Cinematic Era: 1961 Vintage

Discusses developments made in information retrieval over the past decades, using the example of a fictional company, Alamer International, to show the progress IBM has made and how its machines can be used to facilitate business operations.

Short film.

The crew of an Oklahoma City TV station sets out to document the unrest in Mississippi in 1961, with particular emphasis on the impact of the 'Freedom Rides'.

A Swedish short drama.

Passenger ship M/S Skandia's voyage across the Baltic Sea

An undercover investigative documentary on illegal bookmaking in Boston, using concealed-camera footage to expose institutional corruption and regulatory failure, and triggering major political and law-enforcement reforms following broadcast. (Note: Originally produced and broadcast as part of CBS Reports, but widely cited, archived, and treated as an independent investigative documentary due to production method, cultural impact, and historical significance.)

A Shell Film Unit short observing Hong Kong’s “boat people”—families living and working on the harbor—framed as a day-to-day study of a floating community and its relationship to the city.

A documentary about Jean Sibelius at home

Short documenary. Plot unknown.

This short animation of linear symbols made from paper cutouts was created as a Canadian tourism publicity clip. Projected in New York's Times Square, the large signboard was made up of thousands of light bulbs activated by the film images. The film promotes the attractions of the country: the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Calgary Stampede, winter sports, the Canadian Rockies and more, all in McLaren's signature irreverent and playful style.

Exploring the world of lighting, including a glimpse of the famous Blackpool Illuminations.

A man suddenly comes into a lot of money and from then on tries to get everything he's ever wished for: glory, status, cars, houses, women, and good times.

A look into the world of car rallies, getting a behind the scenes glimpse of RAC events.

A look into inventors and how they go about getting their inventions accepted.

A look into the developing hotel industry and the problems that it has to face.

A cartoon about the history and benefits of taking vitamins.

A film by Aramais Aghamalian.

hong kong film

The trials and tribulations of preteen life in 1961 drive a boy into the arms of the Scouts.

Travelogue film showcasing the south west of Ireland.

A look at the rose, which has been England's national emblem for more than 400 years and an increasingly popular flower within millions of gardens. We also get to see the industrial manufacture of Rosehip syrup.

A combination of tips on leisure activities, nude photographs and landscape shots.

A builders' trip to the virgin land.

The FRG is planning an attack on the GDR with the "Deko II" maneuver. This thesis is used to legitimize the construction of the "Anti-Fascist Protection Wall" as an essential measure to defend against the aggression of West German imperialism.

An Italian woman and a German officer fall in love during WWII.

Music video for the song Awate Tokoya by Bonny Jacks that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

The inner-workings of local paper the Hertford Mercury are revealed by young, fresh-thinking reporter Peter Gibbs on his hunt for a regional scoop.

Short film intended for the mobilization of NVA units to secure the state border in Berlin on 13 August 1961.

Short film directed by Jorge Tabachnik.

A visualized prayer.

A year of farming across Scotland.

Carpet manufacturing in Glasgow.

Directed by Raja Bargir.

The history of communism as the story of its crises: The two authors Ralph Giordano and Hans-Ulrich Barth take up various uprisings and protests to demonstrate the discrepancy between the claim to power and the reality in “socialist imperialism.” A more nuanced light is shed on individual uprisings, while at the same time feeding into stereotypical Cold War images of the enemy.

A boy who doesn't like his own shadow paints over the sun. Is that a good idea?

With cheerful humor, artist/filmmaker Ralph Hulett, by means of his easel, paints and brushes, draws Santa from scratch on a blank canvas. As he paints the artist talks about the history and origins of the legend of Santa.

About Belgian state railways.

After graduating from school, the young man came to work at the factory, although he wanted to become a writer. He understood the importance of industrial studies and began to write good essays about factory comrades.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary film about life at Dorton House, a residential school for blind children in the UK.

In this mystery set in London, the Phantom Mustacher is on the loose. His butler Smedley tries to stop him.

A film directed by Luigi Latini de Marchi

The stories of a boy who works as an elevator operator and the daughter of an alcoholic.

During the 1960s, artist Eric Olson embarked on a series of works under the title Optochromi. The vast majority of these were plexiglass objects: most were sculptures although a few are formally closer to paintings. From a cinematic point of view one could describe the Optochromi sculptures as metaphysical colour animations frozen in time – so much so that modern composer Jan Wilhelm Morthenson made his film Interferences (1966), a tribute to 1920s abstraction à la Richter, with the use of Olson’s works. Gösta Werner did something similar five years earlier with Levande färg – only that he mainly circles the sculptures, and contemplates them more than he interacts with them. A respectfully curious distance is always kept.

"Flights…One of the most import ports in Spain. People… Antxo, Donibane, San Pedro. Homes with tradition, parties, streets, port workers, women salting fish, mending fishing nets…" Javier Aguirre

First short film by Público founder Vicente Jorge Silva.