Cinematic Era: 1959 Vintage

Scotland Yard detectives pursue the murderers of a Hungarian girl found dead on an amusement park ride. Their inquiries lead them to a rooming house full of shoplifters.

Schriftfilm functions according to the principle of the cadavre exquis or that of a textual machine that one finds in well sorted bookstores: On screen we see alternating nouns on top, and alternating verbs underneath. Some actually ‘fit’ such as “man walks”... ; while others might only ‘fit’ in a more extended sense “man burns,” “water breaks”... ; while others only ‘fit’ poetically “water screams,” “stone runs,” “sun falls”... ; and in this context the conventional language=meaning-logic disappears behind the pure word=meaning-presence. “Stone runs” is exactly as significant as “man walks,” whereby “man walks” through the very presence of “stone runs” appears to be something extraordinary, and “stone runs” becomes something entirely true and possible.

Explains how the heart, lungs, veins, arteries, and capillaries work together in the process of circulation. Uses animation, cinefluorography, and a combination of artwork and a live subject to visualize the key functions. Suggests principles to help maintain healthy heart and lungs.

The relationship between forms in nature and their interpretation in art is explored in independent avant-garde filmmaker Wayne Sourbeer’s gentle and thoughtful film. Sourbeer follows abstract impressionist painter Corban LePell as he creates one painting, neatly juxtaposing LePell’s various processes with the images in nature that influence him. An original score by Marvin Granostaff completes the circle.

A sales film about a plastic molding injection machine made by Stokes. Very very industrial and beautiful.

This 1959 film by the Bureau of Mines (US Department of the Interior.) in cooperation with asbestos manufacturer Johns Manville, describes how asbestos is mined and processed and the significant role it plays in our lives.

Firewalkers records a traditional Greek rite which, now Christianized, goes back to the ancient Orphic Mysteries of Thrace: walking barefoot on burning charcoal without pain or burning.

A boy lives obsessed with having a crab as a pet, but frees him to take care of his survival

Another educational short from Young America Films designed to answer a burning question.

The life of Mariana de Jesus, Saint of Quito.

"An animated vision... a subliminal glance at man in light and space" S.V.

Vanderbeek photographs NYC, 1959. The 'meat' of the street: Doorways, debris, dilapidation. We meet a few youngsters and get a glimpse into a bygone era.

1959, 7:35 min., color, silent, 8mm

A short film displaying Joan Miller's plaid-heavy fashions for young women.

A documentary recounting Anne Frank’s story and death at Bergen-Belsen before turning to a detailed examination of the camp itself—the routines of its officers, the atrocities committed there, and the troubling postwar reality that many perpetrators lived freely with state support in Germany.

A documentary featuring mid-century design. Includes footage of many products, plus some architecture.

Conceived in 1922, conceptual design published in "De Stijl Nr. 5" (1923), but not realised until 1959.

Short by Ferdinand Khittl commissioned by BASF about the use of magnetic tape.

Integrating film and painting, "Dance Chromatic" reveals that the contradiction between the desire to convey the organic growth of form and painting's lack of temporal extension led Emshwiller into filmmaking.

1960 Indian swashbuckler film,

Directed by Abdel-Jabar Wali.

When the sun shines onto their cell, two prisoners play chess with the shadow of their bars.

In 1959, Dr. Guillermo Garrido-Lecca Frías, the newly appointed Minister of Public Health and Social Assistance, accepted ten thousand doses of the new drug Thiambutosine, or "CIBA 1906," from Antonio Esteban, representative of the Swiss laboratories CIBA, to combat the devastating effects of this disease. He also met with representatives of the patient community, promising them action to end the social segregation they had been enduring.

The San Lorenzo reservoir in Piura has been inaugurated. The article reports the completion of the second phase of the project, presented as a promise of agricultural transformation in northern Peru.

A travel film which tours the whole of Kent and visits Canterbury Cathedral, Margate, and more, with a brief excursion to Boulogne, France.

A documentary material about the work of jet aircraft test pilots.

Short animated film.

A refugee starts a business in Germany.

The manufacturing process of an armchair is illustrated.

Alberto Cima (17 years old) made his first 8mm film in 1959, during the parade of the two presidents on Via XX Settembre, marking the centenary of the Battle of Solferino.

This film, despite the attention it received, was never screened to the public due to vague production reasons. Its story carries some complications and concludes with a happy ending. The film also includes a number of songs by the singer Saeed Al-Jalawi

In this examination of the present state of unemployment in Britain, Aidan Crawley makes a tour which begins in Cornwall and ends in Dundee. On the way he visits South Wales, Merseyside, and East Lancashire and talks to economists, union leaders, and industrialists as well as men and women who are unemployed.

Part of a series of "Workshop" films aimed at promoting the company to potential clients, and educating the public. The film provides an overview of animation techniques used in industrial and educational films, including optical effects, pop-up animation, wipe-off animation, cycle animation, and more. It also highlights common presentation mistakes and offers "do's and don'ts" for information delivery.

A Lost Persian Film. Two millionaires make a bet on a simple young man named "Habib". One of them claims that even if Habib has money, he is still useless and will not gain value. The other claims the opposite and believes that if Habib has money, he will soon be noticed and respected. On this assumption, they give Habib a check for one million tomans for one month. Habib goes to Tehran, where some people try to take the check from him. But they fail. Habib finally returns the check to its owner at the end of a month, along with some money he has earned by crediting the check, thus proving the second millionaire's claim.

A look at the developments in farming in the late 1950s.

An Iranian youth happens to meet an English girl. The two socialize for a while and become infatuated with each other. But their life together causes conflicts and incidents that the girl and boy resist with faith in their love and finally succeed.

50s fashion meets carpet kitsch in a futuristic fantasy of domestic bliss - courtesy of versatile, magical Bri-Nylon.

The documentary presents the flora and fauna of Spitsbergen.

A short film explaining the phenomenon of ten-pin bowling, from a brief explanation of its origins to the professional players performing tricks with the bowling ball.

This 1959 Encyclopedia Britannica Film explores the lives and actions of Vikings, also called Norsemen or Northmen. While perhaps slightly romanticized, the film attempts to depict the Vikings’ travels and impact on history, by showing their traditions, explorations, their raiding and pillaging of their neighbors, and their eventual conversion to Christianity. The film also portrays the daily life of Vikings, including people plowing fields, harvesting hay, grinding grain, and men making tools and doing metalwork. This is followed by a map and animation of the furthest Viking explorations including to North America and through Russia to Constantinople. The film concludes with the departure of a Viking longship.

A look at the two faces of Berlin, separated by the Berlin Wall, and how they are very different.

A look at the Grand National horse race at held at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, where we see the winning horse, jockey and trainer.

A look at the invention of the hovercraft and its first cross English Channel crossing.

A look into different styles of dancing and how they have changed.

Two cheerful friends, comedians, are looking in vain for something for breakfast in the morning. They come up with an original idea. They transform into an exhausted horse and thus manage to sneak into a mansion, which a rich woman has turned into a luxurious home for all kinds of animals as her hobby. A series of comical situations arise there due to the great attention shown to the comedians — the horse, as an animal. For example, they are served an abundance of the finest hay, which they, of course, eat, marking, etc. The climax occurs in a race between the "horse" and the farrier, who wants to shoe it and ends up being shoed himself. But their cunning is discovered and they are rudely thrown out into the street, with the knowledge that they fared better as animals than as people.

A relic of Belgian colonialism in Africa, made with the collaboration of Catholic missionaries and the then King of Rwanda, who was toppled by a revolution during the production.

presents facts that reveal the inaccuracy of mythical fancies concerning the effects of alcoholic beverages. The film technique used is designed for audience participation.