1948 Movies

The hare fraudulently organize a death penalty for an annoying neighbors

A Chinese film by Lu Dun

Once again the moving beam of "Spotlight" swings across the city of today to pinpoint a new story for the screen audience of tomorrow. This time we s...

All the winners. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Portrays Puerto Ricans' reaction on the appointment of Jesús T. Piñero as the first Governor in the island.

Short animated film about a station master.

1948 Thomas Wilfred light animation

Bollywood 1948.

Santa magically creates a Punch and Judy puppet show to the delight of children at a Christmas party.

The English nursery rhyme, Pop Goes The Weasel, has had various interpretations and by giving the title to this HM-Treasury sponsored picture, the mem...

Road safety film about how 'accidents always happen to other people'. A series of scenes illustrate careless behavior that could lead to road accident...

Amateur filmmaker, James Poppleton, delivers an account of WWII from the home front in Melbourne, Australia. Newspaper headlines set the scene and pro...

Part of the BFI six-part series entitled "Your Children and You."

In this recruitment film and general propaganda piece for the coal industry, Old King Cole becomes 'King Coal', roused from the depths of the earth by...

Part of BFI collection "Tales From the Shipyard".

A Terrytoons cartoon released 31 December 1948.

Cinderella, through the help of her fairy godmother, is able to go to the ball to meet the prince. Complcations arise when midnight strikes, and she m...

Cats vs. mice in the Appalachias.

Bubble and his talking taxi Squeaky investigate a haunted house.