All Films

Horse Shoo

1965 • 7 min

Overhearing his boss, Bronco say he's going to get rid of an old saddle, Twister mistakes this for Bronco trying to get rid of him, and so, Loopy helps Twister escape.

Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music Part I

1965 • 52 min • United States of America

The first-ever Sinatra television special in color, this 1965 performance showcases the Chairman in peak form to mark the occasion of Frank Sinatra's 50th birthday.. The Nelson Riddle arrangements sparkle, opening with a classic rendition of I've Got You Under My Skin and continuing on with other favorites such as I Get A Kick Out Of You, Come Fly With Me and The Lady Is A Tramp.

The Beatles: Live in Paris

1965 • 33 min

The Beatles live at the Palais des Sports, Paris, June 20th 1965.

Tales of a Salesman

1965 • 53 min

Herman dreams of being warned by his manager to increase his sales. As he contemplates his predicament, a mischievous poltergeist arrives to help him out. The ghost surveys the salesman's territory for potential customers and discovers five scantily-dressed prospects.

Das Stacheltier - aber genau!

1965 • 5 min • East Germany, Germany

Electrician Liercke from the service combine is on his way to a customer. He is accompanied by his secretary, Anna Naß, who uses a stopwatch to record every movement of the foreman, with the corresponding travel surcharges and complications (broken doorbell - knocking like this). The tenant, who has repaired the damage himself, is prepared to pay the job costs, but not the sums that the secretary has calculated for the individual activities of the electrician before the actual work. When the customer asks to see the price list, he is told: "It's still being printed!" He hands Mr. Liercke 2.22 marks in coins. The missing 20 mark bill "will also be printed first".

Lola of My Life

1965 • 30 min • Mexico

Dolores, an innocent country girl, arrives as a maid to a rich house, where she meets a street vendor with whom she falls in love, until the dangers of the city catch up with her.

Springtime for Samantha

1965 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Samantha, beloved by Spring, is captured by a butterfly hunter.

Fire of Waters

1965 • 10 min • United States of America

Black atmosphere, with depth-enhancing points of light, broken into shades of dim silhouettes by the ephemeral cloud-glow of lightning.

Chelsea Bridge Boys

1965 • 31 min • Sweden

About a group of "Rockers" who belong to a British motorcycle club. Included are interviews with both male and female bikers. The film is largely based on candid interviews where the bikers respond to questions about politics, society, freedom and independence.

Dim Dam Dom: Marguerite Duras and Little François

1965 • 11 min • France

Broadcast once a month, Dim Dam Dom was a TV variety show on the second channel of French public television agency ORTF made up of a series of short sequences presented by one–off guest presenters. On the 30th of April 1965, Marguerite Duras interviewed François, a little seven-year old boy. Duras asked him what he thought about the inventions of the future, school, the usefulness of TV, "Belphégor" and talking horses. Francois answered the writer’s cunning questions with humour, candour and poetry.

Mr. Pedestrian

1965 • 12 min • Finland

Oh Dem Watermelons

1965 • 12 min • United States of America

Commissioned by the San Francisco Mime Troupe as a short to be screened during intermission for its rather infamous 1965 Minstrel Show (Civil Rights from the Cracker Barrel), which assaulted racial stereotypes by wildly exaggerating them. Scored by Steve Reich. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

28b Camden Street

1965 • 28 min • United Kingdom

A community of sculptors (and a potter) face crisis as their London NW1 studios are threatened with demolition.

Boy and Bicycle

1965 • 27 min • United Kingdom

A teenage boy plays truant from school, and spends the day riding around the town and the deserted beach on his bicycle, letting his mind wander as he imagines he is the only person in the world...

Two: Creeley/McClure

1965 • 4 min • United States of America

Two portraits in relation to each other, the first of Robert Creeley, the second of Michael McClure. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

Artists

1965 • 14 min • Czechoslovakia

Documentary portrait of the life of circus artists during their winter break.

Now!

1965 • 5 min • Cuba

Using morgue photos, newsreel footage, and a recording by Lena Horne, Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez fired off 'Now!', one of the most powerful bursts of propaganda rendered in the 1960s.

A Legend for Fountains

1965 • 16 min • United States of America

A sombre day in the city. "A Legend for Fountains" is the 16-minute version, "A Fable for Fountains" the 6-minute version.

J.S. Bach: Fantasia in G minor

1965 • 10 min • Czechoslovakia

A man plays the Bach piece of the title on the organ, accompanied by images of stone walls with cracks and holes that grow and shrink, intercut with images of doors and wire-meshed windows.

Tease for Two

1965 • 6 min • United States of America

Daffy Duck goes to a forest on a gold hunt, and his treasure map indicates the presence of gold in a hole occupied by two polite twin gophers.

Marguerite Duras interviews Jeanne Moreau

1965 • 11 min • France

Duras interviews an exhausted Jeanne Moreau, addressing her friend as vous, despite the fact "the two were close friends for many years, living in neighbouring houses and cooking for each other from the early ‘60s.

The Dream Merchant

1965 • 3 min • United States of America

A dance of eclectic objects. A play of demented dolls, wheels, and geriatric clocks.

In Separation

1965 • 5 min • United Kingdom

In Separation - of what from what? Sound, image; cause, consequence; people? The breaking apart of a relationship is exteriorised far beyond the taut emotional inner worlds of a young Brighton couple in this highly concentrated, sharp 60s short.

Screen Test [ST286]: Barbara Rubin

1965 • 4 min

Barbara Rubin, posed against a white wall and brightly lit from the right, smokes, shifts position constantly, glances around, leans forward to put her cigarette out, and gazes off into space. Near the end of the film, she smiles broadly at people off-screen.