Movies 1955 Page 43

Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength....

Red Riding Hood is on her way from the city to the country, to visit Granny. She's bringing Tweety Bird to Granny as a gift - which attracts...

Beat cop Bragan is about to go off duty when he discovers a man standing on the ledge of a hotel more than a dozen stories up. Bragan tries to talk...

A couple suffers marital crisis, because they cannot have children. The wife harbors a long kept secret that might doom the marriage.

A horse wanders from town to the countryside. Here lives Sten Stensson Steen, a bachelor at law and philosophy. He is writing a social psychological...

Gilles Groulx's first film shot in 1955 with a camera borrowed from his brother and edited during his spare time when he worked as an editor at the...

An American Rancher takes a small herd of Brahma bulls to Brazil where he has sold them for a small fortune. There, he finds himself in the middle of...

A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into...

The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and...

Gabrielle Maple works in a dusty desert gas station-café, but yearns for the life of an artist in France, knowing there must be something finer than...

A propaganda film aimed at American audiences during the early years of the Cold War.

Spiridon Peresiadis (1864 - 1918) was one of the best writers of the dramatic idylls and mountain adventure genre that flourished into the late...

Peter a storyteller talks about a story of a pickpocketer named Chippy Criggs.

A humble young woman takes care of his sister's child while also hiding her feelings towards her sister's lover.

The adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer tells the story of renegade general Harras of the German Luftwaffe, who during WWII openly...

Presents an overview of the Netherlands and Belgium. Relates their economy to their environment.

Documents the life and habits of the largest of all penguins, filmed during a French Antarctic expedition led by Paul Emile Victor.

Centuries of June, perhaps more than any Cornell film, is a naked attempt to capture the soul of a place and the mood of a disappearing moment.

A Japanese House is a film MoMA produced in 1955 to document the installation of an actual, full-scale 17th-century Japanese house, designed by...

An untitled Joseph Cornell film from the MOMA collection

Bourbon Neaples is presented through its monuments, palaces and works of art (Capodimonte Palace, Villa Floridiana, Castello di S. Martino, etc…).

Photomicrography reveals the unusual structure and behavior of the Venus's flytrap, the trumpet plant, the cobra plant, the common pitcher plant, the...

A look at the dangers and possible causes of gangs and teenage delinquency including over-crowded and under-funded schools with few after-school...

This CinemaScope Terrytoon presents a symphony orchestra, composed entirely of birds, giving a performance in a woodland grove. The musical...

An appeal on behalf of the NSPCC.

A Saturday morning for a family in a London suburb. An English language teaching aid for the Linguaphone Institute, presumably distributed abroad and...

Good Deed Daly is a model boy scout and is helpful as can be even when his help is not needed. When he walks into a bank and finds all the employees...

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...

Answers questions about zoo animals and their offspring. Shows physical characteristics and habits of baby monkeys, gnus, kudus, lions, peacocks,...

Huff and Puff is a comic animated look at the serious problem of hyperventilation. Produced for the Royal Canadian Air Force to inform air crews...

The Terry Bears, to Papa Bear's distress, try to train their hound Pago to be a rabbit dog. When Papa takes Pago hunting, the rabbits prove to be...

(March 1955) Notts County v York City - FA Cup quarter-final. This was Notts County's record home attendance (47,310) which still stands today.

A mid‑1950s burlesque‑revue centered on a lively contest to crown “Miss Pin‑Up of 1955.” Guided by Randy Knight as master of ceremonies,...

A freight train travelling between Kirkby and Barnard Castle has become snowbound in the Westmoreland hills. The Motive Power, Operating and...