All Films

Актёр Николай Черкасов

1959 • 51 min • Soviet Union

About the creative career of People's Artist of the USSR N.K. Cherkasov. The film uses footage from movies of the 1920s and 1930s.

Three Butterflies

1959 • 23 min • China

Once upon a time, there were three little red, yellow and white butterflies, and they always lived in harmony. One day, three little butterflies were playing, and suddenly it began to rain.

Una Sera All'Eden

1959 • 5 min

Girls parade on the stage of the Eden theater in Bologna.

A Shoe

1959 • 36 min • China

Uncle Mao and Aunt Mao are well-known surgeons and physicians within hundreds of miles. They are kind, honest and amiable, and their medical ethics and skills are quite praised by the people. Early one morning, the old couple split up and went out for a medical trip. Aunt Mao drank some wedding wine at someone's house after delivering the baby, and started her way home drunk. While lying drunk in the mountains, he encountered a beautiful tiger. The tiger had no intention of harming it, but was very docile. It turned out that it was hoped that Aunt Mao would help it deliver the baby to the tigress at home.

Little Monkey on a Swing

1959 • 12 min • Japan

One day, a forest fire broke out in the mountain where birds and acorns were playing happily. His mountain friends are chased down by a cliff, but he decides to use the swing to escape.

The case of Father Pamfiliy

1959 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Vänner på vägen

1959 • 16 min

A young woman motoring.

A Family of Amsterdam

1959 • 16 min

This film presents scenes in Amsterdam including canals, Rijksmuseum, the harbor and home life of a typical family.

A Naughty Kitten

1959 • 5 min • Bulgaria

El ángel de la paz

1959 • 11 min • Spain

Short documentary about Peace based on the paintings of José María Sert, showed in the Nations Palace Congress Sessions Hall at Geneva.

Face to Face: Carl Jung

1959 • 38 min • United Kingdom

John Freeman interviews Carl Jung at his Zürich home, asking the psychologist questions about consciousness, his friendship with Freud, his thoughts on death, and his own self-analysis.

Our Hill

1959 • 7 min • North Korea

Two Korean children plant a tree on a hill and wait for it to bloom.

Krasts

1959 • 14 min • Soviet Union

Uldis Brauns' diploma film at VGIK

El Rey

1959 • 12 min • Spain

A man finds a metal ring in a pile of scrap metal that matches the size of his head to crown himself king of the place. An unwelcome beggar arrives and finds another, shiny, and more royal crown. The "king" observes it and is envious of the symbol; he cannot allow anyone to try to take his place. He attempts to seize it, and they fight to the death. The "king," triumphant, keeps the crown.

Sirius Remembered

1959 • 12 min • United States of America

A tribute to Stan Brakhage's pet dog Sirius, whose decompostion was recorded over 6 months after he had died. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2010.

Westinghouse Total Electric Home

1959 • 12 min

A promotional short from Westinghouse.

Mail Early for Christmas

1959 • 1 min • Canada

In this pre-Christmas reminder to mail early, filmmaker Norman McLaren used an electric vibra-drill to engrave the images on black film, and included the occasional "subliminal" burst of lettering, which he hand-scratched on a few frames.

From Generation to Generation

1959 • 30 min • United States of America

This film illustrates the basic facts of human reproduction shown through the lives of a young farm couple with one child.

Von 6 bis 6

1959 • 13 min • Germany

The film shows the colorful life and hustle and bustle at the Viktualienmarkt in the heart of Munich. The day begins with the ringing of the city's many bell towers. The market is still quiet, but quickly becomes busy. The deliveries arrive and the traders begin to put away their goods. The rich offer ranges from baked goods, fruit, vegetables, fish and meat to flowers, handicrafts and delicatessen - the colorful market bustle begins. Individual small events and, above all, the people are observed. At 6 o'clock in the evening, it's time for the big clean-up before it starts all over again the next day.

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

1959 • 30 min • Soviet Union

The cunning gypsy robs the crowd of gypsy bandits via gypsy aphorisms.

Outer Space Visitor

1959 • 6 min • United States of America

The mice of Cheeseville, who are farmers, are having a Saturday night barn dance.

Picnics Are Fun and Dino's Serenade

1959 • 7 min

A "Ham & Hattie" cartoon which means two different cartoons splitting the seven minutes of running time. "Picnics are Fun" finds Hattie taking her two dolls for a picnic in the 'Country"---the roof of her apartment building where the trees, flowers and greenery grow only in her fertile imagination; the second offering, "Dino's Serenade", has Ham & His World Players doing a sketch about a strolling musician, the girl he loves and the villain who steals her away.

Natalia Uzhviy

1959 • 35 min • Soviet Union

A documentary portrait of prominent Ukrainian stage and screen actress Natalya Ushviy that contains numerous excerpts from her feature films.

Falling Pink

1959 • 9 min • United States of America

"You are about to see a surrealistic study of an infantile creator"