1953 Movies

Heart-wrenching interviews with U.S. soldiers in Korea during the holidays.

Report on the activity of Finnish icebreakers in the Baltic Sea, which is frozen during long winter months.

This film about the city’s industry depicts Oslo in the 19th century. It primarily shows scenes from the important Akerselva River, which was used for...

UNESCO-funded "one world" documentary by Paul Rotha and Basil Wright.

A tongue-in-cheek archival film documenting a day in the life of a veteran horse-drawn carriage driver. Though the tourists that flock to the historic...

The NFSA has restored Giorgio Mangiamele’s uncompleted (and therefore mute) first feature film 'Il Contratto' (The Contract). A remarkable film in the...

Hold on to your hats, strip fans, as the emcee gets our four featured fillies racing to win a Golden G-String!

This Civil Defense films shows the results of atomic testing on houses at Yucca Flats, NV. Although the purpose of the film was to inform viewers of w...

This classroom training film was produced by the US government to assure kids that nuclear energy was entirely safe and could even be put to good use...

Presented without voiceover, various kinds of breads are displayed and broken in a joyous celebration of starch, seed and salt.

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

1953 Indian Film

Camille is a drag parody of the 1936 Garbo classic, filmed on Fire Island with an all-male cast of local residents and friends.

A surreal piece of cinema, mostly comprised of stark religious and homoerotic imagery, accompanied by increasingly dissonant music (starting with ‘The...

While Ralph is out on a last-minute errand for potato salad, the Kramden apartment is visited by several of Gleason's characters. Featuring Frances La...

A moral story of being good to the little creatures with the Terry Bears.

Short documentary on the volcanic eruption of the Shabubembe.

A Walt Disney cartoon anthology