1947 Movies

What Makes a Fine Watch Fine visits Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for a guided tour of the Hamilton Watch Company Factory. The film focuses on the design H...

A Documentary on the railways and their role in supporting the United States

A cat takes a job to help with a mouse infestation.

This short black and white film takes a look at the daily life and work of North Queensland sugarcane cutters. Five million tons of sugarcane (1016 k...

The much lauded poetic and polemical documentary about the standardisation of Australian rail gauges, emphasising the economic cost in times of peace...

On the role of cotton in the national economy.

Animated figures of a mantel clock - the boy Tock and his sister Tick set off to travel through the pages of the book “Travel to the Land of the Giant...

Urban utopia beckons in this idealistic vision of postwar Manchester - fascinating to revisit as Northern Powerhouses and city devolution return to th...

Part of BFI collection "On Yer Bike."

The story of the herring fisheries in the North Sea.

Part of BFI collection "Your Children and You."

Part of BFI collection "Your Children and You."

Let’s get this show on the road. The Ministry of the Information, and its peacetime successor the Central Office of Information, weren’t the first to...

The first issue of the long running industry cinemagazine, featuring the articles: 'Cutter Loader', 'Five Day Week?' and 'The Miner's Song'

The first Syrian talkie.

A brother and a sister who believe Santa is down on his luck this year decide to give Santa a gift in order to help him out.

This 1947 Columbia short, part of their Two-Reel Special series, tells the story of the Hungarian tenor, Miklos Gafni, who learned to sing while being...

A French team of archaeologists exploring Angkor buildings to restore some.