1952 Movies

Two young people who are broke resort to all sorts of tricks to get money from their rich aunt. But they don't succeed and finally decide to stand on...

This promotional travelogue, made for the Christchurch City Council, shows off the city and its environs. Filmed at a time when New Zealand’s post-war...

A close-up study of a spider at work.

A documentary about G.V. Brooks Community School at Newnham, Tasmania.

The tale of The California Zephyr, part of the Blackhawk Railroad Series

A 1952 experimental film by director Jim Davis.

This is a film on the National Physical Laboratory opened by the late Deputy Prime Minister, Sardar Patel, in January 1950, in Delhi, and devoted to r...

The hospital catches fire, and a mother, unable to distinguish her real child from two infants, accepts both but always remains curious to know her tr...

Short film.

A naive villager enters the city and, due to his strong resemblance to the city's ruler, is mistaken for him. Since the ruler got lost during a hunt,...

Educational film for children, about dairy farming.

This short, black-and-white animated film from the early 1950s was produced by Transfilm Incorporated for McGraw Hill Book Co. for use as a training f...

Chinta Murni / Pure Love / Armaya (A. R. Tompel) / Nusantara

"...an eccentric study of mundane rituals on the streets of San Francisco..." (Light Industry screening notes)

Deals with the problem of adjustment to a new, aggressive pupil in a class of second graders. Shows how a normal balance is regained through the skil...

This very short stereoscopic film by Evelyn Lambart uses drawings to suggest movement across Canada’s ever-changing countryside.

Glasgow’s Countryside Club visits the North Norfolk Coast, taking in sights along the still-to-be-established National Trail Path. In this clip the gr...