All Films

Danish Design

1961 • 16 min

The film shows examples of furniture, ceramics, glass, silver, cutlery and textiles. It was produced in connection to an exhibition "The Arts of Denmark" that took place in USA 1960-1961.

Fishermen and Fishing

1961 • 22 min

The film depicts all forms of traditional fishing and the life of fishermen of the Molyvos community on the Greek island of Lesvos, as it transposes us to island life of 1961, through a series of images from another era. Fishermen sail in the open sea on a purse seine.

Catalog

1961 • 7 min • United States of America

Collection of Computer Graphic effects.

Test of a clean hydrogen bomb with a yield of 50 megatons

1961 • 40 min • Soviet Union

Documentary movie about testing of the largest nuclear weapon in history, the Tsar Bomba. Declassified and made available to the public in 2020.

El Niño de los Lentes Verdes

1961 • 14 min • Uruguay

A rural kid puts on a pair of sunglasses that were submerged in a pond, and finds himself at a beautiful crowded beach.

Peter and the Robot

1961 • 10 min • Hungary

Siblings Peti and Kati accompanied by Félix, their small dachshund, visit their great-uncle, Professor Leonardo, who is just then working on his latest invention, the automaton. The mechanical ‘employee’ is ready to do all the jobs around the home: cooking, vacuuming, cutting the grass, darning socks, sewing on buttons, shining shoes. But when uncle Leo leaves home, the kids sneak back into the house and set the automaton going. The playful prank ends up in a dizzying muddle.

Das Ganze halt

1961 • 15 min • East Germany

The FRG is planning an attack on the GDR with the "Deko II" maneuver. This thesis is used to legitimize the construction of the "Anti-Fascist Protection Wall" as an essential measure to defend against the aggression of West German imperialism.

Drips in Strips

1961 • 3 min • United States of America

"Spattered paint responding to gravity, forming its own patterns and combinations of color." -- M.M.

Düsseldorf - Modisch, Heiter, im Winde verspielt

1961 • 12 min

After a shoot, Ina Balke - who was a model at the time in Paris - strolls through the city's boutiques, galleries and hotels. At the same time, a spokesman announces Düsseldorf history and we see well-respected sights.

Rain in the Latino Quarter

1961 • 7 min • Chile

A tour of one of the most famous districts of Paris, marked by the passage of umbrellas, especially a red one that seems to be the protagonist of the short film.

Hors-jeu

1961 • 27 min • France

In a theatre dressing room, a young woman talks to her lover, a successful actor

Je t'aime

1961 • 10 min • Belgium

Short film with hitchhikers and jazz music by Belgium filmmaker Jean-Marie Buchet.

Autumn

1961 • 8 min • Hungary

The Language of Faces

1961 • 16 min • United States of America

Pacifist plea sponsored by a Quaker group. To a voice-over commentary describing the arms race, Language of Faces presents a montage of human faces and activities that culminates in a silent vigil at the Pentagon.

I faresonen

1961 • 52 min • Norway

I Faresonen is a combination of a documentary and fictional approach to the problem of alcoholism -- or alcohol dependency. Tackling a problem common to other Nordic countries as well, director Bjoern Breigutu has focused on the life of sailors, among others, and how alcohol is used or abused in that sector of the population. This was the Norwegian entry at the 1961 Berlin Film Festival.

Notes from Altmühltal

1961 • 18 min • Germany

Notizen aus dem Altmühltal shows the West German south as mezzogiorno of the Wirtschaftswunder republic: the simple folk, as they say, vegetate a bit dully through their days; meanwhile, the authorities do nothing to promote the economic, and hence social, development of the region, while the local honoraries look back on better times.

The Little Guests Invited by the Sun

1961 • 24 min • China

Another happy Children's Day is coming. The kindly father-in-law Sun sits in the palace of heaven and laments that the children get up earlier than him. Although tens of thousands of years have passed, Grandpa Sun decided to invite children from the earth to his palace for the holiday. Of course, an invitation must be issued before that, so Eunuch Sun entrusts the lovely and mischievous messenger of light to the earth to convey the good news.

La Muerte del Toro

1961 • 14 min • France, Spain

A visual and sound montage about a fighting bull in the arena.

Cattle Ranch

1961 • 20 min • Canada

This short documentary offers a portrait of life on a cattle ranch, for both its human and animal inhabitants. Featuring sprightly music by folk singer Pete Seeger and narration by theatre actress Frances Hyland, the film is shot through the seasons on a large Canadian cattle ranch near Kamloops, British Columbia. With hundreds of cows and calves on the ranch, there’s no shortage of work to be done: soil cultivation and crop maintenance are taken care of by seasonal ranch hands while the resident cowboys—“anxious guardians”—brand and breed their bovine charges.

First Flight to the Stars

1961 • 55 min • Soviet Union

The history of the Soviet space program and the flight of the world's first manned spacecraft "Vostok" piloted by Yuri Gagarin.

A Holster Full Of Law

1961 • 60 min • United States of America

Slaughter’s cattle are rustled, and when the sheriff is powerless to do anything about it, Slaughter is elected sheriff himself. With a band of skilled deputies, he brings law and order to Tombstone, and eventually settles his feud with the cattle rustler.

500 Francs

1961 • 12 min • France

A boy sees a 500-franc note under a sewer grate and tries to retrieve it.

Man Detained

1961 • 59 min • United Kingdom

A petty burglar sets a chain of events in motion when he steals some money that the owner doesn't want the authorities to know about.

Mood Mondrian

1961 • 6 min • United States of America

A film of a painting of a sound. Piet Mondrian's 'Broadway Boogie-Woogie' is translated into visual boogie rhythm.