All Films

Song 8

1964 • 4 min • United States of America

SONG 8: Sea Creatures. The Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1963 to 1969.

In Prague

1964 • 16 min • Uruguay

Documentary short film by Mario Handler about the city of Prague as part of an internship to study film in Europe.

Reflex

1964 • 8 min

Experimental short featuring fashion photographer Bob RIchardson at work in his studio.

A Morning in Taipei

1964 • 20 min • Taiwan

There is no dialogue or narration in this "fake" documentary, which has the look of a real documentary, but actually uses actors to portray awakening residents of Taipei as they go about their morning routines. With the camera as our guide we see lively early morning markets, residents going to church, students practicing singing, people exercising, and others heading off to work.

Minutes

1964 • 16 min • Yugoslavia

Another early Aleksandar Petrovic documentary, done for Dunav film in 1964. It is made as a kind of a road movie through socialist Yugoslavia, registering numerous bizarre sites and events, with strong irony both in the selection of scenes and in the background commentaries. Originally filmed in 16mm.

Button

1964 • 8 min • Poland

Prosaic material - threads and buttons - is used to present the game of positional systems, the motion of matter, the actions of antagonistic forces.

Fashion For The Young Go-Getters

1964 • 6 min • United States of America

Dartmouth college boys review contemporary fashions.

Homology

1964 • 2 min • Japan

Short film for the "A Commercial for Myself" programme.

Le Télescripteur

1964 • 4 min • France

A "télescripteur" is a device in television control rooms which makes it possible to write credits, texts, mixed or not with other images, intended to appear on the television screen before being diffused. In this film, designed as a real interlude to interpose between television programs, a small character represents the "télescripteur".

Racial Integration

1964 • 40 min • Brazil

A comprehensive view of the situation of different ethnic groups in Brazil. In the testimonies gathered in the streets and neighborhoods of various capitals, black, white, mulatto, Portuguese, Italian and Japanese express their opinion and describe personal experiences involving relationship, racism, miscegenation and cultural exchange.

Life in Australia: Cairns

1964 • 20 min • Australia

A small city in the tropical north of Queensland, Cairns boasts a life that is leisurely and comfortable. The tempo quickens, however, at cane-cutting time when the sugar is harvested, and in winter when tourists come north to escape the cold. The Life In Australia series portrays Australian cities and rural centres as happy, lively places where good homes, abundant jobs, schools, hospitals and amenities provide the foundation for a relaxed lifestyle where sport, shopping, religion and even art combine to create a homogenous and prosperous society.

Best Regards from Bangkok

1964 • 15 min • France

A documentary short for "Five Columns à la une".

Tanrı'nın Bağışı Orman

1964 • 35 min • Turkey

When Chicago Was Hollywood

1964 • 50 min • United States of America

A documentary about the once-booming Chicago film industry, prior to the 1920s.

Screen Test: Harold Stevenson

1964 • 4 min

Screen test of Harold Stevenson.

Soldier in the Sun

1964 • 25 min • United Kingdom, Yemen

This informational programme follows the British Army in Aden (Yemen) during the state of emergency in 1964. Aden is one of the last outposts of the British Empire and a strategic part of the Arabian Gulf guarding access to the trade routes that flow through the Suez Canal. The British colony has become a hotbed of insurgency, and the film follows British troops as they try to keep order in an increasingly violent mountainous region from where the insurgents regularly attack the Port area.

The Sun

1964 • 30 min

The end of the 'Daily Herald' and the beginning of a new daily paper, 'The Sun'. Also a portrait of its first editor, Hugh Cudlipp.

Jugglers and Acrobats

1964 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Released as the accompanying short to The Beatles film, 'A Hard Day's Night', on its original theatrical run, this film takes a look at the arts of juggling acrobatics and spinning plates.

Camouflage In Nature: Through Pattern Matching (Second Edition)

1964 • 10 min • United States of America

Explains that many animals bear protective coloration that blends with their surroundings. Shows examples of such coloring on the bark moth, the tree frog, the ground squirrel, many birds and the young of many animals. Includes views of representative members of species which change their color to match their backgrounds, as well as those whose body outlines are broken by bold areas of contrasting colors.

Tåg i Afrika

1964 • 19 min

Filmmaker Bo Bjelfvenstam travels alone with his camera through Nigeria by train. The train runs from Kano to Lagos, a journey that takes 36 hours.

Birdie 3 Couch

1964 • 3 min

Binghamton Birdie (Richard Stringer) lounging in his underwear. An unused roll from Couch.

Screen Test [ST125]: Hal

1964 • 4 min

Hal looks sternly into the camera in a darkly lit room.

Trinidad & Tobago

1964 • 19 min

Directed by Geoffrey Jones.

Superbeldades

1964 • 49 min • Brazil

A very respectable journalist is in charge of choosing the Brazilian representatives who will participate in a world strip-tease championship in Paris. For this, he watches the various shows that make up this movie.