1949 Movies

Experimental film by Curtis Opliger.

Mexican movie

South African Film

A look at the rise of the record industry from its primitive beginnings to the unveiling of the formats that would revolutionize the world of popular...

Short educational film about the breeding of trees.

Dating to the immediate post-WWII period, this U.S. Navy cartoon "Collisions Occurring During Simulated Combat" was likely made by the UPA Studio. The...

(1949) Presents common kitchen safety hazards and the precautions to be taken.

This short documentary looks at the Indigenous Gitxsan community in central British Columbia’s Skeena River through one of its members, Ben Risdale. W...

A documentary about fruit growing and canning in Australia.

Short film by Robert Bruce Rogers.

Documentary by Ytzen Brusse from 1949 on the nearly extinct profession of the 'parlevinker'; grocers selling their goods from a boat in the canal. Fil...

Created in 1949 by the U.S. Army, "The Medical Effects of the Atomic Bomb" represents an early attempt to describe the impact of bomb effects and radi...

Tells the story of the fierce battle of survival waged by plant life, animals and human beings on the desert. Shows where the desert areas of the worl...

Bacterial diseases are caused by infinitely small beings, called microbes or bacteria, and are accompanied by physiological disorders such as hollow h...

Among the various diseases that attack the potato during the growing season, there are first of all the virus diseases such as Mosaic, Leaf Roll, Spin...

A special installment of the Polish Film Chronicle on March 8, 1949, highlighted women’s emancipation under socialism, emphasizing their roles in both...

German and American students join forces to rebuild the University of Munich after the war.

A Shell-sponsored industrial science short examining the physics of liquid spray and dispersal, produced in the context of Shell’s research into insec...