1953 Movies

A Walt Disney cartoon anthology

Educational film instructing kids how to be good citizens while playing.

A local sheikh tells a story to a fellow coffeehouse patron who is suspicious of Western influences in his country. Hoja, who is known for his own str...

Building a steel mill from scratch and a city for its workers (Levittown, Pa.).

This educational film from the 1950s instructs viewers how to prepare for a class report.

Tân, a Vietnamese student in Paris, has tuberculosis. He is hospitalized in a university sanatorium in the Parisian suburbs. Far from his family, who...

Sponsored by the Women's Christian Temperance Union. In this not-too-subtle rip-off of Huckleberry Finn, young William Blake is bored with the country...

A Walt Disney cartoon anthology

Shows how a teacher, by helping a first-grade child to discover his need for learning, teaches him to read, write, and do arithmetic.

Illustrates the need of pets for adequate care, urges children to care for their city pets and shows by example how such care is administered.

An ultra-low-budget burlesque short filmed in 3-D. Presented by Harry A. Farros, owner of the luxurious Hotel Casa Del Rey in Santa Cruz as well as bu...

Mexican feature film

Sequel to the 1951 film "The love spirit of Nang Nak".

A Walt Disney cartoon anthology

Directed by R.S. Junnarkar. With Madhu Apte, Lalita Pawar.

Colour film of events leading up to and including the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".