Cinematic Era: 1956 Vintage

A short feature that follows the training of a group of new recruits to the Royal Swedish Air Force.

A peaceful farming community of 220,000 people, millet beer, dolo, assault on the terrace of the deceased, a mannequin effigy representing the deceased is erected on the roof of the dead man's house. It is dressed in the clothes he wore during his stays in the country. The remains remained in France, but the Dogon people wanted to symbolically bury their friend, whose soul must rest symbolically among them. They placed another effigy representing the corpse on a stretcher and wrapped it in the blanket of the dead. The body of the deceased is covered with the skin of a ram that the priests sacrificed in memory of Griaule. The remains are transported to the dam that the professor had built. Mourners then gather at the burial necropolis above the dam.

A duke tries to use force to collect the taxes of his peasants for the second time. The peasants want to defend themselves against this.

1956 / Keluarga Tolol / Foolish Families / S. Ramanathan / Malay Film Productions

A part of Strange Experiences

A class of thirteen-year-old danglers persuades the school administration to start speaking proper civilised Dutch. This takes place at a boarding school with a conflict situation between a young, idealistic and a brutal teacher.

A Boy Scout outsmarts two spies.

The life of the tenants of a Buenos Aires tenement during the interwar period.

"A Tub Named Desire," the first movie with Donna Kerness, does not exist anymore, except for one 8mm print that was in George Kuchar's possession. The footage was taken apart, and some of it is included in "The Naked and the Nude." - Carnegie Museum of Art archive.

An engineer, Carlos, meets two swindlers to rob the safe of the electricity company where he works.

This short, evocative account of the poet's life is set among contemporary scenes of the people of south-west Scotland as they grow from children to manhood. A representative selection of his songs takes on fresh significance when heard against a background of the people and the countryside he knew and loved. The film's score is by Cedric Thorpe Davie, and the songs are sung by the Saltire Singers.

Newsreel clips, reproductions of documents, and cartoons on Woodrow Wilson.

Herman the Mouse takes his cousins to the museum where they encounter Katnip the cat who chases them all over the museum, but becoming batter and bruised as he tries to catch and outwit Herman. But Herman out-maneuvers Katnip who, worse for wear, snakes off in defeat.

Novel ideas for domestic light with Gilbert Charles Harding.

short by Clarissa Dreyer-Patrix

Shows interdependence of members of a pioneer family. A typical pioneer school is portrayed.

German TV-movie.

"Bute’s most compact abstract film energizes a jazzy ad jingle to promote RCA’s new stereo recordings! The barrage of visuals features a panoply of animated techniques among which eloquent oscilloscope patterns dance in complex synchronization to the music." — Bruce Posner

A one-hour variety show performed live at Harlem’s Apollo Theater, featuring a who’s-who of vocal and big band jazz and comedy acts of the 1950s.

Considered Nakayama’s masterpiece and awarded at the Festival International du Film Amateur in Cannes, Little Bear Story opens with a mother telling a story to her son, who struggles to fall asleep. The narrative explores themes of maternal love and independence, unfolding through bear puppets of a cub and its mother. The puppets were handmade by Nakayama’s wife, and the couple constructed an elaborate diorama in their home for the film’s production.

Based on the book by Maud and Miska Petersham about the story of the baby elephant in the circus, showing the futile attempts of his mother to train him to eat at the table like the baby clown

Peter a storyteller talks about a story of a burglar who lost money due to him gambling on it and now he's trying to get that money back.

Made for Army personnel in charge of re-enlistment as a way of stemming the tide of soldiers leaving after their hitch is up.

An adaptation of a Polish folk tale. Once upon a time there was a peasant. He was very poor, but he loved to work hard. This helped the peasant to get magic gifts - soon he had a tablecloth, a wand, and a wonderful mill. So hard work and perseverance brought happy prosperity to the poor man's home.

About May 1942, the Japanese elite mobilized thousands of troops to bases in central Hebei. A platoon of army troops were ordered to cover the transfer, the platoon leader was seriously injured. Yan Zhigang Li met his aunt and was saved. He led the soldiers with Qingsha Zhang, to fight the enemy , remove and destroy the enemy's guard towers and to break their cruelty.

Using newsreel footage, this Sportscope entry chronicles the race toward running's four-minute mile, highlighting several important contests. It starts in the 1920's, when Finland's Paavo Nurmi set the record for the distance at 4 minutes 10.4 seconds. It continues through Roger Bannister's first run under 4 minutes in 1954, and ends in spring 1956, when Australia's Joe Bailey became the first to break 4 minutes on US soil.

Hungarian refugees in Austrian camps after the failed revolution in Budapest.

A documentary about ten years of education, science and culture in the People's Republic of Macedonia.

Cusco film school.

A great documentary of bharatnatyam dance by Kumari Kamala directed by Jagat Murari.

A waiter who monitors the number of calories in restaurant customers’ meals is not a feature of a new app, but the hero of a popular science film produced by the Ministry of Health in the mid-1950s about healthy eating. The human body is presented as a power plant that must be supplied with the appropriate amount of recommended fuel, and the film’s guide ensures that well-fed citizens can feed the collective spirit of socialism with their energy.

Without a single word of commentary, this unusual film presents an eloquent plea against keeping birds and animals in captivity.

The title character of this humorous puppet film is a milk pot that swells to terrifying dimensions. The vain jar-lady becomes so big-headed that she rejects her customary role in life and even goes as far as to take control of the master potter’s workshop. However, at the local market most customers give her the cold shoulder, only a drunkard rag and bone man sees something in her: as a bottomless wine jug…

Three models from Manchester enjoy a weekend in the Cheshire countryside.

The great and imposing story of the thousand pillared Meenakshi Temple of Madurai is told vividly in this documentary which presents intimate details of the ancient sculpture and architecture of this famous temple.

The familiar chicken egg conceals the profound mystery of life.

Documentary film about spring in Finland.

Short film about the rail system of the Deutsche Bahn. The production of rails, switches and new railroad bridges are shown one after the other.

In the film, ramshackle automobile-puppets - strange kinetic sculptures built from found objects - wander and stumble through abandoned courtyards, shattered walls, and sun-scorched ruins, their blind mechanical motions echoing humanity’s lost laws and deserted dreams.

Thai horror film.

Short film about the Austrian diocese of Sankt Florian near Linz.

Educational documentary that illustrates the living conditions and importance of ants in environmental ecosystems.