Cinematic Era: 1958 Vintage

A day in the life of Joe, a chainmaker from Cradley Heath near Birmingham, UK in the late 1950s

New York City’s bridges are reimagined through montage, superimposition, and vivid color, transforming industrial architecture into rhythmic visual abstraction. Accompanied by a jazz score by Teo Macero, the film renders the urban landscape musical, kinetic, and alive (an alternate version of the film features an electronic score by Louis and Bebe Barron).

In the morning, the chirping of the sparrows woke up the old woman. After getting up, the old woman packed a basket full of dates and left home. After a while, the weather turned cloudy and it started to rain. When the rain stopped, the ground was covered with dates. The hedgehog who had just experienced the wind and rain saw the jujube, rolled over excitedly and stabbed himself with thorns, ready to carry it home.

A sports compilation from other earlier cartoons. In this fun take-off on sports newsreels, we see highlights of such sports as baseball, wrestling, bullfighting and fishing (which has a Herman the Mouse appearance).

Attention is drawn to the interesting chemical structure of water and then to its amazing life-sustaining properties.

A historical GDR review of the events of the November Revolution in Germany in 1918.

(1958) An in-service business management film demonstrating the problems which develop when a supervisor asks special cooperation and overtime work of his staff, backfiring in a lack of cooperation several days later.

A short film from Mary Ellen Bute, showcasing her trademark animations set to music.

Reconstructs the case of United States vs. Darby Lumber Company, which, in 1941, resolved long struggles over the question of whether Congress had the right to set minimum wages, limit child labor, and in other respects legislate employment standards.

Filipinos land in the moon.

It tells the story of a boy who becomes a delinquent due to his parents' negligence.

A study of loneliness set in a dance hall of suburban Paris.

Maritime pilots at work

An insight into Hamburg's nightlife.

A sought-after community for recreation and an opportunity for cultivating the land for city residents. Well-known actors take part. ***** Oslofilm was a series of public information films about life in and around Oslo, produced between 1940 and 1980. Funded by the state, the films offer valuable insight into postwar Norwegian society. A wide range of Norwegian filmmakers contributed to the productions, resulting in a rich variety of styles and expressions. Several of the films also possess notable cinematic qualities, standing out as more than just informational material. The Oslofilms represent a unique and important chapter in Norwegian film history.

About rationalization and efficiency improvements in the Municipality of Oslo, with examples from hospitals, sanitation services, water supply, transport, forestry, the port, the electricity utility, building control, and modern office technology. ***** Oslofilm was a series of public information films about life in and around Oslo, produced between 1940 and 1980. Funded by the state, the films offer valuable insight into postwar Norwegian society. A wide range of Norwegian filmmakers contributed to the productions, resulting in a rich variety of styles and expressions. Several of the films also possess notable cinematic qualities, standing out as more than just informational material. The Oslofilms represent a unique and important chapter in Norwegian film history.

A Lost Persian Film.

An educational short on the work of the Moscow Planetarium.

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About modern Liberia and the iron ore prospecting on Mount Nimba.

A portrait of the sculptor Seamus Murphy from Cork, Ireland.

Analysis of visitors and sellers at the Sunday Altona fish market in Hamburg.

The story of a young spider who can't spin webs.

In this film produced in 1958 by the FLN Information Service, Pierre Clément shows the damage caused by the French Army following the bombing of the Tunisian village of Sakiet Sidi Youssef on February 8, 1958. The toll varies between 72 and 75 dead and 148 injured, including a dozen primary school students and Algerian refugees grouped by a Red Cross mission.

Animated rendition of the famous poem.

Short by Marko Babac.

Short animated film. The surreal routes and roads are combined with the late-night feeling of the short and cartoony cars designs.

Bulgarian animation

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A drama of Indigenous Kichwa/Quechua campesino struggle against an oppressive colonial hacienda patron. A dramatization of the hacienda system in Peru, in which Spanish colonial patrons stole large land tracts and forced Indigenous people to work the land. When one man refuses to work the hacienda in exchange for meager coca leaves, he initiates an Indigenous Campesino rejection of the hacienda system.

Droopy Classic Cartoon (Platinum Collection 1943-1958)

The Tragic Story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai

This is a picture that paints a picture, in appealing colour, of the life and times of the children of late '50s London.

The struggles of teenagers trying to gain more agency over their lives.

"An 80-year-old priest who religiously reads L´Equipe because of his commitment to cycling is a good start to a film. If, in addition, that priest is a defender of smuggling of which he confesses to be a faithful practitioner and unleashes, among other things, his opinions about how the Basques love, we are before a great personal and collective portrait. With great success and cinematographic sense, Hubert Knapp dedicated one of his chapters in the French Southwest entirely to an interview with Jean Elissalde "Zerbitzari", priest born in Ascain, screenwriter and member of Euskaltzaindia who did not drop the bible in one hand to play ball with the other. The Parisian filmmaker meets and portrays him in his beautiful Gerezieta parish, a small world that reflects his universe." Punto de Vista Film Festival. Jean Elizalde was also the writter of Andre madre's film "Gure sor lekua".

An old woman apparently tormented by people in the street comforts herself in her room with memories of her youth.

A short film by Robert Breer

Each year Thomas goes an a pilgrimage but he has more difficulty to complete it, but then he is offered a footbath that appears to contain a miracle drug. Wouldn't this make a huge seller during Expo 58 in Brussels... .

A television play written by Robert Hall, based on a play by Cyril Campion.

An experimental short film by Yoram Gross.

Conversation Between Nail and Socks

An ode to the early days of animation, in which the animators interact with their animations.

Short film about highways.

Adaptation of Martin Armstrong's poem about an elderly lady who becomes perturbed by something we can't see. It becomes apparent that she is looking for her past, lost in a memory or the clutches of nostalgia. Miss Thompson's shopping trip to town is in chaotic contrast to the tranquil nature of her lonely home, which on return seems like paradise.

The operational procedures necessary for the working of traffic of a double line over a single line of rails during repairs.

Fascinating -- and unintentionally funny -- experiments at Austria's famed Institute for Experimental Psychology involve a subject who for several weeks wears special glasses that reverse right and left and up and down. Unexpectedly, these macabre and somehow surrealist experiments reveal that our perception of these aspects of vision is not of an optical nature and cannot be relied on, while the unfortunate, Kafkaesque subject stubbornly struggles through a morass of continuous failures.