1949 Movies

An archaeologist dies, leaving behind his wife and daughter alone. A handsome man, a representative of the Antiquities Authority, visits the house. Th...

A film record of the gifts and gift-givers to comrade Stalin on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1948. The majority of the action takes place in t...

This classic short film shows how to make an igloo using only snow and a knife. Two Inuit men in Canada’s Far North choose the site, cut and place sno...

India has finally won independence from British rule, and there are signs of progress among the population. One such sign of progress is in the villag...

Pied Piper Porky Pig vows to rid the town of Hamelin of all its rats, and the cats of Hamelin are furious at Porky for usurping their rat-catching job...

A sing-song film, with the popular Four Gentlemen Quartet leading in four old favorites: Camptown Races, Bury Me Out on the Lone Prairie, Grandfather'...

In an animal school in the heart of Africa a giraffe wonders about the trip to Paris.

Markopoulos called Lysis “a study in stream-of-consciousness poetry of a lost, wandering, homosexual soul” and felt that the film foreshadowed The Ill...

A Pete Smith Specialty showcasing athletic stunts.

This anthropological documentary examines the Festival of St. James and its roots in the town of Loíza, Puerto Rico.

Ania, a few years old girl, starts attending to a new kindergarten. The film shows the difficult moments of a little girl's adaptation to a new enviro...

This Traveltalk series short visit to the province of Ontario begins in Ottawa, Canada's capital, then proceeds to Algonquin Park, Toronto, and Niagar...

This newsreel featuring Middlebury College was produced by Paramount Pictures in 1948.

Flatfoot Mason and his friends are the bane of the staff of the school at which Flatfoot is janitor - and where one of the pupils is Mason's long-lost...

Popeye and Olive are at the premiere of Popeye's new movie. He gets a little too wrapped up in the movie, interacting with it at various points, and e...

The film tells the story of a country rebuilding itself after World War II. In a lively socialist competition between two collective farms, two lovers...

Lumber jack Porky Pig intrudes upon the peace of a hipster squirrel vacationing in the Northwoods by trying to chop down the squirrel's tree. The squi...

Little Audrey helps a lost dream find his way back to Dream Land.