1951 Movies

Robert Altman's first film was this 26-minute short, which has a football coach explaining how to play the sport. This is basically an educational sho...

Short film documenting children's street games and songs in 1950s Edinburgh.

The treatment of injured and sick children at Louisville, Kentucky's Kosair Crippled Children Hospital (now Kosair Children's Hospital) is depicted in...

Portrait of Heikki Klemet as a folklore researcher, choir director and composer.

The cartoon opens with a line of people (including Woody) drooling at the window of a market butcher's shop (Buzz Buzzard). What ensues is a short ser...

A report on the cultural life in Macedonia shown through the celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Macedonian National Theater, concerts, the pu...

Based on the popular comics by Mars Ravelo, Roberta is a battered child taking care of his brother in an impoverished setting.

A Hy Hirsh film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2000.

Late-teens girl is trapped into masquerading as a 12 year old. Wacky complications.

A short concerning the excavations in Herculaneum.

If you haven’t already been diverted by the history of John Gilpin, or would like to venture that way again, you couldn’t find a better accompaniment...

Both the son and the father become infatuated with a girl, and each tries to attract her attention in their own way. After a series of adventures and...

Country themed Soundie featuring Connie Haines.

...another short film for children about a young girl leading her friend to Christ by means of a “wordless book,” a 1950s evangelistic tool used in ma...

Good-grooming film for women that was funded by the meatpacking and consumer products giant to showcase the company's Dial soap. The Clean Look teache...

A grim scientist orders his third robot to destroy the male of two humanoid creations after they unexpectedly fall in love. But his plan backfires whe...