Cinematic Era: 1962 Vintage

Speak is an 11-minute animated film that was known for its intense flicker/strobe effect when shown in London area psychedelic clubs.

A French short film

At the Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost an der Oder, a new blast furnace is being moved to replace a burnt-out one. 2000 tons have to be moved 18 meters: Three times we hear it in the commentary. Master Klaus is now in command. His orders are to be obeyed at all costs. Men at work: tense faces, examining hands, the sound of screeching winds and steel cables stretched to breaking point. Everything is going well, and it is a new best performance: The downtime of the plant has been reduced from 80 to 40 days, the commentary says.

A young man tired of "the rules" of high school, drops out. While he relishes his newfound "freedom, " he soon finds out that no one will hire a high school dropout, and his life starts to spiral out of control until he's reduced to wearing T-shirts, playing pool, and watching his friends being hauled off to jail for vagrancy. Is he next?

Camera movement and film editing are combined to animate the ceramic figurines of John Perceval. He created his angels "more or less as symbols of the world's survival." An intangible element common to all Perceval's angels is their spirit of humanity. These ceramic sculptures are disting- uished by their beautiful modelling, and their lustrous red copper glaze with its uncanny depth and beauty. Perceval does not devote himself exclusively to ceramic sculpture; he gives equal time to painting and has won the McCaughey and Vizard-Whollohan Prizes, and shared the Wynne Prize in 1961. Photography by Gerard Vanderberg; music by Dorian Le Gallienne.

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.

Documentary about the Berlin Wall.

Two perky teens explore every inch of the telephone exhibit at Seattle's fair.

The advertising team at Avon pulled together this ersatz part-travelogue to demonstrate where fragrance comes from and how fragrance makes all of our lives better. (Fandor)

Short documentary about dealing with passengers at a large railway station.

The history of the Berlin Wall, why it was built, and how it affects Berliners.

Indian drama starring Akkineni Nageshwara Rao

Short on apartheid.

After a failed attempt of holdup, Celestino and its friends end in prison. They return to freedom with an amnesty, and they try to find a job. They find a job in the factory of trumpets of professor Liborio; here Celestino meets Marta and falls in love with her, but Liborio, heard that the father of the girl possesses the world only mine of brass in Latin America, seduces and marry her. He then closes the factory of trumpets and moves abroad in order to take advantage of the mine of his now father-in-law. Celestino,bitter with disillusionment, finds another job in one factory of space rockets. One day, testing a rocket, he's propelled in the sky ending up on a tree. Is he allright? "It's the system: it doesn't work"

A routine look at the indominatible spirit of impoverished young boys in Morocco, this drama by Jacques Severac also does not ignore the rather oppressive conditions under which the boys live. In one story, a little fellow has set his heart on buying a sewing machine for his mother. Like the other shoe-shine boys, his goal of saving up money is almost impossible to meet yet after much travail he is finally able to get her a machine. Sadly enough, his triumph is destined to be short-lived when the much-desired sewing machine is broken in an accident. Undaunted, the lad decides the only thing for it is to start again from scratch.

Documentary about the European School of the Coal and Steel Community (ECSC, formerly CSG) in Luxembourg. Featuring footage of the schoolyard and preschoolers singing the song 'In the Moonlight' in a classroom.

Short black-and-white documentary film showing the forging of an anchor.

An 1962 Avant-Garde Comedy by George Kuchar.

Film 5 of 6 in the Cine-Songs Program.

The Touchagues painter, a lover of all forms of beauty, takes us on a tour of Parisian nightclubs and the beaches of the Côte d'Azur, in search of his models and, above all, his studio, which is occupied by numerous nude models.

A mondo documentary directed by Mino Loy.

The film talks about the flora and fauna of Lake Ohrid and the life of the Ohrid trout, one of the rare fish species that lives in this lake.

Pictures the American painter Loren Maciver as she roams purposefully or idly during the four seasons of the year and observes objects, movement, and color that abound in city and country.

A Film of a Claes Oldenburg Happening, Ray Gun Theater, 1962.

The story of HMS Vanguard and its final journey to the shipbreakers' yard.

hong kong film

Two young toughies, Chuck Hall and Ken Sullivan, are walking along a country lane, when they spy the filtering system of a pool. Hot and dirty, they temptation is too great. After climbing over the wall, they strip, and have a big splash.

A look at the boy's clubs across Britain, with a glimpse at what their future is likely to be.

Images and verses to Christmas

Mexican feature film

New to Livorno, a man meets a crying woman on a bridge at midnight, in this tale of love and heartbreak. Believed to be lost.

The X-15 was the last in a line of manned rocket-powered research airplanes built during the 1950s to explore ever-faster and higher flight regimes. Nineteen years before Space Shuttle, the X-15 showed it was possible to fly into, and out of, space. Launched from the wing of a modified B-52 bomber, the ship rocketed higher and faster than any manned aircraft of the time. There had never been anything like the X-15; it had a million-horsepower engine and could fly twice as fast as a rifle bullet. In the joint X-15 hypersonic research program that NASA conducted with the Air Force, the Navy, and North American Aviation the aircraft flew over a period of nearly 10 years and set unofficial speed and altitude records, in a program to investigate all aspects of piloted hypersonic flight. Information gained from the highly successful X-15 program contributed to the development of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo piloted spaceflight programs as well as the Space Shuttle program.

The 6 minute short film SLEDGE (1962) was filmed and directed by then 27 years old Kotse Mitrev in Stip, Republic of Macedonia. The lead role is played by London-based producer-director George Stankoski, then 4 years old and son of Macedonian actor Panko Stankoski. SLEDGE won first prizes in the Sarajevo Festival Children's Film Category in 1962, and the Belgrade Republic Festival Shorts Category in 1964. SLEDGE was recently recovered by Stip-based historian and film archivist Alexander Donski, and efforts are now being made to restore and re-scan this working copy for high quality viewing.

Five and a half minutes from Paddington to Birmingham Snow Hill, in the driver's cab of the Blue Pullman to the accompianiment of Johann Strauss's "Perpetuum Mobile", the camera makes the journey at a speed of about 960 mph! Inside the train, passengers eat and drink, sleep or read, oblivious of the speed at which they travel.

Celebrated Austrian conductor Josef Krips leads the CBC Symphony Orchestra in this television broadcast from 1962, showcasing selections from several beloved Mozart operas, including "Don Giovanni" and "Le Nozze Di Figaro." This concert also features Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 13 and Symphony no. 41 in C Major ("Jupiter"). Noted soloists include pianist Malcolm Frager and vocalists Pierrette Alarie and Léopold Simoneau.

A sensitive, low-key portrait of the East Bay Activity Center, a school in Oakland, California, started in the 1950s to help emotionally disturbed children. The atmospheric documentary opens with hilly East Bay streets shrouded in fog. The mist lifts as the film moves to children at play. Often shown in unobtrusive close-up, the youngsters appear as thinking individuals, enjoying the swings, puzzling out problems, or interacting with their teacher in the classroom.

A short civil war comedy film made for a Sunday night TV special hosted by Bill Thompson. The confederates have run out of coffee and plans to steal some from Union soldiers

A cautionary tale about the dangers and consequences of drunk driving.

A girl undresses, while a man (apparently) watches her. At the end of the film, it is revealed that they are in different flats; the man is watching television, while the girl only has an audience of her two kittens.

A look at the story of the rope and its many uses in Great Britain during the 1960s.

A cinematic portrait of Gracjan Lepianko – a former boxer and inventor who, at the time of filming, was already an elderly man running an art repair shop. The film consists largely of shots from the workshop: close-ups of various artifacts, and an ironic off-screen narration, during which we learn interesting facts about Gracjan Lepianko's life.

A look at the importance of the helicopter and its uses, both civil and military, but also its failure to become a passenger carrier.

A look at the plans to make the Isle Of Man a tourist attraction once more.

Pink film directed by Kôji Seki.

Beneath our feet is a little-seen world. This film reveals the labyrinth of London's sewers, an Aladdin's cave of silver, and the GPO's unique tube railway.

A look at Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, and a more detailed examination of the Berlin Wall in Germany.

Leroy McLucas’ expressionistic documentary, Dulce Domingo Dulce, shot in Cuba, is an almost lyrical poem about the sugar-cane workers. (Jonas Mekas)

Underlines the importance of waterways as mans of modern transport. Details the way in which the network of waterways covers britain.

A look at the distribution of pictures and film that are used in newspapers, magazines and news bulletins.