All Films

A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput

1964 • 11 min • Japan

A super-real comedy with Sho Kazakura. The film is divided in to a number of very short scenes or chapters, each with a title "A,B,C" at random. we see him lame in a crowd, see him running up stairs, see him absolutely naked, watch him urinate, etc. An anthology of discontinuous happenings and events.

Little Stork

1964 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Kids rarely listen to their parents ' opinions, and storks are no exception. The Stork did not want to learn to fly — maybe it was afraid, or maybe it was lazy. Once the stork fell out of the nest, and could not climb back. It is dangerous on the ground for a small child who cannot fly. A lot of adventures and difficulties little Stork, a big Crane helped to learn to fly and the stork returned to its parents.

Nuts and Volts

1964 • 6 min • United States of America

Sylvester Cat turns to automation in hopes it will help him catch the fastest mouse in Mexico, Speedy Gonzales. He builds a robot to chase Speedy around their house, but Speedy outsmarts Sylvester's new mechanical stooge, reducing it to a heap of scrap metal.

Casals Conducts: 1964

1964 • 20 min • United States of America

While at his workshop in Puerto Rico, Pablo Casals prepares to conduct a Bach suite for a concert performance. Oscar Winner for the category "Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects". Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Solange in Our Countryside or Very Little for Me, the Sun

1964 • 26 min • Canada

In a lonely setting, a teenage girl dreams. She is bored, manifests childish rebellions: her nascent personality rears up and asserts itself. "Be our star," suggests a director of women's pages. What will this flight to the world of work bring to Solange?

Batman and Robin

1964 • 2 min • United States of America

Vickie Vale, who has the combination of the Gotham City National Bank has been kidnapped by The Mask and his henchmen. Batman and Robin attempt to rescue Vale, but Batman is rendered unconscious and Robin is taken prisoner by the gang. The gang have escaped in a car, with Batman following on foot. Eventually, batman catches up, frees Vale and Robin, and they fight the bad guys. The Mask throws a hand grenade at Batman, who catches it and throws it back, destroying The Mask.

Veteran Car Rally, Brighton

1964 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Vintage vehicles on parade in this amateur film record of the longest-running motor event in the world.

Blow Job

1964 • 35 min • United States of America

Andy Warhol directs a single 35-minute shot of a man's face to capture his facial expressions as he receives the sexual act depicted in the title.

No se culpe a nadie

1964 • 1 min • Argentina

A young man at the beach wearing a crucifix tries to put on his Argentina's national football team t-shirt but it suffocates him

Time Is

1964 • 29 min • United Kingdom

Produced by the Nuffiled Foundation of Unit for the History of ideas, Time Is, directed by Don Levy (Herostratus), is an experimental collage film looking at the scientific problems connected with the nature of time. Alternating between original and `found' footage such as newsreels, sports footage, nature photography, the film uses a number of techniques including slow motion, time-lapse and single-frame filming, negative imagery and juxtaposition.

I'm Going to Santiago

1964 • 15 min • Cuba

This black-and-white film is a loving portrait of Santiago de Cuba and its people. It provides a view of Cuba as a picturesque country, the product of an earthy mix of black and criollo cultures. The film uses historical images which portray the end of the eighteenth century when Haitian slave owners fled with their slaves to Cuba after the Haitian Revolution.

The Thieving Magpie

1964 • 11 min • Italy

A king and his hunting party shoot down birds. A magpie escapes the onslaught of arrows and wreaks havoc on the hunting party.

Haida Carver

1964 • 12 min • Canada

On Canada's Pacific coast this film finds a young Haida artist, Robert Davidson, shaping miniature totems from argillite, a jet-like stone. The film follows the artist to the island where he finds the stone, and then shows how he carves it in the manner of his grandfather, who taught him the craft.

Emma

1964 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Playing in a graveyard, a young girl is brought face-to-face with the adult world.

La Fin des étés

1964 • 28 min • Canada

In this short fiction film, Marie has been living in the midst of a nightmare since the accident of Bernard, her brother. Clinging excessively to this handicapped being, she wants to take charge of it. Étienne, her fiancé, has no taste for sacrifice. He reproaches Marie for languishing in her adolescence. Love will prevail. In a definitive gesture, Marie will free herself from the bonds that still held her back to her childhood.

Who Is Going to the Exhibition?

1964 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Puppet film for primary schoolchildren. It ridicules arrogance and a frivolous attitude towards work and praises the resourcefulness, hard work and ingenuity of children. The film uses drawings, toys and embroidery by children of the Central Palace of Pioneers.

The Iceman Ducketh

1964 • 7 min • United States of America

When Daffy hears that the Klondike trading post is paying good money for furs, Bugs' pelt becomes endangered.

Rendezvous

1964 • 13 min • India

A girl comes to Karla Caves to meet her lover planning to elope with him. She waits for a long time, but her lover does not turn up. All of a sudden, her attention is drawn towards a massive statue of a male and a female entwined in each other's arms. She feels as if the carved image is conveying the message of the noble relationship between man and woman. As she wanders about in the caves, she realizes that it is shameful and cowardly to run away with her lover. She has been transformed.

The Guns of James Bond

1964 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Short 1964 black-and-white documentary featurette hosted by Sean Connery and featuring the real-life inspiration for the character of Q, Major Geoffrey Boothroyd with a discussion of the gun weaponry used by James Bond.

Downfall

1964 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young wife

The Story of Rebecca

1964 • 33 min • France

An adaptation of Jan Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.

The Insects

1964 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Answers questions such as "How many kinds of insects are there?" "Do insects have blood?" "How can a fly walk on the ceiling?"

4xd

1964 • 12 min • France

In 1964, on the request of UniFrance, writer and director Philippe Labro filmed four young actresses – Mireille Darc, Marie Dubois, Catherine Deneuve, and Françoise Dorléac – in order to promote these young talents around the world. He took a free approach to the project, trying to capture the personality of each one, while also providing a vision of Paris as the quintessential backdrop of French cinema.

Zbigniew Namyslowski Quartet

1964 • 6 min • Poland

A documentary record of the stage performance of the piece titled "Piętawka" played by the Zbigniew Namysłowski quartet: the leader (alto saxophone), Włodzimierz Gulgowski (grand piano), Tadeusz Wójcik (double bass), Czesław Bartkowski (drums). The modern composition corresponds to the geometric, rhythmic stage design in the background. The film is part of a bigger project - a music documentary titled "Jazz in Poland" directed by Janusz Majewski.