1949 Movies

Large numbers of children and adults can be seen enjoying themselves, splashing about in the water or diving from the high-boards.

Pictures Southern California as the area in America most like the Mediterranean lands in climate. Shows that the two areas produce similar crops.

"The imaginative experiments with animated clay figures begun last year in No Credit have, in this year's Proem, proved out as a suave and wholly inte...

Masha has a real problem. Her new doll named Tom is very sad and never smiles. What should she do? Masha and her friends decide to put on a show for T...

Short road safety film.

To the modern eye, this postwar Japanese cartoon is a transitional piece, from the Japanese-mythos story to the modern anime style. The linkag to the...

Congress for the unification of youth.

Bollywood 1949

Young America Films presents an instructional short detailing good baby sitter behavior for 1949.

Experimental film by Jim Davis.

This educational film from the 1940s teaches the fundamental definitions of, and the physical concepts involved in, volt, ampere, ohm and watt.

An impoverished young man goes to work for a lawyer. He falls for a girl he meets in the lawyer's office. Later, he is devastated to learn that the gi...

Impressionistic documentary of Sausalito, California, a small town near San Francisco, in its pre-beatnik days when it was still an artist's colony.

a 10 minute commercial masquerading as a safety video.

Film by Elwood Decker.

The film chronicles the making of Christian Dior’s autumn/winter 1949 haute couture collection at 30 Avenue Montaigne.

Bacterial diseases are caused by infinitely small beings, called microbes or bacteria, and are accompanied by physiological disorders such as hollow h...

Documentary by Ytzen Brusse from 1949 on the nearly extinct profession of the 'parlevinker'; grocers selling their goods from a boat in the canal. Fil...