Cinematic Era: 1964 Vintage

UCLA Student Film 16mm B/W Sound

Based on the ancient myth of a beautiful young man who fell in love with his own reflection.

Second of two known screen test's of model Imu, directed by Andy Warhol

Black and white 16mm film sequences of Birmingham.

Animation Workshop Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A hand-drawn animation made during the start of the anti-Vietnam War and anti-Cold War movement in the United States.

Philip Larkin talks to John Betjeman about his life, his poetry and the city of Hull where he lived and worked as university librarian.

Never released film made by the plastic artist Nicolás Rubió

An animated film about sex -- regarded from a more humorous point of view than usual. (DFI)

Harry Smith’s screen test by Andy Warhol.

In a year in which World In Action won a BAFTA for Best Factual Series, this programme looks back at some of the top stories in the news during 1964.

A tour of the grain production used for breakfast in the United States.

Long before Woody Allen, the author sends his character onto the screen, where he ends up in the hands of mystical surgeons, revealing himself to be a movieman undergoing an intricate spiritualist montage. It is not the intestines that emerge from his abdominal cavity, but skeins of film. For cinephiles of new generations, this is a truly encyclopedic sketch about the technology of cinematic nature. Double exposure reprises; silhouettes in the negative (meaning not a bad mood, but a film original); editing with barbaric scissors – the character on the screen loses half of the body; there are gastric wastes in the form of a silent movie film with a silent hero.

Semi-documentary film about the pilgrimage.

Cocteau, at his home, remembers his childhood, talks at length about theater, cinema, literature, and draws portraits of friends.

An industrial documentary about the Razi Serum Institute

a swift tour of subways and streets while it concentrates on a threadbare romantic comedy about a lonely boy and a girl, played by Red and Mimi Grooms

Operation Noah's Ark crash-lands in Lake Texoma on its way to space.

short film that was shown at Thessaloniki International Film Festival, in 1964

An animated film using simplified and abstract forms, symbolising nuclear warfare.

The film has three plans: on the one hand, scenes of children who write a school task on the subject of the size and ugliness of a human being, on the other hand, the cadres of miners who protest against inhuman maltreatment of a colleague who lost his hand and on the third side, a shot of a disabled person with a prosthesis Under the arm passes through a rocky street.

A story about two young lovers in an East German coal mining town.

A boy goes to his friend's funeral procession. When he realizes that his grave does not have flowers like the others, and that he does not have money to buy them, he goes out looking for some in the streets of Santiago.

Mondo movie about strippers, burlesque dancers, hookers, models and other such wanton females that drive men to ruin. Or something like that.

A minor character from a collection of marionettes takes viewers through a small world theatre where they come across various types, including the seducer, the demagogue and the obedient masses. Ambitious puppet animation with a didactic and political purpose against propaganda methods.

Polish expatriate Janusz Piekalkiewicz put together this documentary about his homeland's struggle in World War II from 1939 to 1945. He draws from his personal experience as a participant in the Warsaw ghetto uprising and his incarceration in a Nazi concentration camp. Piekalkiewicz, who fled Poland in 1957, also focuses on the terror of the Stalin regime that followed the war, and newsreel footage is used to set the stage for the 1939 agreement between Hitler and Stalin. Piekalkiewicz maintains the film is not anti-Russian but admits it is definitely anti-Stalin in its presentation. He also points out that there were more casualties in Poland than the combined total of casualties suffered by the Western allies.

A unique documentary about New York City by the great New York photographer Jan Yoors and Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau.

Marooned on a ship in wintertime, Chilly Willy and Smedley try to eat one another.

The whole world is just cars, cars, cars.

A 16 minute short comprising 2 acts of a 1964 event where an innovative group of musicians performed on a real railroad track. The audience on one side of the tracks and the musicians on the station side.

The archimandrite appoints the hunter Akop as a priest and forces him to vow never to hunt again for the rest of his life. However, the hunter will be forced to break his oath — and by the time the bishop's guests arrive, he will have shot partridges for the barbecue.

George Harrison Marks dispensed with props for his "Nude in the Sun" series, instead showcasing his models' attributes without distraction; this is Margaret Nolan's installment.

Yingtai disguised as a man studied with Liang Shanbo. Forced to marry another, Liang died heartbroken. She leapt into his grave; both transformed into butterflies.

Pseudo-documentary that repeats everything from fashion to nudism to childbirth that has already been seen in countless "sex education" films.

António, a factory worker of immense musical talent, is discovered by a business man who launches him as a singer. Nevertheless, this changes the man's life for better and for worst.

A short film which documents early lumber and textile manufacturing processes.

Gerard Malanga has been posed slightly off-centre against a black background and lit evenly from both sides, he has turned sideways to face the camera attentively. He holds very still, blinking only occasionally; at one point he licks his lips and swallows.

John Giorno’s screen test by Andy Warhol.

One of Van der Keuken's earliest fictional shorts.

A young man smokes a cigarette and then uses a surgeon scalpel to wound his thigh.

Killing one person is murder, and the punishment for the murderer is execution; massacring millions of people is a hero's honor, and the hero's reward is a medal.

hong kong film

A look at Britain's nursery schools.

A handful of islanders have to take the ice canoe to cross the 4 to 5 miles of half-frozen river that separate them from Montmagny. On Christmas Eve, they go shopping ashore and return to their boat too late. After many difficulties, they spend the night among the ice, while on the Island, their worried families celebrate New Year's Eve without them. At daybreak, the men find their families. We're celebrating, it's Christmas.

The first of two known David Hallacy screen test's, directed by Andy Warhol.

We take to the air in planes and helicopters with a look at the increasing number in Britain's airspace; including a glimpse of the businessmen, jockeys, and models taking off.

After a load of trouble, the weasel works out the way into the pantry where he stuffs himself with everything he finds there and finally his own greed is the cause of his downfall.

The young engineer and the pretty economist of a commercial company, on assignment in the country together, after having consumed quite a few glasses of brandy, wake up in bed together. As both live a happy family life, they wish to forget their passing adventure, but gossiping starts up around them.

Film about friendship and solidarity.