All Films

Petit Jour

1962 • 16 min • France

Rocket Racket

1962 • 6 min • United States of America

Gabby Gator lives in the Okeedokee Swamp. Wally's watching one of those "cook" shows on TV about how to prepare a bird for dinner. Gabby's starving so bad that he licks the TV screen, but that doesn't help. He sends a telegram to Woody: his country needs him. Woody needs to try out the new "Atlas (But Not Least) Space Rocket." Woody arrives, suitcase in hand, ready for anything- except being an alligator's dinner...

The Drunkard

1962 • 19 min • Spain

A couple shelters an alcoholic haunted by his Republican past in their suburban home.

Like Wow!

1962 • 58 min • United States of America

A hobo finds a pair of X-ray spex that allow the wearer to see through women's clothing. He uses these to improve his station in life as well as sneak a peek at nekkid ladies.

Solo for Sparrow

1962 • 56 min • United Kingdom

A group of crooks accidentally kill an elderly shop assistant while stealing the keys to the jewellery shop where she works. When his superiors think that the case is better handed over to Scotland Yard, the local detective inspector, Sparrow, decides to go solo to investigate the crime himself.

The Andy Williams Christmas Show

1962 • 60 min

For Andy's Christmas show, Bette Davis comes aboard to tout her new movie, and even sing a "Baby Jane" number! Debbie Reynolds joins him in the audience sing along portion, an early Osmonds appearance, and Andy, Bette and the Christy Minstrels combine for some folk songs and a square dance finale.

Tales of a Street Corner

1962 • 39 min • Japan

The sad and happy times of a young girl and her bear doll, a young mouse and his family, a sycamore tree, an old lamp post, a hoodlum moth and an alleyway full of posters coming to life.

Sunday Evening

1962 • 11 min • Italy

Young peasants come together to dance in the evening. The girls arrive by bike; the boys get ready for them by doing their hair. The less shy amongst them begin to dance. Then, some of them go home, singing as they go, delighted to have obtained a promise. Others take advantage of the dark to make love.

Our School

1962 • 28 min • United Kingdom

A few hours in the lives of the pupils at a contemporary Secondary Modern school in Hertfordshire, England.

Night Conspirators

1962 • 54 min • United Kingdom

An old man is rescued from Iceland. Why would you need rescuing from Iceland - unless you're Adolf Hitler...

Quackodile Tears

1962 • 6 min • United States of America

Daffy Duck is ordered by his loud-mouthed wife to sit on their egg in a nest. When Daffy adjusts the nest to make it more comfortable, the egg rolls away from him and into a crocodile hatchery, where it is indistinguishable from all the other eggs. When Daffy picks what he think is his egg from the crocodile hatchery, a male crocodile gives chase and does battle with Daffy for the egg.

Gan-chan no keisatsu nikki

1962 • 53 min • Japan

L'Envie

1962 • 16 min • France, Italy

Envious of a movie star who is staying at the hotel where she works, the waitress Rosette does everything she can to seduce the actress's lover. Some time later, after having realized her ambition, she returns to the hotel as a client. (Segment of "Les sept pêches capitaux")

About Time

1962 • 53 min • United States of America

An entry in the Bell Science animated film series, on the nature of time.

Carnival Time

1962 • 48 min

Ludwig Von Drake takes a look at some major carnivals in New Orleans (hosted by Donald Duck) and Rio de Janeiro (hosted by Jose Carioca).

The Storm

1962 • 50 min • United States of America

A newlywed woman is alone in her home during a devastating storm. As she waits for her husband to return, she is besieged by menacing sounds throughout the house, power outages, a jumpy pet black cat, and a creepy cabbie. After much deliberation, she decides to investigate a strange disturbance in the storm cellar.

Red Nightmare

1962 • 29 min • United States of America

A man takes his American freedoms for granted, until he wakes up one morning to find out that the United States Government has been replaced with a Communist system. The basis for this short film, narrated by Jack Webb, is the alleged Soviet re-creation of US communities for the purpose of training infiltrators, spies, and moles.

Carol

1962 • 3 min

Norman J. Warren's unrealised feature about teenage pregnancy and backstreet abortion, featuring Georgina Hale and Michael Craze.

Ceiling

1962 • 42 min • Czechoslovakia

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost completely without hearing her voice. It is seldom that Marta gets the space to speak, instead she is mostly subject to the voice of others.

Stop Driving Us Crazy

1961 • 10 min

Because of a depletion of oxygen on his own planet, Rusty, a Martian, investigates life on Earth. Another reason why Earth was chosen is because of the intriguing Christian messages Rusty hears from there, such as all are children of God. Once there, he finds that of Earth's objects he most resembles cars and masquerades as one. He is dismayed to learn from other cars and from what he sees that cars are ruled by these strange two-legged creatures that often do not know how to treat each other while commandeering these cars. The crazy behavior of these two legged creatures in relation to driving cars is even more appalling after they have consumed alcohol. This crazy behavior does not match the Christian messages that Rusty had overheard before his arrival.

Safety with Animals

1961 • 13 min

Shows how to approach and handle beasts, both wild and domestic, with an emphasis on dogs and horses.

P.m.

1961 • 15 min • Cuba

Controversial cinéma vérité analysis of Havana’s lumpenproletariat in waterfront bars and cafés shortly after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.

Musical Motorcycles - Cachito cha cha cha (Coursée)

1961 • 3 min • United Kingdom

The musical motorcycles hit Paris to a Cuban vibe.

Electromagnets

1961 • 11 min

Explains the theory of electromagnetism by building slowly from a simple bar magnet to a completed electromagnet made from simple home materials.