Cinematic Era: 1963 Vintage

After deceiving Setareh, Ahmad Khan leaves Sari with his friend Masoud Khan and goes to Tehran to get a more important post.

The captivating story of Britain's pilotage services to shipping.

Light is everywhere. Sunlight illuminates the beauty of solitary landscapes. Twilight, on the other hand, illuminates New York City, a city both swarming with people and spectral. This is a mysterious spectacle, enhanced by Rimbaud's poetry and Michel Legrand's music.

A short montage about rhythm, movement, and speed.

A car owner speeds towards a football match and breaks the rules of the road.

A training film for public shelter managers explaining when people should be allowed to leave the shelter after a disaster.

Two young people get involved in a series of lies, which ends in a love story.

Casper saves a billionaire from a witch.

Robert Indiana with a few companions sitting, smiling, and smoking as life passes idly by.

An academic heads to Leningrad to attend the funeral of an old friend.

A film about Genesis, the first book of the Bible.

A French documentary film about World War I.

Checo, the son of poor Friulian farmers, feels different from other boys because he is more intelligent, sensitive, and gifted with imagination. Others isolate and mock him, and give him the nickname of "Scarecrow," and Checo ends up identifying with that macabre bird. One day, exasperated, he decides to flee to Venice, with the dream of becoming a painter.

While on his Bicycle. Mister Big ears encounters, a new arrival to the land of Toys. And helps him get settled. But is this newcomer really a toy?

1956 film from India

A short documenting Andy Warhol’s exhibition of silk-screened Elvis paintings at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. As Warhol spins around with his camera, multiple Elvises seem to march across the screen.

Documentary portrait of Josef Sudek. The camera captures the famous photographer at work, during walks through the city and nature, waiting for the light. Jan Špáta's black-and-white shots are stylized according to Sudek's photographs.

Åsa-Nisse's brother Julius returns home from USA, apparently very rich. Also, Åsa-Nisse och Klabbarparen takes care of a little child which leads to all sorts of complications.

Two con-artists run roughshod over the local economy of a small town they visit... but then they fall in love with two young women related to the rich landowners who are the target of their primary swindle.

My Mirrored Hope is Sokoloff’s best-known film, now in the collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The piece is one in a series of Schmidt-focused films made in the summer of 1963, the year Schmidt may have been at the height of his ecstatic, weather-beaten powers. It was an important time for both men. Being commissioned by the Lannan Foundation to make the Schmidt film series enabled Sokoloff to switch from an 8mm to a 16mm camera. As for Schmidt, his dream houses, originally born as fairly conventional buildings in the 1950s, had grown, through his daily attachments of newfound objects, to their most mammoth proportions. These houses were not pragmatically planned as residences, and a few short years later, they would all burn in electrical fires. Soundtrack: Alexander Scriabin's "The Poem of Fire," and the voice of Clarence Schmidt.

Fauziah is the daughter of a poor itinerant food vendor whose brother has forsaken them for a life of luxury. On a particularly stormy night, Fauziah’s already frail father is hit by a car during his return home. The driver Yazid is a young kind man who takes to caring after Fauziah and eventually marries her. In Darah Muda, Fauziah is the epitome of a virtuous woman during its time – extremely reserved, pious, a faithful wife and a nurturing mother

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A period drama with Malay symbolisms, myth and folklore, the title Chuchu Datok Merah points to the mental image Malays have of themselves as descendants of Hang Tuah, the legendary Malay warrior of Malacca. Awang Janggut is very much a pseudo-warrior. Instead of a “keris”, a warrior’s weapon, he owns a prize-winning rooster. His battlefield is the cock fight arena. Home is a big but empty house inherited from his ancestor, and prefers living in poverty to working. The closest he comes to the high life of a warrior is when a rich businessman employs him as a bodyguard after he prevents hooligans from taunting the latter’s daughter Siti. Despite knowing Awang is married, Siti continues to flirt with him, causing him to leave his pregnant wife alone. She eventually falls sick and has a miscarriage. The film is a social criticism of people who rest on their laurels and ancestry instead of working for themselves. It is also one of the finest examples of the anti-hero in Malay cinema.

a Terrytoons Cartoon

An early masterpiece by Mike Kuchar, in which Babette tells all, leaving no turgid stone unturned.

The impersonator goes to the dressing room after his exit and is haunted by visions of Vlasta Burian. At every performance, the audience asks him to perform the famous comedian. The Imitator decides to take a holiday instead, but even then he has no peace.

Irene Klaussen, a brilliant, tomboyish Berlin student, falls for new classmate Peter Lemke. To prove herself, she follows him, first to a school dance in a borrowed gown, then to a year’s stint on a remote oil‐plant construction in Granow. Ostracized at first, she wins respect under FDJ secretary Anton by mastering every trade and helping him study for engineering school. After returning to Berlin, she discovers Peter’s infidelity and, disillusioned, goes back to Granow, finding true partnership and purpose with Anton.

A film poem in four parts following the first four days after Algeria's independence in 1962. Footage of the nationwide celebrations is intercut with footage shot among the fighters of the Algerian Army of National Liberation, refugees exiled to the mountains of Tunisia and Morocco, and ordinary people from the towns and villages of Algeria.

Short animated film by Kuri Youji.

A documentary portrait of the Kurylewicz Quintet at work in the recording studio, Opus Jazz captures the stop-and-start process of rehearsal before the musicians lock into rhythm and achieve full improvisational flow. Majewski’s film highlights both the discipline and spontaneity of modern jazz in 1960s Poland.

Huszárik's graduation film was another short entitled Groteszk (Grotesque) in 1963 about a strange train voyage of an artist carrying his own picture.

Short film from Azerbaijan SSR

After hearing that Jamts, the head of the union, is reluctant to hire women, his son's fiancee Dulamsuren disguises herself as a man and shows how she overcomes those who underestimate the power of women in an exaggerated comical tone.

Based on the popular TV program, the film follows a middle-class family with their problems and joys.

The 16-minute film falls neatly into two nearly equal parts, separated by fades to and from black. Part one depicts a sunrise, a journey out to sea in a boat, then gulls flying around the boat while fish are cleaned, and finally the journey back and the reappearance of land.

Tom Thumb ends up in the court of King Arthur.

Evolved around a humorous story, the cartoon illustrates how development of fisheries in village ponds can become a good source of revenue for Panchayats in India, enabling them to undertake development activities.

The Spirit is joined by a host of other heroes in battling the Phantom and his army of monsters

A short documentary film about the role of mathematics in society and industry, including the emerging field of computer technology.

Short by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo.

In the last days of WW2 two children from former Yugoslavia manage to escape a Nazi concentration camp. They begin a long and dangerous journey home.

The sory of the railroad's roll in getting beef to your local market

An animated cartoon which tells in pantomime about the mis-adventures of a door-to-door raisin salesman.

"...wild and dirty, but so easy to understand...that it may be considered a fair introduction to cinematic youth on-the-march. It has distinct traces of humor...and offers several moments of pleasure...the star, Ingrid Lothigius, is a blond who photographs well and deadpans her life and hard times like a pro." -Archer Winsten, The New York Post.