All Films

Cold Trumpet

1963 • 14 min • Italy

Chet Baker silently wanders through an Antonioniesque landscape in a Felliniesque state of wonderment as his improvised trumpet solos alternate between earnestly offering the obvious and mocking the artiness of the whole affair.

A Cry of Angels

1963 • 58 min

Hallmark presents the story of how the greatest oratorio, George Frederic Handel's "The Messiah," came to be written in the English language.

Tepee for Two

1963 • 7 min • United States of America

When Woody makes way too much racket with his TV set and musical instruments, his neighbors have had enough and evict him from the entire city...

It's All Over Town

1963 • 55 min

A series of musical vignettes formed from the dreams of a slumbering workman.

TV Plug

1963 • 7 min

Short film by Ken Jacobs later included in his compilation The Whirled.

Essays

1963 • 10 min • Switzerland

A cheerful take on the lives of school children in a Swiss rural environment. Young pupils recite short essays they have written on subjects such as the long walk to school, the distribution of milk during breaks, and a brawl in the courtyard.

Dans le vent

1963 • 9 min • France

Short subject on how fashion is created-- not by the great couturiers, but on the street.

The Unmentionables

1963 • 7 min • United States of America

In a spoof of TV's "Untouchables" Rocky and Mugsy chase "Elegant Ness" (Bugs) through the ACME cereal company.

Cybernetic Grandma

1963 • 29 min • Czechoslovakia

Trnka’s sci-fi vision of the future in which machines and robots try to substitute themselves into the most beautiful human relationships. A cybernetic robot is supposed to substitute for the loving grandmother of a little girl. The wise grandmother, however, comes back and the girl finds the warmth of her grandmother’s loving arms again. Trnka’s artistic ideas in this film can be described as both poetically fragile and dramatically cautionary.

Mad as a Mars Hare

1963 • 7 min • United States of America

Marvin the Martian is monitoring through his telescope a rocket launch on Earth. The rocket heads straight for him and lands on Mars. The only occupant is Bugs Bunny, lured into Cape Canaveral by a carrot and sent to Mars as an expendable "astro-rabbit". Bugs is to claim Mars in the name of the Earth, but Marvin won't allow an Earth creature to contaminate his atmosphere. He trains a time-projector gun on Bugs and reverts the bunny to a Neanderthal Rabbit, who crushes Marvin with one hand.

Money Sings

1963 • 24 min • United Kingdom

A lively pop musical with a variety of talent and music; featuring Johnny Carson, Patricia Shakesby and The Condors.

Highball Highway

1963 • 11 min

A driver who got into an accident while drunk wakes up in the hospital and discovers that his leg has been amputated. As he's lying in bed, he begins to wonder what happened to the passengers in his car.

The Forgotten Imperial Army

1963 • 25 min • Japan

Oshima exposes the fact that many wounded soldiers cannot receive compensation from the Japanese government because of their Korean nationality, while questioning if this is a just way for the Japanese to act. The documentary uses TV to problematize the apathy of the Japanese people. According to Oshima’s 'The Idea of Evil and Cruelty' and Sato Tadao’s 'History of Japanese Documentary Film', the actual situation was much more serious and harsher than the documentary depicts.

Britain Welcomes the President of India

1963 • 15 min

An account of the state visit to Britain by the President of India, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, in June 1963. In London he accompanied the Queen on a State drive, visited the Commonwealth Institute, attended a Guildhall luncheon and visited the country.

Globke heute

1963 • 29 min • East Germany

Portrait of Hans Globke, jurist at the ministry of interior during the Third Reich and co-author of an official commentary to the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, the Nazi Racial Legislation. While Adenauer appointed him Secretary of State in 1953, he was sentenced to lifelong imprisonment in absentia by a GDR court in 1963.

How to Live with a Neurotic Dog

1963 • 9 min • Czechoslovakia, United States of America

A Gene Deitch cartoon about dogs and their inferior owners.

By the Dike Sluice

1963 • 13 min • Germany

In his first film, Peter Nestler gives voice to an old floodgate. A nearby village, its inhabitants, wooden posts and twisted willow rods are presented from this unusual perspective. The floodgate ponders the fisher boats coming home from the sea along the shipping channel which is fed at low tide by a small river.

Eves on Skis

1963 • 34 min • United Kingdom

A group of nudists go on a skiing trip.

Pent-House Mouse

1963 • 7 min • United States of America

Tom is living the life of luxury, high atop a fancy apartment building. Jerry is starving way down below when he spots a lunchbox on a girder at a construction site. Jerry goes in, the girder goes up, and the lunchbox falls off, landing on Tom, and the chase is on.

Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World

1963 • 51 min • United States of America

The acclaimed poet is examined in this film completed just prior to his death at age 88, with his speaking engagements at Amherst and Sarah Lawrence Colleges intercut with studies of his work, as well as with scenes of his life in rural Vermont and personal reminiscences about his career. He is also seen receiving an award from President Kennedy and touring an aircraft carrier. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2006.

The Enchanted Horse

1963 • 6 min

The evil Eastern magician Ali Booboo feeds an ensorcelled apple to Nightmare, turning her into his slave. Casper and Wendy must pursue Booboo to his castle in the clouds to rescue their friend.

Five to One

1963 • 56 min • United Kingdom

Alan Roper tells Bookie Larry Hart that he is planning to steal £60,000 and Hart offers to launder the money for him. What Hart doesn't know is that it is actually his money Roper intends to steal.

The King's Breakfast

1963 • 28 min • United Kingdom

A king misses the butter on his slice of bread.

Wood Painting

1963 • 49 min • Sweden

A knight returning home with his squire Jons after a ten-year crusade to the Holy Land finds a country paralyzed by the Black Death, a newly burned witch, a blacksmith and his runaway wife, an actress, a Virgin Mary with her child and the knight's faithful wife. All approaches the realm of the dead in a single "tragicomic long dance of death". The narrator begins with: "In a church in southern Småland is our spectacle painted on the wall just to the right of the entrance to the porch. The unknown painter has on the church wall depicted a number of people in formal long dance toward death."