Cinematic Era: 1959 Vintage

A fantastic, growing, decorative canvas, influenced by Indian art but with a moderate element of its own.

A 1959 film in Taiwanese Hokkien, featuring Koa-á-hì (traditional Taiwanese opera).

A short amateur comedy film about a car breakdown in the countryside and an ensuing romance.

Sir Brian Robertson addresses the staff of British rail on the subject of the rationalisation and modernisation of the railways as set out in a new paper outlining the changes to take place in the period 1959-1963.

Driving school tuition, including the innovative mock-up car, the junior driver course and the training of police drivers and London bus drivers.

In 1954, on the Moamba plateau near Leopoldville, the Catholic University of Louvain commissioned the construction of the interracial Lovanium University. The film follows the construction of the complex (professors' villas, student dormitories, faculty buildings). It also shows the type of teaching provided, as well as the infrastructure (laboratories, workshops, recreation rooms and canteen).

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. Alternate version.

A look at the motor coach, with a view from the back of a coach during a tour of Italy.

Representation of the theater play "La calle de los fantasmas" by Javier Villafañe.

Whilst dreaming, a little boy in the company of Tijl (Uilenspiegel?) travels centuries back to the fairytale world with the help of two balloons.

Short film by Pierre Viallet based on Jean-Sébastien Bach's life.

Informational film about night driving that was produced for General Motors Nordiska in 1959.

1959 - a great year of success for Aston Martin winning at Le Mans, Nurburgring and the Tourist Trophy

This film describes the rapid industrial development and rising living standards in Puerto Rico, emphasizing private foreign investment, certain tax exemptions, and other government cooperation. The film is a John Bransby production that was presented by the Esso Standard Oil Company and written and directed by Jack Campbell.

Documentary short

Rock salt seas, in the Rio Maior region. Life of salt and salt workers.

Directed by Raja Nene. With Raja Gosavi, Sharad Talwalkar.

Directed by Bhalji Pendharkar. With Suryakant, Master Vithal, Ramesh Deo, Ganpat Patil.

The story of the ship R.F.A. Tidereach on its journey from England to Norfolk Virginia, Boston and New York, featuring deliveries, the hardworking crew and great streets scenes of New York.

Documentary about the National Broadcasting Corporation.

A film about the adventures of a dwarf showing children the first signs of spring.

Czechoslovak industrial educational film.

Educational film about how light and optics work.

A unique chronicle of Salvador Dali’s constructivist outrageousness. As you know, during this period, Dali began, as the newspapers wrote, “shaking the apathy of the modern world, making himself a paranoid-critical object”: he looked into the eyes of a rhinoceros or exhibited a loaf of bread eighteen meters long. In the Paris Ice Palace, he demonstrates a plastic ball: "Projection of intrauterine vision ...". The shooting was initiated by the publisher Joseph Faure. Enjoy Dali in his silver-plated alien costume, with his mustache and cane, and a general phlegmatic carnival of madness.

This film is one of a series on Plant Supervisors' Problems. Based on material furnished by the Education and Training Department of the Aluminum Company of America.

Featured artists: Yoshida Toshio; Kanayama Akira; Shiraga Kazuo; Shimamoto Shōzō

A feature-length travelogue from Cameroon.

This final in the three part documentary series looks at the capabilities of modern commercial aircraft to regularly travel faster than the speed of sound.

Jinshan Restaurant's business is bleak, and no one cares about the lobster dinner. The boss accidentally saw news in the newspaper that a group of Red Party members were rounded up at a certain hotel gathering, so he spread the false news that the Red Party members would hold a secret meeting at Jinshan Restaurant...

A Terrytoons cartoons with Dimwit the dog

An animated short film directed by Víctor Iturralde.

Minister Min Yeong-hwan (Kim Dong-won) fears that Korea will cease to exist if the Japanese continue to gain power. He advises King Gojong (Lee Ryong), to expand the army and reform the education system.

Akash Ar Mati (The Sky and the Earth) is a 1959 black and white film directed by Fateh Lohani.

Johnny Doormat has a domineering, nagging wife. He takes his ire at her out on his office workers. His wife sees him at a tobacco shop and, through an illusion, pictures him as her television hero. But when he gets home, he has turned back into his meek, spineless self.

It records the festivities that, at the time, took place in the heart of the city, at the meeting of Rua dos Andradas and Avenida Borges Medeiros.

“Wonderful World” is a 1959 color travelogue produced by Jam Handy for Coca-Cola and narrated by Ken Nordine. The broad documentary surveying global cultures, lifestyles, emphasizing common human activities.

Mamdouh, a young man estranged from his father, starts a poultry farm on his secretary's advice. He meets his secretary's sister Aida, a young woman looking for wealth. When he introduces her to the dancer Nousa, she convinces Aida to become a belly dancer.

Ethnographic documentary on the folk tradition of the Busójárás Carnival in Mohács, Hungary.

Nature short in which a badger is sprayed by a skunk.

A short which uses the letters of the alphabet to teach young children how to walk across the street.

An adaptation of the Diego Fabbri play.

Art history student Ursula discovers Frankfurt am Main after she starts living there.

A lonely woman gets a dog.

Short by Herbert Viktor.