All Films

Target... Austin, Texas

1960 • 20 min • United States of America

Produced by Austin's local television station KTBC, Target Austin presents the scenario of a nuclear missile strike on the outskirts of Austin. The film follows the storylines of several characters from the CONELRAD broadcast to the announcement that it is safe to emerge from shelter. The film takes place in Austin, highlighting some iconic locations in town. It also features an Austin all-star cast and crew, including director Gordon Wilkison, narrator Cactus Pryor, actress Coleen Hardin and El Rancho restaurant owner Matt Martinez.

Up to sixteen

1960 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Iquitos, capital amazónica del Perú

1960 • 4 min • Peru

Record of images of the great city of our jungle, before its recent urban expansion.

Action for Skids

1960 • 16 min • United Kingdom

An instructional short film about how to (and how not to) skid your car.

Alle Menschen sind vor dem Gesetz gleich

1960 • 14 min

Short educational film by Wilm ten Haaf.

Land of Song

1960 • 5 min • United Kingdom

As travelogues go this one doesn't quite cut it – good job Lanry household bleach can!

Arrow

1960 • 5 min

A boy is awarded a wooden bow, but told he should not shoot it. Disappointed, he shoots an arrow in the air and hits a hat in a shop window. As it turns out, hats with arrows can be fashionable.

An Enduring Tradition

1960 • 60 min

A Documentary about the Royal Canadian Navy in peace and in war.

125 Jahre deutsche Eisenbahn

1960 • 22 min • East Germany

Catherine Demongeot : « Zazie dans le métro »

1960 • 8 min • France

Journalists Jean-Noël Roy and Pierre Dumayet interview 'Zazie dans le Métro'’s young star, Catherine Demongeot, and her parents.

The Secrets of Life

1960 • 13 min

In this documentary, the director proves that movement is one of the most important manifestations of life. The film reveals what is imperceptible to the naked eye, starting with the movement of single cells or cells themselves, and ending with the movements of unicellular protozoa.

Al fin solo

1960 • 15 min • Venezuela

A thief breaks into a house and takes everything.

The Three Dogeteers in Courtin' an'a Snortin'

1960 • 7 min

This appears to be a pilot for a series that never happened.

The Greedy Pig

1960 • 10 min • North Korea

Some animals cooperate in gathering food while a greedy pig pays the consequences of his individualism.

Dead End

1960 • 2 min • Ireland

A young man experiences fitful visions on his deathbed. He visits abandoned cityscapes, follows a Grim Reaper and eventually ends up in a coffin with the Reaper looming overhead.

Off Beat

1960 • 3 min • Ireland

A stop-motion animation featuring meticulously crafted paper cutouts. Loose representations of male and female figures dance around the frame in a dramatic play of gender studies and relationship highs and lows.

300 Men and a Girl

1960 • 19 min • United Kingdom

Training film for Birds Eye salesgirls.

Dream Maker

1960 • 4 min • Ireland

Dream Maker explores the relationship between two young women in a tender play of furtive glances, sensual interactions and hesitations. It’s a striking piece, and one of the few known Irish amateur films by a woman that offers such an intimate and dream-like portrayal of female characters.

Images Of Kumbha Mela

1960 • 12 min

An 11 min documentary Images Of Kumbh Mela was shot by Bimal Roy just before he passed away & left untouched & forgotten, his son Joy Roy discovered the footage 33 years later & completed it to create this unique documentary which is one of the last pieces of work created by the legendary film maker.

Choros

1960 • 2 min

A dance film featuring Katherine Dunham Company.

Cumbia

1960 • 2 min

An operatic cumbia performance.

Hatred

1960 • 20 min

Fifteen years after the end of World War II, the short film Hate was made, which manifests the collective emotion of Czechs towards representatives of Nazi totalitarianism.

The Eruption of Kilauea 1959-1960

1960 • 27 min • United States of America

Produced by the United States Geological Survey and the National Park Service during the 1959-1960 eruption of Kilauea. Narrated footage includes lava fountains and the creation of the Kilauea Iki lava lake.

Fadila

1960 • 40 min • France, Algeria

Fadila is a short film shot in the Casbah of Algiers during the Algerian War by a young French army conscript with the young Fadila Tizraoui and Djamel Bendeddouche who would become filmmakers after independence. The film depicts the friendship of two children in the streets of the Casbah and their encounter one day in December with Santa Claus... Fadila won the Grand Prix du Cinéma at the 1959 Children's Fair, was awarded a prize by the National Center for Cinematography (CNC) and was successfully exported.