1949 Movies

Three-minute-long commercial for a cigarette brand.

Algernon Blackwood narrates his tale in this theatrical short film. Presumably lost.

Travelogue showcasing the sights that the railway has to offer from the Highlands of Scotland to the south of England.

Part of the longer compilation "Histoires extraordinaires" by the same director. Based on the short story The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe.

How a child's emotional development normally keeps pace with his physical growth; the behaviour he exhibits at certain ages. This introductory film te...

The characters are refugees from the war who have arrived in America. Ricardo Moller is a scientist who the war has left sexually mutilated, while Art...

In Australia with its rapid development there is a need for insistence upon town planning. This film illustrates what has already taken place in our l...

An interview short with Thorvald Madsen done in 1949.

Documentary record of the event held in the Sacsayhuamán Fortress and the staging of the Inti Raymi

Produced by George Pal, "Birth of An Oil Field" was directed by Duke Goldstone and released in 1949 by the Shell Oil Company. This film, part of a se...

Postman delivering mail in northern Sweden

A man is on vacation and meets a married woman. She falls deeply in love with him, while her husband begins to suspect something.

The passengers of an airplane wrecked in the Negev desert are rescued and brought to a budding Zionist community (The film was shot at kibbutz Revivim...

Mexican movie

The film tells of the Armand Denis/Lewis Cotlow expedition that had the two men cover 22,000 miles through Tanganyika, Belgian Congo, and British East...

This educational film shows the development and interdependence of organisms in a pond.

There's a wedding in the forest and all the animals are getting ready.

Dating to the immediate post-WWII period, this U.S. Navy cartoon "Collisions Occurring During Simulated Combat" was likely made by the UPA Studio. The...