1955 Movies

The film covers the first Malayan general elections, emphasizing popular support for Tunku Abdul Rahman and the Alliance Party.

Film by Robert Vickrey.

Experimental film by Jim Davis

This institutional film was designed to promote Chevrolet's corporate citizenship rather than any specific model of automobile.

The adventures of a salt-loving porcupine.

Starting from its source, this film tells the story of the Orquil Burn, Orkney.

A short piece of film recording general views of Edinburgh's Princes Street in the 1950s.

Gustaf the puppet plays the piano. An amateur film

First and only Icelandic Sci-Fi film. Nonni falls asleep while watching the fireworks on new years eve. He wakes up in an aircraft heading to the Moon...

(Italy, 1955)

A historical overview of the development of the motion picture industry.

A fast-paced condensation of Don Juan (1926) with John Barrymore at his amorous and swashbuckling best, and one of the great swordfights of all time....

An amateur newsreel about a 1950s fish market, the Fulton Street Fish Market.

A documentary film about the Dutch colonies in Latin America, Netherlands Antilles - St Maarten, Saba, St Eustatius, Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, Dutch Gu...

A behind the scenes look at the preparations for the live broadcast of the opening of Disneyland, filmed for ABC in July 1955. Initially provided to l...

The most prolific of the producers of documentaries filmed for broadcast on North American television was Barton Wilson, who shot at least two dozen f...

A Dinkar D. Patil film.

Painter Mr Stan Bult records the face make-up of clowns on eggshells, in order to ensure every clown is distinct: to safeguard the unwritten law that...

A group of young carolers learn how Christmas is celebrated in Germany, Sweden, Holland, Mexico, Italy, and China.