1949 Movies

Post-war Harrogate: voted the happiest place in Britain and the third most romantic destination in the world.

Dick York plays a high-school track star whose running lags because of his lack of sleep.

UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film. Color film combining paper cut, collage, and hand drawn animation. A love story set to Nat King Cole's Paper Moon, played out with photographs, drawings, and paper-cut shapes.

This documentary follows four scientists and their Native guides into the unmapped wilderness of the Ungava Peninsula, in northern Quebec. Crossing this territory in large canoes, they collect samples of Arctic flora and rocks, take readings of soil temperatur...

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 older style can be detected in the teams being the rabbits versus the foxes, with the sympathetic character be...

Film noir about a physician who sets aside his altruistic quest for a cure for polio when a femme fatale coerces him into murder and blackmail.

Early experimental film by Jim Davis.

South African Film

A dream journey of a certain official who dreams of fulfilled love and a better life with himself as the office director.

A short retelling of Cinderella, the fairy tale by Grimm.

A Shell-sponsored industrial science short examining the physics of liquid spray and dispersal, produced in the context of Shell’s research into insecticides and chemical application. Using high-speed cinematography to visualize droplet formation and breakup p...

This final John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short looks at a community, Mooseheart, in Illinois that orphaned children call home.

Bollywood 1949

Light may be one of the many things you take for granted in life. But if you have ever been in the dark about light, you'll not be for long when Professor J. Lumen Lightly, an animated character who lives in a G-E light bulb, takes a charming little girl named...

A short economic history of the world from Neolithic man through the present day which espouses free trade and global economics.

Documentary on Tukkilaispisat from 1949.

How Glasgow's public parks bring the countryside to industrial Glasgow, providing city workers with fresh air and exercise.