Cinematic Era: 1962 Vintage

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Sergeant Snorkle's entire platoon prepares for war games with another base. During the battle, Beetle and Zero manage to louse up the games. They both get trapped inside of a tank, and, before long, win the war games for Camp Swampy.

A sponsored film made by Millie Goldsholl (of Chicago's Morton Goldsholl Associates) for Karolton Envelope Company, a division of Kimberly-Clark. Morton & Millie Goldsholl ran Morton Goldsholl Associates, one of Chicago's leading graphic design studios in the 1950s. The studio became recognized for their animations, progressive hiring practices and developing corporate branding packages for various companies.

Responsible and composed doctor goes on a spree with a friend with two beautiful women, and his wife finds out.

Abadan, in the vastness of the oil areas of southern Iran...

Shanker and Rita's marriage is finalized by their elders in their childhoods, however, after growing up, Shanker loves Shobna. Shanker is told to marry Rita instead, and he does so. The marriage is rocky as Rita does not pay attention to her husband and son. Then Shobna re-enters their life.

A propaganda film that tries to reveal the reasons that lead to traffic accidents in the conditions of increasingly dense traffic.

A triple love story between Mine (Nebahat Çehre), the owner of the farm in the deserted lake valley, and pilot Mazhar (Samim Meriç), whom she had to marry due to the threat of death in the air, and her childhood sweetheart, her aunt's son Ümit (Göksel Arsoy).

Riffing on Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents is “about a cleansing energy applied to a fallen world. But this time the mode is self-mocking satire. A poet of lye and laughing gas, Morrissey has concocted a new genre: slapstick neorealism.” (Donald Lyons)

Filmed in Cinemascope, this experimental film captures the city of Venice (Italy) only through images of reflections on the water, with the warm tones of Agfacolor system.

A brilliant analysis of 19th century French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau, known for his fantastical and mythological subjects, and who remains to these days an influential figure in the birth of modern art.

Goodie the Gremlin is on trial for doing good deeds.

The scene is a small town in the Hungarian Plain, the time is Summer 1945. The diggers who have been left out of land distribution are demonstrating in front of the City Hall. Upon the advice of an unemployed engineer having returned from captivity, an uncultivated and barren piece of land is distributed among them.

Documentary about preparation for Vostok 3 abd Vostok 4 space missions, with cosmonauts Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich on board.

Siti Muslihat is a story that tells of a wife who supports her husband's term became Sultan of Permai Country. She is full of trick to help is husband in managing country and in love.

Dr. Karel Beyers - whose marriage and practice are threatened by a subdued smearing campaign of gossip stories, phone calls and nameless letters - decide to take matters into his own hands.

A silent slapstick with a band of absurd gags.

1962 Japanese documentary

Driver Sam Smith is given the privilege of driving one of the new electric trains. But when a problem arises, it takes three very different Sams before the problem is solved.

The film presents a love story with comedic situations that take place in the marshes south iraq, where it presents popular life there through the character Khanijer and the girl Naima.

A Bollywood film.

A mysterious case opens and the police starts detecting.

The film tells the story of an accountant who is fanatically in love with football, who will go through many curious adventures full of misunderstandings before he gets to the desired match.

The life of Anastasia Stevens, an American dancer at the Bolshoi Ballet, at the height of the Cold War. An early work by the Maysles brothers for the NBC television network, produced by acclaimed screenwriter Bo Goldman.

Sarcastic look at a 1962 Yugoslav beauty contest.

Tells the story of a poor family, inhabitants of the southern province of Santa Fe, who is forced to move into an abandoned railroad until waters recede Salado river wagon.

Mirek Kubiak is a primary school student. Like his friends, he is fascinated by Indians and would like to become a brave Apache. Uncle Eligiusz from America comes to his house. The boy becomes embroiled in a criminal scandal.

Documentary on the Indigenous tribes that live in the Venezuelan Llanos.

The film is set in the early 18th Century and involves smugglers and preventative officers. The on-shore leaders of the smugglers are a rascally lawyer and his wife who organise regular 'runs' of contraband. Richard Merivale, a wealthy young boy, whose parents are believed to have been lost at sea comes to live with them. By his efforts and with help of local children who endure many exciting adventures, the gang are brought to justice and Richard is reunited with the father.

This short documentary includes three vignettes about life off the coast of Newfoundland. In Island of Birds, we visit Green Island, a sea bird sanctuary where puffins frolic. In Caplin Harvest, little silvery fish called caplin spawn by washing ashore along the waves, making an easy catch for fishermen. In Outports on the Move, off-shore houses are pried loose from their foundation and floated to the Newfoundland mainland, where schools, hospitals, stores and services are available to the community.

At the end of the year 1961, three young students, Denys Arcand, Denis Héroux and Stéphane Venne, decide to direct a feature-length film centered on the perks of student life. The film mixes fiction and reality in the style of cinéma vérité. "Alone or with others" is often considered the first indepent film of Québec.

Mole Motoro

A short documentary examining the challenges faced by Cook School in Flint, Michigan, where limited after-school opportunities contribute to violence, truancy, and hardship among students. The film highlights how community support and new programs can transform the school environment and restore stability.

Myung-ho, who had a troubled childhood, is led into a criminal life by an old friend after being released from juvenile detention, but eventually finds redemption through the kindness of an elderly woman, only to later decide to take the blame for a crime committed by her son, until the son confesses his own guilt during the trial.

Moving torward the idea of the tableau, animation. There is absolutely no censorship in Granell’s work. Poetry blossoms, shrouding unrecognisable figures where trees, animals and people merge into hybrid beings that undergo constant metamorphosis. Works where the strong colours are framed insculptural compositions, in human figures on the verge of formal delirium, or in voluptuous compositions that appear to be a microscopic dimension of an unknown world.

Hamdi graduates from the Music Institute and proposes to Laila, whom he loves, but he is surprised by the death of her father and her mother’s refusal to let her marry him. Hamdi is invited to attend a party by the wealthy Ahmed. Fayza Hanem, the aristocratic woman, hears him, admires him, and a strong friendship grows between them. She falls in love with him at a time when she does not feel love for Ahmed, and decides to help Hamdi become... A famous singer, and she tries to spoil the relationship between lovers Hamdi and Laila, so that she can marry him.

A group of Montevidean workers split up to paint the yellow line in the center of the streets.

Directed by Jean Rouch.