Cinematic Era: 1959 Vintage

A working man finds a school book that belonged to him, which will make him remember his childhood. Short film registered entirely in Lugano neighborhood.

Life in the Scottish new town of Glenrothes in the Kingdom of Fife, including a royal visit.

Documentary

The residents in heaven are worried because Santa does not know what to do. All of the children would like a sputnik that beeps for Christmas. Nobody in Santa's crew knows what a sputnik is. So he has to go to earth and find out about it.

In this crime drama, an impoverished but enamored bank clerk joins his brother's gang of bank robbers so he can afford to marry his sweetheart. Unfortunately, their latest caper fails and the bank clerk accidentally gets involved in a murder leaving him to take a hard look at the life he has chosen.

An accident occurred in the spinning shop of the melange mill. Worker Zoya Semenova was seriously injured. Some colleagues blamed the shop manager, Galina Demidova, for the incident, and an investigation began. The case was assigned to investigator Sukhobokova, an honest and principled woman. During the investigation, Sukhobokova meets with workshop workers and Demidova’s friends, who don't believe in Galina’s guilt...

The secret of the Fountain of Life's existence, along with a map of its location, is entrusted to a young man after seven hundred years. The young man, accompanied by a local girl named Ghazaleh, sets off for the Fountain of Life.

A short film based on a story by Sławomir Mrożek of the same title. The need to have an elephant in a fictional zoo gives rise to the idea of making one. A giant inflatable animal is created, but instead of becoming the main attraction, it flies away in front of a school trip.

A synthesis of the life and soul of Portugal, with the sea, the river, the mountains, the plains, and the people who dance and work, cry and laugh, are born and die. From the Minho to the Algarve, distant places, sometimes difficult to access, were chosen for their beauty and picturesque, to figure in a register that allies realism to poetry?

Bollywood 1959

Ceremonies for the beatification of the foundress of the Sisters of Charity, Mother Marguerite d'Youville. The first Canadian to ascend the altar, Mother d'Youville was the object of national celebrations highlighted by a triduum of thanksgiving at the Temple of the Canadian Martyrs in Rome.

A woman meets a blind man who helped her during the war and has fallen on hard times since.

This is the ingeniously imaginative story of a small boy who, with his magic crayon, draws himself in and out of a series of adventures.

The film is a collage of photographs about the life of a boy, a printing worker, who from the earliest days becomes a member of SKOJ and KPJ and gives his life for their ideas, along with his girlfriend. At the Labor Day celebrations, the boy Kosta wore a rose in the lapel of his coat. That is why his friends started calling him "the boy with the rose".

Spanish avant-garde adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart

The rural couple leads a peaceful life until the landlord comes to their village for his vacation. The lustful landlord is captivated by the woman and intends to assault her. When the husband finds out, he confronts his landlord, and as a result, incidents occur.

Narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave, this film shows the colleges and student life of Cambridge in 1963. From British Pathé TV's Arts Collection.

Serialized in Espesyal Komiks by Pablo S. Gomez, the big-screen adaptation of 'Esmerada' stars Carmen Rosales in the titular role.

Training film for the Canadian Department of National Defence.

A rich and orphaned heiress tries to establish a school in the Southern Lakes, but her uncle sets many traps for her.

Bachelor friend of a married couple gets caught up in the drama generated by the husband's philandering.

Lewis Carroll adaptation, won the Silver Medallion at the Cannes Film Festival.

This anti-war piece presents an exaggerated, satirical overview of the evolution of weapons from a prehistoric club to the atomic bomb.

Television play adaptation of Vittorio Alfieri's tragedy Saul (1782).

Some gangsters try to con local bookies, but Inspector Pink spoils their fun.

A compilation of spot gags about animals with scenes from "Fun At The Fair" and "Philharmaniacs." The fair is on, with airplane rides, a Ferris wheel, hot peanuts, watermelon (mother kangaroo eats it, while her joey spits out the seeds) and a charity bazaar with kisses for everyone for a buck... till a skunk comes along. A musical concert is going on. The long-hair music gets replaced with swingin' jazz.

Take a history tour on the River Thames. Lots of famous footage: Parliament, Big Ben, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral, Port of London, Cleopatra's Needle and much more!

How the Filial Daughter Returned the Pearl

The traditional Hamburg shipyard looks back on 80 years of operation.

hong kong film

A political film based in Latvian countryside in 1947.

A provincial arrives in Athens, where he is approached by two mini-patrons in order to eat his money.

The sultan finally has a son after a long wait, but when he is about to introduce his heir, he is murdered by his vizier's conspiracy.

The devil, conjured up during an illusionist's show, escapes and plays mischievous tricks.

I scratched an old film, leaving some parts, then I added ink and paint.

A documentary examining the modernization of Britain’s railways through large-scale engineering and infrastructure renewal.

The milk driver Hans loves his horse Snow White so much that he takes it on holiday to the Danish summer country. Along the way, they are joined by a young American girl, and together they experience Danish culture and nature - and a romantic meeting leads to a wedding. Tourist propaganda inspired by a real event.

"A destitute room, transmuted by the startling magic of stop-motion photography into a luxuriant explosion of color. A new work by D’Avino (THE BIG O)." – Cinema 16 program notes, May 1959. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.