Cinematic Era: 1959 Vintage

A look at the exciting world of stock car racing, with glimpses at all the bumps and smashes, and thrills and spills that make up this amazing sport.

Cars are shown being tested on proving grounds. There is also a brief look into seat belts, and a look into car racing.

Made in the budget of Rs. 85,000, this is the debut film of Sarat Pujari. The tale of Goddess Lakshmi leaving the temple to teach brothers Lord Jagannath and Lord Balabhadra a lesson was presented in the movie. This movie later remade in Hindi as "Jai Jagannath". Prashant Nanda acted as child Shri Krushna. Geeta Dutt was in the Hindi version. Famous singer Hemant Kumar also given voice in this film.

Pepito, the son of the Spanish Ambassador, invites Madeline and her fellow students to a Gypsy carnival. However, in the chaos caused by a sudden rainstorm, Miss Clavel and the other girls lose sight of Madeline and Pepito, who are unintentionally left behind on the Ferris wheel. The two children find themselves guests of the gypsies, and soon wind up part of the carnival themselves.

On the 10th anniversary of Nowa Huta, documentary filmmakers go back to the beginnings of the town's construction and the conglomerate, using archival footage from the Polish Film Chronicle. The city is born to the rhythm of seven days of creation, and the jubilee is celebrated by children - its peers and former builders.

This short documentary studies the geological evolution that has gone on for millions of years in the High Arctic. Following the evidence of glaciers that have advanced and receded, the film also traces life forms that have changed with the climate.

short experimental animation from Spain

Directed by Thomas Stobart.

Clint Clobber, superintendent of the Flamboyant Arms, is watching the fights on an old-fashioned TV set.

The promotional film Fruit Juices is a dreamlike movie with fairy-tale qualities about fruit, which is always available everywhere. It is a colourful collage, a superb composition, and above all a kinetic showcase of juices, syrups, musts, and other fruit drinks. The message is clear: “Drink healthily, drink sunny juices in bottles, drink fruit juices!”

Short film.

Jordan Belson’s pure meditation on space: fluid and unfixed, where forms become free abstractions in motion (Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive).

Short documentary on the Mexican public healthcare system in the countryside.

Jonny, a circus boy, is accompanied by the camera while he fulfills the assignment for his mother to buy 5 eggs.

A look into the thrills of gliding.

A girl, to test her suitor, transforms her servant into a beautiful woman and introduces herself as her maid.

A look at travelling from London with Britannia Airline to Tokyo to discover Japan, and back via Hong Kong along with a look at the ocean liner Arundel Castle.

The film shows the flora and fauna of Spitsbergen. It turns out that - despite extremely low temperatures - there are about 140 kinds of flower plants. Although the region is very inhospitable for humans, the author managed to capture on film many strange natural phenomena.

A documentary about a small island in the Glacial Ocean, which during the Arctic summer becomes a kingdom of singing birds.

A documentary about the life of sailors in the Soviet Navy.

Stressed-out New York cop O’Hara travels to Ireland where he finds his roots and a charming young colleen, Kitty, into the bargain. Together they travel the country enjoying its simple rural charms and sophisticated Dublin nightlife.

Shot on Preah Vihear Temple before the ruling that favors Cambodia in 1962, the film tells the story of Meul and Khun, government spies who were sent to suppress a terrorist plot on the Thai-Cambodian border.

The forest loses its peace with the arrival of a young man searching for a forester.

24 hours in the lives of three aimless and lost young people looking for work.

Driving safe public information film

Suomi-Filmi's 40th anniversary film from December 1959 introduces all aspects of Finland's largest and most diverse film company. The fast-paced documentary showcases the operations of a full-service film studio led by Risto Orko, including Suomi-Filmi's cinema chain. The film, although optimistic about the future, was made as a historic turning point approached: in just a few years the story of big film studios in Finland was over.

A British Transport Film.

A British Transport Film.

Celebrating British railways' change of technology to bring in the technology of commuter travel.

Shot in Alfred Leslie’s Bowery loft on Fourth Avenue and 12th Street, this silent production footage belies the long-held belief that Pull My Daisy was purely improvised, offering a tender glimpse of Leslie clowning with Frank’s artist wife Mary Frank and young son Pablo. — Museum of Modern Art

Short documentary about Peace based on the paintings of José María Sert, showed in the Nations Palace Congress Sessions Hall at Geneva.

Several short stories, showing what would happen if Prometheus tried to bring the gift of fire to the mankind in 20th century?

Educational film about the life and habits of the praying mantis. Description of its diet, adolescence and awe-inspiring love customs.

Part of the Chinese Historical Ethnographic Film Series (1957-1966)

Mac the busker talks about his life, as a painter and entertainer of theatre queues in Soho for twenty years.

An enthusiast of morning gymnastics is so entangled during exercise that a doctor's intervention is needed.

A short film commissioned by a train museum. In the night of the 100th birthday of the first train in Germany, all the trains in the museum come to life.

Explains how to drive a diesel multiple-unit train.

A fun tour of 1950s West End with international film star Yoko Tani.

A semi-abstract animation film originally produced as a theatrical advertising film for release in India. It utilizes the textile designs of the Calico Mills of Bombay as its overall graphic structure.

One day, a forest fire broke out in the mountain where birds and acorns were playing happily. His mountain friends are chased down by a cliff, but he decides to use the swing to escape.

In Valsinni, misfortune looms over the peaceful life of a family and brutally disrupts its ordinary routine.

The plot concerns two siblings, brother and sister, who live alone in an old wooden villa. A physical love relationship develops between them. The girl drowns and the boy slowly walks into the water, carrying a large horse skull. At the same time, the film shows the girl's face as flowers on the surface of the water.. (Filmform)

A short film by Åke Karlung

"Two treatments of the dancer-choreographer: one danced by a group on a rooftop; one using multiple exposures in an expressionist style." R.P. Believed to have been shot in 1959.

Come over the sea to Skye in 1959, with its majestic mist-covered mountains, lush valleys and snug white-washed croft houses, in this award winning amateur film from Iain Dunnachie. See bustling Portree’s colourful 1950s cars, buses and fashions, and feel for the hardworking crofter in his backbreaking daily routine with peat to cut, haystacks to build, cows and toddlers to care for. Poetry and landscape combine in this moving and memorable film showing a lost way of life.

Saint-Junien, opening day of the hunt, an enthusiastic but clumsy hunter sets off to hunt down game...