1953 Movies

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

The products of the blacksmiths from Kropa rank among Slovenia’s best-known artistic and craft masterpieces, with a tradition spanning several centuri...

Educational safety film produced by the Fresno Police

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

The ideal classroom is still as a tomb according to this vintage Coronet Instructional short. First we see a mildly chaotic room of first graders who...

Camille is a drag parody of the 1936 Garbo classic, filmed on Fire Island with an all-male cast of local residents and friends.

Documentary promoting the the use of airplanes among businessmen. Also includes brief segment showing new experimental designs.

An ultra-low-budget burlesque short filmed in 3-D.

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

Short film by Robert Vickrey.

The threads of several simple stories - a young boy encounters an old man down on his luck, two couples meet - are wordlessly interwoven to evoke the...

Docu-drama reconstructing the real events put on screen by Josef von Sternberg in Anatahan

Documentary. Directed by Manuel Trullen. Produced by Peru Films (Roberto Cruzalegui, Carlos Venine).

A Royal Life: Mary of Teck, Queen & Mother

Experimental filmmaker James Davis draws parallels between reflective surfaces both real and artificial.

Documentary directed by José Eduardo Cavero.

The journey of two groups of people lost in the middle of the jungle while searching for a plane that crashed with an important cargo of gold and docu...

Rugby league clash between Sydney Firsts and the American All Stars, who toured Australia and New Zealand between May and August 1953.