All Films

Mediterranean Cruise

1964 • 48 min • United States of America

Ludwig Von Drake looks at countries around the Mediterranean Sea. In Portugal it's the Corrida festival, village singers in Italy, In Africa; the tribes of nomads. Finally, Sardinia; a fishing fleet and Sicily; a festive parade and dance.

Raggedy Rug

1964 • 7 min

Loopy pretends to be a wolf rug that Quincy "hunted" in order to avoid Quincy's wife, Genevieve, to bicker about him not doing anything impressive.

Trouble Bruin

1964 • 7 min

Loopy, under the company name of Jealous Lovers Anonymous, helps Braxton again with his mad crazy jealous streak to win over his girlfriend, Emmy Lou.

Tempo libero

1964 • 9 min • Italy

Avantgarde short by Brass.

Police Precinct: Missing Person

1964 • 58 min • Japan

Two people disappeared, engineers of the companies Yamato Matsui and Koyama. The two worked overtime, and it is proven that they consumed alcohol together. According to the sushi restaurant employee who delivered an order around 9 p.m., the two were arguing loudly. Traces of blood were found at the scene, and it looks like a murder occurred. The Investigative Department begins an investigation… The 24th work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.

Police Precinct: Confession

1964 • 58 min • Japan

The corpse of a debt collector, Sakai, is found in the Dobu River in Tokyo. Kinoshita, a shoe shiner who was in debt to Sakai, was soon apprehended. During interrogation, Kinoshita said that he was the one who killed Sakai. However, after a while, he admitted that he lied, because he thought that in prison he could eat plenty of rice for free. The investigation established that Sakai was a repatriate from Manchuria, and after returning to Japan, he had a wife, Rie Kawai. The investigation begins the search for Rie... The 23rd work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.

Absolute Majority

1964 • 19 min • Brazil

The documentary depicts the everyday of illiterate rural workers in Northeast Brazil, living under extreme misery. Although incapable of writing, they are aware of their condition and qualified to proposing solutions they hope for to their problems.

The Tattooed Police Horse

1964 • 48 min • United States of America

Barred from racing for breaking stride, a trotting horse finds a new career as a police officer's mount in Boston.

Fumiko's Five Benefactors

1964 • 28 min • France, Japan

A greedy Japanese barmaid serves her aged escort too many noodles.

Tender Hearted Tiger: Max Baer

1964 • 25 min • United States of America

A documentary film about the life and career of one-time Heavyweight boxing champion of the world Max Baer.

Phoebe

1964 • 28 min • Canada

A young, unmarried teenager finds herself pregnant. The film mirrors the state of her mind as she worries about the possible positive and negative reactions of her parents, boyfriend, etc in a series of vignettes.

The Cat Above and the Mouse Below

1964 • 6 min • United States of America

Tom, famous baritone Signor Thomasino Catti-Cazzaza, enthralls a concert audience with his rendition of "Largo al factotum", from Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia", while Jerry strives for sleep under the stage.

Song 5

1964 • 5 min • United States of America

SONG 5: A childbirth song (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

The Verdict

1964 • 59 min • United Kingdom

A racketeer, deported back from America, faces murder charge and hatches jury rigging plot with accomplice. Cross and double-cross follow.

Ingreen

1964 • 12 min • United States of America

Dorsky’s three earliest works (made when he “entered the realm of poetic filmmaking as an active maker”), all sound films, with dailies for two later works shot on precious Kodachrome stock.

The Peaches

1964 • 16 min • United Kingdom

A film fantasy concerning the adventures of a modern girl whose passion for peaches is eventu­ally replaced by a very different type of passion.

The Polo Grounds: Requiem for an Arena

1964 • 52 min

Documentary about the history and imminent demise of the Polo Grounds ballpark in New York. Hosted and narrated by actor Horace McMahon, it was filmed during the winter of 1964 at the now abandoned stadium. The film looked back at its history from its opening in the 19th century, to its glory years as the home of the New York Giants baseball team and its final two years as the home of the amazing (and not in good way) New York Mets - as well as other famous events that took place there, such as football contests and boxing matches.

The Scrolls

1964 • 25 min

Robert Wynne-Simmons' most ambitious early film has surreal overtones of 1960s series such as "The Prisoner" and "The Avengers".

Convicts

1964 • 12 min • Italy

The short registers a sports spectacle of great importance (probably of soccer). We never see the spectacle itself but the people watching and reacting at the stadium.

La metamorfosis

1964 • 51 min • Venezuela

Gregor Samsa tries to get up to go to work, but realizes that during the night he has turned into a gigantic insect. Venezuelan adaptation based on Jorge Luis Borges' translation of Franz Kafka's novel.

Pink Pajamas

1964 • 6 min • United States of America

Night has fallen, and the Pink Panther is looking for a place to sleep. A flop house denies him access, but he fortunately finds a key on the ground that gives him entry to a man's home, in which the Pink Panther helps himself to the man's shaving equipment, electric toothbrush, and bed. The man, a drunk, arrives home after one of his binges and, casting eyes on the pink feline in his bed, thinks he's having an alcoholic hallucination. He calls Alcoholics Anonymous to send someone to help him quit drinking. A man from A.A. throws all of the drunk's booze bottles into a garbage can, and they sit down to share a carton of milk. Then, both men see the Pink Panther walk past them! Befuddled, the two men rush to find the Department of Sanitation truck carrying the bottles of booze. After what they've seen, a drinking spree is in order!

False Hare

1964 • 6 min • United States of America

Big Bad Wolf and his nephew create a club for rabbits, Club del Conejo, to try to catch Bugs Bunny.

Bethune

1964 • 59 min • Canada

A film biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and with the North Chinese Army during the Sino-Japanese War. In Spain he pioneered the world's first mobile blood-transfusion service; in China his work behind battle lines to save the wounded has made him a legendary figure. This hour-long documentary film pieces together his remarkable career.

Daylight Robbery

1964 • 57 min • United Kingdom

Three children are locked in a store by accident. They help catch a gang who break into the store the same day in order to get to the bank next door.