Cinematic Era: 1957 Vintage

Professor Bączyński, having removed all dangers that could befall his family, goes out into the street and is hit by a car.

This short film from the Perspective series highlights social and economic development in Haiti circa 1957. It depicts customs and traditions used to pass along the history of a people, and offers a look into their daily lives — lives that looks very different from their experiences today.

Independence Day celebrations in Ghana, including ceremonies and pageants and the opening of the Ghana Parliament by the Duchess of Kent. The commentary makes a strong plea for racial tolerance, as well as mentioning the possibility of united all-black African continent.

Big…Rousing…Memorable! The incredible war saga of our own boys in a Jap-infested jungle in the Botanical Gardens. Hear Lloyd Thorner sing the title song. You’ll come out whistling from both ends.

TV adaptation of Holberg's popular 1724 confusion comedy: Henrik (Paul Hagen) and Pernille (Birgitte Reimer) are two servants working for their respective lordships and they each independently fall for the temptation to put on the clothes of their lordships and pretend to be someone other than who they are. Unfortunately, the two meet each other in their new disguises - and fall in love.

Nazima, a young woman from Diwaniyah, one of the distant provinces, comes to the capital fleeing the cruelty of her stepmother, Sabriya, who has turned her father against her. Determined to choose her own future and reject the constraints that bind her freedom, she works hard, proves her worth, and builds a life for herself. Though she suffers from loneliness in the capital, she confronts every obstacle and hardship with resilience and strength.

A drunken man staggers around Glasgow's Royal Exchange Square and George Square on a beautiful sunlit morning. He seems to be troubled by the drunken events that led him here...

Casper is boo-bopping along with his bag of candy when he comes upon the Museum of Music.

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A coaching journal film sponsored by Grey Cars.

Children with their musical instruments are able to drive lazy Martin out of the furnace and punish him for his laziness.

A film about model aircraft construction.

A love torn apart by divine fate.

Part comic adventure, part travelogue, this short film features the folkloric character of Ti-Jean, a French-Canadian kid endowed with magic powers. He travels west, drawing upon his superhuman strength to save a farmer’s crops.

A rare TV documentary with journalist Daniel Farson.

A vain emperor is constantly preoccupied with his appearance. Three swindlers promise to make him extraordinary clothes that can only be seen by people who are honest and clever. The emperor provides the three fashion designers with expensive material and expects to make a grand entrance in his new costumes.

A coach’s whole career depends upon winning this football game, the U.S. Air Force Academy against the University of Colorado. The film was an early experiment by Drew and his Associates to capture real life happening in front of the cameras. They had not yet developed the new equipment that would allow portable sync-sound filming, so they improvised. Drew, who was still a correspondent for LIFE Magazine at the time, was trying to make films that would promote LIFE stories on television. This idea was how Drew had convinced Time-Life to bankroll his fledgling film unit. Although the football story never became a LIFE magazine cover story, it served as a kind of dry-run for a film about another football game covered by Drew and his Associates four years later. That film, “Mooney vs. Fowle,” led by filmmaker James Lipscomb, became an award-winning, groundbreaking documentary.

Don Manuel is a successful bathing suit designer that decides to retire tired of his business. While doing so, he announces he will leave his company in the hands of his own employers. If during a year they manage to increase the sales of their designs, he will leave the company in their hands definitively. Otherwise, it will be inherited by his three spoiled nieces. Annoyed by the fact that his uncle has refuse them the company, the three girls plot to seduce the workers leaders in order to make them fail in their sales goal so they can recover the company.

An RKO-Pathe Sportscope focusing on sports played by Basques living along the Spain-France border in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay coast. Pelota, jai alai, wood chopping, and rowing as well as traditional dances are featured.

The composer Berki András, in his co-tenancy noisy with the barking of dogs and the hullabaloo of children, is unable to compose the new song for his fiancée, the singer, although the premiere is near. He cannot believe his eyes as he sees the official decision that he will soon get an apartment on his own. Yet his joy is soon over. The pharmacist Ács Éva arrives with identical documents. The situation which evolves as a result of the new co-tenancy forces them to cover up things before their partners.

Der 10. Mai (The Tenth of May) was the date in 1940 that Hitler invaded the Low Countries: Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. Neutral Switzerland, which hadn’t experienced a war since the 14th century, hurriedly fortified its borders with battalions of inexperienced soldiers. The panic, confusion and isolated acts of courage which occurred on that fateful day are re-created in this Swiss docudrama. The story is “personalized” by concentrating on a fugitive German soldier (Heinz Reincke) who falls in love with the Swiss girl (Linda Geiser) who shelters him. Produced on a bare-minimum budget, Der 10. Mai is impressive more for its sincerity and raw energy than for its actual cinematic merits.

An unhappily married man has an accident, he survives but is no longer able to talk. Back home his wife has started a new luxurious life and is now working for a famous solicitor. Jealousy will lead to crime.

Two brothers butt heads: one's a gadabout charro playboy and the other's a priest.

Orphaned girl Toya is attending winter vacation with her uncle and aunt. Her friend Trygve is staying at the same mountain hotel. But on a trip in the mountain, a storm surprises them, and a search party is sent out.

An interventionist documentary describing the damage done by mining wells to historic landmarks in Bytom.

A documentary about the history of Argentine cinema, made with the intention of incorporating it into the Argentine Film Museum. The film includes excerpts from silent films, very useful for researchers of the subject.

Sylvester Cat joins a tour group through the City Zoo and finds Tweety Bird among the exhibits. Sylvester chases Tweety and ends up in a bear's den.

Somu, who is a criminal, marries Meena. Unable to expose Somu because of her love and devotion to him, she tries to transform him. In a separate storyline, Ravi, a six-year-old boy, learns that his father Suppanna is a criminal, and leaves his home. Suppanna also has a daughter, Bhama, who fails in her attempts to reform her father's ways.

A German Film Award short colour documentary.

Heckle and Jeckle, the talking magpies, tangle with a pirate who has a treasure map, and after much finagling and talk, they are able to get the map and the treasure, only to find that an agent for the Iternal Revenue Service is waiting to collect the unpaid back taxes.

Soft clouds of light rotate, fan out and change colour: With his cosmic “Luxograms”, Pawłowski radically rethinks the Lumières’ serpentine dance and dematerialises the moving body. It exists neither on a real stage nor in the shape of a real dancer but solely in the projection with a sophisticated system of optical lenses.

Directed by Bhalji Pendharkar.

The "call of the gods" is the religious faith that is deeply rooted among 300 million people of India, from the Himalayan mountain dwellers to the bathers of the Ganges River, and as shown in huge processions in the modern cities.

The second graduation work from Larisa Shepitko.

Tracing the story of primitive man's discovery of energy.

Short movie by Marko Babac.

Muscles Tanner, a boxer, gives up the ring after two fatalities and emigrates to Canada and gets involved with two crooked lumbermen trying to evict a landowner from his plot.

Three short films from the Fifties, offering an insight into day to day life amongst the beautiful scenery of the Scottish Highlands. 'Heart Is Highland' (1951) calls in on the local gamekeeper, nurse, newspaper editor and bus driver as it tours from Inverness to Kinloch Rannoch. 'Wild Highlands' (1959) discovers the wildlife populating the Ardnamurchan peninsula on the Argyll coast, and 'Highland Journey' (1957) journeys by coach and steam train from Edinburgh to the Isle of Skye.

A new branch has been established in the Kibbutz entertainment field: magic. Harry the magician teaches the kibbutz members the secrets of the profession and encourages his enthusiastic students to invent their own tricks. Workers from the Hamburg shipyard complete building the first kibbutz cargo ship, the Palmach. The Palmach ship travels to its new mother port, Haifa port, already loaded with cargo and outfitted with the newest technology, while new ships are being transferred by land to the Eilat port to further develop it. Upon its arrival, a festive ceremony was held for its launch, in the presence of the former Palmach leader Beni Marshak, Northern Command Chief Yitzhak Rabin, kibbutz leader Yitzhak Tevankin, actress Hanna Rovina, Transportation Minister Moshe Carmel, and Mayor of Haifa Abba Hushi.

A student (Arfandi) is very depressed, for being known as a bastard child or “anak haram”, the original title of Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s story, on which the film is based on. Only one of the teachers (Frans Harahap) is understanding and willing to help.

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Documentary short on a park consisting of 16 terraced lakes in the thick forested mountains of Croatia, then a part of Yugoslavia.

A poster announcing the opening night of an opera. A crowd of snobs, so called »music lovers« rushes in. The tenor, well aware of his magnificence, has some troubles in his wardrobe with his button refusing to fit in his collar.

Changez Khan is a Hindi Feature Film starring Jeevan , Leela Mishra , Tiwari , Helen , Johnny Walker , Premnath , Shaikh Mukhtar , Bina Rai and more.

An in-depth tour of the cathedral, combining history, architecture and contemplation.

Musical directed by Anwar Kamal Pasha and Murtaza Gilani.

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Part of Reichenbach's series of short documentaries on America.

A portrait of life in the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland.

Spain gardens documentary

A young man is accused of embezzlement by staging his boss and goes to prison, but soon he is acquitted and released, while his family situation is disturbed, he lost his job, his fiance left him and his mother is sick

Real part: A puppet animation film studio. The director, cameraman, animators and lighting technicians set up a scene in which a streetcar car with passengers appears. The recording begins, the animator moves the puppets phase by phase. Trick part: An old woman gets on the streetcar at a stop and can't find a seat. Fritzchen deliberately looks away so that he doesn't have to get up. All the puppets look at him indignantly. Real part: The scene is over. It's closing time and the dolls are put in a cupboard. The staff leave the studio. Trick part: The puppet cupboard comes to life. Fritzchen apologizes to the old woman and blames the animator and director for his behaviour. He calls on the puppets to shoot the scene again. This happens, and now he does offer his seat to the little mother. Real part : The doorman notices a glow of light in the studio, opens the door, but sees nothing unusual. The dolls have returned to their cupboard. Shaking his head, the doorman returns to his box.

Details of the life of Juan Ponce de León, founder of the city of San Juan and first governor of Puerto Rico.