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The film tells of the adventures of Prince Padam who is fascinated with discovering the mysteries of outer space. He falls in love with a beautiful maiden from the moon and travels in a rocket to the moon to bring his lady love back to earth
The film tells the story of a severe drought in a certain year. Farmers dug wells and repaired canals on the mountain to fight the drought, and left a doggerel on the mountainside: "We don't rely on the Jade Emperor, we don't rely on the Dragon King. We are the Jade Emperor, and we are the Dragon King." The sun read it and read it to Wu Yun, but Wu Yun didn't think so. It was at this time that people really dug water out of the mountains and began to fight the drought. Wu Yun was very unconvinced and decided to teach these ignorant farmers a lesson.
A color cocktail by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart, translating into moving patterns of color and light the moods of music written for a jazz ensemble by Eldon Rathburn. Inscribed and colored directly on film.
The son of a greedy landlord is in love with a female tenant whose brother wants her to marry his best friend.
Look at Life was a regular series of short documentary films produced between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of Rank Organisation and screened in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas. Rob Curling presents six Look at Lifes ((Air Hostess, Controlled Landing, City of the Air, Flying to Work, The Spirit of Brooklands, The Big Take Off)) from the Brooklands aircraft museum, showing the aircraft industry as it was in the 1960s.
Bulandra the miner explores the underground and wins gold from its inhabitant, an old spirit. Little does he know that the Devil will cause mischief to him once he gets out.
1922. Sándor serves as a farm-hand, but would like to become a blacksmith. He is completely enchanted by the beautiful wife of his new master.
Italian adaptation of the Dumas's novel The Three Musketeers, edited from episodes of the television series I tre moschettieri.
A lovely fairytale for all tells the story of a doll that is lost, and with the help of other toys is looking for a way to her friend
Pioneers struggle to establish a town in the harsh unsettled wilderness of northern Quebec during the depression.
A report from a student’s festival in Kraków. The history of this event dates back to the 15th century in Poland. Statues and knights at Wawel remain unmoved until they fall into the rhythm of joyful fun.
A French-language documentary by Victor Stoloff
About fighting the elements in the mountain karst, when people also have to bring water and land; leaving such life and gradually moving to the city.
The unfair distribution of land in Cuba encourages the support of the peasants to the revolution.
His fellow ghosts bring Casper up on charges for breaking the Ghostly Laws ,since he will not scare people, and he loses his ghostly powers. He realizes he needs to do something drastic, so he, disguised as a man, invades a meeting of ghosts planning a scare-campaign, and gives them a taste of their own medicine. He regains his standing in the Ectoplasm Society.
Produced by Cathay-Keris, this omnibus of three stories (with different directors) was adapted from mystery tales featuring Detective Inspector Latiff (S. Roomai Noor), a character created Pelham Groom, a former British officer and genre writer who settled in Singapore. Latiff’s ‘Watson’ is a female Chinese forensic doctor (Mary Lim), and the first story 'Mud on Her Shoes' hinges on the romance between an English expat and a Malay woman. The second story is the titular 'Hantu Rimau'. The third tale ’Double Knock Out’, heralded as the first depiction of a local boxing match, was shot in Happy World (later renamed Gay World), one of the night-life amusement parks known as the ‘Worlds’. 'Mud on Her Shoes' directed by L. Krishnan, 'Hantu Rimau' directed by B.N. Rao, 'Double Knock Out' directed by S. Roomai Noor
A BFI-produced documentary about documentary filmmaker John Grierson speaking about documentary.
Hashimoto, a Japanes mouse, explains the customs of the east to some visiting mice. A cat makes off with one of the visitors, Hashimoto goes to the rescue, bests the cat with judo, and then teaches it to his western visitors.
Bulgarian fairytale animation
A satire movie about sports car racing at the Little Lemans, directed while at New York University and very populare among sports car devotees.
A shy young man, Tony, lives with his two aunts. The aunts are rather old-fashioned and, because they are very attached to their nephew, they prevent him from getting married. But that's without counting on two other cousins who are determined to find a wife for Tony and get him married.
A small, neglected boy protests against his busy parents by rambling across the city alone.
When Mr. Luo was fighting crickets in the mansion, his black cricket won a lot of silver for him. He was so proud that he boasted about the value of the baby. His words were remembered by Zhang Yu, a carpenter who worked next door. The servants put the jar containing the black cricket on the table, and Zhang Yu, who couldn't help being curious, wanted to see the appearance of the "baby", and didn't want the black cricket to escape if he was not careful.
Ben-Hurry (1959) dir. Richard Fontaine Apollo Films/Zenith Pictures/R.A. Enterprises made at AMG Studios (Bob Mizer's Athletic Model Guild) starring: Alan Parker, Bruce Reed and Joe Leitel "A comedy about three movie extras and the troubles each one gets into on the movie set of a six million dollar movie production." via: Richard Fontaine's Days of Greek Gods (2011) The Bob Mizer Foundation film archive: https://www.posingstrap.tv/videos/ra34-dvd21 http://www.bobmizer.org/
A social club with washing tubs: take a tour of a 1950s Liverpool wash-house.
They live behind the rails of the classification yard in a small and shabby hut. They take the days as they come, refuse to work on principle and pinch together their livelihood. The three tramps Dürst, Barbarossa and Clown are content with what they have and ignore the outside world, and so far they have fared well. Until now...
Aired on Omnibus , Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway is a three-act musical by George M. Cohan written about the town of New Rochelle, New York. The title refers to the 45-minute train ride from New Rochelle to Broadway. The story concerns a romance between a maid who stands to inherit a fortune and an unpopular out-of-towner. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1906 and was briefly revived in 1912. Broadcast live on television on March 15, 1959.
Informational short about the aftermath and avoidance of nuclear fallout.
Nothing frightens Madeline-- not tigers, not even mice-- but how about troublesome young ambassadors? Can she and Pepito ever get along? With its endearing, courageous heroine, cheerful humor, and wonderful, whimsical drawings of Paris, the Madeline stories are true classics that continue to charm readers even after 75 years. In this next adventure, Madeline has a new neighbor who she does not like so much.
First Indian animated film in color, based on a tale from the Buddhist Jatakas.
HANDWRITTEN evokes ... a combination of visual imagery and language for which the term filmpoem seems at last fully justified. Boultenhouse's film revolves around the slamming of a fist on a glass tabletop.
Set in the period of the Turkish War of Independence, the film depicts the smuggling of arms and ammunition from Istanbul to Ankara.it is also an intelligent, brilliantly written multiple character study with rich psychological depth.
Hosted by Ubud's political leader Agung Jakarta Sulawesi Mas, William Deneen here visits important sites and describes the political, religious, and economic situation on the island of Bali in the Indonesia of 1959.
The film is a biography of the tenor Julian Gayarre who was born in 1843 in a small village in Navarra, Spain, and who soon demonstrated his great ability to sing.
After a series of bad card game experiences Carl Gustafsson and Arne Arnesson are forced to run away. A while later they are on a boat to America.
Adaptation based on the sketch "Doi vecini" by Tudor Arghezi.
The documentary depicts the celebrations of the 15th anniversary of the socialist Polish state. The entire country celebrates industrial successes and progress in rebuilding the homeland from post-war destruction.
Séance provides one of the first cinematic examples of a flicker effect.
A man schemes to get rich with a talking horse.
An insight into the restoration of ancient manuscripts at the Monte Oliveto monastery near Siena.
A wife's in-laws are a nightmarish thing to deal with.
A brief visit by a vivacious young couple makes middle-aged spinster Alice painfully aware of how drab and dull her life is.
Follows the efforts to gain the right to vote for Negroes through a succession of legal decision and social changes. Dramatizes the case of Smith vs. Allwright et al. Reviews the long conflict to extend voting rights to a large electorate beginning with the Constitutional Convention's compromise over dropping property requirements through and including the enactment of the 15th and 19th Amendments to the Constitution. Cites legal precedents established by the U.S. Supreme Court through their decisions concerning the control of state primaries in 1918 and 1935 and the later reversals in 1941 and 1944. Points to the issues involved in Federal encroachment upon state's rights.
This film uses stop motion animation of still photographs to convey images of politics and science in the nuclear era. The advancement of science allows man to do things he never would have been able to do without, for good or bad. Politicians are either behind the scenes manipulating those scientists or are using that science for their own goals, primarily in the space race. Everyday items and people are projected upwards - many in the form of rockets - followed by iconic structures, such as the Empire State Building, the US Capitol, the Washington Monument, the Eiffel Tower and the Kremlin, being rocketed skyward as visual representations of that race into space.
Jonathan P. Grisley, the president of a toy company, is sent to a psychiatrist to find out why he plays with toys. He goes back to childhood and thinks that he's got "toy phobia".