1947 Movies

This short dramatized documentary film, presented by U.S. Army, introduces use of polygraph in investigation. Polygraph is used as a lie detector that...

This film provides an overview of Australia's primary and secondary education system in the late 1940s. It looks at the various types of schools in th...

In the 1940s, Brotherhood of St Laurence founder, Father Gerard Tucker, commissioned three short, silent films which were screened to audiences in the...

This 1947 film depicts the process of gasoline production from prospecting / surveying to consumer consumption. Detailed graphics describe the oil ref...

This Columbia "Thrills of Music" short (production number 6952) headlines the Boyd Raeburn Orchestra, who lead off playing "Temptation." Band vocalist...

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

From the Film Australia Collection. Made by the National Film Board 1947. Directed by Geoffrey Collings. This film surveys post-war Japan and life und...

Documentary short about job opportunities for British ex-servicemen in post-war Australia.

The highlights from the All Ireland Football Championship Final of 1947.

Produced by Paul Hoefler Productions on behalf of Western Air LInes, "Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons" is a classic travelogue film that dates to 194...

Mildred Burke and Mae Weston battling it out for the Women’s Wrestling Championship of the World in 1949.

A musical revue featuring a variety of acts of singing, comedy sketches, burlesque dancers, and more.

Unique in lack of commercial traffic. Contrasts river's natural state with parts dammed to provide electric power and irrigation water.

This film tells the story of the three years and eight months that the colonial forces of the Japanese Empire occupied Singapore and Malaysia. The nig...

The movie portrays the relationship between overseas Chinese and Singaporean Chinese through intricate love stories.