All Films

Little Scooter

1962 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A small scooter falls off a truck loaded with toys. After many adventures, the brave little scooter finds its way to a kindergarten, where it brings great joy to the children.

Who Knows?

1962 • 8 min

A wild cat does whatever he wants, wreaking havoc on his neighbors and innocent bystanders . A short film commissioned by the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture, showing through the use of animal puppets, the importance of manners and etiquette.

Slippery Slippers

1962 • 7 min • United States of America

Loopy helps Prince Charming find his beloved Cinderella.

Janine

1962 • 16 min • France

During a desultory night on the town, two men talk about their experiences with women. One of them disparages his ex-wife, while the other is enamored of the prostitute he was with earlier in the evening. Without realizing it, both men are talking about Janine.

A Lecture on Man

1962 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Very rare early film from 1962, by Richard Williams - this is either his second or third film after The Little Island, the same year as Love Me Love Me Love Me.

On the Sound

1962 • 9 min • United States of America

A jazz/dance film featuring the Martha Graham Dancers.

Top Deck

1962 • 30 min • United Kingdom

A white bus conductress is attracted by one of her regular passengers, a black serviceman, but then tires of him.

Nine, Dalmuir West

1962 • 12 min • United Kingdom

The tram system of Glasgow and the last weekend of the service.

James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village

1962 • 29 min • Switzerland

James Baldwin, a stranger in a Swiss village in 1962, reflects on ordinary and universal racism.

Expostulations

1962 • 55 min • United States of America

An early satirical anthology of socially conscious shorts.

Peter und das Einmaleins mit der Sieben

1962 • 45 min • Germany, East Germany

Peter is unwilling to learn the multiplication tables at school. He would rather work as an acrobat at the circus, just like his friend Susanne. When the class plans a trip to the circus, Peter is supposed to buy the tickets. Since he miscounts and buys one ticket less than needed, he cannot join his schoolmates. Susanne, however, comes up with an idea and lets him work in the circus arena where he is supposed to check on the arithmetic problems of a numerate donkey. When Peter fails to control the donkey, he feels deeply ashamed and has to assess that math is needed in all parts of life.

End of an Era

1962 • 18 min • United States of America

A documentary on the passing of the steam locomotive as the primary means of transportation in the United States

We Are Asking for Bread

1962 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

Through photographs and documents this short documentary makes a reconstruction of the large demonstrations in Veles in 1939, when thousands of people went protesting to the streets under the slogan "We are asking for bread."

Night Fare

1962 • 8 min • Poland

The Preservation Man

1962 • 16 min • United Kingdom

The Preservation Man is about useless objects but here they're part of the artist Bruce Lacey's collection of random junk that is incorporated into his art with their original function is irrelevant. Sensibly, Russell and commentator Huw Wheldon keep analysis to a minimum, preferring to use the film as an excuse to spend a quarter of an hour in Lacey's amiable company.

Zoom at the Top

1962 • 6 min • United States of America

Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner using a bear trap with a bird seed bait, a jet rocket, an ice-making machine, and a boomerang.

Look at Life: Common Market

1962 • 17 min • United Kingdom

A look at the progress of the European Common Market during a time in which member countries have started to remove trade barriers.

Pages of Death

1962 • 27 min • United States of America

A campy, over-the-top educational short that tells the story of a young man who becomes deranged from reading pornographic magazines.

Comprehensive School

1962 • 11 min • United Kingdom

The joys of 1960s modern education - as seen at a not-exactly-typical local comp.

Kinetic Pictures

1962 • 7 min • Finland

Tree of processed film material is intended to KINEMATOGRAF movement of the backbone using to base the new pictorial movement and phrase. Movie Screen efficacy has been added to paintings. Different kinds of film material is painted, scratched, punched or etched. This has resulted in different directions and at different speeds, functional movement sequences and the "normal film" outside the functional image.

Lumière Award to Chris Marker

1962 • 1 min • France

This silent film shows the jury voting for Chris Marker, who receives the Louis Lumière award for his film ¡Cuba sí!

The Hour of St. Francis

1962 • 28 min • United States of America

Jack Nicholson starred in the movie "The Challenge", which is the story of a high school student who decides to become a priest. The movie begins as a flashback. The movie was made in 1962. Most of the scenes were filmed in Santa Barbara at St. Anthony"s Seminary.

Return

1962 • 14 min • Hungary

Man and his environment.

The People vs. Paul Crump

1962 • 60 min • United States of America

An impassioned plea for the release of a young man sentenced to die in an Illinois prison.