All Films

A Million To One

1961 • 5 min

Shows a flea pulling a massive dry ice puck, thus demonstrating the small force needed to move a nearly frictionless body. Includes a short excerpt from the film 'INERTIA' which describes the dry ice puck.

An Airplane Trip By Jet

1961 • 10 min

Children experience an airplane trip, by jet.

From Acorns

1961 • 8 min • Poland

City traffic is really smooth as long as everyone follows the rules. The protagonist crosses the road not on a zebra crossing, causing an accident. Such walks end in a prison cell.

The City in the Beach

1961 • 11 min • Uruguay

A film commissioned by the National Tourism Commission, "The City on the Beach" is, however, more than a documentary to disseminate the benefits and beauties of Pocitos beach in Montevideo. The film proposes a sociological construction in-situ, through real characters. Musitelli's eye, patient and sharp, does not spare humor or poetry.

Metamorfoser

1961 • 15 min • Sweden

Abstract animated colour film about form in rhythmical movement, undergoing constant transformation. The film is accompanied by music, composed by Sven-Erik Johanson. (Filmform)

Disaster on Kurenivka

1961 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Kyiv. The film is about the Kurenivka disaster caused by the erosion of the protective dam by pulp in the Babyn Yar area. The consequences of the disaster are shown: remains of buildings and vehicles. Military equipment. Rescue work. Evacuation of the inhabitants.

Slum

1961 • 23 min

Old houses lined up in eaves, houses leaning by the weight of life that were not repaired for 50 or 100 years and flowed。Building manager houses and epidermis houses that have been disturbed around the factory with industrial development are now slammed by only low-yield people。 The slum district called the so-called Doya city。However, the people living in these districts are also well-meaning people who wish to work together and work on their lives。I'm trying to get a better life。A slum that reiterates those efforts and the development of the land。The camera moves inside the slum。

Dreams and Destinies

1961 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A film about the fates of a few Lithuanian families.

Mexico: The Land and the People

1961 • 20 min

This film portrays the changes that are taking place in Mexico, including the growth of a middle class society which is developing as a result of education and industrial progress. It includes views which show Mexico as an old country with new ideas, striving to provide a better life for its people, pointing out the Indian village and primitive open-air markets within a few minutes' drive of a city with beautiful parks, fine theaters, and office buildings.

We Chose Skegness

1961 • 26 min • United Kingdom

A pools winning family with over Ј8,000 to spend can have a holiday anywhere they like. But they forgo the Costas for Skegness - but decide to do it in style.

The Seventh Day

1961 • 4 min • Ireland

The Seventh Day is a stop-motion animation depicting the dawn of time in the Big Bang and the gradual evolution of the concept of time, through images of hourglasses, clock faces and time-based mechanisms like cogs and pulleys. Eventually, time becomes so omnipotent that humans become time-based mechanisms themselves, harassed and harried across the screen by time’s fussy technology.

Hier Teheran, bitte sprechen!

1961 • 18 min • Germany

How does a young Iranian woman see Federal Republic of Germany? This question is answered in the film, which was made in 1960 on the occasion of the visit of 25 employees of the Iranian postal administration to Germany . The camera accompanies Zohre Hesami on her big journey, during her training at the Deutsche Bundespost, visiting Hamburg, Frankfurt and finally to Munich, where a stroll through the city and a concert are also on the agenda.

Ruby Bridges at William Frantz

1961 • 5 min

8mm home movie showing picketers and Ruby Bridges at her elementary school, likely Spring 1961.

Kangaroo Court

1961 • 8 min • United States of America

Short film made by AMG. Features muscular men in a prison setting.

The Dreamer

1961 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

Just like millions of others, the man wakes up and gets up. Work awaits him. But while he gets ready, he can't help getting lost in daydreams. He pictures himself in turn as a sports champion, an opera singer, a general, an orchestra conductor, a lover - All that makes him very happy but also - very tired. Now he needs a rest. The only thing to do is to go back to bed.

Allures

1961 • 8 min • United States of America

Allures is a spectacular sequence of moving figures and points, a film which reaches out to the cosmic and the spiritual, where the spatial dimension becomes transcendental.

Breaking the Language Barrier

1961 • 14 min • United States of America

The Air Force Thunderbirds present air shows for civilians in Southeast Asia as a gesture of U.S. goodwill.

On Sundays

1961 • 26 min • United States of America

"First film, 1961, dedicated to Jean Wong. Featuring Ms Wong, Mamma Dog, Petey, (son of Mamma Dog), and San Francisco." -BB

Project XX: The Story of Will Rogers

1961 • 51 min • United States of America

Bob Hope narrates this biographical look at America's cowboy philosopher, Will Rogers, from his days as a rope-twirling comedian to his rise to prominence as a statesman. Note: Originally part of Project XX, this film was also distributed separately on 16mm for schools and libraries, qualifying it as a standalone documentary.

Kahl

1961 • 13 min • Germany

A documentary about the building and commissioning of VAK Kahl, the first commercial nuclear power plant in the FRG – gleaming images of a bright future. Oscar nominated documentary short from West Germany, 1961.

The Death of P'town

1961 • 8 min • United States of America

Shot in Provincetown in the summer of '61 with the goal of funding a larger project, the film was never completed due to a violent argument between actor Jack Smith and director Ken Jacobs shortly after the shooting began. A title card explains that Smith 'would've starred as the Fairy Vampire.'

The Moonbeam Princess

1961 • 26 min • Japan

A short puppet animation movie by Kazuhiko Watanabe.

Bau 60

1961 • 12 min • Germany

Documentary about construction work.

Prokofiev

1961 • 29 min • United Kingdom

Subtitled 'Portrait of a Soviet Composer', this is the second of Ken Russell's composer biopics.