All Films

Ele e o Rabisco

1966 • 14 min • Brazil

A stop-motion short film about a child learning to respect the collective.

The Night Before The Morning After

1966 • 50 min

Susan and Neville begin to have doubts the evening before their wedding.

Smoking

1966 • 5 min • United States of America

Shot at 2,000 frames per second, this short shows a man exhaling smoke in incredibly slow motion.

Foundations of Solidarity

1966 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

Report on the visit of Josip Broz Tito and Polish officials Gomulka and Cyrankiewicz to Skopje in 1965. During the visit, the high-ranking guests from Poland were presented with a charter declaring them honorary citizens of Skopje. Review of the new urban solutions of the city, sketches and models.

Vedanta Temple Dedication Ceremony

1966 • 25 min • United States of America

This documentary film by Larry Janiak and Steve Rose records the day-long ceremonies during the dedication of the new Vivekananda Vedanta Society Temple in Chicago. Many Ramakrishna Order Swamis from other centers in the United States from India were in attendance for the special ceremonies. The "Homa" fire service and the "Arati" chanting worship service are included in the film. The soundtrack is Indian raga music and Vedic chanting.

Screen Test [ST238]: Nico

1966 • 4 min • United States of America

Nico, filmed with an unmoving camera, reads a magazine. She scratches her head, flips her hair, looks glumly at the camera, and then rolls the magazine into a tube and peers through it.

Screen Test: Pénélope Palmer

1966 • 4 min

Andy Warhol "Screen Test" of a sixth-month-old Pénélope Palmer, going about her business.

Prelude

1966 • 18 min • Hungary

Touching the Eternity

1966 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Documentary showing Isaak Itkind, a Kazakh sculptor, still working at the age of 95.

On the Flip Side

1966 • 60 min • United States of America

"On the Flip Side" is an episode of ABC Stage 67 starring James Coco, Tyrone Cooper, and James Dybas. A spirit and her musical combo are assigned to help a washed-up singer make a comeback. The original score for this program was composed by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, with musical direction by Peter Matz.

The Royal Tour of the Caribbean

1966 • 28 min

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh undertook an official visit to the region in February 1966, as documented in this film. The destinations on this month long excursion included: British Guiana; Trinidad and Tobago; Grenada; St. Vincent; Barbados; St. Lucia; Dominica; Montserrat; Antigua; St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla; Tortola (Virgin Islands); the Bahamas; Jamaica. This rich and detailed Technicolor travelogue was the only film authorised by the Palace. Strict instructions were given prior to the production being given the green light, most notably that the royals could only be filmed when ‘engaged in a public function’. Unlike the more relaxed footage or interviews you might see with the royals now the film is visually very official in tone.

Circles

1966 • 23 min • Spain

The geometry of circles and ellipses is explored using the Roman Colosseum as an example. Using the Pantheon as another practical example, this program explores the concepts of central and intercepted angles, arc segments and chords. The Etude du Cinéma de l’Ecole de Barcelona (a short-lived group that appeared in Spain in the 1960s) offers the opportunity to consider the distrust of the avant-gardes with regard to narrative. The lacunar narration whose principle the School of Barcelona adopts goes against the traditional narrative and its quest for coherence and continuity. She invites the viewer to make the disconcerting experience of unbinding and emptiness. Such an approach involves an ethical posture. The Barcelona School follows in the footsteps of a modernity that intends to move away from an alienating authoritarian discourse and claims to make the spectator a partner in creation.

Mucho Locos

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Speedy Gonzales and a little boy mouse watch a broken television set in a junkyard using their imaginations to create a picture...

Christmas at Vaugirard

1966 • 19 min • France

The Nativity revisited by Chantal Goya and Serge Gainsbourg as biblical lovers! On New Year's Eve, Marie and Joseph wander through the cold Parisian streets... Exhausted, they take refuge in the Vaugirard slaughterhouse, where the night watchman offers them a spot of straw. Suddenly Marie doesn't feel well... Don't underestimate the absurdity and quirkiness of a Gainsbourg in panic!

Games in Depth

1966 • 5 min • United States of America

A mysterious Polaroid-filmed short that showcases depth in stereo photography.

Joyce’s Dublin

1966 • 19 min • Ireland

Directed by Mike O’Connor, and written by his brother, Joycean scholar Ulick O’Connor, this documentary portrays the Dublin in which Joyce lived and worked before his departure for Europe in 1904. Narrated by Micheál MacLiammóir, Joyce’s writing is woven through the scenes as significant locations from his life are revealed: the house in Brighton Square where he was born; Clongowes Wood College where he was educated; Sandymount Strand where he often wandered; derelict tenements once housing the brothels he frequented; and the Martello Tower where he visited with Oliver St John Gogarty.

Die

1966 • 5 min

“A silent meditation on consciousness past death. It is a continuous flow of image uninterrupted by cutting, a tactile and erotic film in which a man knows the earth as lover through a newly-awakened touch, a new multilayered seeing. It is a mystical document of a peak experience in life, climaxing in ego-death.” –John Schofill

Van Gogh

1966 • 7 min • France

A quick look at Auvers-sur-Oise, the place where Vincent Van Gogh spent the final months of his life and where he and his brother were both buried. Produced as part of the "Chroniques de France" TV series.

As India Builds

1966 • 18 min

"This film surveys agricultural progress in India, showing the role of USAID technical assistance. The film was produced by Fali Bilimoria and written by Zul Vellani" (US National Archives).

Life in Australia: Perth

1966 • 19 min • Australia

A picture of life in the West Australian capital of Perth in the mid 1960s. The social, business, sporting and other activities of an average Australian family in Perth are told through the eyes of the local newspapers.

Poppycock!

1966 • 16 min • United States of America

Addresses the age-old problem of two men vying for the same woman. Includes an unconventional, contemporary duel between them, with a wineglass and a violin as weapons. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

A Pessimistic Comedy

1966 • 27 min • Soviet Union

An intellectual is trying to commit suicide due to unbearability of life. The problem is he confused arsenic with laxative.

Narcotics, Why Not?

1966 • 14 min

This film presents a series of extemporaneous interviews with teenagers and young adults who have taken narcotics for "kicks," "association," or "curiosity." Residents of the California Rehabilitation Center relate how they were introduced to narcotics, why they wished they had not used drugs or narcotics, and what the future holds for them. Film is shot in Hollywood, Calif.

The Victory Squad

1966 • 11 min • United States of America

A promotional film about the U.S. Republican party drafting volunteers on Election Day, encouraging their fellow party members to vote and helping them get to their polling place.