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Swifty is a salesman at a suit store where his job is on the line for being rude to the customers. He has one more chance to make things right. Shorty is looking for a new suit and attempts to get help from Swifty, but he gets the runaround.
The beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale comes to life in this delightful 1964 family film from East Germany. Kindly shoemaker Klaus (Kaspar Eichel) is given a golden-feathered goose that seems to entrance all who see it. Soon, a veritable team of goose groupies form around Klaus, but his newfound celebrity does nothing to change one sad fact: He still hasn't found true love. That is, until a beautiful princess (Karin Ugowski) enters the picture.
Experimental film combining letters and sounds.
This short documentary describes the process and inspiration behind the creation and performance of a new Cuban ballet based on Afro-Cuban traditions and beliefs.
Astronut has an outer space newspaper fall to him. Its headlines warn that a meteor is falling to earth loaded with space people who can transform any earth people into zombies. He tells the police, who lock him up. Then the meteor arrives...
A short documentary from Poland about a model casting in the Sixties.
Photograph by Edward Movius. Produced by Esso for the documentary series Tempus, Peru of yesterday and today.
Documentary produced by International Petroleum Company for exhibition in Peru. It records a performance by the Peruvian opera singer in New York.
Photograph by Edward Movius. Produced by Esso for the series Tempus, Peru of yesterday and today.
Photograph by Edward Movius. Produced by Esso for the series Tempus, Peru of yesterday and today.
A commissioned film about the Inkoo harbour
An educational film about the Finnish Navy
Sally Kirkland conceals herself behind her wild mop of hair, here eyes nearly invisible in the shadows. She holds perfectly still for about three minutes and blinks only once, a spot of moisture glistening in her left eye. By the end of the film she looks stricken, on the verge of tears.
A docudrama set in the slums of Puerto Rico about a poor boy who needs new shoes.
The horse and the knight, conjured by the Wizard Bartodziej, are introduced by him to the wooden kingdom visible in a painting. To get the hand of the most beautiful of the royal daughters, the knight must kill the menacing dragon.
The mood of the man on the left side of the screen (the artist himself) is captured in a long take, represented on the screen on the right, for example, stroking a dog's head with your right hand. When the shot falls to the ground, the man on the left looks entranced. The calculated shots were taken separately for the left and right sides. It was completed without editing. The impressionable high school days symbolically depicted. It is a multi-part work divided into two parts. First film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama, filmed in 1964 on 8mm (regular 8).
On September 3, 1963, the Chilapilla 43 well went out of control due to a failure of the blowout preventers.
A view of the city through the eyes of a visiting foreign student.
A woman alone in her home recalls the moments that led her to a crisis, in the city of Córdoba.
Produced by the U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory in 1964, It Started with Muybridge begins with a voiceover proclaiming the center’s mission: “research and development for tomorrow’s weapons”. The future’s bombs, this training film claims, will be detonated atop the shoulders of yesterday’s “photographer extraordinary”, Eadweard Muybridge.
The film follows Tang Sanzang and his disciples as they encounter powerful spirits during their journey west to obtain sacred scriptures. Disguises, misunderstandings, and supernatural challenges test their bond. With courage and wisdom, they face trials that reveal the strength of their unity and purpose.
This work focuses on the creation of Hunminjeongeum and the achievements of King Sejong, the wise and revered monarch of the Joseon Dynasty. Despite fierce opposition from his officials, Sejong (played by Choi Nam-hyeon) dedicates himself to developing a writing system for the common people who cannot read or write. At the same time, he defends the nation's borders by repelling the Jurchen tribes. Sejong takes in a wise woman, An Tak-gap (played by Moon Jeong-suk), as a royal concubine, and even as his health deteriorates, he continues to serve his country by performing rain rituals during droughts. This film is a cinematic adaptation of a radio drama originally aired by Seoul Central Broadcasting (HLKA), and it was produced in black-and-white using CinemaScope technology—a major production for its time. By portraying in detail the folk-tale-inspired relationship between Sejong and Concubine An Tak-gap, the film reveals a humble and human side of the king.
This U.S. Army-produced training film lays bare the facts surrounding nerve agents—sinister chemical weapons that can incapacitate within minutes.
A portrait of Dutch playwright Herman Heijermans (1864-1924), released in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of his birth. The documentary combines interviews, theatre excerpts, and archival footage.
A journey on British Railways' only narrow gauge line, running 12 miles inland from Aberystwyth up the Rheidol Valley to Devil's Bridge with its impressive wooded gorge and magnificent waterfalls.
A group of boys accidentally become embroiled in a bungled art theft, in this fast-paced fictional adventure film. Two stolen oil paintings are thrown from a moving train, and the film follows the ensuing chase for their recovery, involving diving, secret passageways, caves and morse code.
Cold war era short documentary DEFIANT ISLAND (1964) tells the story of the Free China island of Quemoy. Sovereignty over the island was a big foreign policy issue among what was then called Communist China (PRC), Free China (Taiwan) and the United States.
A parody of the American detective stories of the 1960s.
Tim wishes for Luno to take him to meet Captain Ahab to hear stories of Moby Dick.
The Maestro is conducting Rossini's William Tell overture, but suddenly the music stops dead and he is unable to start again…
This film depicts the Puerto Rico nuclear center operated for USAEC by the University of Puerto Rico and designed to aid Latin American nations in developing skills essential to nuclear energy activity.
Nature pictures from the archipelago in the Åland Sea. Several Åland ferries return. Officer and passengers on a ferry. Panning over Stockholm to Skeppsbron with the Åland boats. View of Norrtälje, red rowan berries near the camera. Street pictures.
The four-minute short, set to Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, is situated in the realm of dreams, showing a young woman (Josephine Heysen) alternately lying in bed and traipsing through a moonlit forest. Year of release: 1964 Director: Ludwik Dutkiewicz Producer: Ian Davidson Starring: Josephine Heysen
Directed by Datta Mane. With Raja Gosavi, Damuanna Malvankar, Sharad Talwalkar.
Directed by Anant Mane. With Indira Chitnis, Ramesh Deo, Jayshree Gadkar, Dada Salvi.
Directed by Madhukar Pathak. With Asha Patil, Raj Shekar.
Ashok and Srinivas are two youngsters in he CID department when their senior officer is killed Ashok takes the responsibility of finding him.
A man in black approaches his victim. An unpredictable film noir parody.
Distributed on a 16mm reel by Xerox Films through their "Expression Through The Arts" series, Danze Cromatiche features sparkling lights and abstract shapes set to playful music.
A portrait of Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah
In 1963, the Ministry of Information and Tourism commissioned filmmaker José Val del Omar to make a series of ten shorts on the campaign Festivales de España for the New York World's Fair in 1964. With the excuse of documenting the shows of this cultural initiative in different Spanish cities, Val del Omar unfolds a dreamlike universe somewhere between the lyrical and the anthropological. This film corresponds to the two final episodes Luna de Sangre and Festival en las entrañas.
Major communal ceremonies for purification, exaltation of the forces of life and deliverance from hostile powers marking the very intense religious life of the Kabre, a mountain people in northern Togo.
Shows two children practising good health with their food habits, such as washing hands before each meal, keeping food refrigerated and protecting food from flies and other contamination.
Charts how London has grown in size and spread into the surrounding country. Written and narrated by architectural critic Reyner Banham, A City Crowned with Green describes the unique character of London as a capital city. Banham looks at the historical pattern of organic and decentralized growth, and the newer problems of urban sprawl and congestion. Is to too late to get back closer to the heart and make London a city crowned with green?
Things are escaping from the filthy apartment that the small owner does not respect.
Bernard is daydreaming at school, visualizing a world of poetry and fantasy. But the real world around him - including professor and schoolmates - eventually takes its toll.
The film is a brief description of life in a busy commercial centre that still depends upon and retains its ancient traditions. These are based on the history of the town which was founded on the banks of the river Oshun. This river itself is one of the most important river deities of the Yoruba whose cults spread even as far as Brazil. Aduni Susanne Wenger, a chief priestess of the Obatala cult, is shown rebuilding the once neglected Oshun shrine, with her fellow artists, Adebisi Akanji, OyeWale and Lani. The Beiers show how art based on traditional pagan religion forms the foundation of the modern movement.
Short by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo.
Documentary of the work and personality of Jean Fautrier, painter of "Informal Art"
New York in the 60s. Two Colombian artists meet and make a super 8 film, cross-dressing as Garbo in La Traviata.
Tuka Jhalase Kalas is a 1964's movie directed by Raja Nene featuring Jeevankala, Tara Dixit.