1956 Movies

An animated short film by Víctor Iturralde.

Kids in a limbo space are building a perfect little society our of shoeboxes and poster paint. Johnny has been banished from this world because he can't get along with others!

A reporter is given a tour of the Nevada Test Site before witnessing an atom bomb detonation, part of the Operation Teapot series of nuclear tests in 1955.

Short film by Christopher Young.

Due to the harsh and unhealthy working conditions of the past in coal mining, miners of earlier times developed pneumoconiosis, or silicosis. Inhaled coal dust destroys the alveoli in the lungs. Even in later mechanized mining processes, dust generation did no...

In this film from the Prelinger Archives, a Greyhound bus rides from San Francisco to Washington D.C, transporting us at the same time through the landscape of American mythology (and unwavering patriotism). The cast of bus riders include: Fred Schroder who, e...