1947 Movies

Dover made over: this quirky and pointed public information film reveals how the heavily-bombed and shelled Kent town was being replanned after the wa...

This is 1947 biography movie about how Alexander Graham Bell and his partner Thomas Augustus Watson invented the first discernible speech, transmitted...

A team of divers explores undersea animal and plant life and revels in the majesty of the underwater world.

Visiting the fairyland with King Tingeling. There is a guard parade and the king plays with fun things and eats a lot of cakes. Finally, there are par...

A compilation of Canadian news stories from 1947 including: long skirts, a new look in women's fashion; scenes of a record snow storm; a representativ...

Fight of the Wild Stallions is a 1947 short documentary film produced by Thomas Mead about wild stallions in the wilds and the business of wrangling t...

The head of a school in a little French country town encourages the playful romances between his young students, as well as a love of jazz music.

Road safety film, made for children in the late 1940's, using the fictional town of Puddle-Muddle as an example of the correct traffic and pedestrian...

A young woman takes care of her father and silblings after the death of her mother, giving up love in the process.

Yugoslav Partisan propaganda film about the post-World War II events in Pula.

Mexican movie

Film illustrating the scope of London Transport activities at their most extensive. These include shaping the transport system by collating numbers of...

A saddle-weary Steve Larkin, also the Duranko Kid, rides into Red Mound, a town filled with cattle rustlers. Cafe owner Smiley, befriends Steve and fi...

An industrial film instructing employees in the then-new air travel industry how to deal with problem customers.

A film dedicated to miners, showing the hardship and risk of working in a mine. Devoid of verbal commentary, it draws its impact from the form: sugges...

The farmers Zackris Månsson and the Kerstorps-farmer lives on each side of the river. The two villages has always been enemies. The Kerstorps-farmer d...