All Films

A Moment's Silence

1963 • 10 min • Netherlands

In his very first ‘independent film’, Dutch master filmmaker Johan Van der Keuken presents an image of Amsterdam in the sixties. He set out taking just his camera, without any pre-defined concept. The result is a poetic observation of Amsterdam by a deeply committed filmmaker.

A Chance to Learn

1963 • 21 min • United Kingdom

The boom of the clothing industry brought great work for female machinists. This film presents how new recruits were hired and then trained to use the sewing machine in the workshop, or in one example, how not to manage recruits.

The Airy Tomb

1963 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Can there be a bleaker portrait of a life half-lived? Cinematic treatment of poet R.S. Thomas's story of Twm, the "shy soul" who lives and dies alone in the "grim house nailed to the mountainside", oblivious to the interest shown in him by young girls in the village and to his own isolation as he scratches a living from the farm.

Greedy Gabby Gator

1963 • 7 min • United States of America

Gabby Gator tries to cook Woody for dinner, but he instead finds himself the pursued when an unfriendly cousin, a crocodile, decides that an alligator would be a tasty dish. Gabby's radar spies Woody heading toward the Okedokee Swamp, so he snares Woody in a set and tries to make Woody think that he's arrived at Gabby's Health Resort. Woody soon finds that he's destined to be the main ingredient in a Woodpecker stew. He managed to escape from Gabby with the help of the crocodile, who occupies Gabby with his own chase.

Ski - Ways to Safety

1963 • 13 min • United States of America

Presents important lessons in boating and water skiing safety interspersed with scenes of water skiing experts performing amazing stunts. Includes safety rules to be followed and illustrates the proper handling of equipment.

Overstimulated

1963 • 6 min • United States of America

Two men dressed as children jump up and down, ad nauseum

The Tenant's Racket

1963 • 7 min • United States of America

The cartoon starts off with Woody who, tired of flying, stops to rest on a cloud...

The Vienna Forest

1963 • 15 min • Soviet Union

These days, the streets of Vienna were especially noisy, cheerful, and festive. Young people from different countries came here to hold their traditional festival. New acquaintances, unexpected meetings, heated arguments... There was a heated discussion in the club. Peter, the envoy from Germany, expressed his point of view. The audience was indignant, the audience was indignant. But Peter saw only the Soviet girl Katya, he listened only to her words, angry, resolute, condemning his position.

A Visit from Mars

1963 • 6 min

When a little Martian boy playing hooky crashes his "borrowed" saucer into the house, Casper shows him around, but the Martians are convinced that the saucer was stolen by humans and declare war on the Earth.

The Million Hare

1963 • 7 min • United States of America

Bugs races Daffy to get to the TV station first and win the prize on the "Beat Your Buddy" show.

In Memory of Rock

1963 • 11 min • France

The rock-wild youth of the 1960s during the apparitions of their idols.

Dog Star Man: Part II

1963 • 7 min • United States of America

A man, accompanied by a dog, struggles through snow on a mountain side. We see film stock blister; drawn square shapes appear. Then, we see an infant's face. The images of struggling climber, baby, blurred film stock, large snow flakes, and what may be microscopic details of matter are superimposed on each other, one dominating the frame briefly to be replaced by another. As the man falls in the snow and tries to regain his feet, the baby continues to appear, first with eyes closed. Alternately, images rush by - montages of paper cutouts and life under a microscope.

Tribute to Lester Horton

1963 • 28 min

A dance performance salute to choreographer-dancer Lester Horton with Alvin Ailey, Carmen de Lavallade and James Truitte, all former members of his company. They perform various works by Horton.

Tous ceux qui tombent

1963 • 59 min • France

A 1963 TV film directed by Michel Mitrani.

Growing Up

1963 • 6 min

The Ghostly Trio make mischief by slipping Casper an enlarging potion.

A Few Days

1963 • 15 min • United Kingdom

A brief romantic encounter, directed by Howard Blake, composer of the score for The Snowman. A young woman meets a man at a London party. They are quickly infatuated with each other and, after a few days, elope to the seaside - but they soon tire of each other and part ways. Released in 1963, whilst amateur filmmaker Howard Blake was co-chief projectionist at the BFI, where the film enjoyed a brief, popular run in April that year.

Skyscrapers and Brassieres

1963 • 5 min • United States of America

As a architectural expert discusses how design and function is of the essence in his craft Russ sees in his mind a a woman getting fitted for a bra using all the same design factors as building a skyscraper.

Attiuk

1963 • 29 min • Canada

The people of Unamenshipu (La Romaine), an Innu community in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, are seen but not heard in this richly detailed documentary about the rituals surrounding an Innu caribou hunt. Released in 1960, it’s one of 13 titles in Au Pays de Neufve-France, a series of poetic documentary shorts about life along the St. Lawrence River. Off-camera narration, written by Pierre Perrault, frames the Innu participants through an ethnographic lens. Co-directed by René Bonnière and Perrault, a founding figure of Quebec’s direct cinema movement.

Lehrer im Wandel

1963 • 12 min • Germany

Documentary short by Alexander Kluge about the role of teachers in history.

The Sand

1963 • 26 min • Japan

The Set Up

1963 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Arthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger, Theo Gaunt, on a train and explains his situation. A few days later another stranger makes a curious proposition. Arthur should participate in a fake robbery and remove some imitation jewellery from the stranger's own safe.

Mister Twister

1963 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Adaptation of the satirical poem by Samuil Marshak, ridiculed racism. Mister Twister with his family went to the USSR on the boat, previously agreed with the Cook Travel Company to any boat or in the hotel was not "blacks, Malays and other riff-raff." Arriving in Leningrad, Twister and his family stayed at the hotel "Engleterre", and everything went smoothly until they saw on one of the floors the guest from Africa.

The Solar Thread

1963 • 29 min • Japan

Presentation of polymer chemistry-based synthetic fiber, and the manufacturing facilities and production process used by Toray, Japan’s leading textile maker. Also depicts the textiles being sold throughout Europe and the US.

Cold Wave

1963 • 6 min

Casper must foil the plans of an evil scientist who is trying to block the light of the sun from reaching Earth.