1955 Movies

Impressive, abstract dance film from Bert Haanstra.

This short film takes the viewer on a tour through the world of harness racing and show horses.

Schort documentary on the atomic bomb.

A seal who can sing is taken advantage of by Willie, who has him sing from the inside of a guitar to impress a girl.

A travelogue of Finland, narrated by a Finnish native who returns to his homeland on vacation. Statues, architecture, natural beauty, castles, a resta...

Teresita Arce's figure encompasses the entire realm of 20th-century Peruvian entertainment. This interview was filmed in June 1955, on the occasion of...

This animated film features an average fellow who meets the Devil (or his envoy, anyway),who has a plan to turn his nice neighborhood into a slum.

This documentary offers us a view of skating rink where anyone can enter at a minimal price. On another rink, however, are sportsmen in training some...

No white man has ever set foot beyond the coastal regions of New Guinea and so Armand and Michaela Denis determined to explore this virtually unknown...

The lives of farmers working in the Cotswolds.

In this retelling by Manuel Conde, this film follows the in search of three princes for a mythical bird, the Ibong Adarna, not only for the cure to th...

German short film from 1955 that participated in the Berlin film festival

Vassar College's Department of Child Study produced this training film for nursery school staff, one of a series on "Preschool Incidents." Unstaged pl...

Divides domestic and wild animals into three groups--those that eat meat, those that eat plants and those that eat both meat and plants. Explains tha...

A documentary outlining the railroad's roll in expanding the nation.

An abstract film in which Jesús Soto's art and André Almuro's musique concrete combine to evoke the modern age.