1949 Movies

First Line of Defence is a short cartoon recruitment film for the RAF created in 1949 by animation duo Halas and Batchelor. The story follows a traine...

Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian Lapland.

Unsuccessful gambler 'Dollar Bill' Burton lives in a crummy New York basement room with old friend Bob and a new roommate, friendly blues singer 'Alab...

High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school and...

An Ishiro Honda short film.

The workers at the ironworks are working to fulfill a two-year plan. The spy group takes advantage of the bitterness of a disrespected innovator and t...

Mai Mangwende addresses a group of women in a village and outlines 'what women's clubs were doing to make life better'. Over shots of their work withi...

Presentation of goldsmithing and silversmithing, making jewelry by hand. Studying at a goldsmith school. The school was the only school in the Nordic...

Despite his tender age, four year old Melvin Beebe is an expert archer. At his family's farm on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state, Melvin uses...

The poor photographer Tibbe turns out to be the heir of the recently deceased count Silfverbåge. But he can only get the money on one condition: he mu...

Dating Do's and Don'ts is a 1949 instructional film designed for American high schools, to teach teens basic dating skills.

Postman delivering mail in northern Sweden

A biographical film about Finnish singer J. Alfred Tanner and his path through a failed career as a construction master to become a highly successful...

At the beginning, there is a bench and two lovers. Later, a PDT and a housing estate are built in its place. The lovers, who have already gotten marri...

Father dances to Jazz in the kitchen with the maid, his family won't tolerate his behaviour anymore. And now he has to deal with Uncle Adam's strange...

A cat and her young owner get ready for School

An educational film about the dangers of moving on ice, rescue methods and first aid.