1952 Movies

A simple story of happy home and family relationships, showing various childhood activities. Does not give guidance for kite flying.

A woman struggles with making a float.

One of the office boys in a company succeeds in finding a job for his newly graduated son at his employer. But the son is ashamed of his father's job....

Audrey plays baseball with Pal, but she hurts and angers a police man several times, that he chases her, but Audrey rescues him from drowning in a pon...

A precious pearl necklace is stolen from a dying widow and repeatedly changes hands because many covet it, leaving behind a long trail of blood.

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

1952 / Yatim Piatu / Orphan / B. S. Rajhans / Malay Film Productions

Alan Simpson's lyrical, visually lush film captures the Mummers of Symondsbury as they enact their traditional Christmas play outside their village in...

An early film by Jordan Belson from 1952. "[Belson's] early films animated real objects (pavements in Bop Scotch [1952]) and scroll paintings prepared...

A narration of the journey of a young aspiring writer. Sandhya Rani and Uttam Kumar won critical favor for their performance in the film.

Short documentary film. Produced by Raúl Beraún.

A young girl, impressed by the crystal clear ideals of a writer, falls in love with him, but ends up losing everything she hoped for as a wife.

The council of an old Slavic tribe makes unrighteous decision by giving the best looking girl Voljenka to Kohan the warrior. Voljenka is in love with...

A feature length instructional video for the Admiralty on coastal navigation and pilotage.

Another early experiment in portraiture from Tait. In filming her mother she asks the wider question of how much the camera can reveal of the person.

An educative film about the water supply and watersystems in small towns and villages in Japan. It captures the unsanitary and inconvenient lifestyles...