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A young inexperienced photographer is passed by a model in 60s Belleville. Guided by a coquettish girl, trying to find the ideal place to succeed as a model. Shot entirely in natural settings, this short film builds a journey to the characteristic style of the French New Wave style.
Based on “Shahar Theke Doore”, a Bengali story by Sailajananda Mukherjee
A documentary film about the great floods in Macedonia, filmed from 16 to 18.11.1962. The film shows the catastrophic floods in November 1962 that hit Macedonia, when the largest Macedonian rivers: Vardar, Treska and Crna overflowed their banks. The film shows footage during and after the floods and the efforts of the people in the fight against the raging water element and in saving the endangered lives and material wealth.
A visit to three of the most famous British public schools, showing their background and prospects for the future.
Studies the life cycles of sponges and coelenterates, the simplest multicellular animals. Describes the cell specialization, sexual and asexual reproduction and other characteristics of sponges, jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and hydras.
The little naughty bunny is kidnapped by a fox and a wolf.
A group of children are entertained by a seemingly harmless beachside magician who eventually lures them into playing with real weapons.
Experimental short by Åke Karlung.
Tree of processed film material is intended to KINEMATOGRAF movement of the backbone using to base the new pictorial movement and phrase. Movie Screen efficacy has been added to paintings. Different kinds of film material is painted, scratched, punched or etched. This has resulted in different directions and at different speeds, functional movement sequences and the "normal film" outside the functional image.
A short film looking at the early married life of a young couple.
Barney Google trying to make a big singing star out of Snuffy. Snuffy sings as his machine would chop wood. Barney Google tried to get a recording contract for Snuffy and the machine (hopefuly a gimmick), but the machine turned out uncontrollable.
Manfred Durniok (1934-2003), German film director and producer, shot his first short documentary films in the 1950s and 1960s. At the end of the 50s he got to know Oskar Sala (1910-2002) and took advantage of the composers electro-acoustic and musical skills in many of his subsequent black and white motion pictures.
A coming of age story about a young country boy who moves to the city and gets seduced by it.
The Khans attack the nomads, and after killing and plundering, they set fire to the tents.
Beppo Bastelmann and his dog Bolli Spürnase track down Wattfraß. He is hiding in a kitchen where numerous electrical appliances are switched on. When Beppo and Bolli find him here, the electricity devil flees on the streetcar and escapes into the room of a thoughtless employee who has surrounded himself with numerous heaters and lamps. Wattfraß feels at home here and sings his little song of joy. But Beppo and Bolli track him down and don't let him escape again.
"A Parisian ethnographer travels to a small village in the depths of Africa where he records primitive sounds and music. Back in Paris, his recordings become fashionable and make him famous. He thus earns a lot of money. money and behave like a nouveau riche. One day, the village sorcerer comes to Paris and demands his share of the profits."
A short animated film based on the American folk song about a logger in the habit of stirring his coffee with his thumb.
Impressions of a great city from daybreak to dusk. A roving camera and smooth theme music say more than words. London's traditional sights - Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, the Royal Parks, the Zoo, etc., await their visitors in the early morning. While a young motor-cyclist hurries by, to work on the pleasure boat he conducts along the Thames; a Beefeater goes on duty at the Tower; and the visitors hurry into London by bus and coach. The film conjures up the mood of a variety of London scenes and events throughout the day until a sightseeing-bus tour gives the visitor a last chance to catch up by night on anything he may have missed during the day.
A group of boys playing near the seashore in Tokyo find a goat, kill it in a tug of war for ownership, bury it with ceremony, and, except for one boy, run off in heedless laughter ready for more games.
Smedley is guarding his master's estate when he receives a package in the mail containing Chilly Willy. Chilly immediately sets his sights on devouring the master's stuffed barracuda which Smedley does everything in his power to prevent...
Documentary about the work and the unconventional approach of the painter Karel Appel. The film shows him flinging vast amounts of paint onto the canvas, resulting in dynamic paintings showing an overful, raging, run-away world. In 1962 awarded with a Golden Bear at the Berlinale. (filmcommission.nl)
In ten years, the scooter population has increased from 4,250 to over 41,000. This film looks at the change.
Pilot for a proposed Marx Brothers cartoon
The charm of the rationality of a great capital.
Farideh lives with her father and brother....
Short documentary.
Vintage cars take part in a rally across Scotland from Edinburgh to Turnberry.
A Silver Bear winning documentary following the daily bustle of working class merchants in Finland of the early 1960s.
Short student film. Plot unknown.
On a summer morning, the opening of the trial in the Zurich District Court is scheduled for 8 a.m. The case of Marlene Faber and Nick Merk's divorce is being heard on the grounds of "mental cruelty." The couple is waiting outside the courtroom for their divorce and is reliving their marriage: from the honeymoon to the first quarrels and the end.
A short film by Joseph L. Anderson. Part of the 'Bluegrass Trilogy'.
Four "women" enter a bar and create chaos. This spoof of Never on Sunday (1960) was the first film made by a group of gay men who frequented a Los Angeles gay bar, The Brownstone, for Sunday brunch. Rarely seen today, these films, made at a time when gay lives were universally portrayed as tragic, remain a unique affirmation of the pleasure and joy gay people take in their lives.
"Consisting of a poetic stream of razor-sharp images, the overt content of SENSELESS portrays ecstatic travelers going to pot over the fantasies and pleasures of a trip to Mexico... highly effective cutting subtly interweaves the contrapuntal developement of themes of love and hate, peace and violence, beauty and destruction."-- David Brooks.
The importance of cashews in daily life in the northeast.
A film about one of the most responsible and professional jobs on British Railways. Practical work in shop and signal box, on gantry and trackside, coupled with instruction in mechanics, electricity, electronics and draughtsmanship, lead the apprentice intro the intricacies of design, the excitement of research and experiment, and the intense satisfaction of being in on a big changeover from old-style semaphore signalling to a new coloured light system.
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.
A story about a private eye (Perry Popgun) and his girl (Goldie).
The production and the economic and social relevance of electric cables, may be watched as abstract art to the tunes of jazz.
Ironical version of the shelter sales campaign to a nursery song.
After her father decides to marry her for the fourth time to an old man, Zari flees her hometown for the city. After a few days of working as a maid in a house, she is drawn into a cabaret by Teymouri.
An in-depth look at the changing face of the River Rhine.
Early in 1962, Claes Oldenburg offered a remarkable series of ten "Happenings" in a store on East Second Street in New York City. The audiences were kept small to heighten the intimacy of the experience. What is a "Happening"? It would seem impossible to describe afterwards. Yet Raymond Saroff compressed the rich and sprawling imagery of each evening-length work to the essential matter in hand... – Howard Rose (1962).
In the City of the Bees, you'll learn how these amazing insects live and work. And you'll be amazed at the harsh law of the hive, which has no place for sick or unproductive members. Finally, you'll learn why God's design for human relationships is vastly different from His system for bees. For more than fifty years, Moody Science Classics have unfolded the miracles of nature's mysteries while showing how the wonders of creation reveal the majesty of God. School-aged children through teens as well as parents and teachers will gain a fresh appreciation for the Creator and the intricate details of His handiwork, as presented in these award-winning programs. The Moody Science Video series, awarded first place in the Educational Video Series category of the 2001 Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards, are wonderful supplements for teaching scientific principles in an easy-to-understand format and from a biblical perspective.
Self-taught filmmaker Frans Buyens captures in Fighting for Our Rights the monumental Belgian workers’ strike of 1960–61, protesting the Eykens III government’s Unification Law. This collage-style documentary is a heartfelt tribute to the workers and sparked significant controversy in Belgium. While several festivals at home rejected the film, Buyens’ work received acclaim at festivals across Germany, Italy, and beyond. Through precise, dialectical editing combined with music and voice-over, Buyens vividly portrays both the power and the setbacks of the Belgian labor movement.
Some narration and 13th century French medieval music, rotating sculptures filmed before a monochrome background.
After years of being imprisoned a man returned to his lithuanian village trying to live with his daughter Irena and struggling to arrange with life in the Soviet Union.
The writer's life of Ray Bradbury.