1953 Movies

Len Lye made this experiment in animating poetry circa 1953 utilising a clip of Sir John Gielgud reciting a passage from The Tempest.

"…one cannot deny its documentary value or Burckhardt's eye for detail, his unpretentiousness. There are sequences — the children swimming under the B...

Two little rabbits one with long ear and the other with a short tail are good friends. One day, they found a big mushroom in the woods and started a f...

A BAFTA award nominated animation tracing the development of the motor car from the original horseless carriage common in the late 19th century to the...

In the fifties a group of men attempted to ascend the highest peak on earth. In the same year, as the first ascent of Mount Everest succeeded, the Ger...

It all takes place in Italy with various amusing gags concerning the country's shape (the obvious boot and foot one),the Leaning Tower of Pisa (where...

A policeman discovers that his girlfriend's father heads a drug smuggling band.

Mexican feature film

This feature-length film — made under the auspices of a U.S. program of propaganda known as the "Campaign of Truth" — describes the impact of communis...

Illustrates various techniques and household arrangements for caring for the convalescent patient at home. Shows ways of arranging the sick room, mak...

Jamil (P. Ramlee) is the son of a wealthy family in Kuala Lumpur who falls in love with their maid’s daughter Norma (Normadiah). His class-conscious p...

13-minute documentary taking a look at the song "Silent Night" from the time it was written to the music and finally to it being performed across the...

A biography of the Islamic saint Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi, from his birth in Morocco, to his refusal to marry the girl who loved him, to his journeys to st...