Cinematic Era: 1957 Vintage

The role that women should play in the modern-day Puerto Rican family is discussed. The discussion is dramatized by a rural husband and wife involved in a domestic dispute.

Documentary about anchovy fishermen in San Sebastian

English butler comes to the Wild West to work for newly rich hicks - finds it unbearable - but then comes to his senses.

The main industrial processes concerned with the shaping of metal under pressure.

Documentary about painter Petar Dobrovic.

In a rural town, an affair between an older woman and a younger man faces the harsh glare of gossip and judgment.

An old man has to go to hospital for an operation, but won't leave his dog. Friends and neighbours rally round to help.

Experimental Spanish short film featuring stop-motion animation.

A short documentary charting the construction of the BBC Crystal Palace Television Tower.

BAFTA nominated BBC documentary about the acclaimed British artist L.S. Lowry.

A film about toy dolls that have dramatic adventures with a real bear.

The doctor Kit Colfach directed the warning film Susanne in 1960 (don't drink, don't drive, don't have sex) and added some juicy hospital scenes. In this short on a similar theme, there is a very in-your-face operation scene in colour. You have been warned.

Two young children spend a summer weekend at the lake with their parents, aunt and uncle.

Tells about two children who eagerly await the birth of a family of kittens. Covers an eight-week span, showing the kittens being born, learning to crawl, drinking milk, and eating meat. For primary and elementary grades.

Documentary about kids in summer camp.

After Perséphone, his first film which he describes as “an experimental, mythological poem” and shoots under the pseudonym Luc Zangrie, he makes a portrait of playwright Michel de Ghelderode together with his friend Jean Raine. It introduces us to the world of a creator obsessed with and fascinated by death. If biographic references are present, they are only there in order to place the writer in the right setting: nostalgia for Bruges and Flanders, solitary wanders through a backward-looking, legendary Brussels. Ghelderode’s gravelly voice is the leitmotiv of the film, which focuses on rehearsals of his plays at the Théâtre de Poche and with the puppets of the Théâtre Royal de Toone. We accompany him into his study, a place of dreams and fantasy, full of baroque objects that define his world.

1957 Jim Davis short

The first in a series of films for the Rural Cinema Scheme in the Orkneys, it records the return to the island of Wyre of Neil Flaws, a farmer, and his family at a time when the drift from the northern isles of the Orkneys was of concern to some Orcadians.

A film about the painter Ludwig Richter

Soviet-funded short documentary about the People’s Republic of China.

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A short documentary on the pioneering Danish engineer and aviator J.C. Ellehammer.

Short documentary.

An absent-minded sigillographer gets Tintin involved in a dangerous political intrigue in the Balkan nation of Syldavia.

A documentary looking at how truly international air travel (and transportation) has become and at the benefits in trade, medicine and communications that have ensued.

Unrehearsed and often startling interviews with residents, filmed during disturbances following arrival of the first Black family.

Haneda’s debut as full director, made after four years spent as an assistant, is set in a farming village in Shiga Prefecture (east of Kyoto). The film depicts the traditional architecture, lifestyles and customs of the village, its agricultural and domestic labour, but its central focus, as with many of Iwanami’s early films, is on education.

This episode perpetrated the great Spaghetti Harvest Hoax on April Fool's Day 1957. The filmed report appeared to show a Swiss family harvesting their annual crop of spaghetti which was growing on trees on their farm, talked about the efforts to eradicate the Spaghetti Weevil and discussed the selective breeding that had been required to produce spaghetti of a uniform length. Many viewers believed what they saw and contacted the BBC to enquire how to grow their own spaghetti tree: the advice that they were given was "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best".

About "crooked" teeth, dealing with the causes of irregular teeth and stressing the importance of early, regular and systematic care of the primary teeth in preventing such conditions.

This video was produced by Fr. Patrick Peyton, the famous “Family Rosary Crusade” priest. It is a full-scale drama of the Glorious mysteries of the Rosary. It is a beautiful and reverent drama that brings to life the story and meaning of each of the mysteries of the Rosary. The lavish production was filmed in Spain in 1957 with a cast of thousands.

A skimpy plot---hunting for sunken treasure in the waters of Florida and Haiti--- tied mostly to some underwater scenes shot in the safety of Cypress Gardens, and sold by Warners on a campaign built (no pun intended) on the measurements---42-22-39---of photographer's model Dottie Lee Phillips, who poses under palm trees while Ross Allen and William Fuller are underwater...and on land.

A man is strangled to death and then dumped in a car.

A shorter version of Joseph Cornell's Nymphlight, an experimental film shot in New York City's Bryant Park, featuring scenes of birds, fountains, people, etc. Edited to the length of Debussy's prelude of the same name.

In July-August 1957, the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students took place in Moscow. This film showcases ensembles and individual representatives of the countries participating in the festival.

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Using the puppet of a night watchman as an example, the creation of a hand puppet for the puppet show is described.

Pit sinkers prepare the coal mines of tomorrow. An account of shaft sinking techniques.

Thai horror film.

Prompted by a discussion between painters sitting at lunch, this film analyzes seven common notions about races, heredity and group differences in the light of known scientific evidence, and proves them all wrong. Since it's situated on a college campus, the discussion benefits by the availability of modern audiovisual aids (an overhead projector) and attempts to delve under the surface of stereotype.

"A film of drawings and movement" by Toonder Studio's

Courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service, a short film in which singer Vaughn Monroe and his family vacation in the woods. While Vaughn sings folk songs and dispenses fire safety information, his young daughter Chris wanders off into the forest alone and has a brief encounter with a man in a cheap Smokey the Bear costume.

Discovery of the land of Iceland, an island shaken by the manifestations of its volcanic activity (geysers, storms), characterized by a rich maritime activity and millennial traditions.

Film reportage about the visit of emigrants from Yugoslavia to the old village and the celebration of Emigrants' Week in Macedonia.

Life under the sea. Animated paper cutouts.

Documentary with intertitles focusing on Skylark, a high altitude rocket built to carry some 150lb of upper atmosphere research instrumentation to altitudes of up to 100 miles.

This documentary about Quyllurrit'i, the grandest and most important festival in the Andean world in Cusco, shows how various communities come together to celebrate this festival. It is the first time this festival has been filmed.

A sweeping retelling of the Layla-Majnun legend, where romance deepens into obsession, longing, and tragedy.