Cinematic Era: 1964 Vintage

A children's trip to a printing house, where they saw firsthand how textbooks are produced. The theme of the trip is: how to learn to cherish, love, and respect a book.

A small village in the vicinity of Souk El Arba du Gharb.

Animated satire on political speech making - despite an increasingly desperate call to intervene on poverty, two politicians spend all their time on party politics and disagreements.

Alish, the gypsy girl, is the focus of two young men. She angers one by leaning towards the other. After the events created by the evil young man, Alish finally manages to marry the man she desires.

A group of pilgrims travels to Mecca for the Hajj. During the journey, they encounter Halim, a doctor who has traveled to the Holy Land several times but never been moved to perform the pilgrimage.

Directed by Romy Villaflor.

Report from the Red Flag is an odd presence against the gloomy background of Stalinist Romania. It belongs to a wider body of Sahia films about the living conditions afforded by the new blocks of flats built across Romania – in this case, a workers’ quarter built in ‘Stalin’-town (the name assigned, between 1950 and 1960, to the Transylvanian town of Brasov). While other films bear the imprint of the collectivist, work-centered ethos of the time, Red Flag follows the workers during their downtime, between Saturday 3pm (the end of the working week) and Sunday evening, while they spend quality time with their families, walking, mountain climbing, biking, fishing, or shopping – an opportunity, today, to see candid images of relaxation shot at a time when the state started paying attention to the leisure and tourism facilities available to its citizens.

A fascinating look at the advertising industry, with a focus on how it works and what it does

The model Imu faces the camera straight on, her face framed in a helmetlike haircut. The bright light causes her to blink nearly continuously; there is a hair in the lower right-hand corner of the frame.

A film exploring the buried wealth beneath the soil of Cornwall, from its famous tin mines to the flourishing industries built on granite, stone and china clay.

A film by Philippe Durand

Playful, stylized animated film with horse-like shapes combining and running around the screen.

Experimental film reflecting on the issue of world hunger, inspired by the animation techniques used in National Film Board of Canada documentaries. It was collectively created by Simón Banhos, Oscar Moreschi, Miguel Ángel Biasutto, and Walter Mignolo and produced with funds raised through the Cineclub Sombras, founded by the filmmakers in 1963. The short film won the Best Experimental Film Award at the first International Festival of Experimental and Documentary Film (FICED) organized by the Catholic University of Córdoba in August 1964, with the jury chaired by Canadian Norman McLaren.

Explains that many animals bear protective coloration that blends with their surroundings. Shows examples of such coloring on the bark moth, the tree frog, the ground squirrel, many birds and the young of many animals. Includes views of representative members of species which change their color to match their backgrounds, as well as those whose body outlines are broken by bold areas of contrasting colors.

The film consists of twelve sketches that present the fabulous richness of the art of the mime Marceau.

The 1964 Royal Highland Show at Ingliston, Scotland.

Movie-installation by graphic-designer AQUIRAX UNO.

"Duel" describes the clash of two athletes, shot putters David Davis and Alfred Sosgórnik.

Short educational film

A cartoon that should appeal to the audience to remember to buy Christmas stamps. The film, drawn and directed by Ib Steinaa, has as a common theme happy and playful children. As it is a fact that fewer and fewer people write actual Christmas cards, the film shows that there are other ways to use the Christmas stamp, and you get the opportunity to revisit many of previous years' Christmas stamps.

Times Square at night... alien, death-like... negative images... –P. E. G.

Screen Test of Alan Soloman

Screen test of Harold Stevenson.

"Villmarken kaller" is an award-winning nature documentary from 1964 made by Albert W. Owesen. It is the first Norwegian nature feature film in color. The film had a formidable success in the country's cinemas when it was released, and was watched by over 400,000 people.

Made for the Oakland Public Schools on an experimental series of classes in the arts.

Performances by Poland's most acclaimed jazz bands, punctuated by short interviews conducted by German music journalist Joachim-Ernst Berendt. Appearing consecutively are: Warsaw Stompers, Namysłowski Quartet, Andrzej Trzaskowski Quintet, Krzysztof Komeda Quintet, Bossa Nova Combo and Wróblewski Quartet. The concerts are crowned by the All Star Session, a joint finale with all the performers and the song Family Blues.

What started as a film test on new sync-sound film equipment quickly became a short film documenting the typical nuttiness behind the scenes at Goldsholl Design & Film Associates, a Chicago-based design firm that employed both Wayne Boyer and Larry Janiak. Janiak ad libs alone, as no one else would come out from the behind the camera. Shot by Boyer and edited by Janiak, a home movie.

Inside a rug-weaving workshop, women’s hands move in precise rhythms as the clatter of shuttles and the plucking of threads form an evolving soundscape. Gradually, labor becomes music, culminating in harp tones perfectly synchronized with the weavers’ fingers.

"A propos de l'improvisation" is the title of an episode of the French TV talk show series Un Certain Regard which ran from 1964-1975.

An experiment with the hand-held photograph and a little animation, using stills by Jack Smith and from girlie magazines.

The woman Winnie sinks deeper and deeper into a large pile of manure while talking to her husband and spouting an endless stream of trivialities. This is the simple plot of Samuel Beckett's world-famous classic of the theater of the absurd.

A pretty young blonde shows up for an audition for a job as a model for a famous artist. She's surprised when he informs her that she will have to pose nude for him.

Stroboscopic Images consists of pulsating abstract, geometric shapes.

Puppet movie from the German Democratic Republic about the importance of rest.

This educational short film interweaves real scenes and animated graphics and depicts the causes of heart attacks in order to promote a healthy lifestyle to prevent damage to the coronary arteries.

Second part devoted to the New Wave, it highlights all the problems (from production to exploitation all the way to distribution) faced by young filmmakers in the French film landscape of the 1960s.

Sophie wisely takes her piano lesson. But her teacher doesn't tolerate weakness on the part of her students, nor does she appreciate Sophie's unorthodox approach to the instrument. So the little virtuoso turns into a creature from hell, mischievious and belligerant, trying everything she can to upset and discourage her teacher, who has no way to escape.

Scenes from the New Testament, re-enacted among the colors of New England autumn.

The viewers visit a school located high in the Tatra mountains, in the village of Zaczerczyk. There are only few students there. Teachers arrive at the place every day, including the film's protagonist, a young woman.

East German documentary about the 20 July plot.

With light-drenched visuals illuminating a screenplay of "dialogue and poetry," filmmaker Gerson made this short B&W experimental feature about a man who confronts the meaning of existence in a variety of cityscapes. Gerson described the film: "The narrative form expanded, utilizing non-linear sequences within a linear structure. Past, Present and Future are interwoven throughout to present a total, heightened reality."

Short film made in Spain.

Break-up flick.

A palindrome created on film. Features interaction between a couple with the recurring line 'Madam I'm Adam'.

In this stunningly composed short film, the movement of a train and its arrival at Tehran’s central station is imaginatively edited in sync with maestro percussionist Hossein Tehrani’s mesmerizing use of the zarb.