All Films

Goodwill to All Dogs

1960 • 6 min

Snip the magic scissors ensures that Snap the paper dog has a very Merry Christmas.

Zaa, the Little White Camel

1960 • 28 min

Zaa follows the journey of a white camel returning to the oasis it calls home and finds an unlikely ally in a young boy. With Zaa, Bellon shows another side of herself, the lover of animals and children, in a land far from France.

Erste Hilfe bei Unfällen: Verbrennungen

1960 • 7 min

Instruction movie from the German Red Cross about burns, how it happens and what to do.

Erste Hilfe bei Unfällen: Wunden

1960 • 10 min

Short educational film about wounds.

Scope Two

1960 • 3 min

"Electronic music by Henry Jacobs. A pioneer computer abstract film, produced in 1960, in which complex oscilloscope patterns in beautiful vivid colors whirl around, against, and through each other to the roaring accompaniment of electronic music. Hank Stockert is the head of Imagic, one of the leading motion picture optical labs in Hollywood." -Creative Film Society distribution catalogue, 1975.

Meet the Red Devils: Parachute Regiment

1960 • 14 min

This footage is all that remains of the programme that was first transmitted in 1960. Sgt George Brown demonstrates training exercises in a wooded area is known as the 'trainasium'. The aim is for the recruits to overcome a series of physical obstacles which encourage movements of daring and agility. They are also set team challenges aimed at encouraging initiative.

Pepsi-Cola Commercial

1960 • 1 min

Commercial abstraction by Dwinell Grant.

Promesseiro

1960 • 2 min • Brazil

Church History in Härnösand

1960 • 9 min

Sunday 10 April 1960 was a historic day for the Swedish Church. That day, for the first time, three women were ordained as priests, including Ingrid Persson, who was ordained in Härnösand's cathedral.

The Kucong People

1960 • 30 min

Part of the Chinese Historical Ethnographic Film Series (1957-1966)

Sehnsucht nach Sonne

1960 • 59 min • Germany

A look at American cities and landscapes, as well as footage of a French nudist island.

Valley of the Goons

1960 • 6 min • United States of America

Popeye accidentally joins a tough bloodthirsty crew who are traveling to Goonland for a cargo of Goonskin.

Moonshine

1960 • 4 min • Ireland

Bombs, rockets, a hammer and sickle, the USA flag and Laika the dog race around the moon in this powerful stop-motion animation depicting the Space Race during the Cold War. Moonshine belies Kerrigan’s political interests and demonstrates the refinement of her skill as an accomplished animator.

Discord

1960 • 6 min • Ireland

A gothic-infused escapade where slapstick visual gags are playfully tested. A man disappears into a bathtub and out hops a woman; a fisherman casts his rod over a hill into a glass container which tries to swallow him; a gravedigger makes a futile attempt to lift a headstone. Two men enter a tunnel seconds before a train, only to exit a few moments later, visibly injured.

Bakuha Meirei

1960 • 52 min

The passport of drug kingpin Wang Ying-han was found at the scene of a large truck explosion. Detectives Chen and Yoshida meet and interview Noriko, but she refuses to talk due to her father who is a drug addict and is currently missing.

Steam Beyond The Solent

1960 • 18 min • United Kingdom

A film about the Solent with a look at the steam trains operating across the Isle of Wight.

Vernon's Poolroom Routine

1960 • 30 min

A behind-the-scenes look at "The Pool Room" in the 1960s, from the ladies arriving to start the day, to the vans bringing in the post, providing a reel of glimpses of real history.

Look at Life: Saturday Fever

1960 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A look at the phenomenon of Saturday football through the eyes of fans watching Tottenham Hotspur. The film looks at the men who are the chief actors in the Saturday football drama, both off duty and in training.

Mining Review 14th Year No. 3

1960 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Dorothy Hyman, sprinter and miner's daughter from Barnsley, returns from the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome with two medals: silver in the 200m and bronze in the 300m. In her day job, she works as a tracer for the National Coal Board at the Area Headquarters at Ardsley Hall. After the excitement and romance of her Olympian adventures, she loyally declares that "it'll be a nice change to get back to work".

Parade

1960 • 10 min • Bulgaria

A human hand throws a box of cigarettes on the chessboard. It has a picture of a house and the sun on it. The chess king organized a military campaign against a foreign body. Chess rooks shoot. Chess knights are riding. The march of the troops goes to the end of the chessboard. The king decides to take over the surrounding space. Black and white squares cover one picture, a funny prankster, and even a globe. A human hand sweeps away the chess pieces and collects them in a box.

An Award for Mr. Rossi

1960 • 11 min • Italy

Mister Rossi wins an Oscar.

The Pencil and the Eraser

1960 • 9 min • Hungary

A pencil and an eraser start to fight with each other.

Operation Abolition

1960 • 45 min

A short film produced by the House Committee on Un-American Activities documenting demonstration and rioting during the San Francisco hearings.

The Purple Line

1960 • 14 min

Animated film featuring three animal-like creatures.