Cinematic Era: 1963 Vintage

The documentary, after an introduction to Rome and some of its historic churches, shows Pope John XXIII on a trip to Loreto and Assisi before the opening of the Second Vatican Council; shows the arrival of bishops and cardinals in Italy, focuses on the inauguration ceremony of the Council and concludes with the pope's address to the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square after a torchlight procession at night.

Poetic reportage from the Grand Prix of Slovakia in yachting on the lakes in Senec.

The gugus, primitive men, fight among themselves for an apple, which ends up being eaten by a woman.

A documentary with erotic clips that shows a series of numbers taken from variety shows or made in the studio.

Nazem al-Ghazali

Building a wooden fishing boat. The draftsman is seen working on the plans, then we see the men in the yard slowly building the vessel up from the keel. Finally the boat is launched and taken out to sea.

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).

This 1963, color travelogue film shows "Exotic Nippon" with a focus on Tokyo and its various sights and entertainments. Although only two decades have elapsed since Japan's defeat in WWII, the nation is revealed to be prosperous and modern.

A bobcat returns to it's area of origin after a seven year absence. He is befriended by a elderly man who used to be the top bobcat hunter around. His new pal tries to protect him but a case of mistaken identity puts Wahoo's life in jeopardy.

Synopsis Part of a series of four studies the Cantrills made of the native flora of the Stradford Island, this one focusing on the Pandanus Pedunculatus.

Short documentary.

The title says it all in this short instructional film.

Uses the case of a boy from Quincy, Illinois, who dropped out of school in the tenth grade to highlight the problem of school drop-outs. Includes interviews with the ex-student, his mother, his teachers, and other local educators to indicate some of the difficulties in assessing causes of drop-outs. Describes the attempts of society and schools to remedy the problem.

When the light on Joan’s bicycle breaks, Mr. Grant, a hardware store owner, explains to Frank and Joan how electricity works.

Compilation of fragments filmed by Jerry Jofen in New York City circa 1961-62.

In her earliest film, which has been newly transferred to video, Schneemann presents an abstracted portrait of the American composer Carl Ruggles, known for his irascible personality and finely-crafted atonal music. Ruggles is seen enjoying pie a la mode and ruminating on subjects ranging from Christmas to his incomplete opera The Sunken Bell. The hand-painted film stock heightens the impressionistic vitality of this snapshot of the 84-year-old composer, who is heard paraphrasing Freud: "Everything that you do is a matter of sex. That is the great passion of life."

A poetic Turkish documentary

The movie brings us into the inner life of a village boy. Bored with old patterns of life, Yaşar is across two roads - either he will leave here like Mimar Sinan and go to Istanbul, or he will stay here and fight the old order. An airplane passing through the sky brings the hope that those who want to change the world will not be alone as much as before.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic speech captured by Third World Newreel

“The Pilgrimage to Makkah”(1963) is a historic visual record of the yearly holy ritual, shot by Safouh I. Naamani, a pioneer of color photography in the Kingdom. For 13 years, from 1950 to 1963, Naamani was determined to produce a documentary about the Pilgrimage. Receiving official approval in 1963, work began and was completed nine months later in San Francisco where an Arabic and a differing English version were produced. The film was one of many projects documenting the life of the Kingdom recorded by Naamani, including internal events as well as official international visits hosted by His Majesty King Faisal. Also screening for the first time as a collected work is unique Jeddah footage, captured by Naamani from 1954-1968 on his 16 mm camera.

A road trip soon takes a sinister turn for a woman who stops at a lonely, rural petrol station on the A19 and finds herself in the driving seat with an unwelcome passenger. Claustrophobically-framed shots inside the car and quick cutting rack up the suspense in this well-made amateur thriller. A crew from the Newcastle and District Amateur Cinematographers Association take to the road through County Durham and Wearside, improvising a spot of roadside Americana at Testos Service Station and the Parkarest diner on the A19. The ‘baddie' was played by Reginald Townsend, a civil engineer with the North Eastern Electricity Board, and other cast members were hired for their access to motor vehicles rather than their acting ambitions. The camerawork was by Doug Collender who joined Tyne Tees TV in December 1958 and became a Senior Lighting Director, working on both outside broadcast and studio productions, including the cult live music programme, The Tube.

Sensationaistic mondo-movie intercutting strip tease numbers, allegedly shocking imagery and a preposterous "crazies" subtheme

David Brooks’s black & white portrait of fabled underground filmmaker and collagist Jerry Jofen.

Tarzan in space!

Short subject directed by Koichi Yamada.

Part of George Moreno's 'The Merry Music Shop' series.

TV movie about memories and thoughts about the Army Museum in Stockholm.

Quebecois lumberjacks have to face harsh working and living conditions to earn a living and support their families.

Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archaeologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who make friends with Jiminy, a Maltese boy, and go to the villa where they overhear two crooks threatening their father. The cooks fool the police to whom the children have gone. They escape and make their way finally to Gozo to see their father's colleague where they all captured. Just before the statue is handed over Jiminy arrives with an army of children who rout the crooks and drive them into the arms of the police. Based on the novel. By Jiminy by David Scott Daniel

Celebrated jazz vocalist Anita O'Day, known for her inventive improvisational style and rhythmic instincts, puts on a swinging performance in this vintage 1963 concert filmed in Tokyo. Songs include "Boogie Blues," "Trav'lin' Light," "Honeysuckle Rose," "Avalon," "Bewitched," "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To," "Night and Day," "Let's Fall in Love," "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Tea for Two" and more.

A lovely family movie for all the family, Sarah visits the farm and meets all the animals.

Bollywood 1963

At the Thunderbird Hotel, Danny, a reporter, sees camera buff Jerry take a picture of a passing maid. The photograph, developed in seconds, shows that the maid is nude; the camera apparently undresses the dressed.