Cinematic Era: 1957 Vintage

A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.

A visual poem of neutrons exploding and merging, with complex animation and colour effects made possible by the use of a computer. Based on complex animation techniques it shows continually flowing material in a series of pulsating motions.

1950's road safety short film.

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An American Ballet Theatre Workshop production, filmed in rehearsal onstage at Phoenix Theatre, New York City, Spring, 1957.

Short documentary by Krsto Škanata.

Documentation of an exhibition entitled Le Mouvement held in Paris in 1955, co-curated by Breer and Pontus Hulten. Features works and appearances by Breer, Tinguely, Agam, Soto, and others. — Anthology Film Archives

The film's protagonists are the orphaned children taken into custody by the state and institutionalized at Children's House no. 6 from Bucharest. For Mészáros, the concern for the situation of children left orphaned during the Second World War is autobiographical: the director directly experienced the absence of parents in her own childhood.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at life in Hong Kong contrasting areas of great wealth and prosperity with the expanding slums.

Rao cheats Girija. So her sister Saroja decides to teach him a lesson. In this process, she falls in love with Anand.

An express freight train links manufacturers with their customers at the other end of Britain.

This Norwegian documentary was released in other countries as Lapland Calendar. In Disneyesque fashion, the film details the day-to-day existence of the Norwegian Laplanders. The "story" concentrates on the annual odyssey wherein the Lapland reindeer are shepherded to snow-free grazing lands. Not surprisingly, director Per Host is more fascinated with the reindeer than with the human characters -- and, by extension, so is the audience. The film was lensed in economical Eastmancolor, meaning that most existing prints have washed out over the past 40 years.

1957 / Belantara / Adventure in the Jungle / S. Ramanathan / Malay Film Productions

Joseph Cornell film from 1957, color.

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

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Two mischievous young children create havoc around the Christmas tree- opening all the presents, knocking over the tree and surprising their dad!

A film about the Czechoslovak automobile industry and its gradual automation. First of all, the quality of Czechoslovak cars and motorcycles in comparison with foreign competitors is demonstrated using a de facto advertising approach. The movie also talks about the need to expand automation in manufacturing and it presents examples of new technologies that have been introduced.

Documentary about a steel factory in East Germany.

Demonstrates different types of epilepsies in various personalities and age groups.

The Hare gets his second chance at beating the Tortoise in a foot race, but a canine police officer thwarts his chance at redemption.

A short puppet animation from 1957 directed by Tadahito Mochinaga.

A Sherlock Holmes-like detective investigates a jewel theft.

A German Film Award winning short documentary about disaccharides.

The "Symphony for a man alone" was composed from 1949 to 1950 by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, and then finalised in 12 movements by Pierre Henry in 1951. This is the first major work of musique concrete. In 1955, Maurice Béjart has made the first ballet of musique concrète.

Short documentary about the “Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia”, the archived national cultural legacy first published in 1955 under the direction of Miroslav Krleža.

Kenneth MacLeod narrates a tour of the beautiful Italian cities of Florence and Venice.

An 80-sec excerpt of the edge-to-edge scan of Raphael Montañez Ortiz’s 1957 film "Golf"s 16mm celluloid print with punched holes across the frame lines and on the original soundtrack.

Documentary about farming in Havrå, outside Bergen. A film from a closed-off small Norwegian rural community.

An educational video showing the features of a full service gas station.

Black and white short documentary about the patrol of the EMW radio car "Toni 14" of the Berlin police.

"Golf" was the result of my attempt to make space in the frame, space that was non-film space, that would take over the film space. With each random hole punch, I chanted, 'Emptiness is fullness. (Raphael Montañez Ortiz)

Short film based upon a ballet by Yves Bonnat & Françoise Adret

Moving from contemporary images of Paris in the 1950s to old photographs and documents, this short film evokes the heroic radical Commune of 1871 which was violently suppressed, and it's legacy today.

It portrays love between a child and a dog. Just when the dog was caught by a dog catcher, the boy asks the man to let it go and thus he saves the animal’s life.

Story of Mr. Prokouk, who having read too many detective stories sees criminals everywhere.

A short puppet animation movie by Tadahito Mochinaga.

In Rembrandt, Haanstra shows that it is possible to make a fascinating film only with images from paintings. He had to travel though all over Europe to numerous museums and private owners in order to film the works of art. In the work of the great painter, Haanstra recognizes his particular interest in man as an individual human being, cutting straight through all the religious motives. And Haanstra also wants to see Rembrandt as an individual.

Film starring Jamuna, Akkineni Nageshwara Rao and Nageswara Rao R.

The rebirth of hope to overcome poverty and unemployment after the independence of Morocco.

'A demented fable of alchemical inquisition. Ridiculed by his neighbours, a madman works in isolation on a chemical formula for making gold. He finally succeeds after being told the secret in a dream, but his conceit drives him to get back at his sceptical friends, turning one neighbour into gold before he is punished by being turned to gold himself.' -Mark Webber

The lone scarecrow has a great desire to befriend birds, but they ignore him. His courage at a certain point completely changed the bird's perspective.

This short shows how a gold-mantled ground squirrel at Crater Lake National Park has learned to solve problems connected with getting food