1949 Movies

To the modern eye, this postwar Japanese cartoon is a transitional piece, from the Japanese-mythos story to the modern anime style. The linkag to the...

Venice Film Festival 1949

Film by Spencer Williams.

The Tsimshian legend of a blind old medicine man and the origin of the distinctive white pattern on the neck of the loon.

A street-wise and tough orphan called Maverick is arrested for a petty theft and sent to an orphanage, but succeeds in concealing a watch he had stole...

Slapstick comedy.

Everyone should hang out with Basketball! Basketball’s mom thinks Basketball is really cool, no matter what the kids at school say!

Mexican movie

Salesmen Heckle and Jeckle set up shop in a hotel lobby selling mechanical shoes - they do the walking for you - and the hotel detective, an irritable...

On piloting ships into Sydney harbour.

A soon-to-be born baby learns about the kinds of schools he will attending in the years following his birth.

A drop of water is taken to a laboratory in San Juan, Puerto Rico to determine its purity. The film communicates scientific health information, such a...