All Films

Sabath

1964 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

Short experimental 16mm film.

Free Fall

1964 • 10 min • Canada

An experimental film from Arthur Lipsett, Free Fall is an assortment of film trimmings assembled to make a wry comment on humankind in today’s world. It evokes a surrealist dream of our fall from grace into banality. (NFB.ca)

Hunting Party

1964 • 41 min • East Germany

A treatise on racism. Shot in a forest in Brandenburg, it uses a Western look to portray the hunt for a Black man.

Smiles

1964 • 10 min • United States of America

A short film by John G. Avildsen.

Village Sweetness

1964 • 47 min • France

Documentary about a small village near Le Mans, commented by the village school-teacher.

The Hall of Lost Steps

1964 • 12 min • Czechoslovakia

In a series of juxtaposed images and sounds, Jaromil Jireš comments on the tragic premature death of thousands as well as their posterity due to the atomic bomb.

The Solid Gold Girl

1964 • 50 min • United States of America

While searching for the man who framed him for a crime he didn't commit, Harrison Destry (John Gavin) stumbles into a town where an old cell mate of his is being tried for robbery and murder. The outlaw has hidden the loot and offers to reveal the location to Destry, but instead provides the location to Patience Dailey, a gold digging saloon singer played by Tammy Grimes.

The Frozen Moment

1964 • 31 min • Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America

Created for the "Esso World Theater" series of films in 1964, it features excerpts from "Bugaku," "Gagaku," "Noh, " and "Kabuki" scenes performed by the well-known dancers, musicians and actors and actresses.

South Bank

1964 • 13 min • United Kingdom

This fascinating 60s tour catches London's South Bank in the middle of a cultural metamorphosis.

Accidents Will Happen

1964 • 6 min • United States of America

Swifty tries to con Shorty with an accident policy.

Batman Dracula – “Ivy and Blood”

1964 • 5 min

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

War and Pieces

1964 • 6 min • United States of America

After another failed series of attempts to catch the ever-elusive Road Runner with a grenade, a bow, a rope, invisible paint, and a gun disguised as a peep show, Wile E. Coyote uses a rocket to chase after the bird. The rocket goes off course, crashes through the earth and sends Wile E. to China where a Chinese Road Runner greets him.

Screen Test [ST107]: Ruth Ford

1964 • 4 min

Ruth Ford has been placed in three-quarter profile against a white background, under instructions to keep still and try not to blink. With her head held high, she maintains her pose, only occasionally raising an eyebrow or blinking briefly. By the end her eyes are filled with tears from the effort.

On the Road : A Document

1964 • 54 min • Japan

Japanese documentary from 1964 directed by Noriaki Tsuchimoto. The film focuses on the taxi drivers of Tokyo in the year before the Tokyo Olympics and the difficulties they face: construction obstructing traffic, poor working conditions, numerous accidents, and bad pay. It becomes a critique of a changing and modernizing urban Japan.

Rushes for ‘The Illiac Passion’

1964 • 12 min

Preserved by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

American in Paris

1964 • 30 min • United States of America

The owner of a travel agency in Paris tries to help fellow Americans in trouble.

Weather or Not

1964 • 6 min

The Ghostly Trio want to go out "booing" in bad weather, so they send Casper out to check the forecast.

Alf, Bill and Fred

1964 • 7 min • United Kingdom

This is a short film about a man, a dog and a duck who enjoy bouncing together.

Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare

1964 • 6 min • United States of America

Bugs and the Tasmanian Devil battle it out in a jungle hospital, with Bugs convincing Taz that he's sicker than he thinks.

The Diary of a Nobody

1964 • 41 min • United Kingdom

Ken Russell's silent film treatment of the 19th century comic novel by the Brothers Grossmith - George and Weedon. Starring Bryan Pringle, Avril Elgar and Murray Melvin. Adapted by Ken Russell and John McGrath. First shown on BBC2 at 10.10pm on Saturday 12th December 1964 - as part of the 'Six' strand.

My Tale Is Hot

1964 • 60 min • United States of America

The devil emerges from the ground in a suburbanite's garden and tries to tempt him with a variety of naked women.

Dizzy Gillespie

1964 • 22 min

This is Les Blank’s earliest music film, focusing on the renown trumpet player, Dizzy Gillespie, who along with Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rollins and others sparked the change from traditional Jazz to “Bebop” in mid-1940s America. The film includes rare images of Gillespie playing on his famous bent horn and talking about his beginnings, as well as his theories about music.

Changing Landscapes

1964 • 22 min • France

A sophisticated and beautifully constructed account of landscape change in and around Paris in the early 1960s. The film raises complex issues about the meaning and experience of modern landscapes and the enigmatic characteristics of features such as canals, pylons and deserted factories. Rohmer also explores the role of landscape within different traditions of modern art and design and refers to specific architects, artists and engineers.

The Kurt Clausewitz Case

1964 • 22 min • Soviet Union

In the liberated village, in the premises of an orphanage, they find the case of a German soldier who took pity on Soviet soldiers and was sentenced to death.