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This graduation film by future DEFA documentarian Karlheinz Mund presents a piece of GDR working worlds in the best poetic and earthy Babelsberg school tradition: the everyday life of railway workers – with two women in the electric locomotive driver’s cab.
Directed by Jean Rouch.
Astronut arrives on Earth, insists on trading his spaceship for the Sheriff's car, and wont take no for an answer.
A cautionary tale for teenage drivers. Based on the true story of David Hall’s 1955 automobile accident, this grisly documentary reconstructs Hall’s many months of treatment and rehabilitation and is narrated by the victim himself.
An orphaned indigenous girl is taken away to an all white school so that the school can get grant money.
Motorcycle race on a speedway track.
A documentary portrayal of life at Havana’s Central Park in the early 1960s. Occasional visitors, entertainers, passers-by, but most specially the elders who spend here a great part of their day, watching, remembering, musing...
American historian Lewis Mumford looks at the city through history.
A white elephant, adored by his friends, has a mother who is blind. One day, the white elephant is captured at the king's request. However, the king, who is kindhearted, decides to send the white elephant back to the forest because he is worried about his mother and does not eat his food.
A social drama interspersed with numerous songs and dances, revolving around a young man who falls in love with a girl. In each situation, a song vividly portrays the emotions of that moment.
A documentary analyzing how Italians enjoy themselves.
The life and career of Jean Jaurès in their social and political context.
Shows the principal steps taken by NASA to place men on the moon and get them back safely within this decade.
A con man who lives with his three aunts in a mansion takes refuge in a slum when he is wanted by the police.
synopsis Zari sees his old friend Mahmoud and they go to Hassan Rizeh restaurant. Zari's husband, Farzin, wants them to have children, but Zari does not want to obey her husband. Farzin, the manager of a company, goes to a restaurant to meet with a reporter, and Hassan Rizeh says that his wife was with a man in the restaurant a moment ago. Zari hides the matter from her husband, and Farzin leaves home and goes to Paris. In his absence, Hibat Ali, the director of the house, and Mahmoud and his wife Maryam suggest to Zari that he bring a child from the orphanage to satisfy Farzin and pretend that he has a child.
A story of unscrupulous exotic-game hunting in the "Green Hell" of Africa, incorporating a lot of stock footage.
The chairwoman of the LPG "Gebrüder Grimm", Mrs. Holle, is pleased to have gained two new workers: Maria Gold and Maria Pech. The two have very different working styles. Maria Gold listens to the first call of the oven and the apple tree and goes about her work so carefully and skillfully that she only produces quality goods. Maria Pech, on the other hand, delivers charred bread and her apples are good for the jam factory at best.
A program by Eric Forsgren and Per Åke Blidegård about the future of the Sami.
"Yes is one of cinema's most beautiful pastorales and a manifesto of a desperately romantic soul" --Jonas Mekas
"The Worker is the last part of the trilogy, and differs somewhat from the rest. Rather then telling of yet another building site, the film centers on the abstract image of the Worker. The voice-over commentary describes the meaning of work in Soviet life – the role and significance of each individual. Melting an old tank at the smelting plant serves as a metaphor for peace that enables all workers to fully dedicate themselves to productive construction." VERZIO International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
On a November day a man deposits a flower garland for his old car at the junk yard. But the place appears to be a labyrinth in which he gets lost.
Mr. Piper short released in 1963
"The Story of a Mother" (Danish: Historien om en moder) is a story by the Danish poet, travel writer, short story writer, and novelist Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875).
A surrealistic montage of pop culture that attacks the followers of the genre.
Lieutenant Takala meets his fellow partisans of 20th division many year after the war. With flashbacks we see the events of summer 1944.
A playful portrait of a young woman who merrily roams the streets of Budapest. A New Wave love letter in motion.
In the Old West, many towns were under the control of gunslingers. One such town was Untidy Gulch, under the control of "Blackmarket Bromide." It's overrun with outlaws who keep shooting their sheriffs. It puts an advertisement in a big-city Eastern newspaper asking for a clean-up man: "Wanted: Clean-living, clean-thinking, clean-acting man to clean up Untidy Gulch. Must be clean." Hector answers the call... he thinks it's just a dirty town that needs sweeping. He grabs his broom and applies for the job. Bromide and his gang are ready for the Eastern gunfighter.
Thirty Million Letters is a 1963 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie and made by British Transport Films. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Mr. Omidvar, who is a trusted employee of the bank, is assigned to transfer some gold and jewelry from Abadan to Tehran.
Dekha Pyaar Tumhara 1963
Dishonest smugglers hide their stuff in old Mazier's cafe.
The film highlights the city’s many contrasts. // Oslofilm was a series of public information films about life in and around Oslo, produced between 1940 and 1980. Funded by the state, the films offer valuable insight into postwar Norwegian society. A wide range of Norwegian filmmakers contributed to the productions, resulting in a rich variety of styles and expressions. Several of the films also possess notable cinematic qualities, standing out as more than just informational material. The Oslofilms represent a unique and important chapter in Norwegian film history.
Two smuggling groups, who are bitter rivals, are engaged in destructive and illegal activities.
A look behind the scenes of industry, exploring what is being done to improve Britain's output.
The film is based on the true story of a Japanese woman who married a Korean man against the opposition of her natal family. She leaves Japan in pursuit of love and settles in Korea with her husband.
Short on the traditional Portuguese craft of metal chasing.
All that is currently known to exist of the science-fiction detective series 'Sierra Nine' is on episode. Vic Pratt–lamenting the complete series' absence from the archives while celebrating the little that remains–introduces edited highlights of that episode and muses on what's missing.
Tonight has chartered the St. Ebba, a nineteen-ton yacht, and sent Fyfe Robertson off to report from the beautiful, remote, and almost deserted islands beyond the West coast of Scotland. He voyages to Staffa, Islay, Barra, Eriskay, Vatersay.
Jewish children who survived Auschwitz, now adults, talk about growing up under the care of Polish families.
Tap dancing short with the fabulous dancing duo Koba and Kalee.
A story about oppression and inhumane treatment of women in backward areas of the country. Woman is equal, but where the law ends, the woman's husband is the only existing law.
Exploring the world of student's rags in Manchester, Hull, Sheffield, and Leeds.
The film tells the story of a married businessman who falls in love with a young woman he meets abroad.
Albert and Bruce Lacey, all dressed in their stiff Edwardian refinery, dance and play strange unusual instruments in this manic, animated short music film.
The Swedish people, nature and culture, the welfare, social and health care. Swedish inventions, industry international projects. Swedish beauty and design.
Three international students write letters home about their time in East Germany. Antonio Dega, a Cuban studying shipbuilding, writes home about the beauty of the Baltic Sea and studying in German. Julienne, from Togo, praises the training she is receiving in midwifery in Dresden. Mohammed Kasim, an Iraqi in Berlin, builds television sets for sale in the GDR.
A musical performed by schoolchildren from a secondary modern (Markfield) in North London, combining lively dance to the sounds from a transistor radio, and the automative actions of a production line to the monotonous music of the sewing machines.
Color documentary with music by Waldo de los Ríos about the tourist landscapes of Argentina.
Sequel to Anak Pontianak. A Malay Shaw Brothers production.
The Films Text I and Text II were likewise developed from randomly generated mathematical series; Text II is a pure permutation, Text I arose from the storage program of a computer. The words chosen were required to have the same meaning and spelling both in German and English.
Pilař made the two surviving reels of animation experiments after his return from the 1963 Paris Biennale. The gestural brush painting over the surface of the originally black and white puppet film which he almost completely removed from the stock falls at the beginning of his programme works of expressive collage and assemblage. He returned to it repeatedly, as he did to the material he later reworked for Pink Floyd (ca. 1984) and Colours 1965 (ca. 1991).