All Films

Two Stories

1962 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Two well-known children's stories made into animation. The duck who fell asleep while driving the train and the girl who couldn't stop whining.

Die Gartenzwerge

1962 • 10 min • Germany

Senseless

1962 • 28 min • United States of America

"Consisting of a poetic stream of razor-sharp images, the overt content of SENSELESS portrays ecstatic travelers going to pot over the fantasies and pleasures of a trip to Mexico... highly effective cutting subtly interweaves the contrapuntal developement of themes of love and hate, peace and violence, beauty and destruction."-- David Brooks.

The Soul Calls

1962 • 51 min • Soviet Union

Two old Leningrad workers, Sukhov and Solyanov, have a long-standing friendship — they worked at the same plant, lived in the neighborhood. Now Solyanov, at the insistence of his son, decides to retire. But it is not so easy to part with his native plant, which, as it turned out, still needs an old personnel officer...

From Evening Till Morning

1962 • 38 min • Soviet Union

During the German occupation of Estonia a young mother finds a Red Army soldier hiding in the hay in her barn.

Keeping Up with Krazy

1962 • 7 min • United States of America

Ignatz Mouse is hired to sell a prefabricated house to the local brick foundry owner Kelly by a corrupt realtor. But Krazy Kat's simple home (made from two umbrellas) bothers Kelly. The trio becomes embroiled in a battle of wits as to whose house is better.

Serena

1962 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Scotland Yard investigate when a woman, apparently the estranged wife of a London painter, is murdered with a shotgun in rural Surrey at the same time as the artist's striking model with her long black hair disappears.

Pop Goes the Easel

1962 • 44 min • United Kingdom

Pop Goes the Easel was Ken Russell’s first full-length documentary for the BBC’s arts series Monitor. It focused on 4 British Pop Artists - Peter Blake, Peter Philips, Pauline Boty and Derek Boshier.

Chicken Fracas-See

1962 • 6 min

An egg is foisted upon Loopy, and the grumpy watchdog wants it back.

Bootleggers

1962 • 19 min • Soviet Union

This is the second silent (save for a song) slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. In a small hunting lodge three friends are making illegal moonshine. Bottled "product" fills shelves quickly. Life is good. But their dog Barbos doesn't understand that bringing a moonshine condenser coil to a police station is a bad idea...

Bunnies Abundant

1962 • 6 min

Loopy tries to discourage another wolf from hunting rabbits.

Night of the Prowler

1962 • 60 min • United Kingdom

An avaricious, ambitious fellow, desiring to hold the reins for a major auto company, must frame someone for murder before he can get what he wants. He chooses a reformed embezzler who works for the company.

La colère

1962 • 15 min • France, Italy

Anger seizes a man who finds a fly in his Sunday soup. It spreads through his neighborhood, his city, his country and soon the whole world. (Segment of "Les sept péchés capitaux")

Mouse Into Space

1962 • 8 min • United States of America

Jerry, tired of Tom's repeated attempts to kill him, leaves the house to join a space program. Tom tries to convince Jerry to stay, but to no avail.

Tragic Magic

1962 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody goes to a magic show. He chomps popcorn and continually ribs the magician about his "easy" tricks, finally driving most of the audience away. Then the magician calls Woody on stage to "assist" him in a few "tricks," which enables him to get back at Woody for some of his taunts. Then Woody turns the tables, putting the magician under a magic spell. As the magician comes out of the spell, he tries to get rid of Woody by shooting him out of a cannon. But after the shot is fired, Woody's still there. In desperation, the magician climbs into the cannon and fires himself off the stage!

Martian Through Georgia

1962 • 6 min • United States of America

Way out in space, on another world whose population is contented, one of its people decides that travel broadens the mind and relieves boredom. So, he flies to Earth in hope of helping the alien Earthlings improve their lot, only to cause panic and be declared a monster just because he looks different. So, he decides to return home, where, at least, he can find love.

...All That Mighty Heart...

1962 • 24 min • United Kingdom

A day in the life of London and the Home Counties in 1962, seen from the perspective of the use of London Transport facilities from buses and tubes to long distance coach routes, accompanied by extracts from BBC radio.

Al ladro

1962 • 13 min • Brazil, Italy

Gröna Hund

1962 • 52 min • Sweden

The first variety show produced by AB Svenska Ord. It was the first of the three "Dog-revues", the second being "Gula Hund" and the third one "Svea hund".

Love Me, Love Me, Love Me.

1962 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A short film by Richard Williams.

Beef For And After

1962 • 7 min • United States of America

A steer follows Bon Bon home, but Loopy has trouble returning it to the watchdog.

Alfa Omega

1962 • 10 min • Italy

A motionless individual in the centre of the frame, from birth to death. The synthesis of human events like nature, religion, love and work take place around him.

Sorry Safari

1962 • 7 min • United States of America

Tom joins his owner on a hunting safari in Kenya. Jerry has hidden himself in the Clint's luggage, and Tom quickly sees him and attempts to get rid of him.

Down With Uncle

1962 • 13 min • Italy

Three kids climb over the wall of an old cemetery in the Piacenza countryside and reach a boy their age, who is praying in front of a tomb. Then, they all run out and reach an ancient abandoned cemetery. Here they amuse themselves by destroying votive statues and uncovering tombstones from which they extract bones and teeth.