1956 Movies

Promotional film for the CinemaScope format. Dachshund Piccolo is the speaker, Evert Taube participates.

At the end of the war, he was hired by Edison and in 1951 he made a film on all the important hydroeletrical plants built in that period. In the following years, Olmi directed around 40 documentaries, including La diga del ghiacciaio, Pattuglia di Passo San G...

Based on the book by Maud and Miska Petersham about the story of the baby elephant in the circus, showing the futile attempts of his mother to train him to eat at the table like the baby clown

A grotesque tale about crazy firefighters embarking on a rescue mission.

The young veterinarian Dr. Vlimmen settles in a small town on the North Sea coast. When he reports the conditions in the local slaughterhouse as cruelty to animals, he makes an enemy of the influential butcher van Heusden, who launches a smear campaign against...

This featurette demonstrates how trained dogs are instrumental in helping round up an outlaw Brahma bull which has been plaguing a ranchers pure-bred Hereford cattle.

A dramatization of the life of the Zulu leader, Shaka.

Head of the sculpture dpeartment at USC when this film was made (by USC),Merrell Gage was a lifelong expert on Abraham Lincoln. This short was a lecture often given by Gage, using wet clay to depict the on-going changes to Abe's face over the years as Abe alt...

Restored to its original glory by the National Film Preservation Foundation back in 2005, this little Christmas film is one of our holiday favorites. Margaret Conneely (Chicago amateur filmmaker & CFA Collection namesake) frames stop-motion animation and trick...

A great documentary of bharatnatyam dance by Kumari Kamala directed by Jagat Murari.

The film shows the reconstruction of Bremerhaven, its growth into a large city, the streets with shops, hotels, and administrative buildings. It also shows the work at the shipyards and provides images of a day in the life of a deep-sea fisherman.

In this sequel to The Kid (1950),Bruce Lee's title character is played by Ding Yue and Fung Fung's character, Flying Dagger Lee, is played by Wong Chin-sui. But don't feel sorry for Fung. He's the big shot here, not only assuming directing chores again but al...

With special permission from the U.S. Department of Defense, a major documentary film that provides a comprehensive overview of the Pacific War—from the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to the signing of the surrender aboard the USS Missouri.

Glasgow's docklands; its workers, transportation and daily life. Filmed by Enrico Cocozza for Educational Films of Scotland.

The village of Pubnico, located at the southwestern most tip of Nova Scotia, is the oldest Acadian settlement. Almost all of the village's inhabitants are descended from a few families who settled on the peninsula more than three hundred years ago. For two and...

The Slave in the Magic Mirror hosts this tribute to Disney villains, claiming that without whom, no one would need heroes.