Most Viewed Year 1947 - 89

The efforts of some horse racing bettors to win with a racehorse named Cachafaz. Meanwhile, a large-scale scam orchestrated by an international gang...

Thomas Hart Benton demonstrates the main steps in planning and executing a mural: beginning designs, sketches, layout, clay model, small painting,...

Newsreel from the 1940s about the race organized by the Touring Automobile Club of Lima, in homage to the national anniversary of Colombia, the route...

Hydroelectric power, shipping, irrigation and salmon fishing.

How young children must behave to avoid transmitting germs to one another.

A 1940s newsreel shows young women from Lima modeling elegant Vogue fashions, with makeup and hair done by the Elizabeth Arden Beauty Institute, and...

A newsreel from the 1940s about a luncheon organized by a select group of ladies from our society, as a show of sympathy and appreciation to Miss...

A newsreel from the 1940s documenting the visit of President Dr. José Luis Bustamante y Rivero to the imperial city of Cusco, accompanied by...

Ott shot his time-lapse plant footage in his Winnetka greenhouse. He installed automatic temperature, humidity, and irrigation systems to help with...

The International Ice Patrol is an organization with the purpose of monitoring the presence of icebergs in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and...

From the Film Australia Collection. Made by the National Film Board 1947. Directed by Geoffrey Collings. This film surveys post-war Japan and life...

In the 1940s, Brotherhood of St Laurence founder, Father Gerard Tucker, commissioned three short, silent films which were screened to audiences in...

A José Burone Bruché's animation short film from the 40's.

Film of the Royal Family's tour of South Africa in 1947. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

A Fireman demonstrates fire fighting equipment & teaches children responsibility in preventing and controlling fires..

Animated character "Tommy Telephone" produces a telephone by assembling 433 separate parts.

Promotional and fund raising film describing the purpose and activities of the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, a proposed USC associated...

A short subject by Roger Livet.

The Town Crier tours the cobbled, centre gutter streets announcing midnight. The news circulates that the maiden will bestow favors on the suitor who...