Cinematic Era: 1963 Vintage

This cruel yet poetic experimental documentary examines the poetics of cruelty, as it describes the routine operation of a poultry slaughterhouse. The movie draws a comparison between the chickens and the other, the different, as it depicts the butchers and their cruelty. Although the movie is influenced by documentary classic Blood of the Beasts (1949) by Georges Franju, it differs in being devoid of any narration or text. The film also focuses on the cinematic form – color, editing and composition – as never before seen in Israel.

A film essay from the author's travels.

The Worms Are Having Fun depicts a flirtatious interaction between two men and a woman. A painter views her as his muse, while the other admires her from afar. As Kerrigan explains: ‘Two men are continually being haunted by one girl.’

Film on Trinidad and Tobago's culture and industry, and its transition from a British colony to an independent nation on the 31st of August 1962.

The film is based on a folk tale and suggests that unity can overcome any obstacle.

A documentary on the history of the Finnish cavalry.

A portrait of the Scottish town of North Berwick and the surrounding area of East Lothian.

About Hannah Ryggen, a Swedish-born Norwegian textile artist. Self-trained, she worked on a standing loom constructed by her husband, the painter Hans Ryggen. She lived on a farm on a Norwegian Fjord and dyed her yarn with local plants.

The fight of one village and its miners against the closing of the pit that is their main source of livelihood.

French horror short from 1963.

Illustrates principles for measuring distance, mass and time--the basic quantities in physical science. Emphasizes the importance of accuracy. Provides laboratory demonstrations.

Short documentary.

Silent comedy about a formal dinner on the floor of the IRT subway. N. Y. C. - P.E.G.

An emigrant family returns to Scotland from Canada and witnesses the improvements made to Scotland's electricity supply.

Directed by Gajanan Jagirdar.

Directed by Raja Thakur. With Kaka Bhagvat, Mai Bhide, Leela Chitnis, Seema Deo.

The movie is directed by Ganesh Bhat and featured Seema Deo and Raja Paranjape as lead characters.

A real labour of love, this film is a fine demonstration of how amateur filmmakers could play a part in campaigning for local services. With the impending Beeching Report of 1963 there could hardly have been a better plea for the retention of the Settle to Carlisle railway and all its services than this traversing of the whole length of the line by train and by foot, stopping off to reveal its many wonders and recording the fascinating history of the line and of those who built it.

Produced at the request of the Executive Committee of the People's Council of the capital, "Our Neighborhood" follows the story of a locomotive mechanic and his neighbors, recently assigned to the newly constructed buildings in Floreasca. Set against the backdrop of the emerging residential areas, the film's narrative structure retains the spirit of socialist realism but is strongly influenced by the optimism and cosmopolitanism of the 1960s. Accompanied by rhythmic swing tunes, we follow the characters of this documentary, representatives of the working class, both at their workplaces and in the new, bright and airy apartments, integrated into the logic and aesthetics of the new socialist neighborhood.

Circa. mid to late 1960s. If one thing has to amp up their game, it has to be creative. It needs to think outside the box. Enter Siegbert Reinhard, a paper sculpture artist. The folks at Cascade Pictures, made all kinds of animation, 2D, stop-motion, and paper cut-outs.

The boom of the clothing industry brought great work for female machinists. This film presents how new recruits were hired and then trained to use the sewing machine in the workshop, or in one example, how not to manage recruits.

A tribe from South Vietnam lives in the forest and through the forest. In villages, throughout the year, mountaineers, by various techniques, make what they need. The film presents the techniques related to pottery, sparterie, basketry, forging, weaving, housing construction, etc. (recording of traditional songs in the mountain language).

Short documentary in which director Luigi Di Gianni illustrates the Carnival of Ronciglione (an Italian municipality in the province of Viterbo).

A brief romantic encounter, directed by Howard Blake, composer of the score for The Snowman. A young woman meets a man at a London party. They are quickly infatuated with each other and, after a few days, elope to the seaside - but they soon tire of each other and part ways. Released in 1963, whilst amateur filmmaker Howard Blake was co-chief projectionist at the BFI, where the film enjoyed a brief, popular run in April that year.

A randomized cathode beam has been transferred to 35mm celluloid – in this sense Random can be seen as one of the first “computer-films” ever.

Short film by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo.

The mind and heart of Lydia are portrayed symbolically in smooth-flowing, single-framed drawings in this psychological study of a woman. A different film for the devotee of the experimental approach to motion pictures

Ingeborg Tölke recaps her filmic biography, explains its elaborate technical conditions and talks about future core themes. She was presumably responsible for several short intermission films for Deutscher Fernsehfunk as well as a commissioned educational film. Until old age, she explored the possibilities of macro shots and time-lapse technology, which became her trademark.

A day in the life of women from the "Nawojka" Dormitory at the Cracow Jagiellonian University. In the 15th century, the patroness of the dormitory tried to study at the university disguised as a man. Today, more than 700 female students studying humanities or science live here.

Fate threw the young architect Won Il with his eldest son to South Korea. In the north, in Kesson, his wife remained with two small children. After the death of his son, Won Il rushes to his homeland, to his relatives, to his family.

Experimental short by Divna Jovanovic, shown at Genre Experimental Festival (GEFF) in Zagreb in 1963.

The Ringading Kid arrives into town and is mocked by the townspeople, because instead of wearing six-shooters he has an ice cream scoop holstered (in a small container of ice cream) on each hip. However, whenever there's a shootout he's the first to draw and fling various flavors of ice cream into the faces of the bad guys, and cleans up the town... so to speak.

Film portrait of young Willie Davis as he successfully attempts to break into the Major Leagues.

Made as part of the Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano in celebration of the first Latin American University Games.It is a short film of ten short minutes, dominated by jazz music, which presents, through the typical structure of a report, the arrival of the delegates, their reception, the atmosphere of camaraderie, the training, the parade of participants, the words of Raul Castro at the inauguration, the sports competitions and the final party.

"... boy-meets-girl here is just an excuse for a dazzling display of editing. The film is made up of shots each about hald a second long, and they make a real assault on the visual sense... a pattern of connections and associations, some of them symbolic, some of them emotional... It certainly has a richness of ideas... I trust your eyes are still in their sockets." –Colin Bennett, discussion the '63 Melbourne Film Festival.

"This film covers the story of how a soap box derby car is built and raced, told from the perspective of Clarence Carter, Jr., a derby participant in Washington, D.C. Attorney General Robert Kennedy makes a brief appearance as the derby race starter. The film was produced and directed by Gerald Krell" (US National Archives).

Idealized “typical” family piles out of convertible and starts playing furiously. This is a "typical" California day.

An Australian Tourist in San Francisco is given some headache pills that make him hallucinate.

“In Robert Klippel – Junk Sculpture No. 3, 1963 (1965), a spiky Klippel creation resonates almost visibly with the high, piercing tones of Larry Sitsky’s music. (Here the “voice” belongs to a harpsichord; another film in the same series creates a similar effect by electronically altering recordings of human song.)” —Jake Wilson, Senses of Cinema

Entertainment program centered on Wim Sonneveld, with sketches, monologues, and songs.

Two young people destroy one another, yet no blood is shed. The actions are apparently simple, obvious, and effortless. There has been an avoidance of obvious or heavy symbolism.

"Thematically, it echoes the nature of the first film, but is ultimately quite different and more tightly constructed. I try to select some perhaps archetypal situations and things and present them as part of, and/or in relationship to physical interiors and exteriors and to abstract images in such a way that they all merge into complex 'inscape' that treats on man's bonding to his environment — with the very nature of the formal structure lifting the whole business out of time. The key to locking up the whole shebang comes individually to the viewer when he contemplates his own idea of Summer. If the film reminded people of, among other things, man's power to live both past and future in a moment, I'd feel that that was a great deal of what it was about." -A. M.