1952 Movies

Filmed stage play covering the history of the engineering world, fifties-style.

The very first Sudanese feature film.

A movie by the Shell Oil Company traces the history of the development of the diesel engine from the Otto 'SILENT' gas engine of 1877.

Henry, a businessman, needs to learn time management skills. An unlikely series of events helps get him on track.

How can we protect ourselves against the threats of germs and toxins? Cold War America gears up to fend off threats from unconventional bioweapons.

Regional scenes captured by Wong's camera for tourism promotion.

School children from the 1950s learn basic rules of courtesy.

Made at the invitation of the United Nations, this film illustrates the principles and operations of UNESCO with particular reference to Australia’s p...

This film shows the drama of the wheat harvest played out on millions of western Canadian acres. In late summer great combine harvesters surge into th...

A cautionary film for sailors on the chances you take by going out with prostitutes or easy pickups..

This film is a vintage docudrama about the American pioneers (led by Daniel Boone in 1773) heading westward into the new frontier, crossing the Appala...

A propaganda film about how to be warned about a attack and what to do when under fire from a foreign power as provided by Bell Telephone System.

Highlights from the All-Ireland Football Championship Finals of 1952.

A couple brings home a painting of a flamenco dancer . At night the young woman gets out of the painting. And this is the beginning of a great orgy .

Fishermen are seen leaving Peterhead harbour in search of herring. The herring are unloaded and taken to the fishcuring yard where they are gutted, pi...

"I haven't looked at this in ten years, I have no clue what is on it" - Grandma Dygos

Shots of an open air curling tournament on a frozen loch in Dumfriesshire.

This short, black-and-white animated film from the early 1950s was produced by Transfilm Incorporated for McGraw Hill Book Co. for use as a training f...

'This Wall is not a Party Wall' was directed by the Peruvian modernist painter Fernando de Szyszlo in 1952—its somewhat formulaic Freudianism locates...

Heckle and Jeckle ruin the business of a body building instructor by peddling fitness pills that promise instant results.