All Films

Jan & Dean: On the Run

1966 • 28 min • United States of America

8 hours in the life of college student teen superstars Jan & Dean! They fly from LA to San Diego to a sold-out show. They visit the zoo, do some skateboarding, then it's off to Washington, DC for another concert. In the end, it's back to school for exams.

Herbie

1966 • 3 min • United States of America

Herbie is a short 16mm black and white film by George Lucas and Paul Golding made in 1966 as part of their USC film school course. It is an abstract film with no story and no actors, that graphically depicts the reflections of moving light streaks and light flashes from traffic at night. It is set to a piece of jazz music by Herbie Hancock, whose first name was used for the title.

He Joe

1966 • 29 min

A lonely man is taunted by the voice of a woman he once knew.

Fala Brasília

1966 • 13 min • Brazil

An amalgamation of accents and life experiences from different parts of Brazil reunited on the city of Brasília.

Pälsen

1966 • 25 min • Sweden

Doctor Henck is having bad day, and borrows a fur from a friend. It gives him new confidence, and his day immediately gets better. Hjalmar Söderberg's rejected 1911 movie script, filmed in 1966 for TV as a silent film with a piano soundtrack, to match the time in which it was written for.

Funeral

1966 • 1 min

A 20-second animated short film to discourage smoking.

Jemima + Johnny

1966 • 30 min • United Kingdom

A white boy and a black Jamaican girl have a day out in a city where racial hostility prevails.

Clippety Clobbered

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

Wile E. Coyote uses a chemistry set to try and catch the Road Runner. He mixes chemicals to yield invisible paint...

The Andy Williams Christmas Show

1966 • 44 min • United States of America

Andy Williams celebrates the holidays with his entire family, including his siblings, The Williams Brothers, and his wife, singer Claudine Longet. The Osmond Brothers are also along to add some festive cheer.

The Scribe

1966 • 30 min • Canada

Comedy short produced by the Construction Safety Association of Ontario, Canada. It demonstrates the dos and don'ts of construction site safety. The film is the last professionally filmed footage of film legend Buster Keaton, shot months before his death from lung cancer on February 1, 1966. He recreates several routines from his youth, as well as some new material for the film. Most notable was his recreation of a gag from his 1918 film The Bell Boy in which he mops the floor using only the tip of the mop, little by little while sitting on the floor.

Exit 19

1966 • 46 min

A frank dialogue on sexual likes and dislikes that place between a man and his mistress in bed together.

Island Observed

1966 • 28 min • Canada

A film record of M.E.T.E.I. (Medical Expedition to Easter Island), one of the most unusual scientific enquiries ever launched, headed by a McGill University research team. While the film is concerned mainly with the physical condition of Easter Islanders, it also provides glimpses of island activities, a village wedding, and the famous long-faced stone sculptures.

Summerwind

1966 • 14 min • United States of America

Dorsky’s three earliest works (made when he “entered the realm of poetic filmmaking as an active maker”), all sound films, with dailies for two later works shot on precious Kodachrome stock.

Joy of Love

1966 • 8 min • Czechoslovakia

This melancholy piece about the metamorphoses of love and the eternal dissatisfaction of human beings with what they have was inspired by the lyrics of the French song "Plaisir d'amour."

Dutchman

1966 • 55 min • United Kingdom

A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blonde vixen looking for trouble, sizes him up. Sexual tension, racial bigotry and righteous fury collide in a razor's edge confrontation between this unlikely pair.

The Women

1966 • 22 min • Algeria

Documentary dialogue with young women in Algiers on their experience of independence shortly after their country's independence.

Kirk Douglas

1966 • 10 min • Poland

The 1966 visit of Hollywood movie star Kirk Douglas at the legendary Polish State Film School in Lódz.

Pink Punch

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther is a chemist who has perfected a pink health drink. When the Pink Panther tries to promote his drink with a series of signs, each of them in pink writing, the starry dot atop the "i" in "pink" has a mind of its own and, to frustrate the Pink Panther, turns green and repeatedly squirts ugly, green fluid on the panther's fur. The Pink Panther is able to restore his fur's pink color by drinking some of his health drink. But the green dot persistently interferes with the panther's efforts to promote his pink drink. Infuriated, the panther tries to eradicate the green dot, only to find that the dot has a guardian - another green dot of a much larger size.

Silent Song

1966 • 60 min

Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

1966 • 25 min • United States of America

Join the Peanuts gang for a timeless adventure as Charlie Brown preps for a party, Snoopy sets his sights on the Red Baron, and Linus patiently awaits a pumpkin patch miracle.

Vitamin Pink

1966 • 6 min • United States of America

On the Western frontier, the Pink Panther is a traveling vendor of pep pills. He unwittingly sells some pills to a frail criminal, who gains the strength to rob every bank in a nearby town! Thus, the panther is in as much trouble with the law as the robber and must act to apprehend the scoundrel.

Noon Wine

1966 • 51 min • United States of America

A dark tragedy about a farmer's futile act of homicide that takes place on a small dairy farm in southern Texas during the 1890s. Sam Peckinpah directed this original adaptation of the Katherine Anne Porter novel for ABC, and the project became an hour-long presentation for ABC Stage 67, premiering on Nov. 23, 1966.

Vacant Possession

1966 • 50 min • United Kingdom

An estate agent arranges to meet a couple for a viewing at a flat.

Low Water

1966 • 28 min • United Kingdom

In North East England men make a living collecting coal washed-up on beaches from underground seams.