1947 Movies

Emily Post narrates this traditionally minded film.

Following the journey of a five-dollar bill through many transactions, the film shows how money functions as a standard of value and future payment, a...

Hydroelectric power, shipping, irrigation and salmon fishing.

The Pacific Rim at the start of the air age.

The Columbia, Sacramento, San Joaquin and Colorado river systems.

Compares daily activities of a secretary with those of a stenographer.

Mr. Williams drops off to sleep for a few minutes to find himself confronted with a world in which Congress has been suspended and federal authority d...

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

Silent film set in a small African village. The King takes his young son, the Prince, on a journey to teach him lessons on how to be a great leader by...

An animated presentation of Silent Night, Come All Ye Faithful, Good King Wenceslaus, Joy to the World, and What Child Is This sung by the Leslie Bell...

Documentary film shot by Howard Triest in 1947.

A trip to Norway includes Constitution Day celebrations in Oslo, the shipping and fishing industry in Bergen, and a journey north of the Arctic Circle...

Shot and distributed in Cinecolor, this Lowell Thomas Movietone examines Australia's Coral Reef and the myriad strange creatures that live and build t...

Promotional and fund raising film describing the purpose and activities of the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, a proposed USC associated schoo...

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

A young woman starts a new job as a secretary for a realtor. At first she struggles, but she really hits her stride with the McDonald letter and its...

Two brothers learn good sportsmanship at a local pool during a swim meet.

A formerly strict teacher takes a different tact with his unruly students.

A short subject by Roger Livet.

A retelling of Aesop's fable.