All Films

People on the Road

1960 • 10 min • Poland

A portrait of a traveling circus.

New York, Rome, Barcelona, Brussels

1960 • 7 min • United States of America

Shelagh Delaney's Salford

1960 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Short documentary about Shelagh Delaney and her hometown Salford.

The Adventures of Sam Space

1960 • 9 min • United States of America

Two boys, Chuck and Sam find a time capsule in a cave and take it to Professor Seateck. The professor finds that the capsule contains a message that had been sent to the planet Meeca whose inhabitants helped Earth in its defense against attacks by the Space Islands in 1960. Sam, Chuck, and the Professor travel to Meeca with the Meecan robot Robo. They are attacked by the Space Islands en route but arrive safely to meet with the friendly Meecans.

Taiwan: The Face of Free China

1960 • 26 min

A documentary produced by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that covers the history, land reform, industry, religion, educational system, and urban activities of Taiwan.

The Stonecutter

1960 • 6 min • United States of America

A poor stonecutter seeks the lifestyles of those higher in the social hierarchy.

The Corvair in Action!

1960 • 7 min • United States of America

A promotional film for the Chevrolet Corvair.

J-24

1960 • 10 min • United States of America

A woman leaves her husband (or is it her lover?) and goes home to check her messages.

In the Valley of Flowers

1960 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

A film that talks about the development of the many agricultural branches in valley of Bogdanci, making a comparison with the situation in this part of the south of Macedonia before the irrigation system was built.

Lunchroom Manners

1960 • 10 min • United States of America

This short featuring "Mr. Bungle", a puppet, instructs children on how to best behave in a lunchroom situation.

The Dead

1960 • 11 min • United States of America, France

"The Dead became my first work in which things that might very easily be taken as symbols were so photographed as to destroy all their symbolic potential. The action of making The Dead kept me alive." Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2013.

Un miércoles, por la mañana

1960 • 10 min

The awakening of a young girl platonically enamored of Ramón Novarro and who aspires to be like Clara Bow.

Bambini

1960 • 11 min • Italy

A working day for a group of young open-pit miners by a quarry in Apulia, Italy.

The Revealing Eye

1960 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Surveys the history of cinematography and microphotography with many examples of the strides that have been taken in these fields. The history of the scientific study of motion through the cine-camera. High-speed, and time-lapse cinematography allied with X-ray and the microscope have made possible the study of movements and subjects which the normal eye cannot see. Experiments from 1890 to 1940, when it was possible to slow down the flight of a bullet so that one is seen tapping a piece of glass and passing through before the glass is shattered. Cinematography from space rockets. The use of colour photography in the schlieren technique. (from the ACMI website)

Como el Uruguay no hay

1960 • 10 min • Uruguay

Early on, Ugo Ulive, with his short film Como el Uruguay no hay (1960), seeks to raise awareness and involve the viewer in political action and its radical transformation. Through a collage of animations, archival footage and a counterpoint sound montage, Ulive attacks traditional left-wing and right-wing politics and exposes the contradictions of a pillar of national identity: Uruguay's famous democracy. Note that we are in 1960 and while the voice over presents Montevideo as "a small agitated city", the images show a tense scenario with social protests and a politicized urban space with the presence of mounted police.

Die Achatmurmel

1960 • 35 min • Germany, East Germany

Andreas wanted a special marble for his birthday, but didn't get one. His friends then buy him one and lose it in the tall grass. Andreas finds the marble and quietly keeps it...

Jamaica – Third Test

1960 • 29 min

Covers the first-ever test won by England in the Caribbean, from an overcrowded Sabina Park, featuring authoritative narration by British-Guyanese commentator Ernest Eytle.

The Man and His Shadow

1960 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

What man wants and what he does is not always the same. Desire and imagination have no sharp contours, a shadow that breaks on the edges and disappears or slides down the sidewalk. It could be that a man goes into the fight with his shadow, that he wants to get rid of it, run away from it or destroy it, but left without his other self, he will be one-sided.

Bound for Lagos

1960 • 32 min

Commissioned in 1960 to mark Nigeria’s independence, Connor directs and stars in this troubled production about shifting social relations in an emergent West African middle-class.

Homo sapiens

1960 • 9 min • Romania

A few years before Kubrick in "2001", although in a more farcical way, Ion Popescu-Gopo shows the evolution of a strange creature named man from the time he started to rub flint stones to nowadays when he has managed to split the atoms.

Bandwidth

1960 • 11 min • Canada

This film combines colour, animation and sound to clarify principles of radio wave transmission. It illustrates how antennas propagate radio waves and how they may be adapted to increase the bandwidth of transmissions. (The film was released for general use as a public service by the Royal Canadian Air Force.)

Tabu

1960 • 5 min • Poland

A predator tracked down by hunters is spared its life when it turns out to be a mother breastfeeding her babies.

Six Candles

1960 • 21 min • United Kingdom

A day in the life of insurance agent Mr Smith, who will die as a result of a road accident.

Seconds for Survival

1960 • 28 min • United States of America

Cold War film illustrating the defense capacity of America's telephone network, highlighting AT&T's role in the design and construction of the nation's integrated defense structure, including the Distant Early Warning Line and the North American Air Defense Command. In the dramatic ending, rockets and missiles are fired at hostile forces in a readiness exercise and score a direct hit.