All Films - Short Movie Database

Yellowstone Cubs

1963 • 48 min • United States of America

Two bear cubs, Tuffy and Tubby, are separated from their mother and spend an entire summer romping through Yellowstone National Park. In the meantime, the mother bear follows their trail as she searches for them.

Hills Like White Elephants

1963 • 15 min • Soviet Union

A man and a woman are trying to solve a problem that is crucial to their relationship, but their ideas and beliefs have a different vision.

The Five Cities of June

1963 • 26 min • United States of America

The Five Cities of June is a 1963 American short documentary film directed by Bruce Herschensohn. This United States Information Agency-sponsored film details the events of June 1963 in five different cities. In the Vatican, the election and coronation of Pope Paul VI; in the Soviet Union, the launch of a Soviet rocket as part of the Space Race with the United States; in South Vietnam, fighting between Communists and South Vietnamese soldiers; in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, the racial integration of the University of Alabama opposed by Governor George Wallace; and in Berlin, President John F. Kennedy's visit to Germany and Rudolph Wilde Platz. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

The Most Ordinary Occupation

1963 • 12 min • Czechoslovakia

A short documentary film about the role of mathematics in society and industry, including the emerging field of computer technology.

The African Tale

1963 • 15 min • Soviet Union

A USSR animated short adapted from one of Jomo Kenyatta's fables.

The Masseurs

1963 • 20 min • Japan

Anma (The Masseurs) is a representative and historical work by the creator of Butoh dance, Tatsumi Hijikata in his early period in the 1960s. The film is realized not only as a dance document but also as a Cine-Dance, a term made by Iimura, that is meant to be a choreography of film. The filmmaker "performed" with a camera on the stage in front of the audience. With the main performers: Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, the film has the highlights such as Butohs of a soldier by Hijikata & a mad woman by Ohno. There is a story of the mad woman, first outcast and ignored, at the end joins to the community through her dance. Inserted descriptions of Anma (The Masseurs) are made for the film by the filmmaker, but were not in the original Butoh. The film, the only document taken of the performance, must be seen for the understanding of Hijikata Butoh and the foundation of Butoh.

Monsters and Madonnas: The World of William Mortensen

1963 • 35 min

This documentary stars Vincent Price and Jeanne Crain. It shows William Mortensen and George Dunham as well as Grey Silva in Mortensen's studio. It features most of Mortensen's famous pictures and chronicles his life.

Cooks

1963 • 11 min • Czechoslovakia

A documentary about the kitchen and chefs in the new Hotel International in Brno.

Mrs. Reynolds Needs a Nurse

1963 • 38 min • United States of America

Mrs. Reynolds Needs a Nurse is a popular and award-winning training film for nurses. The film documents a case study of an elderly lady who has been transferred to the university hospital in multisystem failure, accompanied by her husband and multiple suitcases of her belongings. Mrs Reynolds is a needy and demanding patient whose fears and anxieties are expressed by her annoying attempts to get attention, treating the nurses like servants and complaining about much of the care given to her. Mrs Reynolds' 8-month-long hospitalization showcases the importance of individualizing care, being aware of both emotional and physical needs, collaborating with other disciplines, and it demonstrates the nurse's role as a patient advocate with clinical competencies that were an early version of today's case managers.

Transylvania 6-5000

1963 • 7 min • United States of America

Bugs is given a room for the night at the castle of Count Bloodcount in Transylvania.

I Was a Teenage Thumb

1963 • 7 min • United States of America

George Ebenezer Thumb and his wife, Prunhilda, are a medieval, rural, English couple who desperately want a child...

The Adventures of the Spirit

1963 • 18 min

The Spirit is joined by a host of other heroes in battling the Phantom and his army of monsters

Mrs. Winchester's House

1963 • 29 min • United States of America

Documentary about the life and legend of Sarah L. Winchester, heiress to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company who, after the death of her husband and only child moved to San Jose, California and constructed non-stop what came to be known as the Winchester Mystery House during the last 38 years of her life. The film traces Mrs. Winchester's life from her marriage into the wealthy Winchester family, whose family business supplied many of the repeating rifles sold to the United States Army during and after the Civil War and follows her eccentric life in California where, according to legend, she was advised by a mystic to provide shelter for spirits of the victims of her husband's rifles or follow him to an early grave. It provides point-of-view shots of the interior and exterior of the rambling Victorian mansion.

Onan

1963 • 8 min • Japan

“ONAN is a work about desire (masturbation) which has no object but itself. The appearance of the large egg objectifies the man's desires. After colliding with the other (a girl), the hero falls down while still holding the egg, thus caricaturing the desire of the hero.” —Takahiko Iimura (takaiimura.com)

The Human Torch

1963 • 4 min

A battle royal takes place between a super villain the Raven (played by Rich Hagopian) and super hero the Human Torch (played by Don Glut).

The Dream of Gold

1963 • 23 min • China

In the Jinyuan Club, there are five Jinyuan kings, one egg manager, and two senior chefs, one named General Cannon Barrel and the other named Mr. Mosquito. The cannon made fried gold coins for the famous dishes they like to eat, and the mosquitoes prepared plasma wine for them, as well as diamonds and so on. The five kings proposed to eat the stars, and the manager ordered the gun barrel to get more gold dollars and then diamonds, and the mosquitoes to get some plasma, and asked Dr. Muddy to count the number of stars in the sky.

Now Hear This

1963 • 6 min • United States of America

In this surreal cartoon that plays with the idea of sound effects, a near-deaf old man finds one of the devil's lost horns and tries to use it as an ear trumpet.

Have Anything to Declare?

1963 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

Humans confine themselfes with borders, while birds fly freely.

Little Dog Lost

1963 • 49 min • United States of America

The story of Candy, a little Welsh Corgi, who's raised by his family from a little puppy. But when he's grown up, he gets lost, has adventures, and learns to herd cattle before he's reunited with his family...only that's not where he wants to be.