All Films

Bethânia Bem de Perto: A Propósito de um Show

1966 • 33 min • Brazil

Documentary about Maria Bethânia, at the very beginning of her career as a singer, when she arrived in Rio da Bahia to replace Nara Leão in the show Opinião. Bethânia's appearance, at that time in southern Rio, was a cultural shock that shook the city. The film also contains scenes of her daily life and meetings with other musicians.

The Threatening Sky

1966 • 32 min • France, Vietnam

Pro-Vietnamese film created by Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens. This black and white film begins with an introduction by Bertrand Russell, who explains the history of the run-up to the American involvement in Vietnam. The film shows scenes of Vietnamese soldiers in trenches, American helicopters, agricultural workers, and children assembling anti-aircraft shells. A narrator speaks of the American invasion as being on par with the Germans during World War II and characterizes the Vietnamese as resistance fighters. Anti-American protests are shown. Ivens is shown interviewing Ho Chi Minh. Vietnamese villagers build dams for rice paddies, make traps using bamboo spikes, and take cover during air raids. Scenes include the headquarters of the National Liberation Front, a military execution, bombings, and villagers fighting back against US aggression.

Trawler Fishermen

1966 • 22 min • Canada

This short film was shot on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and shows off the new technology employed on modern fishing boats in the mid-1960s. The featured trawler is open-stern style, allowing full nets to be dragged easily from the sea then lifted to release the silvery catch into the cleaning troughs. -NFB

Polar Fright

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Chilly Willy short. First appearance of Maxie the Polar Bear.

Sugar and Spies

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Wile E. Coyote finds a spy kit and uses its contents (sleeping gas, a mail bomb, explosive putty, and a gadget-filled spy car) in his unsuccessful attempt to catch the Road Runner.

The Tortoise and the Hare

1966 • 38 min • United Kingdom

A huge articulated Pirelli truck and an E type Jaguar car pass and repass along Italy's breathtaking Autostrada Del Sole, to the accompaniment of jazz, pop and Vivaldi music.

A Taste of Catnip

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Daffy Duck goes to a doctor after he realizes that he is starting to act like a cat. Daffy finds himself drinking milk out of saucers.

Filet Meow

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Perhaps because he's grown weary of chasing Jerry, Tom sets his sights on the house's goldfish. But the female goldfish is a friend of Jerry's, and the little mouse has a crush on her. When Jerry gets involved to rescue his friend, the usual confrontations with Tom begin.

The Case For Books

1966 • 22 min • Australia

This film about Library services in Australia shows some of the work of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library, the National Library with its varied resources and examples of State, University, special and public services suggesting their value in meeting needs for information at all levels. The library movement has become a vital part of Australian life. How libraries have fitted into society all over Australia, from the bustle of Sydney's Kings Cross to the remote outback.

Manual of Arms

1966 • 17 min • United States of America

In this "fourteen-part drill for the camera," Frampton created a portrait gallery of his art-world friends engaging in a variety of ordinary activities.

For Florence

1966 • 51 min

A dramatic, solemn and refined work, "Per Firenze" spread throughout the world the cry for help that was rising in those hours from the city of Dante and Brunelleschi, giving rise to one of the greatest phenomena of solidarity that has gone down in history under the name of the "mud angels."

The Stable Door

1966 • 35 min

This is a film made as an elaborate advert for the Insurance Industry. A group of criminals conspire to rob a warehouse which has also been spotted as a vulnerable target by an insurance salesman who suggests precautions, including buying insurance. Will the works be done in time and sufficient to stop the robbers?

Matinee Mouse

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Tom is chasing Jerry through the back yard. Jerry escapes to a bird house. A bit more chasing. Jerry crashes into the wall. Both decide they've had enough, and wave the truce flag; they go to the movies of themselves, which is an excuse for another bargain clip show. The truce doesn't hold, and eventually the characters on screen stop and take notice.

Jesse James vs. Lokum Shekerov

1966 • 51 min • Bulgaria

American filmmakers associated with the mafia are concerned about the great success of Bulgarian films around the world. They decided to send a big spy, Jesse James, to Bulgaria. His task is to blow up the film studios. But the Bulgarian inspector Lokum Shekerov is at his post.

Double Trouble

1966 • 9 min • United States of America

A man meets a woman who invites him back to her place. What he doesn't realize is that she's a twin.

Elsa the Rose

1966 • 20 min • France

Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.

A Squeak in the Deep

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Daffy Duck enters a boat racing contest and is frustrated constantly by Speedy Gonzales.

G.G. Passion

1966 • 30 min • United Kingdom

G.G. Passion is a successful pop star whose life is a whirlwind of adoring fans, beautiful women and expensive cars. But while he enjoys the fruits of his celebrity lifestyle, a secret group of observers is judging whether his fame and influence is beneficial to society as a whole.

Glasgow Belongs to Me

1966 • 17 min • United Kingdom

An Englishman has just got off the train at St. Enoch Station and is asking a cab driver to show him around Glasgow. Naturally, the cab driver is happy to oblige and the visitor gets to see the City first hand.

Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun

1966 • 60 min • Yugoslavia

Four partisans in the mountains and suffering from typhus are slowly destroyed.

Electro show

1966 • 15 min • Chile

Experimental film production that presents a newscast with a critical perspective of the popular culture transmitted by TV, using collage techniques and juxtaposition of images from newspapers, magazines, advertising, film and television.

You Youth!

1966 • 48 min • Soviet Union

A story about high school students preparing for New Year's Eve and what can happen if the wrong person takes over...

Vándorrák

1966 • 32 min • Hungary

Cowboy

1966 • 17 min • United States of America

Cowboy is a 1966 American short documentary film directed by Michael Ahnemann and produced by Ahnemann and Gary Schlosser. At a ranch in Tehachapi, California, a husband and father lives the life of a modern cowboy. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.