1948 Movies

A young aristocrat is madly in love with an inventor, but her parents arrange her marriage to an old army general.

Feature-length instructional cartoon made for the Home Office and the Fire Brigade.

El Chepo (Lucho Córdoba) must take care of his six brothers, all laborers on a quiet farm. The arrival of the landlady, with her two daughters and the...

A story about a mother and her seven sons.

Short animated film about a station master.

Newsreel footage of the key events that took place in Canada in 1948.

Edgar has an argument with his next door neighbor concerning a spite fence the neighbor is building between the two properties, Then Edgar gets the id...

Richard Massingham gives a comic demonstration of how to cross the road.

The second of the Power Primer series of GM American Industrial Films, this one looking at the automobile engine.

In this film, African-American Leroy Collins struggles with the onus placed on him by Society when he falls in love with a white woman.

This is a documentary on what LDS Church welfare is and how it functions.

An early animated short film from Gyula Macskássy

The images show a special summer. As on 20th June 1948, the currency reform is proclaimed, the precarious situation for the people from Hamburg change...

A Terrytoons cartoon released 9 March 1948.

This film examines the problem of children who won't eat, and what can be done about it. Tommy should be hungry, but he just picks at his food. Going...

Part of BFI collection "Design for Today."

The story of the British Sailors Society, a voluntary welfare body.