1953 Movies

Short film by Robert Vickrey.

In 1953, anthropologist Harry Tschopik Jr. traveled with his camera through the Shipibo villages of the Peruvian Amazon, and filmed the movie "Shipibo...

An elementary-school class learns how toys are made and distributed to stores, and why they should take good care of them.

A little boy in a cowboy outfit gets on a rocking horse and starts singing. Pulls out his revolvers and puts them away, taking some taffy from his bag...

Story of a letter written by a Welsh boy to a friend in Australia.

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 Walt Disney cartoon anthology

Shows how a teacher, by helping a first-grade child to discover his need for learning, teaches him to read, write, and do arithmetic.

Experimental filmmaker James Davis draws parallels between reflective surfaces both real and artificial.

Bollywoood 1953

The Word is a 1953 American short documentary film produced by John Adams. The film is about Frank Laubach and his work on literacy. The Word was nomi...

Educational film instructing kids how to be good citizens while playing.

Hold on to your hats, strip fans, as the emcee gets our four featured fillies racing to win a Golden G-String!

Jazz-musical about a two lovers.

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...

Building a steel mill from scratch and a city for its workers (Levittown, Pa.).

Meeting the Needs of Adolescence deals with a brother and an older sister, each a distinctive personality. Janet and Tom's parents accept each child--...

Marshal Tianpeng was demoted to the mortal world and reincarnated as Zhu Bajie, who was half human and half pig. Bajie loves Miss Gao's beauty and bec...

"Insects" is a 1953 short educational film documentary on insects. The film which was distributed by State of Georgia, Department of Education Film Li...