1948 Movies

Operation Vittles is a 1948 American short documentary film about the Berlin Airlift, from the initial closure of the city in 1948 through 1949. It ex...

Experimental film by Jim Davis

Shows the harmful effects on 16mm film of improper projector cleaning, film threading, film rewinding, and placement of films in cans. Points out the...

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

LDS Leaders from the Past. This rare black and white video includes motion picture footage of Church leaders from the first half of the 20th century....

A nostalgic and fast-paced history of the TTC and Toronto.

A teenager eager to make the high school basketball team fails the tryouts. Devastated, he turns to the family doctor to find out what happened. The d...

Uses a real-life situation to clarify the elements of mutual assent, competent parties, legal bargain and consideration--both in oral and written cont...

Once again the moving beam of "Spotlight" swings across the city of today to pinpoint a new story for the screen audience of tomorrow. This time we s...

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...

A post-war film by Włodzimierz Kowańko, created in Argentina

Travelogue promoting air travel to the Caribbean. During a glamorous trip to Cuba, Jamaica, and other islands, an animated figure periodically pops up...

Portrays the lakes as an important shipping route for a region of vast natural resources, major population centers and extensive industrial developmen...

Produced to encourage farmers to take the advice of Government Agricultural Officers, the film compares two black farmers. One is keen to improve and...

Rare Footage of Mahatma Gandhi's Funeral

Short film by Lewis Jacobs.

Radio personality Martin Block interviews Ray Noble and Buddy Clark and introduces a few performances by Clark singing with Ray Noble and His Orchestr...

1948 Thomas Wilfred light animation