc...

Experimental short by Jordan Belson.

"...a psychodrama of an alienated young man in New York City."