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Human skeleton, muscles, movement and posture – Part II
Human skeleton, muscles, movement and posture – Part II
Part two of two teaching films about human anatomy which is devoted to the action of the skeletal muscles in producing movement of the bones at the joints of the human skeleton. It uses ...
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5.6
The Pottery at Ilza
The Pottery at Ilza
Andrzej Wajda's first movie looks at the pottery in the town of Iłża, Poland. Much of it shows the actual process of creating all the objects out of clay.
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Santa Brigida
Santa Brigida
Approximately ten minutes of 35mm footage survives at the Svenska Filmminstitutet from a documentary (probably not completed or even edited) shot in the convent of the Swedish sisters ...
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5
Matisse
Matisse
Between 1950 and 1955, Henri Langlois tried to produce, on behalf of the Cinémathèque française, several films devoted to great artists, with their cooperation, by entrusting them with ...
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5
Camera Sleuth
Camera Sleuth
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we see how real-life investigator Jo Goggin used a motion picture surveillance camera to gather evidence and disprove a fraudulent insurance claim.
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Make Your Own Decisions
Make Your Own Decisions
Once you're old enough to make decisions for yourself, how exactly do you go about doing it? How can you really know which choice is best for you?
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Visit to a Shipbuilding Yard
Visit to a Shipbuilding Yard
A party of children take an eye-opening tour of John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank.
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Friendship Triumphs
Friendship Triumphs
Film about the third 'Weltfestspiele der Jugend und Studenten für den Frieden' in East Berlin, 1951. West Germany is represented as a degenerate country which has been occupied by the ...
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3
Peace Will Win
Peace Will Win
This film describes the Second World Congress of Peace Defenders, held in Warsaw on November 16-22, 1950. Sheffield, an industrial city in England, was the initial location of the ...
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Bullfight
Bullfight
The film evokes all the aspects of bullfighting - its history, the bulls, the toreros, the arena, the audience - and involves numerous matadors from the era.
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6.5
Operation Wonderland
Operation Wonderland
1951 behind the scenes featurette of the Walt Disney animated classic.
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7.7
Ingmar Bergman: Making Commercials
Ingmar Bergman: Making Commercials
In the early 1950s Ingmar Bergman made a series of imaginative commercials for the soap brand "Bris".
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6.8
Nature’s Half Acre
Nature’s Half Acre
The strange and wonderful world that lies beneath our feet, under leaf, log and rock, peopled by millions of weird and fascinating creatures. Released theatrically alongside Alice In ...
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The Nation at Your Fingertips
The Nation at Your Fingertips
Promotional film introducing self-service long-distance dialing using a prototype service in Englewood, New Jersey. Demonstrates how direct dial and the new area code system enable ...
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5.7
This Is Korea!
This Is Korea!
John Ford's documentary about the early battles of the Korean War, shot in color.
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Pictura
Pictura
Pictura is a documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous Hollywood actors. The film attempts to give the general filmgoing public a taste of art ...
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Human skeleton, structure and joints – Part I
Human skeleton, structure and joints – Part I
A teaching film about the human skeleton with animated medical illustrations as well as an actual skeleton with commentary. A man, naked to the waist, also demonstrates the relevant ...
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The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story
Dore Schary presents clips from upcoming Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films.
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The Extraordinary Adventures of a Quart of Milk
The Extraordinary Adventures of a Quart of Milk
Documentary short subject preserved by the Academy Film Archive, from the Marshall Plan Collection, in 2003.
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7
Benjy
Benjy
Benjy is a 1951 American short documentary film directed by Fred Zinnemann. It won an Oscar in 1952 for Documentary Short Subject. Henry Fonda narrates this short film about a boy who ...
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Water for the Prairies
Water for the Prairies
This 1950s' film looks at the measures to preserve water flow from the Rocky Mountains. With the steady falling of the water table, the exploitation of timber stands and the recession ...
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5.1
Flying Padre
Flying Padre
Two days in the life of priest Father Fred Stadtmuller whose New Mexico parish is so large he can only spread goodness and light among his flock with the aid of a mono-plane. The ...
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5.7
Day of the Fight
Day of the Fight
'Day of the Fight' shows Irish-American middleweight boxer Walter Cartier during the height of his career, on the day of a fight with black middleweight Bobby James, which took place on ...