Cinematic Era: 1956 Vintage

Short B/W film about the textures of the human skin and household objects, showing Brakhage in the morning as reality distorts around him. Revised in 1986.

A man escapes from a psychiatric clinic, the tracks lead to the town Marstrand, where a woman is found murdered.

Even though the girl (Lely Sulastri) already has a poor boyfriend (B. Nast Efdal), the father (Udjang) accepts the "proposal" brought by the matchmaker (Wolly Sutinah). Fortunately, the mother (Fifi Young) does not agree, so that it can disrupt the smooth process of the sickly future son-in-law (Rasjid AL). "Happy ending", because the prospective groom collapsed in front of his future wife's door...

Hunters track a wild boar in the Sologne forests

The first film to be shot in Basque language, produced in 1956 by general André Madré. It was discovered by the filmmaker and researcher Josu Martinez, without its soundtrack.

The film consists of fragments of the competitions of pentathlete athletes included in the game plot.

This short follows a big city ambulance emergency crew, which sometimes includes a medical doctor, to car crash sites, fires, construction mishaps, a D.O.A., and the delivery of a baby.

The film tells the story of an orphaned Anu and carpenter Mikko trying to make a living in a small Karelian village in the early 1930s.

Beautiful documentary record of the royal visit to Teesside in 1956, shot in gorgeous Kodachrome.

Seven year old Marcos' only illusion is to have his First Communion in a white suit.

The story of Donald Campbell, son of the late Sir Malcolm Campbell, British champion auto-racer, and his efforts to survive driving a jet-powered boat at record speeds on Lake Meade, Nevada. After a number of failures at breaking the water-speed record of 216 mph, Campbell and his boat, the 'Bluebird', set a new record by, at times, breaking 250 mph.

A German Film Award winning short black and white documentary.

Directed by Geoff Busby.

A random selection of housewives around the UK take a day off from their traditional domestic chores.

On the Danube Plain, several pupils, mobilized by the example of a pioneer, adopt an exemplary school and social conduct and impose it on the undisciplined.

1956 Oscar nominated cartoon. The idea here is simple: the main character has taken up jaywalkng as a hobby and it quickly becomes manic, almost obsessive, behavior.

Harry Shelton is a brutal thug. When Tommy Baxter is found badly beaten up, needing 47 stitches, Shelton and Joe German were seen close by. With witnesses unwilling to talk, Chief Inspector Ball is determined to get justice.

A little girl named Toya comes to Norway as a refugee and gets adopted by a family in Stavanger. A misunderstanding makes Toya suspected of stealing from her new family. Toya runs away from home.

Youssef's brothers, who are jealous of their father Yaqoob's love for him, throw him into a well. A caravan saves Yusuf and a few years later, he is sold as a slave in the Egyptian market.

A girl doll and her friends - Teddy Bear, Elephant and Doggie were walking in the forest. Suddenly they saw a house made of cubes. They all went up to it. The clumsy Elephant touched the house with his trunk and it fell apart. The Boy came out from behind the cubes. He cried bitterly. Then his friends decided to help him. Together they built a new, beautiful house and danced merrily at the housewarming party.

A tailor sends his sons away. They each learn a trade and receive a special gift from their teacher.

During her first day at work in a brickworks near Antwerp at the beginning of the last century, a teenage girl first faces harassment by the boys who work there and then, at the end of the day, she is forced to allow the boss to exercise his "droit de seigneur".

An enterprising family make the most of, not one, but eight seaside beaches dotted around the north of England, all in one summer.

Almost 70 years ago, the then director of Frankfurt Zoo, Prof. Bernhard Grzimek (1909-1987), shot this famous animal documentary about the African continent with his son Michael. The documentary was considered an impressive plea for the preservation of Africa's animal paradises at the time. It vividly illustrates the far-reaching consequences of the impending loss of what were then still largely untouched natural landscapes. Despite visible signs of age, the film has retained much of its fascination as a contemporary document to this day.

A look at the problems facing the railways in Northern Ireland.

In a train repair shop, a passion involves a woman and, years later, her daughter.

Sema, who has been away from home for a long time, returns to the mansion for the reading of her father's will after his death. Samiş, the son of the deceased man's first wife, his wife, his daughter Sema, the servants, and his mother Zübeyde all live together in the mansion. Sami is a sickly and ill-tempered man who suffers from epilepsy and has occasional seizures. After the will is read, it becomes clear that all of his property will go to his wife Zübeyde and daughter Sema, but if they are no longer alive, the inheritance will go to his son Sami from his first wife. And from there, the events unfold.

In the middle of the 1950s, the harmful effects of the old social customs, rigidity, and bureaucracy in the forward development of social life were shown in a comical tone in connection with the incident where an old man with a dam entered the city to look for parts for a haymaking machine.

A documentary covering the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne and Stockholm.

International showgirl engineers a green-card marriage for herself to avoid being deported.

The reading of a will turns into a scavenger hunt among the heirs.

A rural singsong film.

A mother decides to present as her own the child that her unmarried daughter has given birth to.

Fransiska is visited by a social worker when she's in the custody. She tells him her lives story, about her mother who was an alcoholic, her father a night watchman and how she and her five year old little sister was left. Her boyfriend was unemployed and needed money and to help him she stole money.

After the death of her adoptive mother, a shy and innocent girl becomes the maid of a rich family and her arrival disrupts the lives of the people she meets.

Meia-Lua used to be a sailor, but he now makes a poor living smuggling. He is a cynical man, who doesn't care for Ana or for the child they had together. He lives with the beautiful Marlene who dances in the bars. Gull spends her whole days lulling a doll in her arms, and she waits for her love that will rise from the depths of the sea. The deaf musician Sparrow watches over her, in his despaired love and long-held wish of becoming a sea captain. There is a dispute down the piers, there is a crime that might be just an accident, there is a bad conscience that turns sour, there is a boat full of poor wretches like a rocking lullaby, a baby that passes from arms to arms, a clumsy beggar that finds some work, a courthouse of tramps... From this expressionist account that has unexpected comical moments, the censors from Salazar's regime cut away 20 minutes that were never to be found again.

An ex-convict seeks his rehabilitation trying to insert himself into a rather strange world.

The film tells about the life and struggle of the Korean peasants living on the Phundekber plain, near the 38th parallel, against the Americans and the Lisinman people. The film is set in 1950.

Cousin Herman and his crew go mountain climbing in the Swiss Alps. Katnip follows, thinking that it'll be an easy meal.

Hong Kong horror movie from 1956.

The only son of the Royal Astrologer, Narsin (Om Prakash) namely Gopal (Bharat Bhushan) is not interested in astrology but in music and songs, much to the dismay of Narsin. Based on the novel Hamsageethe by T. R. Subba Rao.

A round-up of some of London journalism's most outstanding cartoonists and their work.

The disappearance of some children in a neighborhood causes ruptures and reunions between their parents.