All Films

Cheers

1963 • 6 min • United States of America

A short film by Joseph L. Anderson. Part of the 'Bluegrass Trilogy'.

Hinterland Who's Who: Loon

1963 • 1 min • Canada

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces viewers to the loon.

The Color Walls

1963 • 15 min

A poetic Turkish documentary

The Troubles of the Late K.K.

1963 • 17 min • Yugoslavia

The unexpected death of the insignificant and modest official Krste Krstevski, a tenant and unmarried man all his life, surprises his colleagues and acquaintances. Only then is he able to avenge their petty plots, and it can even be said that his real life begins after his death.

Erna

1963 • 2 min • Yugoslavia

A two-minute poetic micro-manifesto of ecological and social warning about the endangerment of people and the world's nature in the 1960s.

Pandanus Pedunculatus

1963 • 6 min

Synopsis Part of a series of four studies the Cantrills made of the native flora of the Stradford Island, this one focusing on the Pandanus Pedunculatus.

Method 1

1963 • 28 min • France

In 1962, in the small town of Marvejols, young technicians from the RTF are trained to what can and should be direct cinema. “Liberate the camera, be able to throw it into the human space, into life.”

Banksia Integrifolia

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 Integrifolia.

Simulation of a Two-Gyro Gravity-Gradient Attitude Control System

1963 • 2 min • United States of America

This film was a specific project to define how a particular type of satellite would move through space.

Tokaido Shinkansen

1963 • 49 min • Japan

Documentary of the construction of the Tokaido Shinkansen rail line, the technology involved, and how it functions

Montage V: How to Play Pinball

1963 • 6 min • United States of America

Vibrant, bursting with color (shot in the late, and much lamented Kodachrome) and ringing with bells and whistles, Wayne Sourbeer’s ode to the joys of the lowly pinball machine is a visual feast; Colored balls whiz, clink, and crash across the laminated landscapes. Dim bulbs illuminate the gaudy caricatures that stare back at the player. Neon lights flash in streaks of hot pink, red, and blue.

One Hundred Hours of May

1963 • 20 min • Greece

A documentary on the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis, by a political group of the extreme right.

Cinema Impresa

1963 • 5 min

Short by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo.

Refund My Tuition Fees

1963 • 39 min • Soviet Union

A former student of a private gymnasium comes to the head master after 18 years to get back the money he once paid for his education.

Beware of the Bottle

1963 • 17 min • Yugoslavia

The effect of alcohol on driving behaviour illustrated through an intense road sequence and its tear-jerking aftermath.

Labyrinth

1963 • 51 min

Labyrinth is an opera in one act by composer Gian Carlo Menotti. The work was commissioned for television by the NBC Opera Theatre and uses an English language libretto by the composer. Unlike Menotti's previous television operas, such as Amahl and the Night Visitors, this opera was written with no intention of being moved to live stage performance later. Menotti intended for this work to utilize the special effects unique to television which could not be recreated in live theatre. As a result, NBC's television production of the opera was the only performance the work had received until Ventura College mounted a production in June of 2020, directed by Brent Wilson. After its March 3, 1963 broadcast the opera was mainly criticized by the press for its trite use of allegory and music which rejected the avant-garde in favour of romanticism.

Space Science: Comets, Meteors, and Planetoids

1963 • 10 min • United States of America

Shows how the spectroscope, radio and optical telescopes are used to provide information about the origin of comets, meteors and planetoids. Special effects show the meteor shower of 1833, the approach of Halley's comet and the movements of planetoids.

How do we follow the rules of the road?

1963 • 16 min

"This rediscovered film directed by Slavomir Popovici (under his Romanian name, Miron Slavu) was made on command of the Capital's Militsiya. The movie starts from the playful premise that two undisciplined pedestrians are in charge of the city's traffic. Popovici uses this opportunity to stage an anarchic choreography in the city's centre, the film being closer to an avant-garde study. Just like in The Plant, the director abandons linear dramaturgy and chooses to make a playful exercise, a cinematographic exploration of movement and space."

Jackpot at Tahoe

1963 • 25 min • United States of America

Assignment Four documentary film made by KRON-TV which first aired on September 16th 1963. Narrated by Art Brown, it examines tension caused by conflicts in interest between preservation of Lake Tahoe's recreational areas and rapid development of the gambling industry in South Lake Tahoe (which was incorporated as a city in 1965). Includes scenes featuring: Lake Tahoe and the surrounding countryside; people enjoying leisure time at Harvey's Wagon Wheel Resort and Harrah's Club casinos; stars like Sammy Davis Jr. performing on-stage and a glimpse of circus performer Emmett Kelly, Sr. in his dressing room. Also interviews with: Harvey Gross; William Leadbetter; William F. Harrah; Dean Seeger and the editor of the Tahoe Times. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.

Dzieci z rampy

1963 • 10 min • Poland

Jewish children who survived Auschwitz, now adults, talk about growing up under the care of Polish families.

The Coast

1963 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A poetic documentary observation of everyday life in a Latvian fishing village, where centuries-old traditions and wind-hardened men and women live alongside the optimism of new construction and the smiling faces of the new generation.

Sounding the Surface

1963 • 12 min

This short film on the waters of Switzerland does not show conventional landscapes. Without literary commentary, only by means of image, rhythm and music, it tries, on the contrary, to make the life of an element, water.

Jerry

1963 • 3 min

David Brooks’s black & white portrait of fabled underground filmmaker and collagist Jerry Jofen.

Crossbow

1963 • 9 min • Poland

Bolek and Lolek repeat the legendary shot to an apple. Bolek places an apple on Lolek's head and shoots a crossbow.