All Films

Mining Review 13th Year No. 4

1959 • 10 min • United Kingdom

The 148th issue of the long running industry cinemagazine, featuring the articles: 'The Art of Mining', 'Speaking Through Coal', 'Mounted Minors' and 'Record Pit'.

Trot Trot

1959 • 11 min • Germany

Detten Schleiermacher did not start making films until late in life. He was actually a typographer. With “Trab Trab” he made an impish attempt to create a synthesis between Dadaism and New Objectivity. The film is a precise and elegant account of a racecourse. It does so without narration or images of either horses or patrons; everything we see has been captured either pre- or post-race.

Impulses

1959 • 9 min

1959 experimental short by Jim Davis.

Vortex V presentation reel

1959 • 5 min

One of Jordan Belson's presentation reels used in the Vortex Concerts.

Layers Under the Haze

1959 • 15 min • Germany

Documentary about German city Oberhausen.

A Diary For Anne Frank

1959 • 18 min • East Germany

A documentary recounting Anne Frank’s story and death at Bergen-Belsen before turning to a detailed examination of the camp itself—the routines of its officers, the atrocities committed there, and the troubling postwar reality that many perpetrators lived freely with state support in Germany.

Security Treaty

1959 • 18 min • Japan

An early experimental film by Toshio Matsumoto. Produced as part of the student riots in Japan at the start of the 1960s, Matsumoto uses collage, archival footage, and impassioned narration to create an expressive, visceral criticism of the US-Japan Security Treaty.

The Motorcycle Chase

1959 • 35 min • Yugoslavia

While visiting his relatives in the city, a curious village boy sits on a motorcycle which starts right off, which causes lots of trouble to him and his parents.

Picks For Today

1959 • 10 min • Poland

A look at the horse races at the famous track in Sluzewiec, Warsaw.

Dance of the Looney Spoons

1959 • 5 min • United States of America

An animated and live action fantasy, the loop de loops of ten spoons, forks and tableware ... a parable in the shape of a soup spoon ... conceived as a children's film.

Tant qu'il y aura des bêtes

1959 • 20 min • France

The Visit

1959 • 35 min • United Kingdom

A brief visit by a vivacious young couple makes middle-aged spinster Alice painfully aware of how drab and dull her life is.

Big Boy: Last of the Giants

1959 • 23 min • United States of America

Union Pacific paid tribute to its Big Boys in a publicity film that has become a sought-out collector"s item for rail enthusiasts worldwide. You"ll see the evolution of UP steam power from 4-6-0s to the development of the articulated locomotive. Then you"ll meet the Big Boys and watch as they are serviced, rebuilt, and run. Trackside and cab shots feature these mighty 4-8-8-4s pulling long freights over Wyoming"s Sherman Hill during their last years in service. This classic film is one you"ll enjoy watching again and again.

John Betjeman: A Poet in London

1959 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Poet John Betjeman is shown visiting locations including Vauxhall Park, Aldersgate Street station, Camden Town and Hatfield, where he recites a handful of his poems.

Firewalkers

1959 • 10 min • Greece

Firewalkers records a traditional Greek rite which, now Christianized, goes back to the ancient Orphic Mysteries of Thrace: walking barefoot on burning charcoal without pain or burning.

Look at Life in the 60s - Civil Aviation

1959 • 60 min

Look at Life was a regular series of short documentary films produced between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of Rank Organisation and screened in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas. Rob Curling presents six Look at Lifes ((Air Hostess, Controlled Landing, City of the Air, Flying to Work, The Spirit of Brooklands, The Big Take Off)) from the Brooklands aircraft museum, showing the aircraft industry as it was in the 1960s.

The Bee and the Earthworm

1959 • 18 min • China

A long time ago, the little bugs ate up all the wild fruits on the ground. The little bee was very anxious, but the little earthworm didn't care. Then, a heavy rain washed the little earthworms out of the cave.

King of Diamonds

1959 • 21 min • Soviet Union

Sasha and Katya love each other. The wedding has already been scheduled, Sasha is just about to go on a business trip...

Scottish Painters

1959 • 12 min

A double portrait of the painters Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, seen at work in their Suffolk studio while discussing their paintings.

Towards Better Days

1959 • 36 min • Finland

Indonesia: New Nation of Asia

1959 • 16 min • United States of America

Hosted by Ubud's political leader Agung Jakarta Sulawesi Mas, William Deneen here visits important sites and describes the political, religious, and economic situation on the island of Bali in the Indonesia of 1959.

Andalusische Wallfahrt

1959 • 9 min • Germany

The short documentary film by Fritz Illing was awarded with the German Film Prize in 1960 and shows an Andalusian pilgrimage.

Sandburg, Yes!

1959 • 42 min

A portrait of the American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor, Carl Sandburg (1878-1967). He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.

Safer in the Dark

1959 • 13 min

Informational film about night driving that was produced for General Motors Nordiska in 1959.