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24 results for “1950s short film”

The Snowshoers

1958 ★ 5.8

This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a

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Partners in Crime

2015 ★ 7.1

Set in a 1950s Britain rising from the ashes of the Blitz into the grip of a new Cold War, our beekeeping duo stumble into a world of murder, undercover agents

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Aquamania

1961 ★ 6.5

Mr. X buys a boat and inadvertantly enters the water skiing race. With Junior driving, with no experience, he's a bit out of his league. Aquamania is an eight‑m

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Dylan Thomas

1962 ★ 6.2

An atmospheric tribute to the genius of Welsh poet and dramatist Dylan Thomas, using many of the windswept locations where Thomas himself grew up and found his

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Radio Stories

1955 ★ 7.6

Three short stories based on radio competitions, all linked by speaker Gabriel and his fiancee. Two inventors who want to patent a piston and need money, a thie

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Hawaiian Nights

1954 ★ 3.0

This Universal "Musical Featurette" eatures a slight story line woven around the comedian Pinky Lee and Universal glamour girls Mamie Van Doren and Lisa Gaye. A

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Sunday in Peking

1956 ★ 6.4

Chris Marker’s travel essay Sunday in Peking transforms a long-held childhood dream into a cinematic journey through Beijing. Blending documentary observation w

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The Bletchley Circle

2012 ★ 7.6

The Bletchley Circle follows the journey of four ordinary women with extraordinary skills that helped to end World War II. Set in 1952, Susan, Millie, Lucy and

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At Home with Joan Crawford

1953 ★ 5.8

Actress Joan Crawford appears in this public service announcement asking the theatre audience to give generously to The Jimmy Fund, which supports cancer care a

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Grand Canyonscope

1954 ★ 6.5

Come along with Donald Duck as he visits one of nature's masterpieces. After a little ragtime rain dance, Donald strikes up a conversation with himself at Echo

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The Truce

2025 ★ 6.5

Karlag, short for Karaganda Corrective Labor Camp, was one of the largest labor camps within the Soviet Gulag system. Established in 1931, it was located in the

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Stone Age Romeos

1955 ★ 6.7

The stooges hope to collect a reward by proving to a museum that cavemen still exist. They return from their expedition with a film purporting to show some ston

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Love Your Neighbor

1958 ★ 6.7

This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end

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A Hetedik napon

1959 ★ 6.1

A young priest visits a barber's shop to get shaved. When he leans back and closes his eyes, the barbers decide to play a prank on him. Instead of a male barber

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Christopher Crumpet

1953 ★ 6.8

Through drawings, an illustrator tells his dog the story of a boy named Christopher Crumpet. Christopher can at will change himself from a little boy into a chi

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Operation Concrete

1958 ★ 5.4

Godard returned to Paris briefly before getting a job as a construction worker on a dam project in Switzerland. With the money from the job, he made a short fil

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Stamp Day for Superman

1954 ★ 5.5

Superman's commitment to promote US Savings Stamps is temporarily delayed when Lois is kidnapped. Stamp Day for Superman is a 1954 fantasy and science fiction f

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The Pipe and the Pitcher

1950 ★ 6.0

Girl named Zhenya goes berry picking with her family but struggles to find any berries. She meets an old forest spirit who offers her a magical pipe that reveal

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Pardon My Backfire

1953 ★ 6.1

The stooges are auto mechanics who need money so they can marry their girls. When some escaped convicts pull into their garage, the boys manage to capture them

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The Man Who Died Twice

1958 ★ 5.9

An innocent nightclub singer becomes mixed up in illegal drug dealings shortly after witnessing her husband's death and the murder of a couple of narcotics agen

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So You're Taking in a Roomer

1954 ★ 10.0

Joe and Alice decide to rent a room in their house to their neighbor Marvin, who says he is a potato broker. So You're Taking in a Roomer is a short film releas

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Pauper's Joy

1958 ★ 8.0

Anthology film based on six short stories by writer Elin Pelin. At the end of a market day, Stoyan learns that after ten years of marriage he has a son. Leaving

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Houston Texas

1956 ★ 8.0

A report on this extraordinary boom town that owes its fortune to oil. Houston Texas is a 1956 documentary film directed by François Reichenbach with a written

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Banner of Youth

1957 ★ 5.0

A short film advertising the newspaper Sztandar Młodych (The Banner of Youth), noteworthy for its abstract elements painted directly onto film stock. An attempt

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