Joer 1955 - 131

Life in the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland.

Based on Dickens' "Sketches by Boz" and George Cruikshank's etchings which illustrate the book. Verses of the "Broken-hearted Milkman" sung by James Watson, Ronald Johnson and Owen Swindale. The song "When the Moonlit Wave" by Christina Stephenson and Elizabeth Johnson. Raymond Townsend and Sylvia Budd speak the various Cockney characters.

The life of Hans Christian Andersen. The son of a poor cobbler, he becomes Denmark’s national poet. The film reveals the strange childhood from which he derived the whimsy and fantasy of his fairy tales. As a boy of fourteen, he went to Copenhagen, bent on achieving fame in one way or another. He failed to impress the theatrical producers but obtained a scholarship from the King of Denmark. Soon he was writing short stories, plays, poems, novels and fairy tales.

Directed by Anant Mane. With Raja Gosavi.

Directed by S. Chavan. With Lalita Pawar.

Directed by Govind B. Ghanekar.

Movie starring Raja Gosavi, Sharad Talwalkar and directed by Raja Paranjpe.

Directed by Rajan Kumar. With Chandrakant, Sulochana Latkar, Leela Mehta, Suryakant.

Short educational film about water.

Impressions of Elisabeth of Bavaria's, Queen of the Belgians, visit to Poland in 1955.

This film provides footage of University of California medical tests with LSD.

The first Taiwanese-language film produced by a public studio.

Amateur film from 1955 showing the people, landscapes and architecture of numerous islands in the Caribbean by Everild Helweg-Larsen, F.R.G.S.

This amateur colour film includes the ancient stone tower of Kavus at Gorgon and the Grand Hotel at Ramsar on the Caspian Sea, routes through the Alborz or Elburz mountains and Mount Damavand, the highest peak. The film includes expeditionary treks using horses, camels and mules, along with aerial coverage of the valleys beneath the Elburz mountains taken from ‘Stinky Wings’; a light aircraft.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary demonstrating the movement of underwater plants and creatures synchronised with music

This film recreates the ancient Greek world through its extant art and literature. The narration is from translations of Greek authors, including Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, and Plutarch, and accompanies visual impressions of Greek religious philosophy and history through the golden age. The film features spectacular footage of Crete, Knossos, Mycenae, and the sculptures of Athens. It discusses the Persians at Marathon, then 10 years later, Xerxes at Thermopylae.

It records the zarzuela of the same name, by the maestro Alcides Prado, and it is a costumbrista fresco from Costa Rica from the beginning of the 20th century.