1947 Movies

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...

Amalia Aguilar dancing the Rhumba.

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...

A Central Office of Information film outlining the planned development of the Gold Coast over the next ten years.

Sportscaster Red Barber narrates this Paramount Headliner short about the escapades of a raccoon, who is beginning his day when the rest of the world...

A satirical puppet animation short on Chiang Kai-shek made by the communist party.

The film depicts the Danish police's guard service at Amalienborg after 29 August 1943 and the conditions under which the corps works until the libera...

The film gives a picture of the busy life that moves throughout the day in the Radio House, and it shows us the people behind the voices as well as th...