All Films

The Serious Press

1960 • 3 min • Cuba

The first Cuban animated short-film produced by the ICAIC on 1960, directed by the Cuban animation pioneer Jesus de Armas. Denounces the manipulation of information of the so-called "serious" newspapers of the time.

Morals Squad

1960 • 57 min

NYC vice-squad attempts to bust a crime ring.

The Goat and the Wolf

1960 • 14 min • China

A little goat was drinking water by the river, and the big bad wolf appeared, insisting that the river water belonged to him, and that he would come to eat the little goat at night as punishment for stealing the water. The little goat was very scared. On the way home, the little goat met kittens, little hedgehogs, little monkeys and other small animals. After they heard about it, they all decided to help the little goat. At night, the big bad wolf arrived as scheduled, and with the help of the little animals, the lamb successfully drove away the big bad wolf.

The Living North

1960 • 31 min

This film makes a general survey of the Northern Territory of Australia and indicates its potential in regard to many already established industries. These include agriculture, mining, fisheries, cattle raising, pearling and the like. The Territory is still a land of many challenging problems; its greatest limiting factor being the lack of water. In recent years transportation has been improved and education approached with vision and imagination. Housing is also being developed. Two thirds of the Territory’s work force is in Government employ.

News Out From The Frying Pan

1960 • 9 min • Poland

The title pan (‘patelnia’ means pan) is a terrace on Gubałówka, where people can sunbathe even in the middle of winter. ‘Standing in the sunlight, everyone is only what they are’ - convinces the narrator. The sight is breathtaking.

The Little Train

1960 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

Short documentary about the train line operating along Virpazar-Bar route.

Torrens

1960 • 11 min • Cuba

The former prison for adolescents is converted into a "rehabilitation center" by the nascent Revolution.

The haunted grove

1960 • 9 min • Belgium

Chlorophylle and Minimum are about to savor a well-deserved vacation. Surprised by a storm, they take refuge in a grove. However, this grove is peculiar. Unbeknownst to them, they have entered a haunted grove.

Principles of Ionization

1960 • 16 min • United States of America

Shows the properties of different solvents, including their electrical conductivity or lack of it. Shows how they affect the boiling point of water. Demonstrates ion migration during electrolysis.

Pictures from the World of Moulds

1960 • 10 min • Poland

Using Aspergillus niger mold, we observe culture breeding and the formation of spores. Microscope images show the structure and method of mold reproduction, the properties of which are used in the production of citric acid.

Kunstmaler

1960 • 6 min • East Germany

The animated film, created as a puppet and clay animation with a drawn and painted backdrop, shows a day in the life of a painter. He drives to the countryside in his sports car, paints a landscape motif, returns to the city - and hangs his painting in an exhibition.

Take Death off the Roads

1960 • 1 min

Drive safe public information film

Hands

1960 • 5 min • Netherlands

Handen (Hands) is an experimental documentary film by Dutch photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken. the film is a moving and poetic observation of how hands play an integral part in human life, from birth to death.

Demo of Water Ink Animation

1960 • 6 min • China

Duan Xiaoxuan, A Da and Te Wei's exploration of the ink wash animation technique.

Brain and Machine

1960 • 24 min • Soviet Union

About modeling some principles of the brain.

Freeloading Feline

1960 • 6 min • United States of America

In a big city penthouse atop a skyscraper, a big society party is in progress.

Funérailles au Ghana

1960 • 6 min

A woman's funeral in Ghana.

Who Cares...

1960 • 12 min • Germany

In the Frankfurt area, La Main Rouge hunts for Algerian soldiers who had deserted from the French army and fled across the German border.

Directivity

1960 • 12 min

Combining colour, animation and sound to clarify principles of radio-wave transmission, this film illustrates how antennas propagate radio waves and how they may be adapted to increase the directivity of transmissions. The theoretical concepts are emphasized.

Love

1960 • 9 min • United States of America

Silent metropolitan scenes filmed by Beryl Sokoloff in 1960.

Mestrovic - Exaltation of Matter

1960 • 7 min • Yugoslavia

Meštrović (Exaltation of Matter), is a short film directed by Ivan Martinac, recorded in the production of Kino Club Split. He filmed it provoked by the teasing of Belgrade moviegoers who claimed that “mostly eating and drinking is done in the Split cinema club”, which was not far from the truth. Still, the wounded pride and anger took their toll, and in 1960 he filmed his first “Split” film — Meštrović (The Exaltation of Matter) with which he succeeded. At the international film festival in Vienna, he received a UNICA bronze plaque, the first international award received by amateur cinematography in Yugoslavia at the time.

Railway Electrification at Industrial Frequency

1960 • 26 min • United Kingdom

A step-by-step description of how power from the national grid is supplied to British Railways.

Hong Kong as seen by Orson Welles

1960 • 8 min

During a break from the production of "Ferry to Hong Kong" (1959), Orson Welles spent three weeks touring Colonial Hong Kong and Macau documenting the ongoing refugee crisis, constrasting the miserable situation on the roofs, in the streets, in the mountainside, on the sampans and in the Forbidden City with the opulent and luxurious high life of Hong Kong.

Macedonian Wedding

1960 • 24 min • Greece

A Greek documentary by Takis Kanellopoulos about wedding traditions in western Greece and Macedonia. It was filmed in the village of Velvendo.