All Films

Bear Knuckles

1964 • 6 min

Braxton needs Loopy's help with getting rid of a big buff bear named Jack Delightful, who won his girlfriend, Emmy Lou's love.

The End of Summer

1964 • 27 min • Canada

A 16 year old girl recalls the last moments of her summer vacation, spent with friends in the Laurentians north of Montreal. She reminisces about their talks on life, death, love, and God. Shot in direct cinema style, working from a script that left room for the teenagers to improvise and express their own thoughts, the film sought to capture the immediacy of the youths presence their bodies, their language, their environment.

140 Days Under the World

1964 • 33 min • New Zealand

140 Days Under the World is a 1964 New Zealand short documentary film about Antarctica. It depicts one summer's work by New Zealand scientists in the Ross Dependency in the Antarctic and the exploration of some of the last unmapped regions. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

The Story of a Dress

1964 • 5 min • United States of America

This short film looks at the extensive wardrobe department that clothed the casts of MGM films into the 1960s.

Bela Bartók

1964 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A portrait of the life and work of the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exploring both his music and his passionate interest in his country's folklore.

To the Fair!

1964 • 28 min • United States of America

Promotional film extolling the wonders to be seen at the New York World's Fair.

The Last Chimney-Sweep

1964 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Estonian/Soviet animation short from 1964

Tel Katzir

1964 • 14 min • Israel

A documentary produced by Histadrut about Kibbutz Tel Katzir. Although modest in size, Tel Katzir stands in the center of a border conflict between Israel and Syria. The kibbutz, located in the demilitarized zone between the countries, is a frequent target of Syrian attacks. Between one attack and the next, Tel Katzir members lead their work, family, and cultural life.

The Shoplifter

1964 • 20 min

This film details the techniques used by amateur and professional shoplifters to steal over $6 billion in merchandise annually. Emphasizing how much of this stealing could be prevented ... A convicted shoplifter displays stealing methods under actual conditions and explains how employees could have prevented the thefts.

Pardon My Brush

1964 • 60 min

Two dimwitted house painters are hired to paint an apartment hotel. It turns out that the hotel's residents consist entirely of beautiful women. The two painters inadvertently mix vanishing cream into their paint, and discover that when they paint the walls they become transparent, allowing then to observe the girls doing their daily "routines"--exercising, showering, etc.

The Flip Side

1964 • 30 min

An investigation of the business side of the music industry which includes a live performance of the Rolling Stones in concert and interviews with pop stars.

Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph”

1964 • 5 min

One of four finished Batman Dracula shorts shown publicly by Warhol.

Max Ernst: Journey into the Subconscious

1964 • 12 min

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal founders of Surrealism, Max Ernst explores the nature of materials and the emotional significance of shapes to combine with his collages and netherworld canvases. The director and Ernst together use the film creatively as a medium to explain the artist's own development.

The Winter Footage

1964 • 42 min

A film by Ken Jacobs made in 8mm

Mods and Rockers

1964 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Groovy young hipsters get down at a coffee bar before tensions erupt at the Vicar's crypt-kicking dance party, where a mod girl gets involved with a rocker boy.

An Untitled Film

1964 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A BFI production from 1964, directed by David Gladwell, who is best known as an editor of films like Lindsay Anderson's If.... (1968) and O Lucky Man! (1973). This short was shot at 200 fps, depicting a series of pastoral scenes from a British farm, edited to produce a suggestion of violence in contrast to its visual beauty.

Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps

1964 • 45 min • France

An overview of Luis Buñuel's career. Includes an interview with the filmmaker.

Fu

1964 • 3 min

"Fu" is one of two rolls Warhol shot for Couch that includes heterosexual sex, albeit with two men and a woman. Features the trio of Rufus Collins, Kate Heliczer, and Gerard Malanga. Unused in Couch.

The River of Diamonds

1964 • 36 min • France

A young woman is seduced by a wealthy diplomat, who leaves her his business card and arranges to meet her. She goes to a jeweler and, using the card, asks to finalize a jewelry sale at her supposed husband's home. The jeweler arrives while the diplomat is taking a bath and is greeted by the young woman, who offers him tea.

Encounter with Fritz Lang

1964 • 14 min • Germany

Interview with Fritz Lang on the roof of Villa Malaparte on Capri during the filming of the fictitious film "Odysseus" and the filming of "Contempt" by Jean-Luc Godard, in which Fritz Lang plays the role of an old film director. During the interview, excerpts from the Lang films "The Nibelungen", "The Tired Death" and "M" are shown.

Woody's Clip Joint

1964 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody is getting his hair cut at the local barber when suddenly, said barber walks right out on him (it's his lunch break)...

You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You

1964 • 14 min • United States of America

Description by D.A Pennebaker: "This movie is something of a mystery. Timothy Leary was getting married to a model named Nena Von Schlebrugge up in Millbrook, New York at the Hitchcock house, where Leary had been carrying on his hallucinogenic revelries for the past year or so after leaving Harvard. It was rumored that this was going to be the wedding of the season, the wedding of Mr. And Mrs. Swing as Cab Calloway put it. Blackwood took me downtown to meet Monte Rock III who was singing at Trudy Heller’s but who was also a very pricey and off-the-wall hairdresser and was in fact going to be doing the bride’s hair. Nena’s brother, Bjorn, known as the “Baron” was a friend of the Hitchcock’s, as was I, and the idea of going along and filming the wedding seemed not unwarranted. I’ve always wanted to film someone getting married."

Summer in Mississippi

1964 • 27 min • Canada

Documentary on the murder of civil rights activists Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner

The Great Steam Fair

1964 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Co-directed by innovative British filmmakers David Gladwell and Derrick Knight, The Great Steam Fair is a beautifully crafted documentary filmed at Shottesbrooke Park, Berkshire in 1964 at a nostalgic event which brought together many traditional fairground rides and steam engines. The film skilfully combines the techniques of traditional sponsored documentary with the new approaches of the direct cinema movement.