1950 Movies

The mayor of a town gives a glowing introduction to the man who invented popcorn, while we're shown the much-different story of how popcorn came about...

Maryada was a Bengali drama film directed by Digambar Chattopadhyay. This movie was released on 15 December 1950 under the banner of Bhabani Kalamandi...

Sisters Irma and Airi Ranna's café Iltatähti has run into financial trouble. Touring musicians Heikki and Jussi end up as tenants in the same boarding...

Mighty Mouse, the mightiest mouse of them all, swoops down from the skies to rescue Pearl Pureheart from death on the roller-coaster rails at the amus...

The invisible link that powers Austria’s industry, cities and farms is, of course, electric power. Ultimately that power means jobs for the nation’s m...

Popeye's nephews practice their music, swinging out at the end. He puts them to bed with a perfunctory story; they say their prayers, finishing by ble...

This promotional film for Hope and Anchor Breweries resembles a light news itemfrom a 1950s cinemagazine, with added historical recreations, which, to...

A runaway bride poses as a married woman and mother of twins to woo a suitor who only falls in love with married women.

Joe the Burglar explains how he goes about his job for the benefit of the audience, providing a lesson in how to avoid being broken into.

No Strangers Here is a fictionalised account of a family of "new Australians" arriving in their new home town. The family (mum, dad, girl and boy) are...

An industrial film, commissioned by the John Deere Company, which showcases eccentric home-built and modified farm equipment.

The film begins with a sun materializing out of the emptiness of space. In the first of three sequences we see various images from nature against musi...

Rooted in Hindu mythology, this devotional film is a grand retelling of the prophecy-shattering night when the divine child is secretly born in a pris...

With texts by Santiago Ontañón, acquired by the Peruvian government for distribution in Peruvian diplomatic missions abroad.

A picture of the ceremonial opening of the new school year.

Melodrama that tells the tragedy of a peasant family.

Historical drama, romantic triangle plus war/espionage intrigue during the Maximillian vs Juarez conflict of the 1860s.