1949 Movies

a 10 minute commercial masquerading as a safety video.

Film by Elwood Decker.

Amrit, the son of proud patriarch Tatyaba, who lives with three sons and a daughter-in-law, is accused of a murder in a gambling den. In return for hushing up the matter, the evil owner of the den enslaves the entire family, forcing them to do menial labour. T...

Aspects of the city of Sorocaba.

The film chronicles the making of Christian Dior’s autumn/winter 1949 haute couture collection at 30 Avenue Montaigne.

The Taylor family lives in a pretty sloppy home, and don't seem to really care very much about its condition. One day daughter Martha brings home some tips she has learned in her Home Economics class, and, before they know it, the Taylors are happy, well adjus...

Impressionistic documentary of Sausalito, California, a small town near San Francisco, in its pre-beatnik days when it was still an artist's colony.

This black-and-white newsreel segment shows a team of scientists making their way to Heard Island in 1949 to relieve the previous year's team. The segment, entitled Scientists Go to Antarctica to Study Weather, opens with HMAS Labuan leaving Melbourne, followe...

A short amateur experimental film featuring mid-century paintings from Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kadinsky, Piet Mondrianand Joan Miro.

From Reykjavík, the capital city’s modern architecture, to traditional weaving and herring fishing, Iceland is presented as a progressive country, proud of its historic Norse legacy including Glima – or Icelandic Wrestling – the nation’s favourite sport create...

Shows the agriculture, trade and infrastructure of California's Central Valley, all made possible by irrigation.

Shorty the chimpanzee dresses as a scarecrow in clothes which he has “borrowed” from boys swimming in the river.

This amateur short film was created by the Edmonton Cine Club in 1949. It features two oil drilling companies competing for the same oil lease, with one driller courting the land owner's granddaughter and the other drillers resorting to sabotage and violence...

Western Samoa, Lotus Land of the Pacific, is administered by New Zealand under United Nations trusteeship. The Administration brings to the Samoans those European services which will benefit them, and aids them in preserving all the best of their own ways of l...

The Wirth Brothers Circus, one of Australia’s largest and most successful, survived another 15 years after this film was made.

Shows the correlation between posture and personality by showing the influence of posture on personal appearance and efficiency in sports and games, in making friends and in getting a job.

Coverage of the 18 strong Nigerian football team, the first ever to leave West Africa, who played nine matches in five weeks against top English amateur sides

Growth in all aspects of Canadian life. Sequence on babies in maternity ward, immigrants arriving by ship, Newfoundland being welcomed into Canada. Governor General Alexander does the honors on Parliament Hill. Sequence on Birthday Celebrations: 200th in Halif...

This narrative in the form of photographs brings to the screen important scenes from the life of Mahatma Gandhi. Scene after scene flashes past, vividly recalling to mind his childhood, his student life in England, the launching of the satyagraha campaign in S...