1947 Movies

A José Burone Bruché's animation short film from the 40's.

Shows how tourists get to the Centre (Central Australia). Includes: Aboriginal rock paintings, the Devil's Marbles, Tennant Creek, gold crushing plant...

Hydroelectric power, shipping, irrigation and salmon fishing.

What Makes a Fine Watch Fine visits Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for a guided tour of the Hamilton Watch Company Factory. The film focuses on the design H...

Floating, log cabins at work and in their free time.

A Marathi film by Jaishankar Danve.

How young children must behave to avoid transmitting germs to one another.

Development of writing and writing tools throughout history.

Documentary film shot by Howard Triest in 1947.

A traffic accident occurs once every six seconds, most leading to property damage, injury, and/or death. Most of these accidents are preventable, and...

This film shows the effect upon infants of prolonged absence of the mother. A number of babies in a foundling home are shown. The film indicates that...

Salesmanship and psychology instruction for gun dealers.

Produced internal by the National Maritime Union itself, TARGET LABOR emphasizes the destructive power to unions of the then-recent Taft-Hartley Act.

Movement and patterns of abstract forms.

War reparations industry: ore enrichment at the Outokumpu factories, locomotive manufacturing.

Film of the Royal Family's tour of South Africa in 1947. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Emily Post narrates this traditionally minded film.

"Non-objective" art film by Robert Boardman Howard.

A retelling of Aesop's fable.