Cinematic Era: 1963 Vintage

New ways of cleaning in the mid-sixties.

A look at the increasing popularity of martial arts in the UK.

A look at the production of the HIllman Imp car in Linwood, Scotland.

A spirited declaration of a personal credo, painted on film. "This film uses animation created by Richard Preston and designed to fit music composed and played by jazz drummer Max Roach to express man's beginning, struggles, and joys" (US National Archives). The film was distributed by the US Information Agency (USIA), though it is unclear if they had any other role producing or funding it.

The Berlinale award winning film suitable for young people.

A documentary produced by Keren Hayesod to help United Israel Appeal’s fundraising campaigns abroad. “With each new home on the horizon of Eilat, the desert retreats another step. Step by step, the desert’s wastes are conquered.” With 1,500 new immigrants settling in it every year, Eilat keeps growing. This film reviews various aspects of the unique development town on the beach of the Red Sea: its tourism and fishing industries, port, cultural life, city council, and adjoining Timna copper mines. The film portrays Eilat as fertile ground for the realization of Zionistic ideals: the conquest of the desert, the reviving of ancient history, and the development of the “New Jew” concept. However, the film does not conceal some of the problems the city faces: difficulties supplying water to its residents, scorching heat, and, as guests of the “End of the World Club” evince, a deficiency in the numbers of single women.

Thai horror film.

On the highlands of South Vietnam, the cultivation of mountain rice (paddy) brings more than food to men, it is incorporated into the animist religion of these mountain proto-Indo-Chinese tribes (with recording of traditional songs in the mountain language).

Ritual activities of the earth chief of the Moussey in Chad, first approach to mobile festivals for the new year: farming rituals, hunting during the dry season, Moussey and kera soothsaying systems.

A documentary about the work of lumberjacks in hard-to-access locations.

Short film produced by the Cinematography Institute of the National University of the Litoral. Short films such as "Tire die", "Feria Franca" and "Reportaje a un vagón", among others, portrayed the living and working conditions of segregated families and towns.

Directly engraved on the emulsion of the film, the film continues Cioni Carpi's research on visual rhythm. The graphic elements chase each other and explode, according to free and apparently random geometric paths.

A documentary film about the Laboratory Theatre of 13 Rows.

A huge success at its first performance in 1728 John Gay's The Beggar's Opera satirized the conventions of Italian opera, using popular tunes to tell the story of rogues and criminals. With his distinctive musical arrangements at its heart, Britten's 1948 adaptation was a significant revision, amounting to a new twentieth-century opera. The BBC film, originally broadcast in 1963, feature a superb cast of English singers..

It tells the story of a girl who must take her beloved hen to the market.

A promotional film for the Reykjavík district heating. The film blends documentary footage with a narrative adventure following two kids who get lost in the overwhelming industrial environment of the district heating factory.

Produced in the early 1960s, this documentary explores the consequences of large-scale state childcare in Czechoslovakia, where extensive crèche systems supported policies encouraging full female employment. Directed by Kurt Goldberger, the film draws on psychiatric research and observational footage of young children in institutional care, arguing that emotional and intellectual deprivation in early childhood had long-term effects. Initially controversial, the film circulated internationally and later came to be associated with policy changes extending paid maternity leave.

A documentary about the kitchen and chefs in the new Hotel International in Brno.

"Toros tres as Pasajes tres, also bases his visual game on a counterpoint. Toros de Guisando, Goya, Picasso, in a way, they come to tell the story of the people who have been contemplating them through the centuries ... / ... I would say that more than a story of bulls, this excellent short film is a history of the Hispanic gaze" Mario Benedetti

Gauche is in charge of playing cello in the orchestra. He has a few days left before the concert, but he is unable to play it well. One night, while practicing the cello at home, he hears a knock at the door. It is a cat holding a tomato.

A documentary short about Egypt.

A documentary film of a series of "happenings", taking place at George Segal's farm. Performers by Allan Kaprow, Chuck Ginnever, Wolf Vostel, Yvonne Rainer, Lamont Young, Dick Higgins.

Jean-Michel Barjol, a friend of Jean Eustache, was a young rebel who threw himself into cinema with reckless abandon. In this short film about a 16-year-old runaway, with whom the filmmaker clearly and empathically identified, Bariol inventively uses voiceover narration, documentary images, and jazz to create a sense of tumultuous yearning.

Experimental short painted directly on film.

Mondo film about Italians, presumably.

In ancient China, there is a poet named Lo who lives in the emperor’s palace. While the hardworking people long for peace and happiness, Lo writes hymns in honor of the militant emperor, who is perpetually hungry for conquest. The monarch is pleased by the poet’s words, but the people do not want to hear the hymns praising him anymore. Lo is completely unaware of this and is surprised when the kitchen maid Hsi-Hua refuses to sing his hymns. With her help, Lo learns what the people really want and is able to see how cruel the emperor is.

A documentary film by Žika Ristić.

Short film by Ken Jacobs later included in his compilation The Whirled.

Cameraman Yonesaku Kobayashi (1905-2005) is a pioneer of scientific films of Japan. He and producer Sozo Okada made many scientific educational films, and in 60's - 70's, many avant-garde composers composed music for these films.

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

An experimental film about the city of Stockholm.

Thirty Million Letters (1963) is a short documentary film directed by James Ritchie and made by British Transport Films.

Bolek and Lolek repeat the legendary shot to an apple. Bolek places an apple on Lolek's head and shoots a crossbow.

This early UCLA student film by noted visual effects pioneer Robert Abel (1937-2001) employs a mixed media approach to distill the kinetic energy of an industrial train depot into bold graphic elements. With a jazz score, Piet Mondrian-inspired lines and Oskar Fischinger-style movement, the highly-accomplished animated short evokes the modernist works of Saul Bass and Ray and Charles Eames.

Focusing on the pressures people feel moving from the security and nurture of village life to the isolate chaos of big city life, Joshua: A Nigerian Portrait tells the story of Joshua Sobitan, a rent-collector living in Lagos.

About a young woman from East Berlin that is forced to go to Norway to regain her health.

Mr. Piper short released in 1963

Showgirl Chrstine Keeler rocked the British Empire and this short tries to take advantage of her notoriety and features her doing a striptease.

Documentary on the life and work of the great sculptor.

How to look up words!

Ping opera film.

Polish educational cartoon about dinosaurs

Two city kids spend a summer on Uncle Jim's dairy farm. They tend to the animals, climb a rope, and learn all kinds of fun farm facts

A young man is judged for betraying his fellow inmates in a plot to kill dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.

Made on the north coast of California, in Mendocino, combining spontaneity and preconception in a film that is essentially a short lesson in feature form.

Dedicated to Albert Verbrugghe, whose wife was killed in Katange by UN soldiers.

Avant-garde film documenting the "Doom Show," an early-1960s New York City gallery exhibit featuring artworks dealing with the threat of nuclear war. "A ritual fire dance in a cellar on 10th Street in the shadow of the shadow over Christmas." - Ray Wisniewski

Animated short based on a children's book by Benno Pludra. Winter has enchanted the city and harbour. Only boatman is boring, no one plays with him. Captain Putt Bräsing has an insight with his little dog and entrusts him Uwe, Jochen and Katrinchen to frolic around. The children go on a research trip to the beach.

Are German women as unhappy as a lot of popular media in the early 1960s suggest? This television documentary wants to find out.

Poured paint mixes to create psychedelic imagery.

Experimental Film from Nihon University

Milan Šamec was a member of conservative stream in the Zagreb Cine Club, the one that denied and mocked the “anti-film”. Termites were made as an absurd demonstration that anyone can make an experimental film. He took the film, exposed it unevenly, and called the dance of visual stains that resulted — termites, because that’s what they reminded him of.