1947 Movies

This film provides an overview of Australia's primary and secondary education system in the late 1940s. It looks at the various types of schools in th...

The International Ice Patrol is an organization with the purpose of monitoring the presence of icebergs in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and reportin...

This short dramatized documentary film, presented by U.S. Army, introduces use of polygraph in investigation. Polygraph is used as a lie detector that...

This 1947 film depicts the process of gasoline production from prospecting / surveying to consumer consumption. Detailed graphics describe the oil ref...

The highlights from the All Ireland Football Championship Final of 1947.

"Thumbelina" is a shadow puppet animation based on the Andersen fairy tale.

A six-part instructional film produced by the Shell Film Unit explaining the fundamentals of heavier-than-air flight through live-action aircraft foot...

Part of the “Flight Safety” series of animated shorts commissioned by the U.S. Air Force at the end of World War II. This one emphasizes the importanc...

Another of the Power Primer series of GM American Industrial Films, this one looking at the internal combustion engine.

A young woman starts a new job as a secretary for a realtor. At first she struggles, but she really hits her stride with the McDonald letter and its...

Explains the scientific background and Biblical teaching about blood.

Three songs: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, Rock-A-Bye Baby, One More River to Cross, and the piano exercise Chopsticks, illustrated by animated...

In the 1940s, Brotherhood of St Laurence founder, Father Gerard Tucker, commissioned three short, silent films which were screened to audiences in the...

The first issue of the long running industry cinemagazine, featuring the articles: 'Cutter Loader', 'Five Day Week?' and 'The Miner's Song'

Floating, log cabins at work and in their free time.

The film illustrates the various services provided by a bank through the experience of Mr. Frank Adams. It details his process of depositing money, th...

The first Syrian talkie.

Newsreel from the 1940s about the attendance of President José Luis Bustamante y Rivero and his ministerial cabinet at the religious ceremony held in...

Carpaccio is a 1947 short film directed by Umberto Barbaro and Roberto Longhi and based on the life of the Italian painter Vittore Carpaccio.