1955 Movies

General shots of Edinburgh City Centre taken by film-maker Margaret Tait, focussing on the Royal Mile, Holyrood House and Princes Street Gardens.

A farm woman learns fertilizer use and composting from an instructor, as practical lessons mingle with romance, songs, and rural life.

The battle against Troy seems to be lost for Greece until General Ulysses comes up with a solution.

This short travelogue, visiting Mexico, was shot in VistaVision.

A Trip to Europe

A documentary account of the hardships and adventures encountered by an American couple seeking the ruins of an ancient Mayan city in the jungles north of the Guatemala-Mexico border.

After the hero of this story saw hundreds of boys and girls participating in the first national camp of the Youth Companies Brigade that took place in Gardosh (Kibbutz Parod),he decided to join the movement. Taking part in the third camp, he, together with hi...

Vassar College's Department of Child Study produced this training film for nursery school staff, one of a series on "Preschool Incidents." Unstaged playground scenes of two to five-year-olds in conflict are shown, then repeated for further analysis and discuss...

Film starring Showkar Janaki and Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri

3 screen tests by Joseph Cornell.

1955 / Elephant Girl (Gadis Liar) / – / Eddy Infante / Shaws, Malay Film Productions

In a battery of photographs created with the use of mirrors, distorting lenses of his own manufacture and easel tricks, Weegee transformed the Mona Lisa into a work of modern art.

The story of three scientists who drifted in a small boat across the Atlantic in order to discover facts about the behaviour of the sea and air.

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

made for Fiat in 1955

Pint-sized punk (PETER VOTRIAN) uses the old five-finger discount to swipe an alarm clock from storekeeper WALTER COY (the mad scientist of I Eat Your Skin) who then tells Christian cop STUART RANDALL. After the cop confers with the boy's grim-faced pa, PAUL B...