All Films

Inemuri Buu-chan

1959 • 12 min • Japan

A modified version of The Little Red Hen folk tale. It stars a squirrel and the moral of the story (no work=no prize) is removed as the animals who didn't contribute at all to making the bread were allowed to eat it.

More Deadly than the Male

1959 • 60 min • United Kingdom

An American in London kills the husband of a woman he covets. She returns the favor by killing his fiancée.

Rast-Vila

1959 • 6 min • Sweden

A short film by Åke Karlung

Look at Life: Down London River

1959 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Take a history tour on the River Thames. Lots of famous footage: Parliament, Big Ben, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral, Port of London, Cleopatra's Needle and much more!

Facts About Film

1959 • 11 min • United States of America

Short documentary providing a detailed look at different types of film and their uses, with a focus on film used in projectors and how projectionists take care of film to increase longevity. Produced as an upgrade to its namesake short from 1948.

The Ant and the Pigeon

1959 • 8 min • Japan

In this tale an ant and a pigeon help each other. Third remake of the Ari to Hato.

Carosello Permanente

1959 • 17 min

The complete chronicle of daily life in a restaurant, from early morning to late evening, telling and showing the "backstage" - not visible to customers - and how this place is experienced and populated by patrons at different times of the day.

Petticoat Lane

1959 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A patchwork of East End colours and characters on Middlesex Street, better-known as Petticoat Lane.

Public wash-house Liverpool

1959 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A social club with washing tubs: take a tour of a 1950s Liverpool wash-house.

Here in Athens

1959 • 15 min • Greece

Documentary about the National Broadcasting Corporation.

My Own Yard to Play In

1959 • 7 min

Photographed on the streets of New York, this film penetrates the world children create in their play. It shows children of varying ages and different nationalities playing in the streets regardless of the life going on around them. It stresses the need for better recreational facilities for children in large metropolitan areas, and the need of a child to have a yard of its own.

Diesel Train Driver: Part 2 - Driving the Train

1959 • 19 min • United Kingdom

Explains how to drive a diesel multiple-unit train.

Retablillo de Perico

1959 • 11 min • Argentina

Representation of the theater play "La calle de los fantasmas" by Javier Villafañe.

Praying Mantis

1959 • 10 min

Educational film about the life and habits of the praying mantis. Description of its diet, adolescence and awe-inspiring love customs.

Creatures of the Stars

1959 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Där sekler mötas

1959 • 12 min

A film about Skara with Eva Åsbrink as cicerone.

Dancing Holidays

1959 • 7 min • Canada

Ballet by the Lake: The Wilderness Ballet Camp in Ontario's Algonquin Park. Dancing on the Rockies: The Banff School of Fine Arts ballet class practises out of doors.

A Visit with Debbie Reynolds

1959 • 3 min

The New England Variety Club and the Boston Red Sox present this in-theater appeal for contributions to Boston's Jimmy Fund, for child cancer treatment and research. Debbie Reynolds addresses the audience as a mother whose daily prayer is for the health and happiness of her two children. Yet cancer claims the lives of thousands of children annually. Health professionals treat children in 532 beds in Boston while researchers look for a cure -- all funded by contributions to the Jimmy Fund. We see the children and the researchers. "Help speed THE END of cancer in children," reads a closing title card.

Don’t Be Rude On The Road

1959 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Driving safe public information film

My Tail Is My Ticket

1959 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

Two cheerful friends, comedians, are looking in vain for something for breakfast in the morning. They come up with an original idea. They transform into an exhausted horse and thus manage to sneak into a mansion, which a rich woman has turned into a luxurious home for all kinds of animals as her hobby. A series of comical situations arise there due to the great attention shown to the comedians — the horse, as an animal. For example, they are served an abundance of the finest hay, which they, of course, eat, marking, etc. The climax occurs in a race between the "horse" and the farrier, who wants to shoe it and ends up being shoed himself. But their cunning is discovered and they are rudely thrown out into the street, with the knowledge that they fared better as animals than as people.

Guarding the Naval Frontiers

1959 • 16 min • Soviet Union

A documentary about the life of sailors in the Soviet Navy.

The Magic Tape

1959 • 21 min • Germany

Short by Ferdinand Khittl commissioned by BASF about the use of magnetic tape.

The Sun-Baked Island of Crete

1959 • 12 min • Germany

The traditional and modest life in deep rural Crete. A film on the verge of traditional documentary film and an attempt to find a new direction in terms of what documentary film could be. An envious look at contemporary works by his fellow filmmakers from the British Free Cinema, obviously spurred on director Pitt Koch’s ambition.

Eyewash

1959 • 3 min • United States of America

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive