Cinematic Era: 1959 Vintage

A short documentary.

Edgar Allan Poe's short story adapted as a TV-Movie in Argentina

The three friends Stepan, Kolja and Anton go camping together on the beach and are looking forward to living "like the wild ones" for a while and escaping civilization - and women. But soon Vera and Silvia turn up: two friends who claim the three men's spot for themselves because they have been camping together in this exact spot for five years. The men won't budge, so Vera and Silvia set up their tent right next door and try to scare the men away, for example by listening to the radio loudly. Stepan, Kolja and Anton agree to ignore the two women. So they change their plan: they want to make the men fall in love with them and then pretend that they are suddenly leaving...

An American in London kills the husband of a woman he covets. She returns the favor by killing his fiancée.

College student returns home after the death of his father, then discovers Pops was killed by members of a crime syndicate.

Casper the Friendly Ghost goes out to find some friends to come to his birthday party.

Short film.

The film deals with a fisherman's home on the coast, where everyone one autumn evening sits with their work in the living room.

The hotel Arizona and the hotel Mankwang in Gyeongju, one of the most famous tourist sites, fiercely compete for customers, and the owners of the hotels become hostile toward one another. To complicate matters, a son and a daughter of the owners of the two hotels love each other. When the hostile relationship between the two owners gets worse, the son and daughter try to make their parents reconcile. In the end, everything works out, and the two are married happily.

The work at the factory is over. The workers went home and the fairy tale began. Screws and nuts, hammer and plane, chisel and screwdriver came to life. "We've done a good job, and now we can have some fun!" said the hammer. The details made such a noise that Samodelkin, who was flying on his all-terrain vehicle, heard it. He offered to arrange a concert and make musical instruments. The work started and finally everything is ready. A fun concert took place and no machinations of defective parts could prevent success.

The varied and important services of the U.S. Coast Guard are glimpsed. They warn ships of dangerous shoals, keep sea lanes open with icebreakers, face gale and hurricane to accurately forecast the weather in remote areas of the Atlantic and Pacific, and perform rescue services to ships and downed aircraft.

Robot Minus serves Doctor Sinus, its creator and constructor, who works at a desk. However, a magnetic horseshoe gets into the robot’s mechanism and disrupts its functioning. Dr. Sinus first tries to tame the Robot, then breaks it, but it’s all in vain.

The traditional and modest life in deep rural Crete. A film on the verge of traditional documentary film and an attempt to find a new direction in terms of what documentary film could be. An envious look at contemporary works by his fellow filmmakers from the British Free Cinema, obviously spurred on director Pitt Koch’s ambition.

TV adaptation of Hugo Claus's play about the relationship between siblings Andrea and Thomas. When their parents - a failed artist and a toiling housewife - want to marry off Thomas to his cousin Hilda, a rich older woman who desperately needs a marriage, Andrea tries to prevent this.

The first ballet film made in Ukraine, based on Konstantin Dankevich's ballet from 1940.

An expressionist and hypnotic vision of a disconcerting rural ritual in Lucania, the symbolic slaughter of a goat, a collaboration between Mangini and her husband and partner Lino Del Fra.

Hoda lives with her uncle Dr. Ibrahim, who takes care of her as his daughter after the death of her parents. Hoda leads a life of fun with her friends, including Adel who wants to marry her. One day Hoda suffers from a severe headache. And it appears from the tests that she has a brain tumor that must be removed, she starts to think that the love she receives is from pity for her.

A compilation of black and white excerpts from five previous color films by Jean Rouch: Yenendi, the Rainmakers, Cemeteries in the Cliff, The Millet People, The Circumcision, Battle on the Great River.

1957 film adaptation of Romanian playwright Ion Luca Caragiale's novella “Două loturi” (Two Lottery Tickets, 1901). The scenario was written by director Jean Georgescu, one of the most skilled Romanian filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s, while the directing belongs to Aurel Miheleş and Gheorghe Naghi, at that time both recently graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. This is the second feature film in colour from Romania. Despite the great public success, the film was often criticized by reviewers, mostly for its unhandy directing from the two debutants. Miheleş and Naghi would however continue their collaboration and release another two Caragiale adaptations, of which “Telegrame” (Telegrams, 1959) was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 1960 edition of the Cannes festival.

A survey documentary filmed in the wheat fields of the community of Calquinhue, near the town of Hualqui, in the province of Concepción. The film shows the gestures in the various tasks of the community members engaged in harvesting the wheat, from the harvest to the sale.

Two teenagers are late for school so they decide to spend the day together.

CBS News correspondent Edward R. Murrow reports on the integration problem in Norfolk, VA. and the civil rights issues involved in educating children.

1959 Indian Malayalam-language film

One of the first animated films from Czechoslovakia.

A story of two brothers and their fight for the love of a beautiful princess.

The head of a department fires his employee when he finds out that the employee has dealt with a client outside of administrative regulations, and this is exactly when the employee is supposed to go propose to a girl with his family.

Based on an old Korean legend about the tender and beautiful love of the poor girl Chun Hyang and the son of the formidable and cruel ruler Mong Nyoung.

The Vanishing Tribe (1959) is a short documentary directed by Paul Zils and Fali Bilimoria, focusing on the Todas, the indigenous inhabitants of the Nilgiri Hills in South India. The film delves into the unique customs, rituals, and daily life of the Toda community, highlighting their traditional practices that have remained largely unchanged over generations. Through intimate cinematography, the documentary captures the essence of Toda culture, offering insights into their social structure, religious ceremonies, and the challenges they face in a rapidly changing world.

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive

A German Film Award gold medal winning documentary about electro-technics.

An "Abstract (psychedelic) animation with beeping SFXs. Technicolor flowers, drawings in silhouette and zany interpretations of the BP shield logo." - BP Video Library

A short film by Robert Breer

A film profile of Healey Willan, composer, conductor, choirmaster, organist and teacher. In this film you see Dr. Willan at his favourite organ in the church where he is choirmaster, at work in his study, and dropping in for a visit with students at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.

Three students are on the verge of being expelled for being mischievous. Together scheme a brilliant plan to prohibit the rector from expelling them with the promise of a huge donation from Piet's aunt. To authenticate the promise, Frederik Burgers are dressed up to look like his aunt and to visit the rector. The rector were immediately impressed with this impressive woman and falls in love with her, until the real aunt arrives......

Also known as Guitar Craze and the more evocative Hound Dogs and Bach Addicts, this Monitor item (Ken Russell's third for the pioneering BBC arts strand) offers a whistle-stop tour of how Britons are enthusiastically taking up the guitar in all sorts of ways. The instrument's sudden popularity came about as a by-product of the skiffle revival, which led a wide range of people to form bands whose instrumentation was generally as cheap and cheerful as possible. Washboards and comb-and-paper combinations were common, and the only conventional musical instrument was often the humble acoustic guitar.

A short puppet animation movie by Tadahito Mochinaga.

A poor shoemaker and his wife inherit a farm in the southern province of Limburg. However, the farm has been heavily mortgaged by local real estate agent Bol who is planning to get his hands on the land -- which will soon be mined and therefore worth a fortune. With the help of their trusty German Shepherd Tarzan, the shoemaker's four young nephews decide to do something about it.

A fearless young woman is the complete opposite of her timid twin sister. When their stepmother abuses her sister, she decides to step in and put an end to her evil deeds.

A film looking at London from a dog's point of view, from the family pet to the pampered pooch.

In a coastal town in the south of Thailand, a giant ape nicknamed King Kong terrorizes villagers and abducts a local girl to a forest, prompting a frantic rescue mission by the town sheriff and a fugitive bandit. Tamone Prai is an example of a regional film made by an amateur filmmaker that was popular in Thailand in the 1950s. Thamrong Rujanaphand shot the 16mm film in the south of Thailand, a predominantly Muslim region with Malay ancestry. The film has a simple, almost naive storyline typical of homemade movies of those days and features scenes that are as humorous as they are likely to raise eyebrows of present-day audiences. However, it also captures the authentic vibe and scenery of Thailand's south. The film's central attraction is the giant ape nicknamed King Kong, clearly inspired by the classic film of that title. Thamrong was also an amateur taxidermist, and his skill in creating stuffed creatures was obviously utilised in the film.

A day in the life of the British dustman, and an insight into the particular problems of refuse disposal.