All Films

How Do You Like Them Bananas

1966 • 10 min • United States of America

A clergyman seeks a donation from a banker in this short slapstick comedy.

The A-Tom-inable Snowman

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

In the Alps, Tom gets knocked out chasing Jerry, and is revived, revitalized and intoxicated by a St. Bernard with a keg of brandy. After several such episodes, Tom escapes with Jerry to a tropical island, where he is hit with a coconut. Not to worry- the St. Bernard appears and renders his special brand of first aid.

Antkeeper

1966 • 28 min • United States of America

This classic from Rolf Forsberg, in the style of Fellini and Bergman, tells the story of a gardener who decides to introduce ants to his garden, because they will benefit what grows there. He is disturbed when the ants spend all their time fighting. He sends his son to teach them how to live peacefully.

The Tiny Astronaut

1966 • 16 min

A science class builds a model rocket somewhere in the middle of the desert to test out the ability to deliver a live test subject into space and return it safely back to Earth. The test subject in this case is a mouse who will ride in the rocket via its capsule. A young boy, who is the caretaker of the mouse, is afraid for the mouse's life.

The Glass Pane

1966 • 10 min • India

In modern society, communication between individuals is becoming more and more difficult. Two persons may be in the same physical environment, yet it seems that a Glass Pane - invisible but strong, and very much there separates these individuals. Almost Antonioniesque in its composition, this short film is a study of a married couple who are unable to communicate with each other.

Marcello Baldi's "Osiride"

1966 • 13 min • Italy

The documentary moves around the amazing figure of Osiride Pevarello, a circus performer with a very long career in cinema, from Lattuada to Germi, from Ben-Hur to Fellini, up to Tinto Brass. In this exquisitely lively and unexpectedly dense short film, Osiride faces the world by showing off confident steps and assertive vocation, as if he had everything under control and it was not necessary to demand more. Until the beautiful ending, when the voices of the sleeping boys give shape to a desire: to have a home. Osiride, lying on the bed smoking his umpteenth cigarette, as always he cannot sleep before the return of his eighteen-year-old daughter, who works under mistress in a dartboard. We discover the melancholy of a man who would like to leave from there, to find four real walls for his family. The camera moves to let us glimpse the pope's image on the dresser; one should have faith in miracles

Pink, Plunk, Plink

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther learns to play the violin, and interrupts a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony with the Pink Panther Theme played on various instruments.

Life in Australia: Melbourne

1966 • 19 min • Australia

This film shows an idyllic picture of life in the Victorian capital of Melbourne in the mid 1960s.

Screen Test [ST271]: Lou Reed (Hershey)

1966 • 4 min

A second Hershey Lou Reed screen test.

Cassis

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Filmed during a visit to Jerome Hill in Provence, Jonas Mekas sets his Bolex to capture a single day overlooking the port of Cassis. Shot frame by frame from morning to sunset, the film distills shifting light and color into a quiet meditation on time, place, and perception.

Mimbre y Greda

1966 • 11 min • Chile

Short film that narrates in an educational way the processes of developing wicker and clay crafts. The film is based on the experience of a character who tells a story to his nephews. Work carried out as part of the documentary series "Andanzas de un Chileno".

The Interview

1966 • 19 min • Brazil

On screen, a bride gets ready for her wedding day. Off screen, middle-class young women from Rio de Janeiro share their experiences and impressions concerning virginity, marriage, sex and politics.

Screen Test [ST268]: Lou Reed (Apple)

1966 • 4 min

Lou Reed, posed in profile wearing dark glasses, slowly eats an apple, chewing carefully between bites; there is no camera movement.

European Diaries

1966 • 44 min

“After seeing Taylor Mead’s diaries I can’t look around myself anymore. There is so much to see! So now I sit with my back to nature, like Gertrude Stein.” – Julian Beck, The Living Theatre, Paris.

Screen Test [ST264]: Lou Reed

1966 • 3 min • United States of America

A close-up of Lou Reed’s mouth, as he takes nine drags on a cigarette, smiles a couple of times, licks his lips, and grimaces. Made for projection behind the Velvet Underground in performance as part of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable multi-media presentation.

Cirrhosis of the Louvre

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

The Inspector and Sergeant Deux-Deux ineffectually try to stop the Blotch from robbing the Louvre.

Hey Mister, Let's Play! How They Met At Kolin

1966 • 13 min • Czechoslovakia

Pilot of the series "Hey, Mister, Let's Play". The story of two bears, the older one is experienced and sly, the younger is naive and gullible. This is the story of how they met in the Czech town of Kolín.

The Living Flame

1966 • 43 min • Ireland

Commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, commissioned for its 50th anniversary.

Paddle to the Sea

1966 • 28 min • Canada

A boy's carved boat travels through the Canadian wilderness until it reaches the ocean.

Astronut Woody

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody mistakes an about-to-be-launched rocket for a high-rise luxury treehouse. He becomes a space traveler and causes havoc along the way.

Plastered in Paris

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

The Surete Commissioner orders Inspector Clouseau and Sergeant Deux-Deux to track a mysterious and elusive Monsieur X. Using a submarine, an army tank, and mountaineering equipment, they chase Monsieur X all the way to Africa, where they encounter him in the Sahara Desert and at Mount Kilimanjaro. After a series of painful mishaps, they concede defeat in the strenuous and perilous chase and return to Surete headquarters, where Monsieur X is revealed to be the Surete's new physical training instructor!

Man in the Frame

1966 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The way bureaucracy works is told by men in the frames.

Screen Test [ST265]: Lou Reed (Eye)

1966 • 3 min • United States of America

Begins with a close-up of Lou Reed’s eye; the camera then zooms out to a slightly broader view of his face. Toward the end he glances briefly away from the camera. Made for projection behind the Velvet Underground in performance as part of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable multi-media presentation.

The Face of Genius

1966 • 51 min • United States of America

The Face of a Genius is a 1966 American documentary film about Eugene O’Neill, produced by Alfred R. Kelman for WBZ-TV Boston. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the first time that a film originally produced for television was recognized by the Academy as a nominee for Best Documentary Feature.