1946 Movies

Careers in photography and cinematography. From the Preligner Archives.

The ins and outs of serving a buffet

Unpublished corporate documentary on the famous captain of industry Adriano Olivetti and on the history of his factory activity in Ivrea. The project...

Another instructional short from Young America Films. This one is about Tommy and how he spends his day.

Footage of the Able Day and Baker Day nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946, accompanied by a narrator who explains the purpose and benefits of the te...

Experimental film by Hal McCormick.

Early "interactive" film attempting to train teenagers to negotiate, not fight, with their parents.

The film, Document USSR-81, shown on February 19th, 1946, at the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal of the major war criminals, barely register...

A document of public school in Mussolini's Italy

This little trailer looks to have been produced for theaters, and looks to be most likely animated by Joop Geesink in Holland/The Netherlands, who con...

Short film produced by the French Military Government in occupied Germany one year after the end of World War II.

Animated short.

A Kenyan villager applies the new methods of agriculture he has learned at Bukura College. -http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/278

Animated film about railways in Switzerland.

April comes to the prairie city of Winnipeg, and brings with it a great event - the Manitoba Musical Festival. Fifteen thousand boys and girls sing an...

With a spike in birth rates after the Second World War, it was the job of the government's publicity agency, the Central Office of Information (COI),...

A short documentary made for the British government illustrating the end of the war in Europe. Part of a series that runs from the invasion of Italy t...

A short documentary made for the British government illustrating the Allied war effort between the liberation of Paris and the arrival at the river Rh...