1955 Movies

A gymnastics performance by the Sofia girls at the Acropolis.

A behind the scenes look at the preparations for the live broadcast of the opening of Disneyland, filmed for ABC in July 1955. Initially provided to l...

This Oscar-nominated New Zealand short looks at a number of mountains in New Zealand with a fair amount of emphasis on skiing. While a number of mount...

The film covers the first Malayan general elections, emphasizing popular support for Tunku Abdul Rahman and the Alliance Party.

This animated film features an average fellow who meets the Devil (or his envoy, anyway),who has a plan to turn his nice neighborhood into a slum.

Documentary. Accompanying the re-release of Palomillas del Rímac at the Biarritz cinema.

Adventures of a skunk family.

Set during World War I, Enrico Toti takes up a job on a railway. One day he rescues a kid and needs his leg to be amputated. He leaves his girl, Nina,...

This film recreates the ancient Greek world through its extant art and literature. The narration is from translations of Greek authors, including Hesi...

A young bride-to-be models a modish nylon nightie before a voyeuristic camera in this silent 1950s striptease film.

Magazine. Child divers; model makers; sights of the Solent.

Anti-communist orientation for Americans

Anti-film by Mihovil Pansini.

"This film presents the impressions of William Faulkner during his visit to Japan to participate in a USIS-sponsored American literature seminar. The...

The Servant of Two Masters (Italian: Il servitore di due padroni) is a comedy by the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni written in 1746. Goldoni origina...

Christmas 1955: Mrs. María Delgado de Odría, First Lady of Peru, visits the young residents of the Augusto Pérez Araníbar Children's Home in Magdalena...

Magazine dealing with hobbies.

A woman exercises, then relaxes in the sun.

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.