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A documentary looking at the construction of the sphere to contain a nuclear reactor. The research programme carried out at the Thornton Research Centre to develop a lubricant to resist radiation.
“Simply cannot be crossed in one continuous walk, said Swiss mathematician Euler in his famed theorem. . . and this charming, irreverent film proves why.”
Eddie Petersen has been commissioned to look after the two Gonzales sisters, daughters of a Central American oil magnate, along with their friend Juanita Perez and their travel companion Maria Mattoni, and to show them Hamburg.
A short animation from stills taken from Thomas Wilfred's 1958 Lumia Composition
A puppet movie about a funny story that happened in the apartment of a chatty landlady, who was so engrossed in a phone conversation that she forgot that her little, naughty son was left in the next room.
Little Bear wants to surprise his mother for her birthday with a picture he has painted himself. To avoid being discovered, he sits on the chimney of the house. The smoke that seeps into the kitchen obscures the mother bear's view and a pot breaks. The little bear empties his money box to get a replacement. On the way, he meets his friends playing ball and joins in enthusiastically. The ball bursts in the bear's paws. The little boy spends his money on a new ball. When his friends come back, he tells them what the money was actually meant for. They understand his grief and together they make a new pot, which the baker bakes for them. With flowers, the painted picture and the pot, they wish the mother bear a happy birthday.
Children often tear off the beautiful illustrations from the books in the children's library while others are not paying attention. The walls of his house are covered with various illustrations that he secretly tore. One day, when he posted a picture of a woodpecker that he had just stolen on the wall, he had a quarrel with the small animals on the wall. The small animals asked to go back to the library, but he refused to let them do so.
Randomly spliced pieces of a newsreel featuring notable news from 1946.
Chen San is a very lazy hunter who often lies under a big tree and sleeps. One day, he saw the old hunter go hunting and got up to accompany him. At first, he was very excited, humming and hurrying along, but after a while, he was listless like an eggplant beaten by Shuang.
One night the little toy people, animals and birds came off the shelves and started having a friendly fun time in their toy town.
Short film on Donosti (Basque country)
A documentary about Eskimos in northern Alaska made by the Ommidvar Brothers on their travels around the world
Short documentary
Introducing the giant four-track tape cartridge, an obsolete consumer recording format that survived for eight years.
Children watch Siamese fighting fish and the Egyptian mouth breeder in aquariums. They witness the reproductive processes of these fish.
Simone Martini, from Siena, is the painter who took the school in his city to the maximum in terms of musicality and colorful charm. A friend of Petrarch and other greats of his time, he left the mark of his genius in Tuscany, Umbria and Naples.
Four sketches from the European nightlife: an acrobat is helping out his wife in the kitchen, a Spanish dance, a love story of two brushes, a women is looking for the right clothes.
A Dutch animated short based on the Irish balad Very Unfortunate Man.
A documentary film about Point Lobos.
Illustrates the significance of communications between management and clerical groups within an office.
When the pet shop owner goes home at night, one of the monkeys gets loose and releases some of the others. Mischief and mishaps ensue until the owner returns.
The first film by Ed Emswhiller
We spend the day at a firehouse with Fireman Bill.
A man reads a horror novel late at night. His imagination runs away with him; he thinks some dripping beverage is blood, is frightened by his own bear-skin rug, and faints when he sees a shadow of himself in a noose-like tangle of his phone cord. The ambulance arrives and finds the most threatening thing is a kitten in a sock and a shelf of horror novels. They cart off the novels and leave the man.
The fates of a madman, a homeless woman, a print shop worker and a playboy are intertwined in the days leading up to Persian New Year. Toofan, an uncategorisable film which moves freely between horror and comedy; documentary, musical and sci-fi, was the first production of Khachikian’s own studio, Azhir Film. After the censor banned Khachikian from making a film about the first serial killer of the modern era in Iran, he turned to one of his own stories, exploring his preferred themes of compassion and evil. Shot both in the studio and on location, it features a memorable sequence of Bonfire Wednesday and a ruin which was rumoured to be a former Qajar era torture dungeon.
1958, 3 min, b&w, sound, 35mm, Argentina
A film directed by Louis-Georges Carrier.
Mohan is a young man who lives with his widowed mother, is in love with a young woman named Shyama, and both would like to get married. Unfortunately, before that could happen, Shyama is shot dead, the police get involved, an eye-witness named Bindiya names Mohan as the killer, as such Mohan is arrested, tried in Court, found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. The only one who believes in Mohan's innocence is his mother, Gangadevi. She advertises in the newspapers offering a reward of Rs.10,000/- to whoever can prove her son innocent, asking readers to direct their responses to Post Box 999. No one ever responds,
In this adventurous yarn, a group of former Army buddies have a reunion in New Orleans and decide to go looking for buried treasure.
This short also features miners, but this time in Warwickshire. The publican, aware of how TV is drawing his customers away, tries to lure them back by inviting a local film enthusiast to set up his projector every week to show early film classics. Apparently it worked, somewhat surprisingly.
An experiment in the creative use of colour visuals, natural sound and dialogue commentary, this film shows the loneliness of the aimless wanderers in the city streets contrasted with those who have companionship on their Sunday. (Award: Special Award for an Experimental Film in the Australian Film Awards, Melbourne Film Festival, 1958) Rights held by Gil Brealey.
Shaw Bros drama
The influential German-born conductor Bruno Walter is captured in this 1958 telecast as he rehearses the first and last movements of Brahms's Symphony no. 2 -- at the age of 81, shortly after he had suffered a heart attack.
Film from Nanabhai Bhatt
Bollywood 1958.
Martial Dances of Malabar (1958) is a short documentary directed by Paul Zils, focusing on the traditional martial arts of the Malabar region in India. The film showcases the intricate movements and techniques of these martial dances, highlighting their cultural significance and the discipline involved.
Whether at the stage of conceptualization or "editing", the blending and multiple impression of the images were done in-camera. In this sense, I think I have found ways to strengthen the evolution of the camera as a creative instrument. The whole film is one scene without any dark moments. In AUTUMN SPECTRUM, movement is the dominant element, while nostalgia is the real theme of the film.
The wealthy Sergio de Barrios is poisoned at the Ambassador cabaret while conspiring with a dancer named Lily del Valle. Police officer López is tasked with tracking Barrios's house and finding clues to the crime. He uncovers a drug trafficking network headed by the cabaret owner. A series of murders ensues, aimed at preventing the motive for the millionaire's murder from being revealed. A journalist begins investigating the case, which leads him to the dancer Lily del Valle, with whom he falls in love.
Pure color forms float lyrically across the screen in this abstract film exercise to the music of Greensleeves.
Playful and mischievous; as the filmmaker sleeps, his clay characters come to life! Douglas Butcher made this film in the nineteen fifties at the time of a claymation revival; the nineteen fifties saw a growth in clay animation in children’s television, and in the movies of the legendary Ray Harryhausen.
A day at the wholesale market
Construction of Finland's first oil refinery in Naantali
A display of factories in Macedonia that process tobacco, as well as the sorting process and packaging of the final product - a range of different types of cigarettes from Macedonian production.
Hans Schomburgk reflects on his life as a researcher. He recounts experiences, adventures, and insights he has gathered over the course of 60 years between Cape Town and Congo. The film shows the changes that Africa has undergone in terms of nature and culture during this period, comparing yesterday and today.
Everyone knows that frozen pork is best in summer, even in England. Only housewife Evička is unsure, so a TV guide advises her on how to prepare dinner from frozen meat so that František will enjoy it when he comes home from work. This educational film, presented from the perspective of a kind teacher, reveals the mechanisms and advantages of a progressive, centrally planned economy.