All Films

Screen Test: Marisol

1964 • 4 min

Marisol has been posed against a light-coloured background and carefully lit from left and right. Her face emerges from the dark mass of her hair. The film is slightly out of focus throughout. At one point she glances off-screen, then resumes her gaze into the camera.

When the Storks Fly Away

1964 • 60 min • Soviet Union

Christian Luka, an old wine grower, lives alone in the village of Redu Mare. Upon learning that it was decided to demolish the old vineyard in order to plant new vines in its place, Christian loses heart and decides that it's time for him to give way to the young ones. The chairman of the collective farm, understanding the mood of the old man, preserves his vineyard. And again the old man prunes the vine. The work rejuvenated him, filled him with new vitality. He no longer shuns people, but takes an active part in their lives and affairs. He realized that a person should not live in isolation from people, that his immortality lies in the good deeds that remain after him.

Re-entry

1964 • 7 min • United States of America

"In Re-entry he successfully synthesizes the Yogic and the cosmological elements in his art for the first time by forcefully abstracting and playing down both of them..." P. Adams Sitney

Hully Gully

1964 • 3 min • France

Before music videos, there were scopitones (a popular music jukebox/viewing machine). This is a strangely homoerotic scopitone featuring the French singer Line Renaud and many, many shirtless men.

The Wedding

1964 • 21 min • Soviet Union

A young man keeps meeting the same girl with a violin again and again. Is it his destiny?

A Scrap of Paper and a Piece of String

1964 • 4 min • United States of America

Animated story about the rivalry that develops between two friends, Paper and String, because of their different abilities. In the end, both friends realize that they have unique talents. Soundtrack includes dixieland music

Gegner nach Maß

1964 • 5 min • East Germany

The scissors cut out a little man with huge boxing gloves from black paper. The boy comes to life and is immediately convinced of his punching power. So he grabs the scissors himself and cuts out a huge opponent to demonstrate his strength. He makes a complete fool of himself in the process. It doesn't help that he cuts his opponent smaller and smaller and finally even sticks him down with glue. Although he adorns himself with the laurels of victory at the end, it is clear that he is just a ridiculous paper hero.

Singing Fishermen of Ghana

1964 • 14 min • Ghana

This film documents work songs of a fishing community in Ghana

Stream

1964 • 15 min • United States of America

The meanderings of a mountain stream are followed for a few miles. Recorded on 8mm Kodachrome and "cluster" edited to create a highly formal, fugal experience.

Jungle Green: Borneo

1964 • 29 min • United Kingdom, Malaysia

This programme follows the lives of a group of British soldiers from 40 Commando Royal Marines, as they set up camp and patrol the North Borneo jungle, in search of elusive groups of Indonesian border terrorists.

Judy and Liza at the Palladium

1964 • 54 min • United Kingdom

This classic show was one of Judy's last appearances at the historic Palladium Theatre in London. This unforgettable night also marked a young Liza Minelli's first public stage performance with her legendary mother. Witness Garland's exquisite talent as she performs the most-loved songs of her career while a budding Liza Minnelli more than holds her own offering a glimpse of the performative talent that would eventually launch a stunning career of her own.

Nicotiana

1964 • 14 min

The tobacco industry in Portugal through time and the full process, from plantation of seeds to its vanishing in smoke.

Songs of the Coalfields

1964 • 14 min

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

Kirin Lemon no 'Otenki Mama-san' no Commercial Eizou

1964 • 3 min • Japan

Kirin brand stop-motion commercials made by Tadanari Okamoto that aired at the start and end of Otenki Mama-san's show on TBS.

Painters of the Baltic Coast

1964 • 20 min • Poland

This film shows the artistic milieu at the Baltic Coast formerly knows as the “Sopot School”. In the film we can only see the remnants of this group, the individual artists, the differences and similarities between them, as well as the inspiration they draw from the environment of the coastal city.

The Little Misses

1964 • 25 min • France

Four young girls' love of boys put their newly opened all-services company in peril.

The Children of Museum

1964 • 7 min • France

The workshop of painting, modeling and sculpture for children under fifteen, at the Museum of Decorative Arts, rue de Rivoli (1st arrondissement). Pierre Belvès, creator of the workshop, animates the work of the children. A report from the magazine "Chroniques de France", produced for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for dissemination abroad.

Wir spielen Hochzeit

1964 • 19 min • East Germany, Germany

The story of a love affair: from meeting and the great ease at the beginning to everyday married life and separation at the end. Documentary observations (of passers-by on the street, newly in love, first without, then with children) and dramatized scenes (of marriage and divorce) are mixed, casting different actors in the roles of the man and woman.

New Year's Night

1964 • 10 min • Poland

The mystery of the New Year's night told from three different points of view. A caretaker, a chimney sweep, and a postman visiting female tenants on several floors experienced it in a different way.

Singing and Dancing on the Lake

1964 • 16 min • China

One beautiful autumn night, fireflies, bees, praying mantises, butterflies, frogs, small fish, shrimps, etc. gathered together for a singing and dancing party. The curtain opened, the fireflies gave off colorful lights, and the textile girl and Jin Lingzi played nice music. After the show, the main character, the big swallowtail, snatched away all the flowers presented by the red dragonfly.

The Elms

1964 • 19 min • United States of America

"THE ELMS was my first sound film, in 1964, made after the assassination of JFK. I hoped that the title might bring to mind the American Elm tree, which was seen to be doomed by way of disease. The assassination of Kennedy in 1963 was a tremendously emotional blow and omen of things to come. The whole country watched the funeral ceremonies play out on TV, and I taped everything I could of those events – music, words, prayers, the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald , and more. I needed to make a film that would incorporate some of those sounds, but I also wanted to introduce other components. Some people assumed I was making an homage to JFK. That is not the case. I think it should be clear that what I was concerned about was the evolving state of our nation." –Abbott Meader

Bartholomew Versus the Wheel

1964 • 6 min • United States of America

The story of Bartholomew, a dog who hates wheels, as he grows from a puppy to a very large dog.

Water Supply To The Garden

1964 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Nature can be generous for rains and at warm times it covers the ground with dew, feeding plants and small insects. But sometimes it is time of drought. At such times you can sit and wait for the mercy of nature, or you can, as is done in this cartoon by insects and a frog, build a system capable of saving all living things around.

In-Side-Out

1964 • 17 min • Germany

“In-Side-Out” is the debut film by US beat poet George Moorse, a wildly colorful pop poem. The film critic Enno Patalas described “In-Side-Out” as a “fantastic abracadabra and erotic delirium” and considered it the best West German film at the 1965 Oberhausen festival. “In-Side-Out” was also the LCB's first film production: the cheerful and colorful kaleidoscope of romantic love, told as an associatively swirling sequence of images.