All Films

Evening at the Starlings

1960 • 21 min • Poland

Documentary recording of one of the programs of the "Szpak" cabaret, which operated between 1954-1963 under the auspices of the Polish Radio. The skits and songs are presented by, among others, Irena Kwiatkowska, Alina Janowska, Mieczysław Czechowicz and Hanna Skarżanka.

Caribbean Honeymoon No.2

1960 • 15 min

Shown at the 1960 Edinburgh international Film Festival, this dazzling travelogue records Guyana’s idyllic flora and the industries that supplied raw materials for British homes.

Patamorphose ou le Désespoir du peintre

1960 • 12 min • France

In front of his easel installed on a terrace in the Luxembourg garden, an amateur painter is at work. His goal: to reproduce the Luxembourg Palace on his canvas. But this is easier said than done and to tame his brush and his reticent colors, he sets out to represent his subject in twenty different ways, using the different technical procedures used in animated films.

Japan

1960 • 28 min • United States of America

This is the story of colorful Japanese customs and manners of the past, and their contrast with present-day Japan. We see ancient farming customs, agricultural ceremonies, ancestor worship, schoolteaching, marriage customs, sports, all against the background of beautiful Japan.

Harvest of Shame

1960 • 55 min • United States of America

In this CBS News production broadcast on Thanksgiving 1960, Edward R. Murrow points out the plight of migrant farm workers in America. Topics range from the harsh living conditions, endless travel, low wages, and poor opportunities for their children.

Exploring the Moon

1960 • 16 min

Join Art Baker and Dr. C.H. Cleminshaw on a tour of our lunar neighbor in this science-fact short subject.

David, Goliath and the Rooster

1960 • 21 min • Yugoslavia

The tramp is hungry and the child has a rooster. In order to achieve his goal, to eat, the wanderer grabs the rooster from the child. But because of the child's grief, the tramp changes his mind and the child is with his friend again.

Fisherman In Jaffa

1960 • 11 min

A lyrical documentation of the world of Jaffa's fishermen. The influence of British documentary tradition - as well as the films of directors like Joris Ivens or Georges Franju - is evident in Fishermen in Jaffa. In a carefully-planned frail structure of narrative, the film progresses from daylight to night. In it Perlov creates at the same time a vast, panoramic view, and an intimate, private one - whether he films a lone cat wandering on the dock, or the glowing faces of the fishermen. This early film already depicts Perlov's unique style.

The Friend

1960 • 11 min • Argentina

This short features an unnamed shoeshine boy who works near a carnival. He dreams he befriends a middle-class boy one evening and gets a chance to spend time inside the carnival gate.

Folkwangschule für Gestaltung

1960 • 12 min

A short film by Vesely about the 'Folkwang School for Music, Dance, and Speech' located in Essen.

Sunset Surf Craze

1960 • 43 min

A documentary about the life of the surfers during the sunset golden years in Hawaii.

The Golem

1960 • 60 min • Germany, United States of America

A shortened, sixty-minute version of Der Golem, re-edited for US release and featuring a score by Cordula Heth.

Delta 8-3

1960 • 28 min • United Kingdom

A detailed look at Britain's Vulcan delta wing bomber, including the training of a new crew and unique footage of three of the early Vulcan bombers flying in formation.

Dulwich College and Village

1960 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Glorious colour footage of the famous Lambeth college.

A través de San Sebastián

1960 • 13 min • Spain

A peculiar walk through the Basque city of San Sebastián along twisting roads never traveled by guidebook users.

Zoo Baby

1960 • 59 min

An animal-obsessed child, Pip, moves from his home in Nairobi to London to live with his aunt Julia, in order that he can attend Grammar School. Unaccustomed to the British niceties he encounters, Pip is more attracted to the Zoo and the Circus in his neighborhood. One day, playing truant from school, he journeys to the Zoo on his own to see a a rare animal that has just been moved there. Pip kidnaps the animal.

Vintik and Shpuntik: Merry Masters

1960 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Mechanics assemble a vacuum cleaner, but how to use it?

The Musicians

1960 • 9 min • Poland

A documentary about a group of Warsaw tram workers who moonlight in the city orchestra at night.

The Thirteenth Flight

1960 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Caribbean Honeymoon No.1

1960 • 17 min

‘My People!’ Connor returns to his birthplace of Mayaro to celebrate his homeland’s natural beauty and manufacturing, capturing pre-independence Caribbean islands in all their glorious warmth.

Blue Pullman

1960 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Blue Pullman is a 1960 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie, which follows the development, preparation and a journey from Manchester to London on new British Railways Blue Pullman units. As with earlier British Transport Films, many of the personnel, scientists, engineers, crew and passengers were featured in the 20 minute film. It won several awards, including the Technical & Industrial Information section of the Festival for Films for Television in 1961. The film is also particularly noted for its score, by Clifton Parker, which, unlike the earlier Elizabethan Express is uninterrupted by any commentary.

Khartoum 1960

1960 • 24 min • Sudan

Although perhaps without foresight, Gubara seemingly set out to capture a historic picture of a city that today has completely vanished. He reveals to us the livelier place that Khartoum was before fateful circumstances turned it into a tough, surviving shell of its former self.

Piccolo, Saxo and Company

1960 • 14 min • Netherlands

A family of string instruments goes out to meet new friends, meeting other instruments such as the family of the woodwinds, saxophones and percussion instruments along the way.

Boosting is a Business

1960 • 21 min

Demonstration of shoplifting methods. With the Cooperation and Assistance of Berkeley, California Police Department and Berkeley Police Reserve; Addison H. Fording, Chief of Police; J.F. Hink & Son Department Store, L.W. Hink, President. Technical Assistance: Wm. P. Beall, Lieutenant; E.A. Skells, Sergeant, Berkeley Police DepartmentGeorge Jelten, Director of Visual Merchandising, J.F. Hink and Son. Director of Photography: John L. Siegle. Sound: Walter D. Porep. Narration: John E. Pedersen.