All Films

Hand

1966 • 1 min • South Korea

Hand is the second and last film produced by Cinepoem in 1966. Cinepoem is a film group founded by Yu Hyun-mok with the aim of producing avant-garde short films. Hand was directed by Yu, written by Choi Il-soo, shot by Kim Gi-Guk, and recorded by Park Ik-sun. It’s format is 35mm and B&W with a length of 50 seconds. The exceptionally short length of the film was set for submitting to the International and Universal Exposition in Montreal under the theme “Man and His World (Concours terre de hommes).” It organized a competition program for 50 seconds long films and called for works from all over the world. Winning works were supposed to screen in theaters as well on television. In the competition, 870 works from 37 countries were presented and 94 films were selected including Hand for screening at the opening of the Montreal International Film Festival.

Notes from a Critofilm

1966 • 13 min • Italy

Reflections on the first films of Pier Paolo Pasolini with his considerations on the real language of cinema.

Look at Life: Fire over London

1966 • 10 min • United Kingdom

The film Fire Over London is about the operation of the London Fire Brigade. In an office's switchboard room we see one of the hideous T&N green and ivory telephones supplied by General Telephone Systems. Another shot deep in the bowels of St Paul's Cathedral gives a glimpse of a two-tone grey ATE 'Coffin Phone' as used on Communications Systems private exchange systems.

Cerro Pelado

1966 • 34 min • Cuba

A ship of athletes training on the rough seas becomes a symbol of Castro’s Cuba, the games projected on the backdrop of political struggle. This is the story of a ship and of a sports delegation whom the enemy tried to stop from participating in the Tenth Central American and Caribbean Games.

Eye for an Eye

1966 • 20 min • Brazil

A group of middle-class friends driving around São Paulo choose one of the women as a bait to attract a victim, object of their alienation and moral aggressiveness.

Жёлтик

1966 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A Boy Called Donovan

1966 • 52 min

Follows Donovan, the Scottish singer/songwriter; his lifestyle: his friends, his haunts and his music. Some 15 songs on a string.

Главный звёздный

1966 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Over the Sea and Near Away

1966 • 30 min • New Zealand

A short documentary tracking the transportation of New Zealand products into ports in the Philippines, China, Japan, and Hong Kong, with a focus on cultural differences and economic opportunities.

Christmas with Lorne Greene

1966 • 25 min

The Bonanza star hosts this yuletide half-hour with the UNICEF Children's Choir on their imaginary trip to the Charles Dickens-era of England.

Shot and Bothered

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Wile E. Coyote uses suction cups, a tennis net, TNT sticks on a rope, a skateboard, helium gas, and a bomb in his unsuccessful attempts to catch the Road Runner.

1000 Frames

1966 • 1 min • United States of America

Numerals on clear film from 1 to 1000."

A Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Double Feature

1966 • 5 min • United States of America

A prototype of modern music videos, this is an animated film set to the music of two popular tunes recorded by Herb Alpert and his Latin-flavored brass ensemble - "Spanish Flea" and "Tijuana Taxi". Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003.

A-Haunting We Will Go

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Daffy convinces his son that old Witch Hazel isn't what he thinks she is.

The Flicker

1966 • 30 min • United States of America

A film consisting of alternating black and white frames.

Raid Into Tibet

1966 • 28 min • United Kingdom

In May 1964, three British filmmakers traveled with the Khampa guerrillas over a 20,000-foot pass into occupied Tibet from the remote Tsum region of Nepal and captured dramatic footage of an ambush on a Chinese military convoy. The footage was smuggled out and edited two years later in London, and officially released in 1966 to critical acclaim. Shot by Oscar-winning cinematographer Chris Menges (THE READER, LOCAL HERO, THE KILLING FIELDS), this documentary short is an important historical artifact, representing the only known footage of armed Tibetan resistance fighters in combat with the Chinese.

The Specialist

1966 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Lem Putt specializes in building outdoor lavatories.

The Water Cress File

1966 • 6 min

Playing with the tropes of the spy genre, The Water Cress File charts the progress of a mysterious briefcase, passed between several characters on the streets of Soho and, in a metaphysical flourish, into a film showing in the Pavilion cinema.

Stravinsky

1966 • 49 min • Canada

This documentary is an informal portrait of the great modern composer Igor Stravinsky. Proudly American, though still very much an Old World figure with a long and alert memory for people and events in music, literature and art, Stravinsky is depicted here conducting the CBC Symphony Orchestra in a recording of his Symphony of Psalms.

Little Tom Thumb

1966 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Animated version of the fairy tale. Tom proves himself cleverer than his brothers when he outwits an ogre and returns home with treasure.

Mikha

1966 • 40 min

The Great Rehearsals: Homage to Edgard Varèse

1966 • 60 min • France

Edgard Varèse died on 6 November 1965, a few days before the filming of the rehearsal of his work "Déserts" which he had to attend.

Where's Everett?

1966 • 30 min • United States of America

Arnold Barker starts every day by going out on his porch to pick up the milk and the newspaper but on this day he brings in something different — an invisible alien baby who's been left on his doorstep!

South Pole Pals

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Chilly helps protect his polar bear friend from an Eskimo who wants to hunt him.