1947 Movies

Duke Ellington at the piano conducts a group of puppet perfume bottles playing his "Perfume Suite."

SHOWS THE WORK OF A CATALOGUER, THE SCHOOL LIBRARIAN, THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN, THE LIBRARIAN WHO WORKS WIITH CHILDREN & THE LIBRARIAN WHO SPECIALIZES...

A documentary about how trading goods with the rest of the world works to help the UK economy after WWII.

A homeless cat singing, "Hallelujah! I'm a bum" encounters the home of a Mister Lavish McTavish who adopts the cat and promises him all the food he ca...

We are invited to the waterworks at Brno, Czechoslovakia, where they have installed a "Finnish Sauna", similar to Turkish bath. Various nude visitors...

Sinikka, the young mistress of the Lenteelä house, gets into a relationship with her neighbor Antti while her husband Jukka is away at the front. The...

In a gym, a girl is pulling some pulleys, to gain arm strength, while three men and three girls watch a judo demonstration in the middle of the room....

An anti-war animated film that marked the very first production of Studio Filmów Rysunkowych. Both versions of the film were banned by the communist a...

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

In this short directed by Pietro Francisci, later known for hit swords-and-sandals titles such as 1958’s “Hercules” starring Steve Reeves, Lollobrigid...

Essam lives a miserable life among many others like him. But after experiencing a shocking tragedy, his faith is shattered, until he meets Hoda who gi...

A documentary of Varala, a physical education institute for women in Tampere, Finland. Filmed in the summer of 1947.

This 1947 Columbia short, part of their Two-Reel Special series, tells the story of the Hungarian tenor, Miklos Gafni, who learned to sing while being...

Rare amateur footage of East India.

Musical from the Egyptian Golden Age of cinema.

A 1947 Bengali Film directed by Premendra Mitra.