All Films

Skullduggery

1962 • 5 min

A subversive experimental short against the ruling class.

El primer día

1962 • 4 min • Spain

At a train station, a thief steals from a couple while the passengers are getting off the train. The boy runs after the thief and disappears. The girl, alone and lost, decides to go out into the street.

Roundabout

1962 • 6 min • Yugoslavia

Short experimental 16mm film.

Terror of the Bloodhunters

1962 • 60 min • United States of America

An escaped prisoner flees to the South American jungle, where he must survive not only wild animals and disease but also a ferocious Indian tribe.

O Papel

1962 • 16 min • Brazil

A brief history of paper and the stages of its production. An animation about the history of writing, the emergence of paper in ancient civilizations and the invention of printing, taking paper manufacturing to an industrial scale. Paper production in Brazil, with emphasis on the use of pine, eucalyptus and bamboo. At Companhia Mineira de Papéis, in Cataguases, the stages of paper making. Paper consumption and its production in tons in Brazil since 1939. Brazilian self-sufficiency and the use of paper in various activities.

A Theme with Variations

1962 • 11 min • Hungary

This film of three parts recalls memories from World War II. The titles of the parts are: Impartially, Terrified and Like a scream.

Wenn ich erst zur Schule geh

1962 • 13 min • East Germany, Germany

The children of Golzow, six or seven years old, in kindergarten. Their enrollment in school together, the first days of school. Playfully learning the first letter. Conflicts between wanting and having to.

Superette Story

1962 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A look at the sales practices employed at the LPE Superette run by John Beasley on Berwick Street market.

Over Jordan

1962 • 13 min • United States of America

Educational film about the funeral process. Narrated by pastor Dr. S.A. Owen of Memphis, Tennessee.

The Bath House

1962 • 53 min • Soviet Union

Inventor Chudakov builds a time machine. All that remains is to interest the technical innovation officials and receive authorization to continue the experiment. And it turns out that's the hardest part! The end point in this inventor's struggle will only be set by a "phosphoric woman" arriving from a wonderful future...

Dylaby

1962 • 10 min

For the exhibition Dylaby, the museum’s director Willem Sandberg and artist Jean Tinguely transformed the Stedelijk into a huge labyrinth. The film follows a tour of the exhibition in which the viewers have to actively participate in this DYnamisch LABYrint. Van der Elsken walks through the exhibition; looks, sees and hears what is happening, and also records viewers’ responses.

Alligators All Around

1962 • 2 min

From A to Zippity zound, Alligators All Around has made learning the ABCs fun for over fifty years. The combination of Maurice Sendak’s signature humor and artwork creates all-around irresistible alphabet fun.

Hands of Inge

1962 • 11 min • United States of America

The work of sculptor Inge Hardison is the subject of this beautiful short portrait of an artist. Hardison is perhaps best known for "Negro Giants in History," her important series of busts made during the early 1960s. Hands of Inge was edited by Hortense "Tee" Beveridge, a pioneer in her field who worked in the commercial industry and on independent, non-commercial films such as Amiri Baraka's 1968 film "The New-Ark". In the mid-1950s Beveridge became the first Black woman to gain admission to Local 771, the motion picture editors union.

Where We Live

1962 • 7 min • Poland

This documentary wants people to stop armament. Instead of that, we should focus on humanitarian aid, education and healthcare. There is no commentary in the film, some images of the modern world spread the message. On the one hand, it is industry; on the other hand – famine.

The Hundredth and First

1962 • 15 min • Soviet Union

An American photographer, eagerly anticipating a sensational suicide on a New York skyscraper, was fortunate to receive a report about the hundredth suicide, but whom would be the hundredth and one?

Tere, tüdrukud!

1962 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A reportage about young people who have arrived at the Sommerling state farm. The main focus is on young people who have come to Narva from the countryside and will start working in the horticultural brigade. The film follows the work and activities of the girls, as well as the entire fieldwork of the state farm from spring to autumn.

Lacrimae rerum

1962 • 11 min • Greece

A free composition on the poem by Lambros Porfyras.

Always on Sunday

1962 • 8 min • United States of America

Four "women" enter a bar and create chaos. This spoof of Never on Sunday (1960) was the first film made by a group of gay men who frequented a Los Angeles gay bar, The Brownstone, for Sunday brunch. Rarely seen today, these films, made at a time when gay lives were universally portrayed as tragic, remain a unique affirmation of the pleasure and joy gay people take in their lives.

The Game

1962 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

In this child's game, a live-action boy and girl draw characters and compete who is better. The girl draws a flower and the boy draws a car that runs it over. Then a drawn lion chases a drawn girl, until it all becomes frightfully serious.

The Passerine Bird

1962 • 43 min • Vietnam

Story of an innocent and carefree little girl whose father is a member of the anti-French resistance.

Dicky Moe

1962 • 7 min • United States of America

In a 19th century fishing harbor, the captain of the Komquot is obsessed with catching the great white whale Dicky Moe. His obsession unnerves his crew so badly that they all desert the ship. Shortly afterward, the captain finds Tom searching for food in the harbor, knocks him out, and takes him aboard. Tom believes at first that he is going on a cruise, but the captain soon puts him to work scrubbing the deck.

The Beauty Pageant of Greentown

1962 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

Animated puppet short involving two sweethearts.

Captive Feast

1962 • 15 min • France

Captive Feast documents the annual village festival that allows inmates at the psychiatric hospital of St. Alban a rare chance to mingle with the rest of the population.

In the Pergamom Museum

1962 • 16 min • East Germany, Germany

A cinematic visit to the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The camera usually observes the visitors and paints their views on scenes of the ensemble of figures. The amazement at the beauty and grace of the antique sculptures is reflected in the faces of the viewers and emotion is palpable. The visitors come from all over the world - one sees Indians, Asians, Blacks. All age groups are represented, from children to old people. They come individually or in groups and communicate about what they see. The film gets along without any comment. You see more pictures of the visitors than of the altar. This means that it is important for the film to show the cultural interest of the people. Gerhard Rosenfeld creates atmospheric music with a classical feel to it. An early and extremely interesting work by the great documentary filmmaker Jürgen Böttcher.