All Films

The Small Tent

1963 • 8 min • Chile, France

Documentary filmed during the shooting of “À Valparaiso” which shows the children’s reactions to the performance of a circus show. “It is the tender gaze of a poet on the smallest circus in the world and his audience of children”.

In View: Six Days to Saturday

1963 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Directed by John Boorman for the In View series, this documentary follows Swindon Town F.C. through six days of training and preparation, offering an inside look at the rhythms and pressures of professional football life.

Girls from "Nawojka"

1963 • 14 min • Poland

A day in the life of women from the "Nawojka" Dormitory at the Cracow Jagiellonian University. In the 15th century, the patroness of the dormitory tried to study at the university disguised as a man. Today, more than 700 female students studying humanities or science live here.

Fast Buck Duck

1963 • 6 min • United States of America

Daffy Duck reads in the local newspaper that a millionaire seeks a loyal, entertaining, and trustworthy boon companion.

Where the Nation Begins

1963 • 10 min • Mexico

Tour of Piedras Negras and Ciudad Juárez, the most important gateways that Mexico has towards the United States, this tape is a record of a border line that marks the differences between one country and another.

We'll Never Turn Back

1963 • 29 min • United States of America

"We'll Never Turn Back" was filmed in Mississippi in 1963 during the dangerous voter registration drives of that era. Amzie Moore, a Mississippi NAACP activist escorted the film maker through rural Mississippi interviewing share croppers and activists in the voter registration campaign. Appearing in the film are Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leaders Julian Bond, Bob Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer, Charles McLaurin as well as other local civil rights leaders Curtis Hayes and Hollis Watkins. There are interviews with black farmers and share croppers on their experiences (often bloody) trying to register to vote.

The Windows of Heaven

1963 • 50 min • United States of America

As 85-year-old President Lorenzo Snow struggles to vanquish the two million dollar indebtedness of the Mormon church in 1899, he feels inspired to journey from Salt Lake City by train and carriage to St. George in southern Utah. Along the way he witnesses the effects of severe drought. The next day, in the St. George Tabernacle, he receives inspiration that by paying tithing, the "windows of heaven" will open, pouring out blessings. He promises the people that they can plant crops and rain will come, then continues to preach tithing as he returns home where he awaits favorable weather reports from St. George.

Birds

1963 • 14 min • Poland

Pigeon breeders (men mostly) are a special kind of enthusiasts. Their hobby includes an element of competition – a long-distance race of carrier pigeons.

The False Note

1963 • 10 min • Belgium

A day in the life of an organ grinder, down on his luck, who wanders the streets of Paris, dreaming of what might be. He can't help but crank out the occasional false note, just often enough to enrage his listeners and discourage any donations. He dreams of playing a large pipe organ. The juke box drowns him out at a cocktail bar, a church organ drowns him out on a street, pinball machines drown him out at Luna Park. The city's neon lights and commercial posters overwhelm his small art. At the end of the day, he captures the tear of a calliope horse - his sole earnings for the day - which may prove magical.

What Really Happened to Baby Jane

1963 • 31 min • United States of America

An early drag parody of WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?.

Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 1: The City - Heaven and Hell

1963 • 27 min • Canada

American historian Lewis Mumford looks at the city through history.

Le finestre

1963 • 11 min • Italy

Short fiction with clear influence from Pasolini’s films about a boy waiting in a room for the Juvenile Court verdict announcement in an hot summer day in Rome.

Holy Smoke!

1963 • 10 min

An animated film made by Walerian Borowczyk for W.D. & H.O. Wills. A very pompous cigar smoker reminisces about the good old days when the lower classes knew their place and stayed away from cigars meant only for the privileged. However, after he and his society for cigar smokers watch an advert by British tobacco importers W.D. & H.O. Wills explaining their successive methods of cigar-making, his elitist ideals are shaken.

Nudes & Nuts

1963 • 9 min

An artist decides to paint a couple of naked ladies.

The Song of Stone

1963 • 24 min • Japan

While extracting and polishing their blocks of stone, stonecutters used to say “the stone is coming to life". This paradox provided Matsumoto with the best metaphor for what making a film is all about. In his opinion, filmmakers work images in the same way that stonecutters work stones.

Bad Luck

1963 • 10 min • Poland

A Krzysztof Debowski Cartoon

Proxima Centauri Adventures

1963 • 20 min • East Germany

The leader of a group of young technicians tells us the story of the "Proxima Centauri Company", which may one day become reality. Four researchers are tasked with flying a proton rocket to our neighboring solar system Proxima Centauri, and analyzing living conditions on planet A 4. However, a mysterious black forest awaits them on the planet, the secret of which they can only uncover after dangerous and adventurous research work. However, they discovered a strong plant growth hormone that also promises great benefits for earthly agriculture. In this way, the researchers return to Earth with important findings.

Piraten auf der Pferdeinsel

1963 • 59 min • Germany, East Germany

Horst, a young boy from Berlin, spends his holidays with the "Pirates" at Horse Island. The teen gang is led by Horst′s friend Benno. Soon, Horst realizes that the pirates create a lot of nuisance. Gudrun, whom Horst meets on his way to the village, tells him that she has been attacked and injured by the pirates when she tried to observe a rare cormorant. Gudrun and Horst become friends. Since Benno is less than thrilled about this friendship, he plots a second attack on the girl.

The Age of Curiosity

1963 • 17 min • United States of America

Promotional film for Seventeen intended to show how well the magazine knows and serves its teenage audience. The film observes teenage girls at home, in school, at work and play, and alone and with friends, zeroing in on teen concerns about dating, marriage, and adulthood.

Shoppers Market

1963 • 22 min

UCLA Student Color Film. "a documentary film of marked lyrical and experimental tendency which was photographed and recorded in a L.A. supermarket. It consists of five sequences: 1) description of people 2) Comedy 3) choreographing natural movements 4) transformation fo visual reality 5) empathy". Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011. Filmed at Shopper's Market, Santa Monica, CA.

Welcome to Life, Little Love

1963 • 37 min

A self-portrait of the Van der Elsken family, with his heavily pregnant wife Gerda in the lead role. She is expecting their second child, and Van der Elsken portrays her in a kind of free cinema style in her everyday surroundings, in the living room of their house in Amsterdam’s Nieuwmarkt neighbourhood. The film is also a portrait of the energetic life of this neighbourhood, of which the Van der Elskens are an integral part.

Shell Spirit

1963 • 2 min

Directed by Geoffrey Jones.

Rebellion

1963 • 56 min • United Kingdom

Documentary telling of the revolutionary period in Ireland from 1913 to 1923 using archive film and photographs from the period.

Showman

1963 • 53 min

Albert and David Maysles (Gimme Shelter) directed this 53-minute documentary about movie tycoon Joseph E. Levine (1963). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.