1947 Movies

Compares daily activities of a secretary with those of a stenographer.

Documentary film shot by Howard Triest in 1947.

A traffic accident occurs once every six seconds, most leading to property damage, injury, and/or death. Most of these accidents are preventable, and...

Salesmanship and psychology instruction for gun dealers.

Produced internal by the National Maritime Union itself, TARGET LABOR emphasizes the destructive power to unions of the then-recent Taft-Hartley Act.

Movement and patterns of abstract forms.

War reparations industry: ore enrichment at the Outokumpu factories, locomotive manufacturing.

Shows how tourists get to the Centre (Central Australia). Includes: Aboriginal rock paintings, the Devil's Marbles, Tennant Creek, gold crushing plant...

Emily Post narrates this traditionally minded film.

"Non-objective" art film by Robert Boardman Howard.

What Makes a Fine Watch Fine visits Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for a guided tour of the Hamilton Watch Company Factory. The film focuses on the design H...

A newsreel from the 1940s about the football championship between Club Universitario de Deportes and Atlético Chalaco at the National Stadium, which b...

A newsreel from the 1940s documenting the visit of President Dr. José Luis Bustamante y Rivero to the imperial city of Cusco, accompanied by his wife,...

A musical short filmed in Havasu Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park. Produced by the Arizona Motion Picture Corporation. Sound of the music is lost.

Unique in lack of commercial traffic. Contrasts river's natural state with parts dammed to provide electric power and irrigation water.

A Secrets of Life short.

In this installment of the Eye Witness series from 1947, we visit Chalk River, Canada's atomic energy project, for an update. We see the production an...

A look at the past, present, and future of Mexico.

Scientific documentary for men over 18 years old, shown in a not very prestigious room, which speaks of a purpose of erotic exploitation.