1948 Movies

Soviet documentary about the 1947 Sachsenhausen show trial in Berlin-Pankow.

The first film to be produced by the Dagenham Cooperative Film Society, ‘Seeds of Time’ focuses on young people in the area in 1947-8. It’s great for...

One of the first Iraqi films.

Jack is motivated to learn better spending habits after becoming envious of his friend Ralph's new camera.

This campaigning film claims that well-meaning Labour politicians such as Prime Minister Clement Attlee are stepping stones to a communist state, and...

Part of the series of shorts Musical Paintbox. A typical Welsh public house which contains pictures around the walls of Welsh beauty spots. The Welsh...

Directed by César Miró, with photography by Manuel Trullen and production by Huascarán S.A., it reconstructed, in the style of a "living tableau", the...

A Bet with Satan is the second film by César Miró that follows the drawing-room comedy formula.

An early experimental film by Jim Davis. Note, not the same film as Light Reflections.

A film by P. K. Atre.

When sponsor Nottingham cancels King Russell's radio program, The Hot Shots try to change his mind. They not only fail but Nottingham's son forces the...

A newsreel from the 1940s documenting the smallpox vaccination campaign, prompted by the rising number of cases in northern Peru and the disease's con...

Jonckheere, the patriarch of a farming family, has two sons: Fons and Walter. Fons leaves the farm and goes astray, while Walter continues to run the...

This propaganda film reflects the rhetoric of the 1948 election campaign. Through black-and-white contrasts, emotional appeals, and threats of a “retu...

Paramount British newsreel coverage of the funeral of Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi on January 31st, 1948 in Rajghat.

The swirl and “‘Updo”’ styles of hairdressing. A teaching film presented by John J. Mueller.

Tom Puss and Mr. Bumble buy a magic hammer from an Oriental magician, which they use to conjure up various musical instruments and eventually a Philip...

Animal puppets seek out Santa to find out why he doesn't deliver presents to them.

A newsreel from the 1940s about the Perricholi house, the rooms were toured, the furniture and paintings were discussed, the carriage with the viceroy...