All Films

2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers

1961 • 2 min • United States of America

2ⁿ is a story about the exponential growth of numbers raised to powers. Part of the Mathematica Peep Shows, one of five films made to accompany the Mathematica: A World of Numbers and Beyond exhibition at the California Museum of Science and Industry and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

Strike of the Jaguma

1961 • 60 min • Japan

Don Quixote

1961 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

"Don Kihot" is a satirical, Klee-esque meditation about Don Quijote in the contemporary militaristic and regimentistic world.

Summer Day

1961 • 14 min • Sweden

A little boy is standing on a platform at the railway station in Malmö, looking at a steam locomotive that is going to leave for Simrishamn. The machinery starts moving, passengers board the train. Before the boy enters the car, his mother gives him his bag, hoping he will manage this trip on his own. The boy sits down and starts looking at the other passengers. He picks up his ticket and gives it to the conductor. The stoker shovels more coal into the firebox, while the train passes across the plain outside Lund. Peasants working in the fields look up, and so do various animals along the track. The train makes a short stop to be refilled with water. When it continues, the train driver suddenly sees a cat between the rails. He blows the hooter, but the cat doesn't move. When the train has passed, the cat is still between the rails, but unharmed.

Doc's Last Stand

1961 • 6 min • United States of America

Doc and Champ run a travelling store, a wagon of goods which they pull into an Indian reservation, "Scalpum Village".

Hollywood: The Selznick Years

1961 • 52 min

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.

The Prom: It's a Pleasure!

1961 • 17 min • United States of America

Prom rules and regulations

Festival in Puerto Rico

1961 • 28 min • Canada

This short documentary features Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester as she sings at the Festival Casals, a musical event founded by the great Spanish cellist and conductor Pablo Casals and sponsored annually by the Puerto Rican government. Part concert film, part tourism film, Festival in Puerto Rico offers viewers candid glimpses of mid-20th century Puerto Rico intercut with performance footage of Forrester and her husband, violinist-conductor Eugene Kash.

As Nature Intended

1961 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Three girls on a tour of the English countryside meet up with two young women who introduce them to the joys of life in a nudist camp.

Man at the Carlton Tower

1961 • 57 min • United Kingdom

The police investigate the murder of an officer, killed during a jewel robbery.

Symmetry

1961 • 2 min • United States of America

Symmetry is one of five shorts featured in the film "Mathematical Peep Shows." The collection was made by Charles and Ray Eames for the IBM Mathematica Exhibit which opened in 1961. The degree to which an object is symmetrical is illustrated by the number of different positions in which it can fit into a box of its shape.

Attempt to Kill

1961 • 59 min • United Kingdom

A wealthy business man fires one of his employees and becomes the victim of murder attempt. The fired man becomes the prime suspect, but it appears that he himself has been murdered.

Wrestling

1961 • 28 min • Canada

A candid-camera view of professional wrestling as seen in the Montréal Forum, where some of the biggest bouts are staged, and in back-street wrestling parlours where the warriors practice their art.

J'ai Huit Ans

1961 • 8 min • Algeria, France, Tunisia

Algerian children, survivors of the war and refugeeing in Tunisian camps, recount the tragic events they have experienced, from drawings they have made themselves.

Brutality in Stone

1961 • 12 min • Germany

In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime's politics of the same kind. Shots of huge neo-classical architectural structures from the Nazi period are confronted with equally anti-human national-socialist language as a voice-over.

Dragon by the Tail

1961 • 25 min

Josephine Little, an expatriate American importer-exporter of sometimes unscrupulous dealings, is recruited by Central Intellegence Agency operatives in Hong Kong to help recover an American born scientist away from the communists, holding him him in North Viet Nam. She goes through with the dangerous mission, in hopes of securing a scrap metal deal with the U.S. government.

One Must Die

1961 • 30 min • United States of America

John Baylor is summoned to the home of a friend of his fathers. The man is dying and wishes to leave everything to one of his two daughters. John wants to find out why one daughter is excluded.

Golden Peacock Castle, Part 4

1961 • 55 min • Japan

The righteous young men, who were separated by the all-out attack of sorcery, are saved by the friendship of a young Sengoku warlord, and now launch an all-out attack on Gondayu, who has usurped the regent's position. An exciting and heated battle unfolds. This is the grand finale of a golden period drama that mobilizes all the popular youth stars.

Seven Knights Pt. 3

1961 • 55 min • Japan

The Litterbug

1961 • 8 min • United States of America

Donald and his nephews are litterbugs: they drop garbage everywhere they go - even when they are out for a drive in Donald's car - until they are stopped by a policeman who makes them pick up everything they have dropped.

Seven Knights Pt. 2

1961 • 56 min • Japan

Seven Knights Pt. 1

1961 • 57 min • Japan

Donald and the Wheel

1961 • 17 min • United States of America

A father tells his son the invention of the wheel was most important; to prove it, the two hipsters visit the inventor caveman Donald Duck. There follows a survey of the progress of transportation, a digression into the basics of gear ratios, a series of live-action dancers to various styles of music inside a giant jukebox, an illustration of the use of wheels in power generation and space satellites, etc. Ultimately, Donald decides he doesn't want the responsibility, but certainly someone else would take on the task.

Shōjo

1961 • 59 min • Japan

1961 Japanese movie