All Films

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood

1960 • 53 min • United States of America

A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.

Reports from Lebyazhye

1960 • 32 min • Soviet Union

Ivan Baikalov, the secretary of the District Committee, is the first person to come to him with any question: grain harvesting machines, alimony, crankshafts... - the party leader of the Altai village should know and be able to do everything. The wife of a young doctor came to seek protection from Baikalov - her husband is cheating! And from Lebyazhego they inform that in three days rains will fall, and the only one who will be able to organize the work and not to rot the bread is Pyotr Ivlev. But on the secretary's desk is an anonymous letter: the district doctor has had an affair with Pyotr's wife. What is more important - grain harvesting or the family of a young party member?

The Danube

1960 • 28 min • United States of America

The people who live along the Danube are studied along with their traditions, in which they take great pride. Both old and new customs and festivals are shown. The film ends with a visit to the most famous of all the Danube cities—Vienna.

Wee Gee’s Camera Magic

1960 • 8 min

This 1960s instructional film released by Castle Films for the home market, demonstrates various camera tricks performed by “Wee Gee,” or “Weegee,” the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig, a famed photographer and cinematographer who worked in Manhattan and New York City’s Lower East Side.

Witches Brew

1960 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Rita Landre plays a witch who casts spells to make anyone she wants disappear. She also makes her own clothes disappear.

The Cautious Twins

1960 • 7 min • United States of America

The animated adventures of twins Dan and Darlene, who spend their time dodging the innumerable adult predators in their city.

Shagreen Leather

1960 • 9 min • Yugoslavia

Poor and unhappy, Rafael leaves Pauline and tries his luck at the roulette, but loses his last coin. Fate gifts him with the miraculous "Shagreen leather" that fulfills all wishes. In his new, luxurious life he wins the heart of wonderful Foedora. But with the power of the leather comes a rule: for every fulfilled wish it becomes shorter, and so does the life of its owner. Using the leather abundantly, Rafael soon spends his time.

Los artistas plásticos de Chile

1960 • 18 min • Chile

Visits the workshops of prominent Chilean painters and sculptors, a vision of artistic creation takes shape. Finally, the first Plastic Arts Fair in Parque Forestal was held, where several of them exhibited their works in the open air.

Colorado Legend

1960 • 11 min

A tale of two gold miners of the old west who struck it rich. The lonely life made them heavy drinkers, and one night when the heavyset and silent Dutchman wouldn't talk to the feisty little Irishman, he was knifed to death. The Irishman was hanged and the whereabouts of the mine lies buried with him.

Sit-In

1960 • 56 min • United States of America

SIT-IN (1960) is filmmaker Robert M. Young’ (Nothing But A aman, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez) seminal documentary on how the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Students of Fisk University desegregated the lunch counters in Nashville, TN.

Frank Sinatra's Welcome Home Party for Elvis Presley

1960 • 60 min • United States of America

Two of entertainment history's biggest stars were united in this special 1960 television broadcast. Signaling the end of a string of shows hosted by Frank Sinatra, ABC pulled out all the stops when it booked the king of rock 'n' roll, Elvis Presley, to be the final guest. Presley's versions of "Fame and Fortune" and "Stuck on You" are terrific, but the duets between Sinatra and Presley, "Witchcraft" and "Love Me Tender," truly steal the show.

Trick Shooting with Kenne Duncan

1960 • 9 min • United States of America

The film consists of Kenne Duncan performing trick shooting stunts and showcasing weapons by Remington Arms. The weapons showcased were a Remington Model 552 and a Remington Nylon 66.

Return to Life

1960 • 29 min • United Kingdom

A refugee family comes to terms with living in the UK and adjusting to a new language and culture.

Heap Big Hepcat

1960 • 6 min • United States of America

Looseface, a young Indian brave turned TV star, completes his role in a picture and is told to go home for a vacation.

The Slowest Gun in the West

1960 • 53 min • United States of America

The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff. Fletcher is so cowardly the townsfolk are sure that the local outlaws will be too proud to gun him down. This proves to be the case, and the outlaws hire their own cowardly gunfighter, Chicken Farnsworth, to go up against The Silver Dollar Kid. Written by Jim Beaver

Gala Day at Disneyland

1960 • 27 min • United States of America

The gala dedication ceremonies at the opening of three new major attractions at Disneyland—Matterhorn Bobsleds, Submarine Voyage, and the new Monorail—include a parade down Main Street with appearances by Walt and Roy Disney and members of their families, along with Vice President Richard Nixon and family, and numerous film stars. The celebrations end at night with a fireworks display.

Bats in the Belfry

1960 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody Woodpecker bothers a wealthy man who has been diagnosed as alergic to noise.

The Trial of Oscar Wilde

1960 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Courtroom account of the prosecution of Oscar Wilde for gross indecency with other men followed Wilde's disastrous libel charge against the Marquess of Queensberry, father of his lover Lord Alfred Douglas.

Beaver Dam

1960 • 15 min

The great appeal of this film is watching the beaver at work, busily and cheerfully demonstrating the characteristics for which it is famous. Sometimes, however, the beaver's industry runs counter to the plans of people. When the beaver's dam floods their father's hayfield, two boys devise a plan to save the beaver from their father's displeasure.

The Horse with the Flying Tail

1960 • 48 min • United States of America

A palimino cow pony, through a series of owners and adventures becomes a champion mount for one of the US equestrian team.

The Flower Thief

1960 • 59 min • United States of America

A beat vagabond traverses San Francisco's deepest nooks and crannies, spreading about a peculiar brand of wisdom and lollygagging.

X (Batsu)

1960 • 15 min

A man marks everything he encounters with an X, from telephone poles to fruit and books he fondles in markets to a woman he pursues who lies on the ground, first clothed, then unclothed. As he caresses her back. he puts X’s along her spine. Later, when he draws an X on a storefront. he is beaten and dragged off by businessmen. The allegorical batsu can be either consent or rejection, or the mark of individualism. putting an identifying (or accepting) mark on the world. A private 16mm neo-Dadaist film made by Shuntaro Tanikawa and Toru Takemitsu, who were passionately talking about movies, with a playful mind. Naozumi Yamamoto, who is also a composer and conductor, writes the "X" sign all the time. At first, the film was planned to compose in jazz, but in the end, the music was completed without being able to be included

Billion Dollar Boner

1960 • 6 min • United States of America

On a quiet and peaceful street, the serenity of one house is suddenly disturbed by the noise of Woody Woodpecker pecking away inside.

Pistol Packin' Woodpecker

1960 • 6 min • United States of America

Woody Woodpecker, hot, hungry and thirsty, is walking across a dry, bleak Western desert.