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Crashing the Water Barrier
1956 · Konstantin Kalser · 9m
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Crashing the Water Barrier is a 1956 American short documentary film directed by Konstantin Kalser. It won an Oscar at the 29th Academy Awards in 1957 for Best Short Subject (One-Reel). It focuses on Donald Campbell's 1955 effort to break a water speed record on Lake Mead in Nevada, US.
In 1966, Kalser admitted that Crashing the Water Barrier was produced by Marathon Petroleum as an advertisement.
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Crashing the Water Barrier — Hoopla (free)
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Crashing the Water Barrier — Kanopy (free)
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Wasteland Watchlist - Episode 77 - Crashing the Water Barrier (1956) with Bubbawheat
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Wasteland Watchlist - Episode 77 - Crashing the Water Barrier (1956) with Bubbawheat
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The Bespoke Overcoat
1956 · Romulus Films · 37m 30s
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The Bespoke Overcoat is a 1956 British black and white short film directed by Jack Clayton, based on a 1953 play of the same name by Wolf Mankowitz. The story is an adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's short story The Overcoat with the action moved from Russia to the East End of London. In this version the protagonists are poor Jews working in the clothing trade, played by Alfie Bass and David Kossoff. It won an Oscar at the 29th Academy Awards in 1957 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).
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THE BESPOKE OVERCOAT (1955) Court-Mérage Complet V.O.S.T.Fr.
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The Cage
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The Suspects
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The Street
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The Sceptre and the Mace
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The Hoax
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The Dikes
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The Barrier
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The Pony
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Cow Dog
1956 · Larry Lansburgh · 6m 53s
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I Never Forget a Face
1956 · Robert Youngson · 12m 32s
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I Never Forget a Face is a 1956 American documentary short film directed, written and produced by Robert Youngson.
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It's a Crime
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Never forgets a face
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Samoa
1956 · Walt Disney · 29m 45s
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Samoa 1956
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The Dark Wave
1956 · John Healy · 29m 37s
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The Dark Wave is a 1956 American short documentary film directed by Jean Negulesco about a young girl with severe epilepsy. The short stars Charles Bickford and features Nancy Davis, the actress who would later become First Lady of the United States Nancy Reagan. It was made in cooperation with the Variety Club Foundation to Combat Epilepsy (a predecessor of the Epilepsy Foundation), who received the profits.
The Dark Wave was nominated for two Academy Awards, one for Best Documentary Short and the other for Best Two-Reel Short.
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In This Dark World
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The Street
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The Hoax
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The Barrier
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The Dikes
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The Cage
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The Deserter
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Time Stood Still
1956 · Cedric Francis · 4m 30s
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Time Stood Still is a 1956 Warner Brothers Scope Gem travelogue, filmed the previous year in Dinkelsbühl, and presented in the wide-screen format of CinemaScope. Filmmaker André de la Varre handled a great many of that studio's documentary shorts of the forties and fifties.
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 29th Academy Awards.
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Time stood still daily
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