Cinematic Era: 1960 Vintage

Everything is easy to do with an automatic Necchi supernova sewing machine.

The work of a team of men who tackle a special British Road Services job in the treacherous terrain of the Scottish Highlands.

Modern Comedy

An evening in the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz between dancing couples, the bustle of the kitchen and at the festive table, accompanied by the sensual musical stylings of a jazz band.

The Punjabi film Behrupia (1960) was directed by Aslam Irani.

Like a true diva, an aspiring painter renounces her mundane given name, and instead of it, she prefers her artistic pseudonym, Nancy. A young professor has fallen in love with her; but, she has the final say. Will she find what she wants?

The Fall of Icarus proposes the magnification by the camera of a concrete material, the simple sand placed on a flat screen illuminated from behind, to reveal the changes of form and the movements of the matter once in contact with the elements: water, fire, earth and air. Particular care has been taken in the correspondence between sound and image: the compositions of the image (colors, knots of density, movements) surprisingly find their equivalence on the sound level in the music of Mireille CHAMASS.

Animated ballet etude presenting the conflict between dreams and reality.

Virginia tries on some old clothes in her attic. She finds a crown and looks like a regal queen.

In a valley on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence, the seasons unfold with their chores and pleasures: children gathering roses for honey, an old uncle's wine, pressing apple cider, three brothers shelling broads beans, their flails beating time, grandmother's spinning wheel, the old stone mill, the rushing rivulets of spring, a silvery catch of capelin washed up on shore by the May Moon.

TV movie of scenes from a comedy, televised direct from Phoenix Theatre, London.

Inspired by a real-life history comes the feat of a small group, led by their manager, Cesar Faz, that achieved what no other Mexican team in Little League World Series had achieved before. This film recreates the miracle of the small Monterrey sports baseball team, champions of 1957, which were no longer unknown, facing adversity, the climate, the socio-economic differnces and internationally renowned rivals to finish conquering the unimaginable: the White House. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

Three men accidentally end up stranded on an island in the Baltic Sea: friends Achim and Klaus and railroad worker Erich Spalteholtz. Both friends try to swim ashore to get help. In the process, they have adventures with the police as well as with the enchanting girls Anne and Brigitte! However, before Erich Spalteholtz is rescued from the island, he helps himself alone - thinking that Achim and Klaus have drowned...

The film refers to the romance between a young mechanic of humble working background and a university student from a well-to-do family of professionals who face the difficulties originated in their different social origins.

One of the early color near-nudie films and was re-shown often by, mostly, drive-in theatre owners in need of a quick cash fix. They would hang out the "Adults Only" sign, thereby ensuring that every high school and junior high boy (and more than a few dads) within an hour's drive would storm the gate, and turn on the pop corn machine and then hot-foot it to the night-deposit at the bank. "Not Tonight, Henry" (the actual title and not an alternate title as some seem to think) was a large step up in quality for director W. Merle Connell in that it was in color and also not just a static-camera filming of a burlesque show inside of one of L. A.'s smoky, grind house burlesques. The girls were still out of burlesque, as were Hank Henry and Little Jack Little: Hank Henry is more than a little frustrated at the "lack of attention" he is getting at home from his wife and starts dreaming up amorous escapades with sirens from the past...

A look at the British overseas territory, one that has served as a British outpost since 1704, as it transforms into a holiday destination.

A studio-shot showcase of Marcel Marceau’s pantomime art, this 1960 West German TV special strings together a suite of wordless vignettes centered on his alter ego Bip. Eschewing conventional plot, director Günther Hassert frames Marceau’s comic-tragic sketches in clean, minimalist setups so the rhythm, precision, and emotional range of the “art of silence” carry the whole program for television.

In 1949, as Shanghai faced liberation, prices soared, and people struggled. Students worried about tuition waivers. At a middle school, corrupt influences led to unfair waivers, angering students like Jiang Dacheng, who was expelled after being reported by Wu Guangen. Guided by Yang Ming, an underground party worker, Jiang Dacheng joined the revolution. He and classmates Lü Xiaoke, Chen Yuzhen, and He Guisheng formed the underground Young Pioneers, transforming the confiscated *New Youth Newspaper* into a wall newspaper to spread revolutionary ideas. They secretly listened to Xinhua News, printed leaflets about the People’s Liberation Army’s victory, and distributed them, causing panic among spies Wu Inspector and Principal Zhu. Teacher Yang Ming protected the children, but his actions drew suspicion. Jiang Dacheng learned of Yang Ming’s arrest plan and helped him escape. They celebrated Shanghai’s liberation, and Jiang Dacheng vowed to follow the Communist Party forever.

Combining colour, animation and sound to clarify principles of radio-wave transmission, this film illustrates how antennas propagate radio waves and how they may be adapted to increase the directivity of transmissions. The theoretical concepts are emphasized.

A cross-cultural study of child-rearing in India, France, Japan, and Canada, observing how family practices around a one-year-old reflect broader cultural values, with commentary by Margaret Mead.

After arguing with their playboy father, teenage sisters Amy, Susie and Tessie decide it's time to become independent women. Once the girls realize they can support themselves, they open the door to a whole new world of adventure.

The legendary Eduard Haken as Aquarius in the first television production of the composer's most famous musical-dramatic work.

Seville's most successful Matador has a secret, which his rival will use against him when he finds out.

Two musicians, when they can't find work for themselves, dress up in women's clothes and enter the house of a wealthy woman whose servants are all female; because the lady of the house intensely dislikes men.

A look at life in a submarine and the work that is carried out within.

A thief breaks into a house and takes everything.

Short documentary.

Short documentary about Naples, Italy.

Zaa follows the journey of a white camel returning to the oasis it calls home and finds an unlikely ally in a young boy. With Zaa, Bellon shows another side of herself, the lover of animals and children, in a land far from France.

Golfer Sam Snead shows the audience some tips and tricks in this humorous CinemaScope short.

Pantomime evoking the history of movement in humans performed by Suzanne Rivest.

Creepers' young nephew Frisky writes him to let him know that he's coming by to go camping with him.

A longtime criminal returns to his native Los Angeles determined to avenge his brother's murder.

Mister Rossi wins an Oscar.

Documentary by Raquel Soeiro de Brito.

"Our film is about the religious sect of Russian Pentecostals, one of the most reactionary and fanatical cults. Their actions are incompatible with the life and laws of our society. We testify that every frame of this film is documentary."

Directed by Hy Hirsh. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.

Partisans hijack a boat

Two brothers, both gamekeepers, are in love with the same girl. One commits a murder and flees. Only one person can locate him in the dense forest - his brother.

What man wants and what he does is not always the same. Desire and imagination have no sharp contours, a shadow that breaks on the edges and disappears or slides down the sidewalk. It could be that a man goes into the fight with his shadow, that he wants to get rid of it, run away from it or destroy it, but left without his other self, he will be one-sided.

The princess is lively and active by nature, and she is very tired of the rigid life in the palace. The king thinks that her words and deeds are not a princess, and asks her to stay in the boudoir all the time. The woodcutter, who made her fall in love at first sight. The prime minister wanted his son to be a son-in-law. One day, he gave the princess a golden phoenix crown, and took the opportunity to propose marriage to the king, and the king agreed. The princess is unwilling to have her happiness ruined, but she doesn't know how to resist. The shepherd boy has an idea, remembering that he can use the local custom of riding a bull to "marry into the sky", and tells his plan, the princess is overjoyed.

A short documentary about Persepolis

Starring Lacey as the Mobile Absurd Non-entity, aka M.A.N. – a “synchronized, pressurized, energized, moisturized moron” – this angry, Goon-like film rips apart the factory-produced, ‘ideal home’-type lifestyle aggressively marketed in the post-war era with playful, witty panache.