1952 Movies

Another early experiment in portraiture from Tait. In filming her mother she asks the wider question of how much the camera can reveal of the person.

Casper befriends Junior Pig and confronts the Wolf.

Seaside in the summer: a meeting place of all sorts of people and professions. Elderly Mr Paja and two youths, Zorica and Mirko, experience many adventures in accordance with their own respective age and desires.

In November of 1952, the normally reclusive Faulkner allowed a film crew into his secluded world at Oxford to make a short documentary about his life. The film, shown here in five pieces, was funded by the Ford Foundation and broadcast on December 28, 1952 on...

The story of young boys who have proven their loyalty to the republic unfolds in the setting of a boarding school for miners' apprentices. A tunnel is dug from the Engels mine to the Ludvik mine, so that the two mines can be connected to form the Engels mine....

Those rabble-rousing magpies Heckle and Jeckle are watching high-society crowds going into the theater to see a performance of "The Barber of Seville" and decide to get some culture of their own by sneaking into the show. The stage-door manager tosses them out...

Casper, the friendly ghost, likes people but people are afraid of him. So Casper goes to the zoo looking for a friend, which he quickly makes with a baby elephant, and, together, they go out playing in the night.

Baron Metter is threatening to evict a crofter family from their home. Lauri Vaara a student passing by, falls in love with Marja the family's daughter, and promises to help save their home. Baroness Olivia Metter falls for the young student and helps him with...

A little princess, Ranjani is tattooed with the royal insignia as part of tradition, and the same night, the child is kidnapped by one of the members of the tattoo gang who brings her up as a gypsy girl renaming her Rani. Unaware of her royal lineage, she gro...

A down-to-earth grocer yields to pressure and decides to follow his wife's advice to put to good use his deceased Jewish associate's gold sovereigns, even though he cherishes his simple lifestyle. In the end, can money bring happiness?

Using documentary footage, re-enactments, newsreels, diagrams and animation, narrator Westbrook Van Voorhis details how to react to news of an atomic explosion.

A womanizer (Asit Baran) conceals his syphilis and prepares to marry for the second time. Will his first wife be able to stop him?

A film mostly consisting of scenes from older films. A sleep researcher has produced a serum with very fast effect.

A BAFTA Special award nominated documentary that illustrates the need for and uses of lubrication across engineering.

Barney Bear goes duck hunting, but is forbidden by the rule book to shoot the one duck available: a duck that is asleep.