1947 Movies

Three songs: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, Rock-A-Bye Baby, One More River to Cross, and the piano exercise Chopsticks, illustrated by animated...

The International Ice Patrol is an organization with the purpose of monitoring the presence of icebergs in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and reportin...

This War Department bulletin from 1947 shows captured German V-2 Rockets being tested at White Sands, New Mexico. German scientist Wernher von Braun d...

This short dramatized documentary film, presented by U.S. Army, introduces use of polygraph in investigation. Polygraph is used as a lie detector that...

This film provides an overview of Australia's primary and secondary education system in the late 1940s. It looks at the various types of schools in th...

In the 1940s, Brotherhood of St Laurence founder, Father Gerard Tucker, commissioned three short, silent films which were screened to audiences in the...

This 1947 film depicts the process of gasoline production from prospecting / surveying to consumer consumption. Detailed graphics describe the oil ref...

This Columbia "Thrills of Music" short (production number 6952) headlines the Boyd Raeburn Orchestra, who lead off playing "Temptation." Band vocalist...

A traffic accident occurs once every six seconds, most leading to property damage, injury, and/or death. Most of these accidents are preventable, and...

From the Film Australia Collection. Made by the National Film Board 1947. Directed by Geoffrey Collings. This film surveys post-war Japan and life und...

Documentary short about job opportunities for British ex-servicemen in post-war Australia.

The highlights from the All Ireland Football Championship Final of 1947.

Air Force film of Chuck Yeager's October 14, 1947 X-1 flight that broke broke the sound barrier for the first round in human flight.

Produced by Paul Hoefler Productions on behalf of Western Air LInes, "Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons" is a classic travelogue film that dates to 194...

A long-retired director of early silent films recalls his exciting career as a filmmaker.

Mildred Burke and Mae Weston battling it out for the Women’s Wrestling Championship of the World in 1949.

A musical revue featuring a variety of acts of singing, comedy sketches, burlesque dancers, and more.

Unique in lack of commercial traffic. Contrasts river's natural state with parts dammed to provide electric power and irrigation water.