Movies 1949 Page 46

The Sailor and the Seagull was released by the U.S. Navy in 1949 with a simple goal: encouraging servicemen to re-enlist. In the film, a disgruntled...

A very tired lion comes to the rest farm operated by Mrs. Jones, a duck, badly in need of a long rest. (No, he doesn't eat Mrs. Jones.) First, Mrs....

A lawman takes on gangsters attempting to steal property wanted for a railroad.

Rocky Lane, out to find the murderer of his brother, runs into a battle between two stage lines for a mail contract.

Joe McDoakes does NOT want to be a baby sitter.

Gus, a cab driver is in love with the company owner's daughter, but mistakes Dick Lane a harmless, escaped asylum inmate, for the boss and takes him...

In this sequel to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer's career just as he has returned to the stage after a premature retirement. But his wife...

It was a sanatorium in the highlands. Patients such as Totsuka, Hirota, and Hashida were battling their illnesses under the devoted care of Michiko,...

In 1887 Arizona, in the context of the settler-vs-cattleman struggle, two rancher brothers fall in-love with the same settler girl while crooked...

Naive Chinese immigrant has feelings for a young woman of loose morals whom he hires at his restaurant.

Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.

In 1854, Australian gold rush miners struggle for their rights against an oppressive government.

A gangster's girl loves a one-eyed boxer who is framed for robbery.

The film serves as a historical and propaganda piece focused on post-WWII reconstruction and the socialist mobilization of the working class.

An hand drawn animation of Frogs.

Gloria Cole and Eddie Swenson are working to keep an old fire house, now being used as a youth center, from being razed to make room for a new...

Young women in Milan, rooftops and children. One of the women is possibly Margaret Tait. [shotlisted from MiniDV] gvs Milan main square, bustling...

Film noir about a physician who sets aside his altruistic quest for a cure for polio when a femme fatale coerces him into murder and blackmail.

A cat and her young owner get ready for School

Chases within chases. A mother runs after a child. A man seems to be pursuing himself. A woman who has been nibbling her lipstick through half of the...

Old short about the importance of good platform posture and how we can improve it through the simple knee test.

A trio of house painters, a cat, a dog and a bird, undertake to decorate the exterior of a skyscraper, and end up, involuntarily, performing a...

This educational film from the 1940s teaches the fundamental definitions of, and the physical concepts involved in, volt, ampere, ohm and watt.

Beautifully filmed in black and white, this classic short film looks at pearling in the late 1940s. It goes on board the boats that work off the...

Gandy and sourpuss goes inside a book to get a rarest of all creature, the dingbat.

A film on soil conservation, showing problems facing farmers in different areas of Canada. Many scenes of soil eroded, gouged and leached out by...

Uses time-lapse photography to show the physical power of plants in their efforts to receive sunlight and fulfill their growth.

"Saturday Night Square Dance" was released in 1949 as a Soundie. Featured here are Jim Boyd and His Men of the West. Jim Boyd was the brother of Bill...

In "The Lead Shoes", we can neither thrust in our eyes nor our ears to help us understand how time flows or how space is. Therefore, Peterson forces...

Documentary in classic NFB style about Canadian farmers who travel south to Texas every spring with their combine harvesters to harvest crops...

When two cats from the Moon, in search of mice, descend from the skies in a large flying object, resembling a cup-and-a-saucer, a furious fight...

"Whenever You Eat" (1949) is an educational film produced by the National Dairy Council and Atlas Film Corp, emphasizing the importance of physical...

Produced for the National Film Board of Canada

A short economic history of the world from Neolithic man through the present day which espouses free trade and global economics.

Advice for post-war British holidaymakers on how to comply with new Treasury legislation on taking money abroad, presented in comic style by Richard...

Pictures Southern California as the area in America most like the Mediterranean lands in climate. Shows that the two areas produce similar crops.