Cinematic Era: 1960 Vintage

Schoolboys decide to play football during their lunchbreak, but the ball escapes and the boys follow it on a series of adventures before returning to class. Nominated for Best Live Action Short Film at the 1962 Academy Awards.

Short documentary about an excavator operator in sweden

An animated short film about oil.

Animated film featuring three animal-like creatures.

A short film produced by the House Committee on Un-American Activities documenting demonstration and rioting during the San Francisco hearings.

Man's ability, on the one hand, to create supreme works, in science and art, in terms of humanization in behavior, and on the other hand, he also carries within himself a "talent" for finding ever more perfect means of self-destruction. One such danger was presented with the explosion of the atomic bomb during World War II. It hinted at the potential probability of a definitive cataclysm of the entire world. Since then, man's fear for his existence, for the existence of his offspring, of the entire human race and of everything that planet Earth means, has been much more present.

Short musical documentary with Siegfried Franz.

A look at the music of bells, from small hand bells to the great bell of Westminster.

A half-hour movie about the Avant-Garde Festival in Central Park that took place by the race of Hoving and Moorman.

A young man experiences fitful visions on his deathbed. He visits abandoned cityscapes, follows a Grim Reaper and eventually ends up in a coffin with the Reaper looming overhead.

Directed by K. Viswanath. With Damuanna Malvankar, Master Vithal, Ramesh Deo.

The former prison for adolescents is converted into a "rehabilitation center" by the nascent Revolution.

The film reconstructs, using archive footage, some events from the Nazi occupation of Rome.

"A multiple exposure film of Christmas season store windows and children's faces. The conflict of the sacred and the profane gives a bitter-sweet effect." – Howard Everngam

Documentary on Cuban music, rumba, regla de ocha and Abakuá.

Several Puerto Rican Christmas tunes are performed on screen by Juan Rivera, Juan Ortiz Vargas, José Ramón Morales, and the Morgado Brothers.

The title was taken from a popular Minang folk-song by Gumarang Orchestra, conducted by Asbon. This film was not released.

A book with magical powers allows two men to achieve a good position in the society that had not accepted them before.

Presents typical situations which occur on a dinner date--checking, seating, ordering, table technique, make-up repair, tipping and escort courtesy.

A simple contemplation of the plum tree through a window. In rich black and white.

Part of BFI collection "Worth the Risk?"

Made at what is now Imperial College School of Medicine, this film was intended to document the effects of Glaxo’s Griseofulvin drug on a ringworm-infected thumbnail (although to the untrained eye it looks distinctly like a toe!) over a period of six months. Out of context, the gruesome close-up and mesmerising time-lapse photography evoke an art installation or avant-garde body horror film.

A Hindi drama directed by Ram Daryani, starring Bharat Bhushan and Nanda.

Directed by Roger Proudlock.

Documentary about the controversial marriage of King Willem I and Countess Henriette d'Oultremont. Willem I became engaged to the Belgian Roman Catholic Countess Henriette after the death of his first wife, Wilhelmina of Prussia. This did not go down well with either the government or the people. Articles from the Algemeen Handelsblad illustrate this beautifully.

A human hand throws a box of cigarettes on the chessboard. It has a picture of a house and the sun on it. The chess king organized a military campaign against a foreign body. Chess rooks shoot. Chess knights are riding. The march of the troops goes to the end of the chessboard. The king decides to take over the surrounding space. Black and white squares cover one picture, a funny prankster, and even a globe. A human hand sweeps away the chess pieces and collects them in a box.

A look into trunk roads with the night lorries, following the night drivers, to see where they eat and who they meet.

Then a rising star on London’s stand-up circuit, in the mid-90s Harry Hill made a series of 16mm short films with experimental filmmaker and projectionist David Leister, full of madcap comedic flair and DIY spirit.

Filipino horror anthology from 1960.

The Grand Fleet Parade on the Baltic Sea on November 4, 1960 to mark the renaming of the GDR's naval forces to the "Volksmarine". The renaming commemorates the Kiel sailors' uprising of 1918 and makes direct reference to the "People's Navy Division" formed during the November Revolution - the guests of honor include participants in the sailors' uprising of 1918. Rear Admiral Neukirchen leads the parade formation. The solemn ceremony takes place on the flagship.

1960 pakistani film

Soundtrack: Claude Debussy's LA BOITE A JOUJOUX.

In the performance piece, Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle (Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility) 1959-62, he offered empty spaces in the city in exchange for gold. He wanted his buyers to experience The Void by selling them empty space. In his view this experience could only be paid for in the purest material: gold. In exchange, he gave a certificate of ownership to the buyer. As the second part of the piece, performed on the Seine with an Art critic in attendance, if the buyer agreed to set fire to the certificate, Klein would throw half the gold into the river, in order to restore the "natural order" that he had unbalanced by selling the empty space (that was now not "empty" anymore). He used the other half of the gold to create a series of gold-leafed works, which, along with a series of pink monochromes, began to augment his blue monochromes toward the end of his life.

A woman's funeral in Ghana.

Anthropological record with aspects of this festival, when it did not yet have the subsequent production levels.

A strange thing happens at the shoe shop of a poor but kindhearted old couple. They prepare the skins for their shoes and go to bed, and the next morning, the shoes are ready. One night, while the old couple was waiting for the shoes to be ready, a group of little children came singing to them.

The awakening of a young girl platonically enamored of Ramón Novarro and who aspires to be like Clara Bow.

A semi documentary short from the early sixties about young people looking for new friends in a club.

Daddy Kárász, the stakhanovist worker, complains in a television interview about the fact that his family, consisting of many members, cannot get a home on their own. Kéri, the chairman of the local authority, promises to help him on the condition that if he does not, they may move in to his villa at elegant Pasarét. Nothing happens, therefore the Kárász family takes Kéri by his word. From this time on, tumultuous scenes and frequent quarrels take place in the villa between the two families.

A Sport Is Born is a 1960 documentary short directed by Richard Winik. It discusses the development of the sport of parachuting at the airport in Orange, Mass. Includes views of the pupils who are being instructed, pointing out the fundamentals of parachuting, and shows jumps being made by students, instructors, and outstanding jumpers. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

A short sports documentary exploring a resort with many sports champions in attendance.

William Vennard's collaboration with Janwillem van den Berg resulted in his film Voice Production: the Vibrating Larynx. Winning several awards, including best medical research film from a festival in Prague in 1960, it shows the anatomy and physiology of voice production in the excised larynx. He was a pioneer in the science of singing and in voice pedagogy and was instrumental in fostering collaborative efforts between singers, physicists, psychologists and voice scientists.

A look at the huge new liners being built, the life of cargo carrying ships and the exciting future of air freight.

After a five-month stay on a fishing trawler in the ocean, Stepan Lezhnyov decides to spend a vacation in his native village. Meetings with relatives and friends, assistance in solving large and small problems of collective farm life awaken in Stepan the desire to stay here forever...

The passport of drug kingpin Wang Ying-han was found at the scene of a large truck explosion. Detectives Chen and Yoshida meet and interview Noriko, but she refuses to talk due to her father who is a drug addict and is currently missing.

In 1957 US Army veteran Robert Carl Cohen was studying Social Psychology in Paris. While visiting the USSR he was assigned by NBC-TV's Moscow Chief Irving R. Levine to film a group of young Americans touring China in defiance of the US State Dept.'s travel ban. ...the first American to film China since the 1949 Communist victory; documenting forbidden things such as bridges, aircraft, tanks, & the "brain washing" of political prisoners. INSIDE RED CHINA provides a rare insight into that vast nation's tumultuous past.

England is eighteen hours behind you and the Leda is in sight of Bergen. Your shipboard reverie is about to become reality. The fjords, glaciers and waterfalls, with the lovely melodies of Edward Grieg to reflect the changing moods of western Norway. Produced by British Transport Films in association with the Bergen Steamship Company.

Thieves steal all of a family's Philips equipment, but thanks to cooperation between citizens and the police, everything is returned. Or is it everything? At the end, one of the thieves shows a small portable radio that he has kept for himself.

This film makes a general survey of the Northern Territory of Australia and indicates its potential in regard to many already established industries. These include agriculture, mining, fisheries, cattle raising, pearling and the like. The Territory is still a land of many challenging problems; its greatest limiting factor being the lack of water. In recent years transportation has been improved and education approached with vision and imagination. Housing is also being developed. Two thirds of the Territory’s work force is in Government employ.

Cilali Ibo, who runs the shoe shine salon, inherits it from his grandfather. There is also a mansion on the heritage list. An inheritance lawyer collaborates with a gang. The gang tries to kill Ibo and prevent him from reaching mansion.

This film is intended to promote the mass movement of physical education to the masses. Choijil, a boastful young man with a tendency to ignore everything, meets Densmaa at a party and dreams of her. On the weekend, Densmaa and Yanjmaa suggested to Choijil that they go skiing on the mountain, but he agreed, even though he had never put a ski on his feet, and told the two girls how he was having fun.

This educational film explains how Earth-orbiting space platforms and lunar bases ("way stations") will serve a key role in the exploration of our solar system.