All Films

Before Hollywood There Was Fort Lee, N. J.

1964 • 40 min

Amazing, but true: Fort Lee, New Jersey (just across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan), was once the epicenter of American film production. This documentary of a truly bygone era combines photographs culled from private collections, as well as restored footage from such films as Thomas A. Edison's Rescued from an Eagle's Nest and D.W. Griffith's The New York Hat, filmed at the studios in Fort Lee.

Strange Sightings

1964 • 36 min

A short produced by and staring forgotten UFO eccentric Frank E. Stranges making the case for ufology and interviewing several other odd balls.

The Cock Crows at Midnight

1964 • 17 min • China

Chinese puppet fable.

Archie

1964 • 43 min

Archie is the 1964 unsold pilot based on the Archie comic book series. The whole gang is included, Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead, Reggie, Mr. Weatherbee, Ms. Grundy… William Schallert (most notably the dad in The Patty Duke Show) plays Archie’s dad and Jean Vander Pyl (Wilma’s voice in The Flintstones) plays the mom.

Electronic Processes - In Crystal and Living Organism

1964 • 26 min • Japan

Cameraman Yonesaku Kobayashi (1905-2005) is a pioneer of scientific films of Japan. He and producer Sozo Okada made many scientific educational films, and in 60's - 70's, many avant-garde composers composed music for these films.

Sõnadeta lugu

1964 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Visions of late night city bustle and one stray cat's meeting with a domestic kitty. The wordless story is narrated by colourful sounds.

In This Atrocious Garden

1964 • 17 min • France

This short documentary film is conceived as a stroll through the valley of Thebes and the temple of Karnak.

The Museum

1964 • 2 min

An advert made by Walerian Borowczyk for a French pasta company. After everybody has left the museum, the paintings can finally come alive and help themselves to some pasta for dinner.

About Face

1964 • 5 min

An early short by Paul Morrissey featuring close-ups of Karen Holzer as she walks one direction and then the opposite.

Greedy's Loss

1964 • 19 min • Mongolia

This fairy-tale-themed movie tells about the emotional world of two rich and poor people, quoting from the folk proverb, "When greed becomes too much, you become a witch."

Screen Test [ST323]: Susan Sontag

1964 • 4 min

Screen test of Susan Sontag.

The Red and the Black

1964 • 6 min • Poland

Two shades of paint are pitted against each other in a bullfight that spills self-reflexively from the page into the animator’s studio

Nippon Express Carries the Olympics to Tokyo

1964 • 43 min • Japan

A documentary focusing on the things and animals necessary for the Olympics in Tokyo in 1964.

Peace, little girl

1964 • 1 min • United States of America

"Daisy," sometimes known as "Daisy Girl" or "Peace, Little Girl," is a controversial political advertisement that aired on television during the September 7, 1964 telecast of David and Bathsheba on The NBC Monday Movie. Though only aired once by the campaign of Lyndon B. Johnson, it is considered to be an important factor in Johnson's landslide victory over Barry Goldwater and an important turning point in political and advertising history. It remains one of the most controversial political advertisements ever made.

Hassanlou Cup: The Tale of the One Who Asks

1964 • 20 min • Iran

Story of the Hassanlou chalice, which becomes the story of Halladj.

Screen Test: Alan Soloman

1964 • 4 min

Screen Test of Alan Soloman

Screen Test [ST282]: Barbara Rose

1964 • 4 min

Screen test of Barbara Rose.

The National Water Carrier

1964 • 18 min • Israel

A film produced by the Hasbarah Center in collaboration with Mekorot, Israel’s national water company. Two million work days, of engineers, contractors and of course laborers, allowed the completion of the first part of Israel’s National Water Carrier, an ambitious aquaduct carrying water from the sea of Galilee to population centers and arid regions. The film outlines challenges that faces the builders of the aqueduct: the paving of canals, the creation of a dramatic siphon, allowing the water to cross the Canyon of Nahal Ammoud, the creation of a reservoir at Nahal Tzalmon, etc.

Window

1964 • 10 min • United States of America

The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior scene. The zoom lens rips, pulling depth planes apart and slapping them together, contracting and expanding in concurrence with camera movements to impart a terrific apparent-motion to the complex of the object-forms pictured on the horizontal-vertical screen, its axis steadied by the audience's sense of gravity. The camera's movements in being transferred to objects tend also to be greatly magnified (instead of the camera the adjacent building turns). About four years of studying the window-complex preceded the afternoon of actual shooting (a true instance of cinematic action-painting). The film exists as it came out of the camera barring one mechanically necessary mid-reel splice

Thud and Blunder in "Knock-Off Time"

1964 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Thud and Blunder learn what not to do while in a coal mine.

Pot au feu

1964 • 10 min • United States of America

Short humorous snippets of marijuana use.

Swinging U.K.

1964 • 27 min • United Kingdom

Alan Freeman, Brian Matthew and Kent Walton present the 'Top Of The Pops' of 1964 with performances from The Four Pennies, Millie, The Merseybeats and The Migil Five.

Screen Rest: Steve Stone

1964 • 3 min • United States of America

Reel 24, Test #8

The Olives

1964 • 24 min • Greece

short film that was shown at Thessaloniki International Film Festival, in 1964