All Films

Yucatan

1961 • 11 min • Germany

Poetic documentary about the vanished culture of the Maya.

Play Ball!

1960 • 12 min • France

Schoolboys decide to play football during their lunchbreak, but the ball escapes and the boys follow it on a series of adventures before returning to class. Nominated for Best Live Action Short Film at the 1962 Academy Awards.

Salinas

1960 • 11 min • Germany

Documentary short by Raimond Ruehl about the hard work of salt production.

Sixty Years of Fashion

1960 • 18 min • United Kingdom

The history of British fashion from the late-1890s to 1960. Part of BFI collection "Design for Today."

Mining Review 13th Year No. 8

1960 • 10 min • United Kingdom

The 152nd issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Includes the articles: '35 Years After', 'Stormy Genius' ( documenting the filming of 'Sons and Lovers'), 'East Wemyss' and 'Lot 150'.

Way Stations in Space

1960 • 12 min

This educational film explains how Earth-orbiting space platforms and lunar bases ("way stations") will serve a key role in the exploration of our solar system.

Mirror

1960 • 12 min • Japan

A short animated film by Tadanari Okamoto.

Look Back

1960 • 1 min

Man on the move, look back, all clear, OK, you're away - music and mantra for a time when the freedom of the road was unsullied and adventurous.

Piccola arena Casartelli

1960 • 10 min

A portrait, collected and discharged, of a small family-run circus that moves from one nucleus to another in the Bolognese lowlands, with its present nomad and its tragic past.

Inner and Outer Space

1960 • 4 min

Novios en el parque

1960 • 5 min • Spain

Making Window Pictures

1960 • 12 min • Australia

In the Brisbane Creative Leisure Centre, conducted by the Cantrills, children are shown reproductions of stained glass windows and then make large transparent pictures with black paper, coloured cellophane, and other materials such as discarded x-ray pictures and textured fabric, with a minimum of instruction. These are taken indoors and fastened to window panes.

Naked Party

1960 • 10 min • United States of America

Three frisky stewardesses get put up in an apartment by their airline. While showering and going about the apartment naked, the boyfriend of the apartment's owner returns and activities ensue.

Teenage Conflict

1960 • 28 min

A boy and his sister, who have rejected the Christian faith for new scientific concepts, are shown by a scientist the relationship between the scientific approach and Christian concepts.

Defensive Tactics

1960 • 15 min • United States of America

Training film for special agents at the FBI National Academy. Demonstrates how agents must stay alert to stay alive.

The Fishing Industry around Fleetwood

1960 • 16 min

Behind the scenes in the fishing industry, as the Fylde town supports its trawlermen.

El Maná

1960 • 4 min • Cuba

El Maná was the first short film created by the Cuban revolution, with a strong propaganda encouraging the Cuban people to work hard and to defend the Cuban revolution.

Saint-Junien

1960 • 16 min

Sightseeing tour in the town of Saint-Junien in the 1960s. Stroll around La Glane, the Corot site, the paper factory, the Collegiate Church where some of the traditional Limousin exhibitions take place, around the Notre-Dame bridge which spans the Vienne and finally on a market in the busy streets of the city center.

Where Were You?

1960 • 27 min

Released just months before the 1960 presidential election, this Ford Motor Company-sponsored short explains the electoral process and implores viewers to become involved in politics.

Anthropometries of the Blue Period and Fire Paintings

1960 • 7 min

In the performance piece, Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle (Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility) 1959-62, he offered empty spaces in the city in exchange for gold. He wanted his buyers to experience The Void by selling them empty space. In his view this experience could only be paid for in the purest material: gold. In exchange, he gave a certificate of ownership to the buyer. As the second part of the piece, performed on the Seine with an Art critic in attendance, if the buyer agreed to set fire to the certificate, Klein would throw half the gold into the river, in order to restore the "natural order" that he had unbalanced by selling the empty space (that was now not "empty" anymore). He used the other half of the gold to create a series of gold-leafed works, which, along with a series of pink monochromes, began to augment his blue monochromes toward the end of his life.

The North Wind and the Sun

1960 • 8 min • Japan

A short animated film based on the Aesop's Fable "The North Wind and the Sun".

African Gathering

1960 • 18 min

Colour, silent film recording people, costumes, rites and festivities seen at a Durbar, which celebrates the culmination of Muslim festivals of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.

Happy New Year 1960

1960 • 1 min

A short animated New Year's wish distributed by the National Screen Service.

Le court bouillon n. 4 (Lussuria)

1960 • 15 min • Italy

Inspired by the surrealists, this short movie is made of found film reels bought from flea markets.