Cinematic Era: 1964 Vintage

American Industrial Film touting the joys of Pepsi-Cola. Aimed mostly at beverage distributors.

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A moral movie about old and young people, relationships, friendship, and humanity, which tells about Osor's serious death while driving a car while intoxicated.

A girl attempts to reach red apples from a tree. Aliens land on Earth and the girl offers them the fruits.

Paradoxically described by Walter Sorell as "a tender lullaby of love" and by Richard Buckle as "cold and menacing, the courtship of the Macbeths," Night Wandering is a duet reminiscent of snowy landscapes. Cernovitch designed the original costumes: fur tunics that Cunningham wore over trousers, and Brown wore over tights. Continuing with the piece's Nordic theme, the music by Bo Nilsson was characterized by bursts of activity followed by moments of silence, evoking the feeling of traveling through the spacious, and seemingly endless Northern night.

Polish engineers help set up a beet sugar factory in Morocco.

A self-assured, chain-smoking ballet teacher gives macho instruction to a small group of tender young ballerinas.

A railwayman from St. Kitts, a bus conductor from Jamaica, a family of singers from Trinidad and a nurse from Barbados ... Philip Donnellan's Birmingham-based film gives a voice to West Indian immigrants who movingly describe their experiences of trying to integrate into a surprisingly unwelcoming ‘mother country’. Shot in 1964 the film provides an important snapshot of Britain in the early stages of momentous social change and first-generation Afro-Caribbean immigration.

Amazing, but true: Fort Lee, New Jersey (just across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan), was once the epicenter of American film production. This documentary of a truly bygone era combines photographs culled from private collections, as well as restored footage from such films as Thomas A. Edison's Rescued from an Eagle's Nest and D.W. Griffith's The New York Hat, filmed at the studios in Fort Lee.

Amongst the guests of the Metropole Hotel there is Calogero Di Spelta ridiculed for his unnecessary jealousy towards Marta, his beautiful wife. The illusionist Otto Marvuglia during his show pretends to make her disappear, and this allows her to meet her lover Mariano D'Albino. But Marta definitively escapes while the magician makes Calogero believe that his wife's in a box, and that she could reappear only if he blindly believed in her loyalty.

A poetic film that records the excavations carried out by Swiss ethnologist Jean Christian Spahni at the mouth of the Loa River. Through the bone remains and objects found, the testimony of the Chango indigenous people is revealed.

An experimental film from Arthur Lipsett, Free Fall is an assortment of film trimmings assembled to make a wry comment on humankind in today’s world. It evokes a surrealist dream of our fall from grace into banality. (NFB.ca)

How research into the golfer's swing is progressing.

Told in the Maysles’ intimatible style, IBM: A SELF PORTRAIT captures the future corporate juggernaut at an early stage of their development. The emphasis here is on the human ingenuity behind the technology industry-- the colorful technicians and executives working together to create a future design for living.

This classic show was one of Judy's last appearances at the historic Palladium Theatre in London. This unforgettable night also marked a young Liza Minelli's first public stage performance with her legendary mother. Witness Garland's exquisite talent as she performs the most-loved songs of her career while a budding Liza Minnelli more than holds her own offering a glimpse of the performative talent that would eventually launch a stunning career of her own.

Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.

Dr. Frankenstein creates the perfect male

A professor stays in a mysterious castle where all kinds of strange beings live, such as the Wolf Man, the Rubber Boy, the Legless Man, the Living Torso, among others.

A retired General sends his nephew, Giannis, to Athens so to settle into a job. One day, Giannis discovers that a stolen suitcase which has given him to guard contains something suspicious. The naïve Giannis decides to hand it over to the police. The rich owner of the suitcase, is looking for a clever husband for his daughter Kathy, and Giannis seems to be the most appropriate person.

The Soviet army is approaching the Bulgarian border. Many government ministers and army officers prepare to flee the country. The partisans take over the key administrative buildings. At the War Ministry, the commander of the armored brigade Major Essev hesitates between his sense of honor as an officer and his patriotic duty. He takes the side of the partisans.

Shlomo, a local Eilatian bachelor is in search of a bigger flat where he can conduct his experiments with a revolutionary cooling machine he had invented. Eilat, however, is in the grips of a housing crisis, meaning only couples are eligible to apply for bigger council flats. The only problem is, Eilat is also very much in short supply of single women. With that in mind, Shlomo decides to try his luck in Tel Aviv and heads to the big city.

A strict and controlling woman rules her household, while family conflicts grow behind closed doors. As new marriages bring change, jealousy, greed, and misunderstandings begin to disturb the family’s peace.

With Chandrakala, Ramesh Deo, Seema Deo, Kashinath Ghanekar.

Absolutely nothing to do with the tiny plastic doll, it features a cheerfully toothy brunette who wears a gaudy patchwork skirt with magical pockets filled with all sorts of goodies. She is accompanied by Dandy Andy, a middle-aged man dressed like Abe Lincoln. After gliding upon a magical trunk, they reach a world of whimsy, complete with kooky contraptions, calliope music, rope tricks, and stories which are told with hand-drawn cartoon illustrations. (Apparently, there was no budget for actual animation.) When Polly pulls an onion out of her pocket, she’s reminded of an adventure at the Castle of Gloom, where character actor Percy Helton is a henchman, and she’s arrested for being happy and sent to the onion dungeon.

Two young men ski through snowy Estonia, getting to know some beautiful landscapes and industry. The skiing ends with sauna and a dance party.

From Beirut to the Lebanese mountain range overlooking the Mediterranean, there is a rich and lush land where nature presents itself in all its beauty.

Black and White UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. It is a supernatural horror short of a photographer who takes a self-portrait with a new camera but gets trapped inside.

Uzbekistan in the early 1920s. The famous tightrope walker Tashtemir and his grandson Alijan help the Red Army soldiers track down a dangerous Basmati gang. Under the guise of traveling performers, tightrope walkers conduct active reconnaissance. Their path is dangerous and difficult.

A questioning filmmaker from Québec finds out how Vancouver's poets and painters look at life and art. Among the people seen are sculptor Donald Jarvis, painters Jack Shadbolt, Joy Long and Margaret Peterson, and printmaker Sing Lim.

Thud and Blunder learn what not to do while in a coal mine.

A brother and sister take a long, loooong walk to school.

An honest cop is trying to rescue a girl who is stuck in decadence and prostitution.

A psychological study of a hero who, after being badly beaten up by Gestapo, rats on his comrades and friends and becomes their vicious killer. Now the death seems like a salvation to him.

Space Bureau of Investigations agent Paul Starr attempts to save an atomic power station on Mars from attack.

During WWII, the film's protagonist, Maxim, retreats with his troops and leaves a red house in one of Ukraine's villages. Years later, Maxim, now no longer a soldier but an agronomist, returns and settles in the same house. He falls in love with a girl named Dusya, whom he recognizes as the girl who brought milk during the war.

Short narrative movie.

Short film documenting a performance by poet Ted Jones in combination with music by the Peter Kuiters Modern Jazz Group.

A film by Gianfranco Mingozzi.

Bruce Gordon, a 22-year-old organizer for the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, is interviewed in Selma, Alabama, during the height of a drive to register Negro voters.

Daphne, Op. 82, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss, subtitled "Bucolic Tragedy in One Act". The German libretto was by Joseph Gregor. The opera is based loosely on the mythological figure Daphne from Ovid's Metamorphoses and includes elements taken from The Bacchae by Euripides.

A group of mourners provide different portraits of a deceased man at a funeral.

When cornered by a police lieutenant, Eddie Randall advises the officer that he has a gun, then tells him how he came to this moment: Eddie relocated to New York's Spanish Harlem and was seduced by Rita Felton, who offers him work in her import/export business.

Taking advantage of a new government education program, a farmworker trains for a better-paying job as a welder.

One of two(?) 1964 screen tests of Linich. Runs 4 minutes, 24 seconds in length.

A documentary film, the hero of which travels through the countries of Europe, to the places where his father fought 20 years ago...

A detailed report on the National Trust and what it is doing to save Britain's national heritage.

This is an animation using the “Kaki-mation” technique. This piece can be shown as a multiscreen piece with 3 screens.

Billy Name screen test by Andy Warhol.

Co-directed by innovative British filmmakers David Gladwell and Derrick Knight, The Great Steam Fair is a beautifully crafted documentary filmed at Shottesbrooke Park, Berkshire in 1964 at a nostalgic event which brought together many traditional fairground rides and steam engines. The film skilfully combines the techniques of traditional sponsored documentary with the new approaches of the direct cinema movement.

This is a short film about a man, a dog and a duck who enjoy bouncing together.

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