1953 Movies

A singaporen film directed by Jaafar Wiryo.

Jamil (P. Ramlee) is the son of a wealthy family in Kuala Lumpur who falls in love with their maid’s daughter Norma (Normadiah). His class-conscious p...

Yadanabon (Burmese: ရတနာပုံ) is a 1953 Burmese black-and-white drama film, directed by Tin Maung starring Tin Maung, Kyi Kyi Htay, Tin Tin Mu and Maun...

The film opens with general views and shows building works and Sherpas loading up. Scenes of threshing and a campsite, with Sherpas and huts. A settle...

This educational short film shows various towns in Tasmania along the Bass Highway. Farms are shown, and there is also a look at some historic houses.

Whitsun, the Pentecost weekend, puts millions of Europeans on the road for a brief vacation in the spring air. The film contrasts the way West European...

The coffin of Joseph Stalin from the House of Unions. The funeral procession moves through Red Square. Troops on Red Square and adjacent streets. m...

Film by Allen Downs.

An ultra-low-budget burlesque short filmed in 3-D. Presented by Harry A. Farros, owner of the luxurious Hotel Casa Del Rey in Santa Cruz as well as bu...

A surreal piece of cinema, mostly comprised of stark religious and homoerotic imagery, accompanied by increasingly dissonant music (starting with ‘The...

Australian railway film from 1953, showcasing the beauty of train travel.

A tongue-in-cheek archival film documenting a day in the life of a veteran horse-drawn carriage driver. Though the tourists that flock to the historic...

Scroll paintings prepared like film strips with successive images.

This fifteen-minute sales film for CBS Radio was directed by Bobe Cannon, designed by T. Hee and Sterling Sturtevant, with backgrounds painted by Bob...

This film takes us to the heart of a small village and is built round a family facing the problem of social customs which are a barrier to education a...

This 1953 color film directed by Alan S. Lee and produced by Condor Films, Inc. of St. Louis for the Wabash Railroad Company features Barry Hopkins, C...

A Walt Disney cartoon anthology

Documentary concerning Baltimore's efforts at urban renewal with an emphasis on improving housing in the city's slums.

A Native American drama set in the 1950's about a Navajo boy's conversion from following the ways of the medicine man to following Jesus Christ.