All Films

Francis Bacon: Fragments of a Portrait

1966 • 44 min • United Kingdom

Francis Bacon: Fragments of a Portrait explores the recurring themes in Bacon’s work, his influences and his life. The documentary is accompanied by a haunting score specially composed by Edwin Astley for the production.

Hancock at the Royal Festival Hall

1966 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A one-off special performance by Tony Hancock of his stand-up comedy act (which rarely changed), at the Royal Festival Hall, London.

Ndre Mjeda

1966 • 18 min • Albania

Documentary about the famous Albanian poet

Alphabet

1966 • 6 min • Canada

Short animation by Eliot Noyes Jr. exploring the alphabet through transformative animation.

Filmsommerliches

1966 • 12 min • East Germany, Germany

A feuilletonistic conversation with the movie audience about the question: How do you feel about going to the movies? In general - and especially in summer? What do people expect from movies these days and what criticism do they have on their minds? The interviewees are vacationers of all ages and tastes. The occasion and background for this not entirely serious survey is the 1965 Summer Film Festival, which is captured in a cheerful reportage style. Interviews with actors on the festive opening evening and climax of the film confirm that there is only a relative cinema fatigue. It depends on the quality of the film on offer.

16 in Webster Groves

1966 • 52 min

16-year-olds of Webster Groves, an upper-middle-class suburb in Missouri, are interviewed in this one-hour TV special documentary on their experiences of growing up in their town and their views on the future.

P.S. to The Laughing Man

1966 • 60 min • East Germany

The epilogue to the film "The Laughing Man" (1966), which alternates between objectivity and anger, exposes the involvement of the West German mercenary Siegfried Müller in the war against the Congolese government Lumumba. In the sequel, new witnesses against Major Müller have their say, including a former school friend and a French paratrooper colonel. GDR lawyer Kaul reports on the status of the criminal proceedings against Müller, while the final images show the war criminal feeding the ducks in South Africa.

Castro Street

1966 • 10 min • United States of America

Inspired by a lesson from Erik Satie, a film in the form of a street: Castro Street, running by the Standard Oil Refinery in Richmond, California.

The Death of a Provincial

1966 • 28 min

Young and lively artist lives at the monastery while restoring the interiors and pays attention to the very old monk who is going to pass away soon.

Notes for a Film About Donna & Gail

1966 • 49 min • Canada

The story of two young women who go to the city to work in a dress factory, and who share a room to ease their expenses and their loneliness. The film shows the currents that brought them together and the facets of their natures that first made them seem compatible but eventually drove them apart. Their story reflects, to a degree, the situation of anyone who has ever shared the life of another.

Concho, the Coyote Who Wasn't

1966 • 49 min • United States of America

A coyote adopted by an old Navajo, Delgado, thinks he is a sheepdog, though he is not accepted by the other dogs of the area.

O Bem-Aventurado

1966 • 14 min • Brazil

In the mid 1960s, while Brazil was being ruled by a military dictatorship, a young man, living in the city of Belo Horizonte, begins to approach a subversive behaviour.

Joker, The Amiable Ocelot

1966 • 49 min • United States of America

A desert loner adopts an ocelot he finds in an old car, but later realizes that it must be set free. The ocelot finds a mate, and so does the loner, falling for a young nurse that moves to the area.

Les Morutiers

1966 • 20 min

This documentary about the cod fishing industry was filmed on a fishing boat near the Arctic Circle.

Boy with Cat

1966 • 6 min • Japan

A cat's inquisitive look interferes with the pleasurable sensations of a boy while masturbating.

The Bear And The One Who Lives In The River

1966 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A small funny brown bear paced joyfully in the woods. More recently, he did not leave his mother at all and now he came to the lakeon his own. Butwhat he saw there amazed him. Now he has to deal with his own reflection in the water, which can be both bad and friendly.

Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes

1966 • 47 min • France

Daniel needs some money to buy a duffle coat that is in fashion, so he agrees to work for a photographer by dressing up as Santa Claus. He discovers that it is much easier to meet girls when he is in his costume.

Brindisi '65

1966 • 15 min • Italy

Initial panorama of Brindisi, a city with a peasant tradition. The petrochemical, city within a city. Children in poor neighborhoods, workers' voices: the crisis, the layoffs, the need for the recommendations of the Christian Democrats to enter Montecatini. Wealthy men and women binge at the restaurant. Voices of agrarians, forced to leave the earth to make room for the petrochemical. A ballroom. In a puppet theater, a show is staged in which the worker is addressed as "starved". At a course for foremost workers, various compliant testimonies follow one another: Monteshell is a large industry, and no one has any criticisms against it. But another worker, elsewhere, with his face in the shadows, confesses that everyone is afraid to speak, skilled workers get the same pay as simple ones, 400 colleagues have been fired, union activists are "special supervised", and going on strike is a business. 35mm b/w

All Eyes on Sharon Tate

1966 • 11 min • United States of America

Promotional short film on an aspiring young actress Sharon Tate and her first film Eye of the Devil (1966).

The First World Festival of Negro Arts

1966 • 40 min

"This documentary film covers a 24-day arts festival in Dakar, Senegal that highlighted Black contributions to the cultural heritage of mankind and was attended by an extraordinary cast of over 2,000 luminaries - including Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Alvin Ailey, Aime Cesaire, and Leopold Senghor - from dozens of countries. The film depicts performances by African and American entertainers and shows various works of art while also providing unparalleled insight from the perspective of the African American delegation. The film was written and directed by William Greaves" (US National Archives).

Le trésor de l’orpheline

1966 • 8 min

Homage to the novelist Delly, to celebrate her centenary, a mini-soap opera (silent photo-novel style with bubbles) with Françoise Dorléac in the role of the orphan Garlonne and Jacques Dutronc in that of the young director Alban.

Mister Rossi Buys a Car

1966 • 11 min • Italy

Mister Rossi buys a car.

A Joke

1966 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Based on the short story of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.

A Tale of Mail

1966 • 17 min • Canada

An animated colour film in which the artist has free rein to show how he thinks letters got from one place to another in the early days of Canadian transportation. The film's colour, style and sparkle make this view of the subject a lively one for most people, and there are some facts of postal history for those who are interested.