All Films

Hollywood: The Great Stars

1963 • 55 min

Host Henry Fonda follows the creation of the star system with Mary Pickford in the Silent Era through its demise in the early Sixties.

Gymnastic Performance

1963 • 9 min • Yugoslavia

A short documentary directed by Milivoje 'Mića' Milošević in collaboration with cinematographer and animator Nikola Majdak. This film marked Milošević's directorial debut and focuses on Miroslav Cerar, the renowned Slovenian gymnast and Olympic champion. The documentary is notable for its artistic portrayal of Cerar's gymnastics routines, blending athleticism with a choreographic sensibility.​

Saint Jane

1963 • 7 min • Czechoslovakia

Elo Havetta's student film.

In an Old Neighborhood

1963 • 9 min • Cuba

Affectionate, experimental short documentary that paints a mosaic of Cuba by focusing on a microcosmic "old neighborhood", where the country's personality slowly emerges through its various dualities: young and old, day and night, sound and silence, Christianity and Santería, civilian life and military presence, poverty and abundance.

Report from the Zavoj Village

1963 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

About the events from the beginning of 1963, when the sudden outburst of earth blocked the course of the Visočica River in the southeast of Serbia and flooded the village of Zavoj.

Ten Seconds that Shook the World

1963 • 60 min

This film is a factual and chronological account of the events preceding the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II and the significant effect of the atomic bomb on peacetime projects and events of the atomic age.

Catch A Tiger

1963 • 23 min • United States of America

Catch A Tiger is an educational film that shows some of the spontaneous results in music, dance and art when the nursery school child's innate creative forces are permitted to find expression in a favorable environment. The audio records the children exploring the sounds of instruments, rhythmic language and song. Part one, was recorded and filmed at the Griffin Nursery School at Berkeley, CA, Elinor Griffin Teacher-Director Part two filmed at the South Mountain Cooperative Nursery School at Millburn, New Jersey, Blanche Dorsky Teacher-Director From Nathaniel Dorsky: Catch A Tiger, which showed the activity in two nursery schools that experimented with allowing four year olds to improvise in music and visual constructions and assemblages. I was inspired to do this by my mother, Blanche Dorsky, whose nursery school was one of the two presented.

The Plant

1963 • 18 min

"Filmed at "May the First" plant in Ploiești withe the occasion of the International Labor Day, The Plant is presented as a universe in itself, one which materialises the consubtantiality between social and technologic progress. Popovici felt his film must be a poem that can match the size of its subject. Thus, it became a juxtaposition of "cinematographic ideas related to one of the largest plants in the country". Inspired by soviet avant-garde, the director searches for a revolutionary aesthetic, one able to capture the rupture caused by the New Socialist Order. "

I Mostri [Episodi Inediti]

1963 • 35 min

Unreleased episodes from "I Mostri" with Ugo Tognazzi as protagonist.

Our Summer

1963 • 19 min • Soviet Union

A short movie about a summer adventures of a boy and his dog illustrated with a lot of documentary scenes about a life of a children in Lithuania during sixties.

Thanatopsis

1963 • 5 min • United States of America

Power saws and a heartbeat score this experimental light-and-color shot by Ed Emshwiller.

General Rehearsal for Suicide

1963 • 3 min • Sweden

A surrealistic montage of pop culture that attacks the followers of the genre.

La Rose et le Barrage

1963 • 15 min • France, Spain

A parallel montage of the construction of a dam in Galicia and the architecture of a small Roman-style church.

Les Habitations Jeanne-Mance

1963 • 13 min • Canada

Documentary on the revitalization of a housing complex in a working class neighborhood of Montreal. Modern housing has now replaced the old, sagging and overcrowded houses. There is fresh air, light and hope. Habitations Jeanne-Mance, a bold way to renovate a city: a perfect example of the collaboration that can exist at the federal, provincial and municipal levels.

Panels of the Porto

1963 • 20 min • Portugal

Made by commission of the Porto City Council, Panels of the Porto is a visual essay on the city, gathering sequences filmed between the river and downtown, commented with the reading of poems by authors like Vasco de Lima Couto, Egito Gonçalves, Rosália de Castro, Pedro Homem de Mello, Fernando Pessoa, and António Reis himself, with music by Francisco Rebelo.

Bunty the Bouncing Bassoon

1963 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Part of George Moreno's 'The Merry Music Shop' series.

How We Elect Our Representatives (Second Edition)

1963 • 10 min • United States of America

Shows that the functional basis of our democracy is the election system. Discusses registration, primary and general elections, the impact of television on campaigns and the use of voting machines.

The Solitary Billionaire: J. Paul Getty

1963 • 54 min • United Kingdom

Alan Whicker interviews billionaire J. Paul Getty, who discusses reports of his meanness, his unsuccessful marriages, why he keeps working, and what he's had to sacrifice to become the world's richest man.

Dissent Illusion

1963 • 11 min • United States of America

Experimental film made by the husband and wife duo. The human form takes center stage, while The Electrosoniks (Philips Recording 600-047) set an other-worldly tone.

I Was a Kapo

1963 • 27 min • Poland

A former inmate of the Auschwitz concentration camp, accused of being a kapo, is serving a life sentence. From the monologue to the camera, we learn the story of an average man destroyed in terrible times.

Tisza: Autumn Sketches

1963 • 17 min • Hungary

The first signs of autumn are seen in a landscape along a river. Some villagers are stacking a bed of stone blocks on the river-bank to avoid more eroding. Others are occupied by ploughing, fishing or repairing. A small steamboat passes by. In the engine room a stoker is shovelling coal into the oven. Further down the river a small town is passed by the water. A rowing-team is training for coming races. Some biologists are looking at microbes from the water through a microscope. A group of workers are painting a new barge and push it into the river. When a small boy sees a racing boat, he leaves his sand-castle and runs along the river.

The Food Cycle and Food Chains

1963 • 10 min • United States of America

Uses animation and live action photography to describe good food chains, almost all depending ultimately on green plants, and relates these food chains to the larger concepts of the oxygen-carbon dioxide and the nitrogen cycles, and to the unending pattern of life, growth, and decay which is known as the food cycle.

Elvis at Ferus

1963 • 4 min

A short documenting Andy Warhol’s exhibition of silk-screened Elvis paintings at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. As Warhol spins around with his camera, multiple Elvises seem to march across the screen.

The Long Lost Life of Edward Smalley

1963 • 45 min

20 years after a Second World War court-martial, a vet pulls a gun on the ruthless attorney who defended him, when the cynical mouthpiece, who doesn't even remember his former client, refuses to see him. So the shaken gunman recounts the story of accidentally fragging his commanding officer.