All Films

The Bone Yard

1964 • 58 min

Extraordinary things happen at an ordinary police station.

The Cherry on the Top

1964 • 56 min • United Kingdom

A comic play set against the background of the Air Force.

Sérénade pour Mojacar

1964 • 11 min • France, Spain

Short film made in Spain.

Is There a Doctor in the Mouse?

1964 • 7 min • United States of America

Jerry mixes and drinks a high-acceleration potion which renders him so fast that he eats all of Tom's food before the bewildered cat can even see him.

Mülheim on the Ruhr

1964 • 14 min • Germany

This dialogue-free short is edited to music and the rhythms of change in a small town in the Ruhr region, shot a few years after the first mining pits were closed in the area. Nestler takes his audience on a journey through mining pits, coal heaps, cold stores, and to workingmen settlements and pubs of Mülheim.

Jewel Face

1964 • 6 min

(Now) famous sculptor artist George Herms displays drawings on butcher paper as the filmmaker’s daughter plays with colors of light.

Tetsujin 28-gou: The Birth

1964 • 25 min • Japan

Recap of episodes 1-11 of Tetsujin 28-gou, originally broadcasted between episodes 11 and 12 as a New Year special.

Ravi Shankar Plays a Raga

1964 • 17 min

Ravi Shankar plays the sitar, while members of the Children's Little Theatre Unit of Calcutta dance. Presents a montage of scenes from 20th-century India. A segment from "India, Haunting Passage," part of the "Esso World Theater" program of 1964.

In Shape with Von Drake

1964 • 48 min • United States of America

Prof. Ludwig Von Drake returns for another of his interesting treatments of two favorite subjects: sports and fitness. He illustrates his points through the use of several Goofy cartoons.

Jeremelu

1964 • 2 min • United States of America

A rapid montage collage featuring Jack Smith and a Warholian kiss.

On the Trail of the Iguana

1964 • 14 min • United States of America

Behind the scenes documentary of the filming of Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana.

The Enchanted Prince

1964 • 6 min

Wendy helps Casper remove a spell from a prince.

Memory

1964 • 6 min • Japan

This is a short, privately produced animated film. While elucidating the mystery and fuzziness as well as merits and demerits of memory in idealizing reality, the story develops into a tale of destruction of human beings, turning the existence of the earth into a memory of the universe. The production, only 5 minutes long, greatly helps expand the viewer's imagination, embodying the enchantment of animation.

Dionysus

1964 • 28 min • United States of America

In 1963 Boultenhouse wrote, produced, and directed Dionysius,which he described as a “free treatment of Euripides' The Bacchae.”It starred the dancers Louis Falco, Anna Duncan, and Nicolas Magallanes as Dionysius, Agave, and Pentheus respectively, and the experimental filmmakers Charles Levine, Willard Maas, Gregory Markopoulos, Marie Menken, Lloyd Williams and William Wood as the Chorus of Cameras. The film's score was by Teiji Ito.

The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour

1964 • 60 min • United States of America

Portrait of Queenie

1964 • 44 min • United Kingdom

Film profiling actress and singer, Queenie Watts as she entertains at her London pub.

The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse

1964 • 7 min • United States of America

Tom enjoys the role of top cat until an adorable red-and-white-haired kitten is brought into the house of a young blonde woman.

Much Ado About Mousing

1964 • 6 min • United States of America

When a bulldog tells Jerry to "just whistle" any time that he needs him, Tom's in for big trouble until he puts earmuffs on the mutt.

A Texas Romance, 1909

1964 • 20 min • United States of America

The film recreates the world of a small Texas town in 1909, based on photos and letters. It tells the story of a local mailman who falls in love, marries, and tragically loses his wife soon after.

Return to Oz

1964 • 51 min

Rather than adapt a later or create a new Oz story, this production has Dorothy still in posession of the shoes, and she clings to an apple tree during a tornado which takes her back to Oz. The Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion (using the names created for the nearly-abstract television series, Tales of the Wizard of Oz, from which this was derived) have had their MGM gifts destroyed by the restored Wicked Witch, and the four proceed to the Wizard for help, who is ineffectual as usual.

Children Out of Tune

1964 • 15 min • France

A young couple skip school to spend time together in a mansion.

Ôkami shônen Ken: Obake-girai: Jungle saidai no sakusen

1964 • 50 min • Japan

Film by Yoshio Kuroda & Isao Takahata

The Hutterites

1964 • 28 min • Canada

A look at the Hutterites, an Anabaptist religious community similar to the Amish or the Mennonites in rural Alberta.

Couch

1964 • 58 min

The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch, visitors to the Factory were invited to "perform" on camera, seated on the old couch. Their many acts-both lascivious and mundane-are documented in a film that has come to be regarded as one of the most notorious of Warhol's early works. Across the course of the film we encounter such figures as poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, the writer Jack Kerouac, and perennial New York figure Taylor Mead.