All Films

Lighthouse Keeping blues

1964 • 6 min • United States of America

Chilly Willy goes face to face with lighthouse keeper Smedley for constantly disrupting his sleep.

The Magic Touch

1964 • 6 min

Casper tries to help The Great Foozini perform his magic act.

Concerto Erotica

1964 • 6 min • Denmark

An animated film about sex -- regarded from a more humorous point of view than usual. (DFI)

Love

1964 • 4 min • Japan

A short experimental anime about a woman desperately in love. Made by Yoji Kuri, a well-known Japanese indie animator.

The Poet's Eye

1964 • 20 min • United Kingdom

A tribute to William Shakespeare devised by Geoffrey Buckland-Smith and made in connection with the quatro-centenary celebrations. Spoken extracts from Shakespeare's works (read by Stephen Murray) blend with visuals of scenes in Britain today which illustrate his references to countryside or childhood, and the sea or to the taverns and trades of London. Includes sequence of Olivier as Henry V and is accompanied by period music on the lute by Desmond Dupré.

Selkirk of Red River

1964 • 28 min • Canada

This film tells the story of the Red River settlement, now the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The pioneer venture of Thomas Douglas, Earl of Selkirk, to establish a colony brought opposition from the North West Company, the Hudson's Bay Company’s powerful rival. A fine cast of actors portrays the ensuing dispute.

The Legend of Two Gypsy Dogs

1964 • 48 min • United States of America

Two carefree dogs in Hungary come to the attention of an old fisherman. Later they free a hawk from a cage, and he joins them. They have adventures with a flood, a wild boar, and a cheetah.

ABC - Spelling Africa

1964 • 7 min • Denmark

Africa-related animals and things are spelled and illustrated with Bent Barfod's wonderful animations. A for Africa, B for banana, C for chimpanzee, D for dromedary... The text was improvised by children from Den Lille Skole in Lyngby. (DFI)

Kabuki: The Classic Theatre of Japan

1964 • 30 min • Japan

Planned by The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, this film presents the most famous and popular Japanese Kabuki performed by Kabuki actors.

Spook-a-Nanny

1964 • 6 min • United States of America

The third cartoon from the show titled "Halloween Party," a special 23-minute episode of "The Woody Woodpecker Show," this was made for television. (The two other short cartoons in this episode were previously released theatrically.) This is the final appearance (to date) of Homer Pigeon. This is the final appearance (to date) of Andy Panda. This was the only made-for-TV Woody Woodpecker cartoon in "The Woody Woodpecker Show"; the only other made-for-TV cartoons in the program (except for the framing segments) were the 1960 Sam 'n Simian pilot "The Jungle Medics" and the 1963 Space Mouse pilot "The Secret Weapon."

A Rebel's Fortress

1964 • 26 min • Japan

A chronicle of the eight-year battle against the construction of the Matsubara dam at Ogunimachi Shimouke, Asogun, district of Kumamoto. Tomoyuki Murahara constructs the “beehive fortress,” the point of reference for the protest movement opposing the decision to expropriate land.

Cheyenne Autumn Trail

1964 • 19 min

Structured as a complementary social and historical companion piece to John Ford's final western Cheyenne Autumn (1964), this documentary short intersperses clips from the big-screen epic with background information about the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1878–1879 and contrasts it with life on the Cheyenne reservation in 1964, as a tribal chief, a tribal beauty queen, and a tribal adolescent take a drive along the route of the 19th-century trek.

Byzance

1964 • 11 min • France

Byzance uses a text by Stefan Zweig to describe the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453. Before he turned to feature filmmaking in 1968 with Naked Childhood, Pialat worked on a series of short films, many of them financed by French television. Byzance is one of Pialat’s six Turkish shorts.

Face of a Stranger

1964 • 53 min • United Kingdom

A man released from prison falls in love with the blind wife of a cellmate, whom he promised, when inside, to visit. He poses as the real husband, planning to kill him, but finds the wife is not so innocent as he thought.

A Rag, a Bone, a Box of Junk

1964 • 45 min

Walt hosts a look at his cartoons' stop-motion techniques. Using assorted everyday objects, Disney and two of his assistants demonstrate animation techniques. Prof. Ludwig von Drake offers a dissertation on hi-fi and popular music.

Rhythm 'n' Greens

1964 • 32 min • United Kingdom

Short film starring and featuring the music of The Shadows

Skinfolks

1964 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody is freezing and hungry, too. To get warm, he burns his furniture and begins to burn pages from the family album... till he comes across one of his Uncle Scrooge Woodpecker. He goes to visit Uncle Scrooge in hopes of a handout and finds his house guarded by 10 crocodiles. Even worse than the crocodiles is Uncle Scrooge.

The Road Map

1964 • 28 min • France, Italy

Centers on a band of hookers who listen to their pimp and seek out old men in retirement villages. They convince the old fellows to marry them so they will not be forced to leave the city. Unfortunately for the pimp, the delighted geezers will not allow their brides to work.

The Unknown

1964 • 48 min • United States of America

After two women poison the blackmailer who has been tormenting them, they wind up at the house of a blind man whose eccentric guest believes he has built a working time machine. Soon, the blackmailer is back to torment them all.

Joseph Kilian

1964 • 38 min • Czechoslovakia

The story is about Harold, an isolated figure in an overwhelming world of totalitarian bureaucracy. Harold tries to find the elusive Joseph Kilian, an old acquaintance, in Prague. When Harold stumbles across a state-run cat-lending store, he impulsively rents a feline for the day. Later, he attempts to return the cat and finds that the store no longer exists. Now with a furry companion, Harold continues his search for Kilian. Written and directed by Pavel Juracek, this 40 minute film effectively aims its allegorical shots at personality cults and the absurdities of a totalitarian regime.

Stop-over Forever

1964 • 59 min • United Kingdom

The flight attendant Sue Chambers becomes frightened for her life when she discovers that one of her coworkers was killed because the murderer thought he was killing her. Her fear does not prevent Sue from looking into the matter and trying to learn the killer's identity.

Deep Freeze Squeeze

1964 • 6 min • United States of America

Marooned on a ship in wintertime, Chilly Willy and Smedley try to eat one another.

Born of the Wind

1964 • 23 min • United States of America

A tender and realistic story of a scientist who falls in love with a mummy he has restored to life.

The Crunch

1964 • 52 min

A megalomaniac dictator, in charge of a former colony, installs a nuclear bomb in its London Embassy. He threatens to set it off, unless a huge ransom is paid. The question for the government is whether he will set it off anyway?