All Films

21 Días

1963 • 13 min • Uruguay

It tells the story of a girl who must take her beloved hen to the market.

Drop Out

1963 • 25 min

Uses the case of a boy from Quincy, Illinois, who dropped out of school in the tenth grade to highlight the problem of school drop-outs. Includes interviews with the ex-student, his mother, his teachers, and other local educators to indicate some of the difficulties in assessing causes of drop-outs. Describes the attempts of society and schools to remedy the problem.

Histoire Verte

1963 • 3 min • France

“In Green / Gray Story, for the most part, [one saw] vertical streaks and textures, with patterns that flew by. It was partly washed film on which I etched and I drew elements after washing. I used color inks, but since I did not have the money to make color copies, I had the film printed in black” -PH.

Encounter

1963 • 23 min • Hungary

A man, a woman, an afternoon, a city, and an unspoken, hopeful desire to find love by way of the personal ads. A milestone of Hungarian cinema, Elek uses documentary techniques in a fiction context to make the frailty of everyday life as palpable as possible.

Moto-gas

1963 • 9 min • Poland

An experimental animation by Kazimierz Urbański about transportation. Combines various techniques: traditional cartoon film, cut-out, documentary photos, animation of objects, and effects caused directly on the tape.

Monsieur Albert, prophète

1963 • 24 min • France

Life in a community of Harist disciples in the village of Bregbo, Côte d'Ivoire, under the aegis of their "prophet" Alberto Atcho. 50 km from Abidjan, magician Albert Archo treats the sick, most of them mentally ill. Through a combination of public confession and the use of local medicinal plants, he achieves spectacular healing.

A Report to an Academy

1963 • 40 min

An ape named Rotpeter, who has learned to behave like a human, presents to an academy the story of how he effected his transformation.

La Demoiselle de Coeur

1963 • 30 min

The kings of the card game, tired of serving for the amusement of men, decide to participate in the lives of humans and behave like them.

New York City and Loft

1963 • 7 min

Compilation of fragments filmed by Jerry Jofen in New York City circa 1961-62.

Psychomontage

1963 • 11 min

Sexologists, psychologists, and proponents of sexual freedom, the Kronhausens here attempt to induce erotic response in the audience by carefully chosen visual stimuli and juxtapositions (aimed at both conscious and unconscious). Phallic symbols and open orifices, a tongue licking an orange, an unexpected finger entering the frame: almost any object or act, no matter how innocuous, the Kronhausens show, can be made to appear erotic, and reveals our predisposition towards ‘shaping’ visual evidence for purposes of erotic gratification.

The Girl With Long Hair

1963 • 38 min • China

There is a little Dong girl named Changfamei who lives at the foot of a desolate steep mountain. Once, Changfamei finally managed to get some water for her sick mother. She carried water through the old banyan tree and saw that the branches and leaves of the tree were withered and yellow, so she poured some water on the roots of the tree, and the old banyan tree immediately became green all over. Later, the long-haired girl found a spring on the cliff of a steep mountain. She was surprised and delighted. Suddenly, a black wind blew her into the eerie cave. The mountain demon threatened her not to tell anyone about the discovery of the spring.

Fejos Memorial

1963 • 20 min • United States of America

At first, the demolition of a biography. Shortly before his death, Fejos tells his life story. His voice, the melody of his Hungarian-accented English, his humour and his ability to tell stories lead us through the short documentation. Then it becomes an ethno-drama. The film travels from Sweden to Siam and poetically and powerfully shows how much work it is for a young couple to produce a handful of rice.

La traversée du port de Nice à la nage

1963 • 3 min • France

Swimming across Nice harbour fully clothed. Ben swims across a bay in Nice.

Kitchen

1963 • 16 min

A simple depiction of the work in the kitchen of a restaurant. Eric M. Nilsson and cinematographer Åke Åstrand attempt to get as close as possible to reality, without any commentary.

Omleiding November

1963 • 13 min

On a November day a man deposits a flower garland for his old car at the junk yard. But the place appears to be a labyrinth in which he gets lost.

Vom König Midas

1963 • 52 min • Germany, East Germany

On an open‐air stage, a small town’s Pioneers enact King Midas’s tale: granted by Bacchus the power to turn everything he touches to gold, Midas’s greed backfires when even food becomes gold. Desperate, he begs the god to reverse the gift, only to be left with donkey’s ears as a lifelong reminder.

Stop Laughing, This Is England

1963 • 20 min • United Kingdom

An amusing portrait of the English at work and at play in the industrial north of the country. Photographs by Henri Cartier Bresson. Broadcasted only once, in the cultural program Tempo, in 1963, on the ITV/ABC channel. The photographs filmed in the title box are cropped and augmented with tenderly ironic commentary on the English, inspired by Cartier-Bresson's notes for this commission.

Big City

1963 • 24 min • United Kingdom

A glimpse of London in 1963, viewing monuments, buildings, parks, museums, and the bustling life of the city.

A Boy Goes Cycling

1963 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Pedal power saves a dad's day in this colourful cycling safety film set in a sunny 60s South East London.

That Must Be a Piece of Hitler

1963 • 12 min • Germany

A short documentary in the form of a mock-info-travelogue of Hitler’s mountain retreats Berghof and the Eagle’s Nest at Obersalzberg in Berchtesgaden.

Hinterland Who's Who: Moose

1963 • 1 min • Canada

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

Pornoshop

1963 • 10 min

35mm short by Jens Jorgen Thorsen.

Boogie Rag Roll - Thunderclap Jones

1963 • 6 min • United Kingdom

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

The Vote

1963 • 10 min • United States of America

Emphasizes the importance of servicemen exercising their right to vote. Explains special provisions built into the voting statutes which enable men in the service to have their say in national and state elections. Shows how voting laws have been developed and refined over the years.