All Films

Banksia Serrata

1963 • 6 min

Part of a series of four studies the Cantrills made of the native flora of the Stradford Island, this one focusing on the Banksia Serrata.

The Send-Off

1963 • 20 min • Soviet Union

While shooting a documentary about a 'Komsomol' class who all went to save a struggling kolkhoz, the filmmakers also shot mud, broken tractors, flooded fields. The film turned scandalous and was not screened, because of it allegedly being anti-Soviet: defamatory of collective farming.

Barbican Regained

1963 • 17 min • United Kingdom

A thoroughly intriguing look at the Barbican area as it was starting to be redeveloped to become The Barbican we know today.

Xiao Tai Yang

1963 • 31 min

"Xiao Tai Yang" (1963) was the first children's sci-fi film in New China. It follows a group of science-loving kids who, with scientists' help, develop a satellite to launch a small artificial sun, ending a harsh winter. During the Cultural Revolution, the film was condemned as 'poisonous,' and director Wang Minsheng (王敏生) was persecuted. It was only rehabilitated after the revolution.

Exotic Nippon

1963 • 8 min

This 1963, color travelogue film shows "Exotic Nippon" with a focus on Tokyo and its various sights and entertainments. Although only two decades have elapsed since Japan's defeat in WWII, the nation is revealed to be prosperous and modern.

Biography of a Rookie: The Willie Davis Story

1963 • 53 min

Film portrait of young Willie Davis as he successfully attempts to break into the Major Leagues.

Life of Oil

1963 • 20 min • Iran

This film is a product of the National Iranian Oil Company, which can be considered one of the first documentaries in the field of Iranian economy.

Text I

1963 • 3 min

The Films Text I and Text II were likewise developed from randomly generated mathematical series; Text II is a pure permutation, Text I arose from the storage program of a computer. The words chosen were required to have the same meaning and spelling both in German and English.

The Double Bass

1963 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

A journey of a double bass which found itself floating on the Danube river. After its owner ditched it outside a bar after drunken night, an old musician and his grandson recovered it from the water, but this is only a temporary episode in the instrument's life before it is abandoned again.

[An Interview with Ingeborg Tölke]

1963 • 7 min • East Germany

Ingeborg Tölke recaps her filmic biography, explains its elaborate technical conditions and talks about future core themes. She was presumably responsible for several short intermission films for Deutscher Fernsehfunk as well as a commissioned educational film. Until old age, she explored the possibilities of macro shots and time-lapse technology, which became her trademark.

Waiting For Work

1963 • 43 min • United Kingdom

Politically passionate and one of the first working class reporters at the BBC, Jack Ashley wanted to show the suffering caused by high unemployment in Hartlepool. With no work, no prospects, and little money, Ashley asked how the unemployed reacted to their situation in an increasingly affluent society.

Essartage et cérémonies rituelles chez les Cau Maa’ (centre sud Vietnam)

1963 • 23 min • France

On the highlands of South Vietnam, the cultivation of mountain rice (paddy) brings more than food to men, it is incorporated into the animist religion of these mountain proto-Indo-Chinese tribes (with recording of traditional songs in the mountain language).

Experimental Film

1963 • 28 min • Canada

Documentary short, directed and edited by Arthur Lipsett in 1963 for the National Film Board of Canada

Coutume et techniques traditionnelles du peuple cau maa

1963 • 29 min • France

A tribe from South Vietnam lives in the forest and through the forest. In villages, throughout the year, mountaineers, by various techniques, make what they need. The film presents the techniques related to pottery, sparterie, basketry, forging, weaving, housing construction, etc. (recording of traditional songs in the mountain language).

Axırıncı namaz

1963 • 18 min

Short film from Azerbaijan SSR

Bamako, i ni tye

1963 • 13 min • France

Scenes from daily life in Mali, filmed in the streets of Bamako and on the banks of the Niger.

Maternity Care - Labor and Delivery

1963 • 37 min

This film is intended to explain to pregnant women whose babies are soon to be born what to expect from the labor and delivery experience. It addresses how to distinguish false labor from true labor, when to pack a bag for the hospital, what procedures will be carried out to prep the woman for delivery, the types of anesthetic a doctor might order, and techniques for minimizing discomfort. Changes in the cervix and uterus are illustrated with animation techniques, while the birth of the baby, including episiotomy and use of forceps, are shown in a real hospital room.

Animated Paper Sculpture

1963 • 2 min • United States of America

Circa. mid to late 1960s. If one thing has to amp up their game, it has to be creative. It needs to think outside the box. Enter Siegbert Reinhard, a paper sculpture artist. The folks at Cascade Pictures, made all kinds of animation, 2D, stop-motion, and paper cut-outs.

Forgotten March

1963 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

Short documentary.

Dangerous Games

1963 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

Inspired by the teen rebel genre popular at the time, the film portrays a boy peer pressured into taking a wild ride in a stolen car that leads to tragic consequences.

How Flowers Make Seeds

1963 • 9 min • United States of America

Examines the lily to identify the parts of a flower and show how it functions in the production of seeds. Pictures a variety of other flowers and compares the flowering plants to some non-flowering plants.

Eclipse at Grand'Mère

1963 • 6 min • Canada

This six-minute short documentary captures the eclipse of July 20, 1963, in the small town of Grand-Mère, Quebec. The eclipse was plainly visible and attended by scientists, stargazers, and an influx of visitors who came to see it and join in the accompanying festivities.

Manifesto

1963 • 4 min

A spirited declaration of a personal credo, painted on film. "This film uses animation created by Richard Preston and designed to fit music composed and played by jazz drummer Max Roach to express man's beginning, struggles, and joys" (US National Archives). The film was distributed by the US Information Agency (USIA), though it is unclear if they had any other role producing or funding it.

The Riddle of Sweden

1963 • 29 min

The Swedish people, nature and culture, the welfare, social and health care. Swedish inventions, industry international projects. Swedish beauty and design.