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As the thousands of passengers move about Britain every day, the railway system they use is being transformed : soaring concrete sustains new stations, a hillside is moved to make a new marshalling yard; express freight trains carry complete loads of oil, limestone, cars, frozen foods; griddle cars and Blue Pullmans, roadrailers and driverless trucks - these are only a few of the changes and innovations brought about by the Modernisation Plan.
For "Trilogy," filmmaker Marzano grouped together three of his 1960-61 short films Changeover (1960), Return (1961) and Lovelost (1961) into a single 18-minute film, which he described: "In miniature, depicting three moments, perhaps in one day."
A story illustrating the legend of Bazyliszek who mischief among tenement houses in Warsaw's Old Town.
A short documentary look at Chicago's class and racial divides in 1961, produced cooperatively by local religious groups.
Margaritka (Daisy) is sick during the school year. Her dad is a writer and her mom is an actress who is rehearsing her lines for a new premiere. She is having an affair with the director of the production. At the premiere of "Mommy," Daddy sees her and the director kissing. Papa and Margaritka leave without waiting for Mommy. At home, a scandal is inevitable, but it does not solve anything yet. Mama leaves on tour, and Margaritka and Papa go to the village. There she makes friends with the village children and forgets about her incessant coughing and sneezing. Soon she begins to miss her mom and asks her dad to call her. He writes a telegram but does not send it. The child finds a crumpled piece of paper and goes to the post office. Mom arrives and all three are reunited.
Harry Hound is reading "Hot Dog," his favorite magazine, featuring "Bridgit Bardog." His owner gives him orders: "Go out and bring back a fox or out you go." Nearsighted Harry hires a guide to take him on a fox hunt, but the "guide" turns out to be fox who is also a game warden!
A TV movie by Fernando Lopes.
Shown in our early Canyon Cinema showings, never printed. Example of "The News," an inexpensive local means of combining film seeing and filmmaking.
Educational film on the funeral process.
Ommidvar brothers travel to Saudi Arabia and from there to Africa
The low-grade variety show in Rome, in the old Altieri cinema-theater.
A film by Richard Preston.
A daring fusion of current (circa 1960) pop idolatry with parallel (only a little more sinister) scenes of Ancient Greece. Based on the 'Bacchae of Euripides'.
Football game day at The Ohio State University. Part of the 'Bluegrass Trilogy'.
Cowboys defends peasants that are stripped of their land by an evil landowner.
Im Schatten des Wohlstandes is about children; their illnesses – if that’s what we want to call them – are civilisational in nature: their parents have to abandon them to keep up with their jobs; frustration is the core of capitalism.
Documentary that describes us the life of a city - the city of Aveiro - seen by a very private telescope. The film is born with the dawn that rises, progresses pulled by time, culminates with the amphibious activity of the city and ends with the sun diving in the wide waters of the bar. And the color changes throughout the day in the ghost town, clear and liquid.
Murad is facing financial hardship, and he has no solution but to travel to his uncle to borrow some money, but there are many responsibilities that prevent him from traveling until his secretary (Hasan) finds a very similar person named Pepper. He (Hasan) agrees to replace him While traveling with money, and the events follow.
A visit inside the walls of the Annunziata, an ancient Neapolitan orphanage for girls, where numerous young women reside while waiting to get engaged, find work, and redeem themselves socially, but also elderly women who have resigned themselves to a life spent there.
Naples between religion and superstition: pagan and Christian rituals intertwine in the Neapolitan city, with a particular cult for lottery numbers.
The concept of a mathematical function is illustrated as used in science.
A spaceship travels back in time to the age of dinosaurs.
A piano sonata by Josef Haydn and New York City. The first, allegro movement is choreographed by midtown crowds, crossing every which way, often barely avoiding collision. For the long, slow second movement we see quiet, stately buildings, their columns, cornices, portals and ornaments, with only the camera providing movement at times. The very fast, final part is in color, around Times Square, the movement speeded up and frantic.
An atom is launched into space. In orbit he discovers that he is a happy figure and plays until he disintegrates.
Portrait of a small town.
A film commissioned by the National Tourism Commission, "The City on the Beach" is, however, more than a documentary to disseminate the benefits and beauties of Pocitos beach in Montevideo. The film proposes a sociological construction in-situ, through real characters.
Film on nuclear fallout and its potential for damage in the event of an attack on the United States. Freakishly dramatic music. Picture of people going about their daily activity is occasionally colored red to illustrate contamination of radioactive fallout.
Documentary abou fugitives from East Berlin.
A model of a proposed terminal which will serve a Channel Tunnel demonstrates the facilities it will offer and show the possibilities of a dry land crossing between England and France.
Adventure serial about a school girl's search for lost jewels on a small Sicilian island.
Adventure serial about a school girl's search for lost jewels on a small Sicilian island.
Adventure serial about a school girl's search for lost jewels on a small Sicilian island.
A little girl imagines that the nursery rhyme characters in her book have come to life, and sees the story of "The Littlest Snowman" as well.
Renowned tenor Mario Del Monaco sings the lead in this production of Umberto Giordano's opera based on the life of French poet Andrea Chénier. With his unique vocal technique, Del Monaco brings a vibrant power to the title role, matched by complex and charismatic performances from Antonietta Stella as Chénier's beloved Maddalena and Giuseppe Taddei as the tragic Gérard in this sweeping tale set against the backdrop of the French Revolution.
Indian film staring Supriya Choudhury, Kishore Kumar and Nirmal Kumar
"A study in light based on persistence of vision and enhancement from eye fatigue." -- M.M.
Synthetic rain; Camera-less film.
The Air Force Thunderbirds present air shows for civilians in Southeast Asia as a gesture of U.S. goodwill.
The director recounts his disastrous expedition to Antarctica.
A rebuttal to the short film (Operation Abolition) produced by the House Committee on Un-American Activities documenting demonstration and rioting during the San Francisco hearings.
Directed by Marzio de Spirito Pacca.
Produced by Franklin Urteaga. Texts by César Miró. Music by Vicente Bianchi.
Finnish Coast Guard in action at the Gulf of Finland
Waiters and waitresses perform a ballet of salads, forks, and desserts as the main characters in a culinary performance at one of the restaurants operated by the Jednota co-operative. Under the watchful eye of their supervisor, the employees implement a set of rules, instructions, and regulations that represent a kind of shadow world of their own, hidden behind the scenes of the restaurant, and behind the backs of the diners.
Two elderly women observe life on Zakątna Street in Łódź from the window of their apartment.
A look at the services of NAAFI as they continue to supply the armed forces around the world.
A look at the tough training of the Royal Marine Commandos.
A look into the world of matches of all types. From the football match to the love match. From the boxing match to Britain's largest match factory.
A look into the ceaseless battle between land and sea.
A look into the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS), sixteen years after the Second World War, showing the full range of duties carried out.
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A Bell System educational short.