All Films

The Wheel

1964 • 14 min • Greece

The adventures of a car tire in the Attica region, in Greece. The tire was unexpectedly released from the car and started wandering independently in various places

In Search of Innocence

1964 • 27 min • Canada

A questioning filmmaker from Québec finds out how Vancouver's poets and painters look at life and art. Among the people seen are sculptor Donald Jarvis, painters Jack Shadbolt, Joy Long and Margaret Peterson, and printmaker Sing Lim.

Forward, Side by Side

1964 • 52 min

An Albanian documentary

Screen Test: Freddy Herko

1964 • 5 min

1964 screen test of Herko running 4 minutes, 36 seconds in length.

Country Auction

1964 • 10 min • Canada

Household effects and farm implements under the hammer. Here is the auctioneer's cajoling patter, the jostling crowd, pungent observations from one or two old-timers and, over all, the kindly curiosity of folks who gather to see the end of a neighbour's life on the farm.

Screen Test: Grace Glueck

1964 • 3 min • United States of America

Reel 24, Test #9

Clacton Pier

1964 • 8 min • United Kingdom

The family enjoys a sunny but windy day on the pier in Clacton-On-Sea.

The First Adventures of Thud and Blunder

1964 • 3 min

Alongside more detailed instructional and safety films the National Coal Board also sponsored short items such as the 'Thud and Blunder' series. Here carton slapstick is used to create a humorous reminder of safety procedures rather than any detailed explanation.

Happy End!

1964 • 36 min • Switzerland

The imaginary journey of a little man, a little naïve, a little dreamer, who is thrown by chance into the mythology of the cinema, plunges the viewer into a poetic universe where reality and cinematic wonder create a constant equivocation between the wings and the stage.

Chile paralelo 56

1964 • 31 min • Chile

The last surviving natives of the Llaganes and Alacalufes tribes can be seen on the canals of southern Chile.

Lappajärvi – Pohjanmaan helmi

1964 • 46 min • Finland

Presentation documentary film about Lappajärvi municipality and local culture from 1960's.

Song 2

1964 • 2 min • United States of America

SONGS 2 & 3: Fire and a mind’s movement in remembering (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

Magic Christmas Tree

1964 • 60 min • United States of America

A boy is given a ring by an old witch, he uses the ring to bring upon a magic Christmas that grants him 3 wishes.

Istanbul

1964 • 13 min • France

All of Pialat's Turkish films are uniquely interested in the country — especially Istanbul — as it was, not just as it is at the precise moment that Pialat is filming it. History informs these films in a big way, with the voiceover narration (which incorporates excerpts from various authors) introducing tension between the images of the modern-day city and the descriptions of incidents from its long and rich history. Istanbul is probably the most conventional documentary of Pialat's Turkish series, providing a general profile of the titular city, its different neighborhoods, and the different cultures and ways of living that coexist within its sprawling borders. As the other films in the series also suggest, Pialat sees Turkey, and Istanbul in particular, as a junction point between Europe and the East, between the old and the new, between history and modernity.

Mountain Vigil

1964 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Poetic film about the struggle of man's will and muscles against nature, about the rock-climbers who prevent landslides and eliminate their consequences.

František Hrubín

1964 • 9 min

A short film on writer and poet František Hrubín.

The Mountain

1964 • 14 min • Poland

The viewers visit a school located high in the Tatra mountains, in the village of Zaczerczyk. There are only few students there. Teachers arrive at the place every day, including the film's protagonist, a young woman.

Break

1964 • 10 min • Poland

A primary school break is a great opportunity to observe children's behavior. Contrary to the film title, school breaks are full of sounds and voices, small and big dramas.

New Deeds on the Roadside

1964 • 15 min • China

Xiaoliang, a child, was waiting on the grass near the bus station and found a bag of money wrapped in red paper. He was worried that the owner would need it urgently, so he immediately chased the bus that had just left.

Canon

1964 • 10 min • Canada

Perhaps the only film whose content is totally based on the musical form known as canon. The first sequence is a simple demonstration of the canon "Frere Jacques" where four cubes dance and combine with one another on a checkerboard. The second sequence show four little human-like figures dancing in space. The third and most elaborate sequence shows a human going through several strange gesticulations. Through multiple printing we realize that the man, as in the previous sequences, is part of a visual canon and is making the gestures to himself. As we hear variations on the canonic theme so too do we witness visual variations: a woman and cat enters the canon. To show the musical technique of inversion, the image of the man is printed upside down.

The Posthumous Honors to the Distinguished Authors

1964 • 10 min • Mexico

The posthumous ceremony to honor Mexico's national anthem's authors.

From Heaven to the River

1964 • 17 min • Portugal

This short film, probably commissioned by the Hidro-Eléctrica do Cávado, shows several aspects of the dams’ network construction in that hydrographic basin, with a commentary read by Fernando Pessa. “Do céu ao rio” was premiered at the Odéon cinema in Lisbon, on January 29, in 1964, but it is in a more fragile heritage situation since its original image negative is not located.

Scandinavia: Norway, Sweden, Denmark

1964 • 21 min • United States of America

This film provides contrasts and similarities among the three countries. In Norway, Deneen visits with a fishing family from the small city of Alesund, in Denmark, with a farm family, and in Sweden, with the family of a glassworker. The countries are contrasted in terms of natural resources and reliance on trade.

Chagall

1964 • 25 min

Oscar Winning documentary short film about the artist Marc Chagall. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.