1948 Movies

Santa magically creates a Punch and Judy puppet show to the delight of children at a Christmas party.

The English nursery rhyme, Pop Goes The Weasel, has had various interpretations and by giving the title to this HM-Treasury sponsored picture, the mem...

Road safety film about how 'accidents always happen to other people'. A series of scenes illustrate careless behavior that could lead to road accident...

Amateur filmmaker, James Poppleton, delivers an account of WWII from the home front in Melbourne, Australia. Newspaper headlines set the scene and pro...

Part of the BFI six-part series entitled "Your Children and You."

In this recruitment film and general propaganda piece for the coal industry, Old King Cole becomes 'King Coal', roused from the depths of the earth by...

Part of BFI collection "Tales From the Shipyard".

A Terrytoons cartoon released 31 December 1948.

Cinderella, through the help of her fairy godmother, is able to go to the ball to meet the prince. Complcations arise when midnight strikes, and she m...

Bubble and his talking taxi Squeaky investigate a haunted house.

Venice Film Festival 1947

Nahid and Farhad met each other at one of the night parties of the National Music Association and soon fell in love. Nahid's father is a wealthy busin...

Directed by Esmail Kushan.

The Valley is Ours is a tribute to Australia's greatest river and the valley that it supports. Homage to post-war progress, this classic film celebrat...

Jack is motivated to learn better spending habits after becoming envious of his friend Ralph's new camera.

Heckle and Jeckle wind up blowing out a tire on the car they are in and go up to a bear's cave to try and find a place to stay for the night.

It is about three curious children who meet a mysterious floating mask who calls itself "Satan." It talks in a creepy foreboding voice and lures the c...

The common house-cat's imagination exceeds reality.

Nature documentary meets Disney-style cute in this Animaland animated short.