1949 Movies

The lead-up and highlights of the All-Ireland Football Championship Final 1949.

Composition no. 5 by Dwinell Grant.

A short subject by Fred Sarlié.

About the problems in connection with Denmark's reconstruction. The film shows the economic difficulties the war has caused for Denmark and tells abou...

A Shell-sponsored industrial science short examining the physics of liquid spray and dispersal, produced in the context of Shell’s research into insec...

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

Early experimental film by Jim Davis.

Documentary film about celebrations that accompanied the opening of the Šamac-Sarajevo railway line built by Yugoslav youth. Preparations for the cent...

Documentary by Ytzen Brusse from 1949 on the nearly extinct profession of the 'parlevinker'; grocers selling their goods from a boat in the canal. Fil...

This classroom training film was designed to show the achievements of Roman culture in the areas of government, architecture, engineering, language an...

Scenes of a big three-ring circus include the arrival, the parade, unloading, tent raising and highlights of the show itself. This film has amazing fo...

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

Growth in all aspects of Canadian life. Sequence on babies in maternity ward, immigrants arriving by ship, Newfoundland being welcomed into Canada. Go...

Short documentary about the Voortrekker monument in Pretoria, South Africa. The film also tells the story of the Voortrekkers using clips from The Bui...

Bollywood 1949

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

Bulgarian film version of the opera Ivan Susanin

A film by Dharmadhikari Datta.