Cinematic Era: 1961 Vintage

A look into the new industrial revolution in Lancashire when, from 1950, more than fifty-five cotton mills were converted for light industries.

A commuter reading on a train falls asleep and is transported to a fantasy world where he learns about the manufacture of various alcohols.

The history of the construction of the Kurobe Dam in Japan.

Based on the first dance drama in China to center itself on revolutionary themes, this famous piece of Chinese media history was adapted for the screen in 1961.

During the day, Nejček tends cattle on a mountain and observes the movements of Nazi troops; at night, he reports to the partisans. The price of courage is his own life.

The Runcorn and Widnes Bridge is opened by Princess Alexandra.

Directed by Dinkar D. Patil.

Directed by Datta Dharmadhikari.

Director: Raja Paranjpe.

Director: Vinay Kale; Writer: Sai Paranjpe, G.D. Madgulkar; Producer: Vinay Kale; Cinematographer: Vasant Shinde; Editor: Bal Korde; Cast: Sulochana

Directed by Datta Dharmadhikari. With Madhu Apte, Shanta Bedekar, Ramesh Deo, Seema Deo.

Directed by Raja Paranjpe. With Indira Chitnis, Ramesh Deo, Seema Deo, Chandrakant Gokhale.

This short animated film plays on the motif of the checkerboard grid in a modernist sense, i.e. favoring the formal and graphic oppositions between the squares, the circle and the square, black and white, recalling familiar avant-garde practices.

Animated drawings and photographs.

Soundtrack: Manuel de Falla's HOMENAJE, POUR LE TOMBEAU DE DEBUSSY and Silvestre Revueltas's PIANOS, from THE NIGHT OF THE MAYAS.

Kyiv. The film is about the Kurenivka disaster caused by the erosion of the protective dam by pulp in the Babyn Yar area. The consequences of the disaster are shown: remains of buildings and vehicles. Military equipment. Rescue work. Evacuation of the inhabitants.

A TV film by Roberto Rossellini.

A depiction of the schizophrenic condition, this film attempts to reconstruct, objectively and subjectively, the images and sounds experienced by the schizophrenic.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the original identification and subsequent uses of oxygen.

The black and white collage film was originally made by Pilař at a time when he was getting acquainted with the expressive language of the Nordic band Cobra. At the same time, it falls into the period of his parting with academic modernism in favour of the new language of pop-art. He revisited his film collages and decollages supplemented with animated fluids accompanied by music by The Residents in 1984 as a screener projected onto various surfaces.

A look at the annual tulip parade in Spalding, Lincolnshire.

Short film with hitchhikers and jazz music by Belgium filmmaker Jean-Marie Buchet.

Explains the theory of electromagnetism by building slowly from a simple bar magnet to a completed electromagnet made from simple home materials.

In this tale based on a Brothers Grimm story, Prince Alfred searches for an enchanted castle that holds a magic fountain whose waters can cure his seriously ill father, the king. His two evil brothers are determined to stop him so they can have the kingdom for themselves when their father dies. A magic dwarf hears of Prince Alfred's plight and sets out to help him.

Robert Lebar and Howard Kaplan use montage of newspaper photographs to present a political satire on Khrushchev.

A short feature by Alexis Klémentieff.

East German animated propaganda short. One night, Flora the Cow and Jolanthe the Pig arrive in the village by truck. It is quiet everywhere, with the only noise coming from the pigsty. The residents are unhappy with their accommodation, they don't want to be in individual pens and demand sociability, cleanliness and self-service. Flora and Jolanthe want to help them. They demonstrate how the barn needs to be rebuilt. Everyone gets to work and tears down the pens. Flora and Jolanthe have brought along a vacuum feeding system, and when the conversion is finished, they can even take in pigs from smaller neighboring pens. Everyone is happy and the sociable pig life can begin. While the newly formed pig choir sings the final song, Flora drives the truck back to town and Jolanthe, wearing a white coat, operates the new feed mixer.

Directed by John Latham.

Shows how to approach and handle beasts, both wild and domestic, with an emphasis on dogs and horses.

Directed by Niazi Mustafa.

Adventure serial about a school girl's search for lost jewels on a small Sicilian island.

Low-caste impoverished boot-polisher and masseur brothers deal with challenges while trying to improve their lifestyle.

The penalties of taking conscious risks are emphasized in three stories of casualties. A heavy load slips, a slippery floor, alighting from a moving tractor. Third in series.

Documentary short directed by Gerald Cockson.

Italian short film shown at Cannes 1961.

The Face of Jesus is a 1961 English language short film directed by Merrell Gage. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Cheap exploitation flick

Documentary about Don Quijote's routes.