All Films

Cavalcade

1960 • 11 min • United States of America

A series of short educational segments.

A Bedlington Miners' Picnic

1960 • 16 min • United Kingdom

In 1960, Ken Russell visited Bedlington Colliery, Northumberland to make one of his first documentary films, following life in the mining community.

Carnaval

1960 • 7 min • Chile

Anthropological record with aspects of this festival, when it did not yet have the subsequent production levels.

La croce

1960 • 11 min • Italy

First short film directed by Taffarel. A large wooden sled is carried by a farmer to the top of Mount Visentin to collect the hay left to dry along the slopes.

Once Upon a Tram

1960 • 22 min • Ireland

Take a nostalgic trip along the beautiful Dublin coast, escaping the hustle and bustle of the city while enjoying the clatter and clang of the old Howth tram. This film records one of the last journeys of the Howth Tram, as it passes through the village, past the golf club, and along the coast – a most elegant form of transport from a bygone era.

Vasarely

1960 • 8 min

In 1960, Xenakis composed the music NEG-ALE for P. Kassovitz's "Vasarely", an abstract film on the artwork of Op-Art master Victor Vasarely.

Navel and A-Bomb

1960 • 15 min • Japan

Short film in which butoh dancing is used to reflect on the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Playground Spectacular

1960 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Documentary from 1960 by Harold Baim extolling Blackpool's merits as a holiday destination over those of rival seaside towns. With contributions by boxer Brian London and organist Reginald Dixon.

The Cars in Your Life

1960 • 30 min • Canada

A light, humorous look at the motor car and the great North American itch for a place on the road. From the comparative peace of Honest Joe's used-car lot, this film hustles you onto our public speedways, where hot rubber erases any distance between all points. Slow-motion and pop-on-pop-off photography make this a provocative, revealing study of motormania unlimited. A 1960 black and white production. (Also released under the title 1/3 Down and 24 Months to Pay.)

The Colt

1960 • 40 min • Soviet Union

Between Two Rivers

1960 • 29 min • United Kingdom

After a brief tutelage with innovative BBC documentary producer Denis Mitchell, Dennis Potter teamed with producer Anthony de Lotbiniere to film a documentary (later described by David Niven as "absolutely wonderful"). Returning to the Berry Hill roots of his childhood, Potter used interviews with locals (including his parents) to show changes in the working-class traditions of the Forest of Dean, where "the green forest has a deep black heart beneath its sudden hills, pushing up slag heaps and gray little villages clustering around the coal."

Orient-Occident

1960 • 22 min

On the occasion of a sculpture exhibition organized at the Musée Cernuschi in 1959 on the theme of the relationship between East and West through fifty centuries of art, Enrico FULCHIGNONI attempts to show how, through Egyptian art, Greek art was influenced by Etruscan and Oriental arts. Commentary by Pierre HENRY, narrated by Pierre CHAMBON, and camera work highlight the similarities between the various sculpted statuettes, in terms of profiles, smiles and attitudes. The original music by Iannis XENAKIS seems to pay homage to these vanished civilizations.

Spring Sounds

1960 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

In a follow up to Dušan Vukotić's 'Čarobni zvuci' (Magic Sounds), the violinist returns to bring Spring into life. Animated film by Aleksandar Marks and Vladimir Jutrisa.

The Man Who Flew

1960 • 2 min • Sweden

An animated film about a man who pulls out a drawer.

A Day With Ingo

1960 • 21 min

A day in the life of Swedish boxing champ Ingemar Johansson (22-0-0). Training at Redbergslids BK, Gothenburg. Travelling to Stockholm for a meeting prior to his 2nd fight with Floyd Patterson.

How to Stuff a Woodpecker

1960 • 6 min • United States of America

Professor Strudel relates the story of how he managed to catch and stuff Woody Woodpecker... or did he?

Astaire Time

1960 • 60 min • United States of America

A one-hour live television special starring Fred Astaire.

Postcards from Zakopane

1960 • 12 min • Poland

Zakopane is the winter capital of Poland, where Marszałkowska Street smoothly changes into Krupówki. Hitchhiking, views from Gubałówka, mountaineering – all of them, from a male perspective, could be an opportunity to meet a beautiful woman.

The Path

1960 • 18 min • United States of America

"My first film, THE PATH, was based on a dream about a group of people on an ‘outing’ or a picnic. The people in the dream meet and greet one another and then walk around and through old houses, barns, and buildings. Inside these structures they pass by other people involved in various activities. A woman is folding clothes. A man is making paintings. A young girl is sitting in front of a mirror trying on different necklaces." - Richard Myers. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

Ella Fitzgerald Live in Australia

1960 • 51 min • Australia

Ella Fitzgerald visited Australia back in 1960. Gracefully stepping up to the microphone for the celebrated television event 'The BP Super Show', hosted by musician and entertainer Horrie Dargie, Fitzgerald delivered a mellifluous set of legendary songs in an intimate concert setting at The Embers Nightclub in Toorak Road, South Yarra Victoria. This rarely seen B&W television treat is considered to be one of the earliest audio-visual recordings of the 'First Lady of Song', backed by the smooth sounds of the Lou Levy Quartet. Beside Fitzgerald's performance of 14 memorable Jazz and Blues classics, the program also contains original BP musical interludes and jingles from the Horrie Dargie Quartet.

Pû Pû

1960 • 22 min • Japan

"A film describing some unusual acts by youths attempting to break out of the stifling patterns of culture... daydreaming that yields them nothing. A mob of children enact a burial rite; the place of the 'corpse' is taken by one of the rebellious youths... Beautiful and rare images... one of the best Japanese films." --Iimura

Amal

1960 • 20 min • Algeria

A sublime documentary on childhood and bereavement that’s one of several shorts the filmmaker completed while working in Algeria for Georges Derocles’s company Les Studios Africa, for whom he would shortly make his breakthrough feature The Olive Trees of Justice.

The Little Swallow

1960 • 15 min

A mummy swallow teaches her child to cherish foods and respect labors of others.

The Eye Sees

1960 • 12 min

On appropriate coloring.