All Films

Macau

1960 • 18 min • Portugal

The sea is the beginning of the panoramic views that move inexorably from the water to the city, and then the other way around.

Gela 1959: Pozzi a mare

1960 • 26 min • Italy

The subsea well constructed in Gela in 1959 by Eni was the first of its kind in Europe. The facility consisted of two interdependent complexes: a steel platform on the sea floor and a support ship. The very viscous oil gushed from the Sicilian land to flow to collection centers.

Прочти и катай в Париж и Китай

1960 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Cold Feet

1960 • 4 min • Ireland

The highs and lows of navigating romantic ventures are joyfully explored through a three-part play of stop-motion cut-outs.

Wonderful Event

1960 • 21 min • Soviet Union

The comedy is about drunkard who wanted to go to the bath-house but instead of going there he boarded a plane going to Ganja city...

Black and White, Day and Night

1960 • 5 min • United States of America

A 'drawn' film, with images that are constantly changing, drawings of landscapes that keep escaping, traces of faces, everything is almost what it is but never stays that way. The soundtrack punches out a wild monotone of dirty, nonsense limericks to the accompaniment of hand-drawn images related only in their complementary rhythm.

Two Grilled Fish (B/W Version)

1960 • 22 min • Japan

The original black and white version that tells the story of a man and a woman who go by raft to a remote desert island with chickens and a dog. At first, it is a kind of paradise for them. They farm and fish following the same routine every day, feasting on grilled sanma that they roast out in the open. One day, their harmony gets interrupted by a mustachioed scientist on a raft powered by an abused pig. This unwanted visitor constructs a robot which begins the process of industrialization on the island. The couple are disgruntled but decide to put up with the man and his technology.

Point and Counterpoint

1960 • 5 min • Italy

Hand-painted experimental short by Cioni Carpi.

Der Löwenschreck

1960 • 10 min • East Germany

At camp, the boys Mäxchen and Knirps make friends with a squirrel. Envious Emil wants to spoil their fun with the little animal and invents a hair-raising story in which he allegedly captures a wild lion, tames it and takes it home with him. Mäxchen's bragging gets too much, he steals away and lets out a menacing lion's roar with the help of a watering can. Emil flees, his hair dusted with horror. Everyone rejoices at his embarrassment - including the squirrel.

Look at Life: Shopping by the Ton

1960 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A visit to Smithfield Market, Covent Garden and Billingsgate, at their busiest time, the early morning.

Stay Safe, Stay Strong: The Facts About Nuclear Weapons

1960 • 23 min • United States of America

Produced by the U.S. Air Force, this vintage doc shows how advanced engineering keeps Americans safe from accidental detonations of nuclear weapons.

Polaris Action

1960 • 11 min

Since June 1, 1960, the Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA) had been in New London and Groton, CT for Polaris Action, a summer-long campaign to disrupt the production of nuclear-armed submarines at General Dynamics: Electric Boat and to educate the public about the dangers of the nuclear arms race. Most participants traveled in from other places and, according to the Hilary Harris documentary Polaris Action (1960), included “men and women, old persons and the very young, ministers and atheists, ex-servicemen and conscientious objectors.”

Homage to Jean Tinguely's 'Homage to New York'

1960 • 10 min • United States of America

A record, of sorts, of the birth and death of Tinguely’s famous auto-destructive sculpture. Filmed on the spot at MoMA, this film also exploits a wide range of camera and editing techniques to give it a life of its own, independent of and parallel to the subject. — Anthology Film Archives

A City Called Copenhagen

1960 • 22 min • Denmark

Oscar nominated documentary short from Denmark, 1960

A Sport Is Born

1960 • 12 min • United States of America

A Sport Is Born is a 1960 documentary short directed by Richard Winik. It discusses the development of the sport of parachuting at the airport in Orange, Mass. Includes views of the pupils who are being instructed, pointing out the fundamentals of parachuting, and shows jumps being made by students, instructors, and outstanding jumpers. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Robin Hood

1960 • 6 min • United States of America

A Mel-O-Toons production

Les Désoeuvrés

1960 • 60 min • Canada

“Les Désoeuvrés” perfectly captures the birth of the Révolution Tranquille, when many folks abandoned religion, rural lifestyles and family values.

Fashion

1960 • 5 min • Japan

A short film satirizing consumerism.

Olympic Holiday

1960 • 57 min

Known for his commentary-laden chronicles of key moments in winter sports history, the late John Jay is considered by many to be the founding father of the modern-day ski film. This installment of the "Classic Ski Films" series presents Jay's coverage of the 1960 Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, Calif., which includes the opening and closing ceremonies, the 90-meter ski jump and the dramatic USA vs. USSR hockey game.

Birth of a Building

1960 • 15 min

In-house documentary recording the construction of the then new BBC Television Centre.

Record of A Long White Line

1960 • 13 min • Japan

Early experimental PR "cine-poem" by Toshio Matsumoto. Commissioned by Kansai Electricity, the film paints an abstract, near-wordless retelling of the development of power stations in Japan, through to the presumed oncoming advent of nuclear power.

Burri, una vita

1960 • 13 min

Alberto Burri at work. The exceptional privilege of being able to see the artist at work, among glues, wooden strips and plastic panels, blowtorch and metal plates. The film version comes from a 35mm copy, a very damaged film especially with regards to sound.

Allegro

1960 • 3 min • United States of America

Handmade, direct animation film using rubber based masking material and colored dye. Rhthmic colored linear patterns of abstract grids move in syncopation to the allegro from the Brandenburg Concerto #3 in G Major by J.S. Back. Inspired by the handmade films of Norman McLaren, who once told Larry over milkshakes that Allegro was the best film he had seen made in 16mm.

The Big Radish

1960 • 20 min • China