Cinematic Era: 1964 Vintage

A documentary film about Pop Art's entry into Stockholm's art life.

This vintage promotional short from 1964 recounts The Incredible Mr. Limpet's underwater premiere (literally) at a Florida attraction famed for its performances by "mermaids" observed through a huge glass window.

The tobacco industry in Portugal through time and the full process, from plantation of seeds to its vanishing in smoke.

Athletes of different disciplines warm up. They take on the challenge, sometimes give up, finally accept a defeat or a poor result. The camera captures those intimate moments when the eyes of the fans and journalists are elsewhere, on the winner.

A documentary that introduces the main places in Öræfasveit, for examples Ingólfshöfði to name a few. The picture gives a beautiful view of nature and life in Öræfasveit in the middle of the last century.

The first part in Gotovac’s trilogy of structuralist films is dedicated to jazz musician Duke Ellington and director George Stevens. A camera placed at the front of a moving streetcar records the passing urban landscape: the train tracks and the passing streets and pedestrians transport the viewer (now a passenger on the streetcar) fifty years back in time.

Orange is a randomly generated montage consisting of visual and verbal associations that can be evoked by the image and notion of an orange.

Short film about a businessman who is seduced by his daughter's doll made as a senior thesis film at the University of Pennsylvania.

A primary school break is a great opportunity to observe children's behavior. Contrary to the film title, school breaks are full of sounds and voices, small and big dramas.

One hundred and ten members of the Maori Mormon Choir present chorals and action songs in the form of a stage production.

Ruth Ford has been placed in three-quarter profile against a white background, under instructions to keep still and try not to blink. With her head held high, she maintains her pose, only occasionally raising an eyebrow or blinking briefly. By the end her eyes are filled with tears from the effort.

The changing of the seasons is shown on an island in the Stockholm archipelago. We get to follow the farming family as well as the wild animals in their vicinity.

A Terrytoons Cartoon

Short documentary by Giovanni Vento.

Documentary about Finnish immigrants in the New York City.

A short documentary that inspects the effects of 1963 Land Reform Laws in Iran by Mohammad Reza Shah.

A man playfully throws a stone to a stray dog in the park. From that moment on, he cannot get rid of the animal. This is the first episode of the popular series Gustavus.

An Albanian documentary

A short film screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020

A short animated Polish film.

First transmitted in 1964, Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is performed at the Royal Albert Hall. The Melos Ensemble is conducted by Benjamin Britten, and the performers include Heather Harper (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Thomas Hemsley (baritone) and Simon Preston (organ and chamber organ). Also featured are the BBC Chorus and Choral Society, Boys from Emanuel School, London Philharmonic Choir, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

In the painting-on-film tradition, he tries to create a dialogue between the plastic elements and acoustic elements, also composed by the author in a electronics.

How a plentiful energy supply impacts our country's quality of life.

A "télescripteur" is a device in television control rooms which makes it possible to write credits, texts, mixed or not with other images, intended to appear on the television screen before being diffused. In this film, designed as a real interlude to interpose between television programs, a small character represents the "télescripteur".

An unfinished 8mm film from 1964

"Some of the most beautiful insects of France. Coleoptera (beetles, beetles, longhorn beetles, etc.). Lepidoptera: eggs, caterpillars, pupae, accelerated birth (zygène), slow flights (papilio, zygène, sphinx, etc.). Parasitic and predatory insects: braconid, pentatomide, ammophile, mantis.

"Brooks edited this footage but never printed it in his lifetime. While we cannot know for sure the true origins of, or intentions for, this material, it is a stunning document of the legendary jazz musician." - Anthology Film Archives

Portrait of the poet Mário Cesariny. The poet wanders around Lisbon and is confronted with a series of absurd events.

Prosaic material - threads and buttons - is used to present the game of positional systems, the motion of matter, the actions of antagonistic forces.

Dartmouth college boys review contemporary fashions.

Kamran Shirdel's 1964 diploma film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome unfolds in an urban apartment with a despondent man, who appears to be an artist or a writer, contemplating his existence through mirrors set about the room. Featuring the music of Anton Webern's Six Pieces for Orchestra Opus 6, the film has no dialogue. Gli Specchi, also known as The Mirrors, was made in the same period that saw Shirdel working as an assistant director for John Huston on The Bible and it went on to win the diploma of honor in the World Cinema School Film Festival in Tokyo in 1965.

Malcolm X: Struggle for Freedom was praised by directors like Chris Marker and Joris Ivens for its up-close portrayal of the radical civil rights leader, directed by Jamaican-American filmmaker Lebert Bethune.

A documentary short about modern egg production in 1964 America. The camera follows eggs all the way from the chicken coop to the refrigerated case at your local supermarket.

Short film for the "A Commercial for Myself" programme.

A 1965 Hubert Knapp film.

After the story of same name of S. Rahimov

Hygiene education short film from the 60s.

The number of teens contracting VD every year.

The first film produced by ICAIC on the position of women within the framework of the revolution. The lives of an aspiring actress and her reluctant mother, of an army lieutenant, and of former prostitutes in process of rehabilitation are explored.

When three year old Willy wanders away from home he falls among thieves. They are forced to kidnap him. The police ask Dickie, his elder brother and his friend, Johnny to help in the search. Johnny's friends all join in and meet with varied adventures. The children find Willy in a disused warehouse but cannot rescue him. Three more are caught by the gang who lock them in with the now unconscious gang leader and escape with the jewels. The police, alerted by the children, capture the gang, recover the jewels and finally rescue the children, including Willy

When three year old Willy wanders away from home he falls among thieves. They are forced to kidnap him. The police ask Dickie, his elder brother and his friend, Johnny to help in the search. Johnny's friends all join in and meet with varied adventures. The children find Willy in a disused warehouse but cannot rescue him. Three more are caught by the gang who lock them in with the now unconscious gang leader and escape with the jewels. The police, alerted by the children, capture the gang, recover the jewels and finally rescue the children, including Willy

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 crooks 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.

Tom and Sukie arrive in Malta to spend the holidays with their father, an archae ologist digging for a legendary golden statue of Calypso on the island of Gozo. He fails to meet the children who mke 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 child ren have gone. They escape and make their way finally to Gozo to see their father's colleague where they all capture d. 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

"In FIRST TIME HERE, I attempted to freely associate two or three dreams with the story of the four women who had an atomic bomb display at a carnival. I wanted the film to be a fantasy which represented various life cycles and, in a sense, to be a celebration of the absurd mess man has gotten himself into."

Part of BFI collection "London on the Move."

The Allied Expeditionary Force intervention in Russia during a time of revolution.

An amusing and didactic cartoon for children. The main actor is a capricious dot playing and dancing and creating in this way a colorful world of our little ones…

Zippy, an inept space taxicab driver, is given a chance to prove himself against a robot driver.

A foot-stomping Western cartoon.

Swifty and Shorty ride a bus in New York City.