All Films

Life of a Queen

1960 • 16 min

This film is a compilation of footage shot by Associated British Pathe, which covered royal events for its newsreels, and the company would have been ideally placed to use their footage to make short films for the COI. The varied life of the Queen depicted in the film encompasses duties such as making the first telephone trunk call in 1958, from Bristol.

Unedited Material from the Star

1960 • 12 min

Unedited Material from the Star 1960 is John Latham’s second film and one of two films that he made that year derived from his book, or ‘Skoob’, reliefs. The film employs stop frame animation to portray the changing states of the book relief Film Star (1960).

Black and White Burlesque

1960 • 3 min • United States of America

An animated collage film.

Historia de un ciprés

1960 • 7 min • Spain

A man with an umbrella emerges from his grave to be momentarily reunited with his lost loved one.

Paper And I

1960 • 16 min • United States of America

Agrifilms Productions and the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association team up to bring you this informational short about a talking paper bag which visits a young boy in his dreams and teaches him about the manufacturing of paper products.

La Femme Image

1960 • 35 min

A true surrealist poem about love and desire, La femme image sparked a scandal despite its semi-clandestine distribution, because never before had a Quebec-made film shown full- frontal female nudity.

The Flight of Icarus

1960 • 12 min • France

The Fall of Icarus proposes the magnification by the camera of a concrete material, the simple sand placed on a flat screen illuminated from behind, to reveal the changes of form and the movements of the matter once in contact with the elements: water, fire, earth and air. Particular care has been taken in the correspondence between sound and image: the compositions of the image (colors, knots of density, movements) surprisingly find their equivalence on the sound level in the music of Mireille CHAMASS.

Corky The Crow

1960 • 10 min

Two farm kids trap a crow and keep it as a pet.

Etude aux allures

1960 • 6 min • France

The pace is the oscillation that results from the maintenance of a sound, the internal rhythm of its sound structure, which makes it live and change from its emission until its extinction. In this study, the painter Raymond HAINS attempts a visual transposition of this acoustic law by filming his works through fluted lenses directly attached to the camera creating optical vibration effects that animate the shapes and colors and produce a colorful rhythm.

Murzilka and the Giant

1960 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Dot

1960 • 3 min

The Giant

1960 • 21 min • Hungary

Tale

1960 • 6 min

A short film from 1960 by Piotr Kamler.

Marine Snow: The Origin of Oil

1960 • 25 min • Japan

This film takes us into the microscopic world of the plankton that mass in the oceans. Their bodies ultimately turn to marine snow and accumulate on the ocean floor where, across vast time spans, they transform into crude oil.

Spacetime Study, Opus 153

1960 • 10 min

Metal, glass, electrical and lighting elements, and a frosted-glass screen in a painted wood cabinet

From Way Out

1960 • 6 min

A giant space magnet connected to the top of an astronomer's observatory pulls stuff from outer space to earth. One day it also pulls leather jacket wearing space greasers from Mars.

Baggy Clothes

1960 • 42 min • Mongolia

Based on the story "Baggy Clothes" by the writer Sh. Gaadamba, the reporter and herdsman Sevjidmaa, who is trying to spread the progress of the country and the success of the work of the working people, shows the enthusiasm of her husband Sengee's laziness and laziness of the family in a dramatic way. raised the issue of equal rights.

The Shepherd and the Princess

1960 • 30 min • China

The princess is lively and active by nature, and she is very tired of the rigid life in the palace. The king thinks that her words and deeds are not a princess, and asks her to stay in the boudoir all the time. The woodcutter, who made her fall in love at first sight. The prime minister wanted his son to be a son-in-law. One day, he gave the princess a golden phoenix crown, and took the opportunity to propose marriage to the king, and the king agreed. The princess is unwilling to have her happiness ruined, but she doesn't know how to resist. The shepherd boy has an idea, remembering that he can use the local custom of riding a bull to "marry into the sky", and tells his plan, the princess is overjoyed.

Why is a Nun?

1960 • 59 min • United States of America

Documentary film about the training of a nun, produced by Ray Stewart, first shown on Channel 11 (then WIIC) in Pittsburgh on March 19, 1960 and repeated several times. Win Fanning, TV and Radio writer for the Post-Gazette wrote ""CHANNEL 11's splendid public service program 'Why Is A Nun?' will be repeated soon. It drew an enormous mail response."" (Post-Gazette, April 4, 1960)

Acropolis of Athens

1960 • 28 min • Greece

Educational documentary by Robiros Manthoulis, Fotis Mestheneou and Iraklis Papadakis, shot under the archaeological guidance of Yiannis Miliadis, Director of the Acropolis Museum, who is also the narrator. It is a wonderfully consistent mapping of the Acropolis space, in the objects, the spaces, the iconography, the connection with history and tradition. From the opening moments and the presentation of the complexity and specificity of the location of the Acropolis, and through the presentation of every impressive detail, but also of a wider artistic context, the film takes us on a journey through time connecting the centuries of glory of Athenian history with today, with the monument framed not only as the shining relic of an old civilization, but also in its current location, above a large, modern city.

Études des solides illusoires

1960 • 10 min • France

Look at Life: Horse-power Riders

1960 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Experts prove that safety on a motorcycle stems from control of the machines. The Royal Corp Signals demonstrate this.

1001 Drawings

1960 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

Animated-documentary film by Dušan Vukotić depicting the process of animation in the Studio for cartoons, Zagreb film.

Adventures with Tony

1960 • 3 min

A remarkable series of fragments of home movie footage featuring a young butch dyke on vacation with her father in New Jersey. A rarity from the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection at the Harvard Film Archive. Director unknown.