1947 Movies

A look at post-war American railroads during their conversion to peace, operating under the handicap of little to no new equipment. It then looks at t...

Part of Ford Motor's AMERICANS AT HOME series--tells the story of the backwoods people who live in the beauty and awe-inspiring grandeur of the Great...

Thomas Hart Benton demonstrates the main steps in planning and executing a mural: beginning designs, sketches, layout, clay model, small painting, lar...

This short from the publishers of Encyclopedia Brittanica shows the process of making a book, from the author's finished manuscript to its being turne...

An instructional film on sewing different types of seams.

From the Film Australia Collection. Made by The National Film Board 1947. Directed by Eric Thompson. Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, is very unlike Ip...

Relates the square dance to social dancing, teaches the positions of the dancers in relation to the calls and defines terms. Includes the swing, allem...

This movie was the brain-child of S.W. Boggs, the U.S. Department of State’s official geographer (1927-1954). Graphic artist Boris Artzybasheff was al...

Shows how tourists get to the Centre (Central Australia). Includes: Aboriginal rock paintings, the Devil's Marbles, Tennant Creek, gold crushing plant...

A look into beekeeping.

The 1947 Australian Rules Football VFL Grand Final of the Victorian Football Leageu (VFL) seen in this film was played between the teams Carlton and E...

A look at contemporary art in Québec.

Bubble and Squeek set off for all the fun of the fair. They attempt to win the first prize of a new hooter by beating a sly coconut.

In 1947, a 27-minute, black-and-white short subject entitled Rehearsal: The Telephone Hour, was released to theaters. Originating in NBC's Studio 6B a...

Created in 1947 by Belmont Pictures Inc., this film for Los Angeles Transit Lines (the post-WWII moniker for the Los Angeles Railway and bus lines) is...

Some friendly rabbits are frolicking in the winter snow when a hungry fox appears with rather nasty plans. There's even a scene where the rabbits are...

Information film about the tuberculosis study in Copenhagen. The film effectively polemicizes against the widespread but erroneous notion that the dis...

Appeal to the Danes to participate in the parliamentary election, as it depicts an episode in a cinema theater, where the performance stops because th...

An educational film produced by by the Jam Handy Organization in 1947 for Dow Chemical Corporation. New pesticides, incorporating 2-4-D Dioxin are sho...

This film shows the effect upon infants of prolonged absence of the mother. A number of babies in a foundling home are shown. The film indicates that...