All Films

Wish I Had a Horse

1959 • 55 min • Mongolia

Dondog, a young man who grew up on a horse mane, becomes a cowherd after being reprimanded by the management for killing his horse in a race with a car. On this occasion, the relationship between Yanjmaa, a driver who came to the collective, Gonchig, who comes to trade for personal gain, and Dondog, a horseman, was shown in light comedy.

López Claro, su pintura mural americana

1959 • 10 min • Argentina

Documentary about the work of the painter César López Claro produced by the UNL film institute.

Signal 30

1959 • 28 min • United States of America

The results of serious traffic accidents caused by careless driving are displayed. One of several Driver's Education films produced by Highway Safety Films, filmed at actual auto accident scenes and consisting largely of color closeups of mangled accident victims.

The Back-breaking Leaf

1959 • 29 min • Canada

Here is a graphic picture of the tobacco harvest in southwestern Ontario. At the end of July, transient field workers move in for a brief bonanza when the plant is ripe. The tobacco harvesters call it "the back-breaking leaf."

The End Of Summer

1959 • 11 min • United States of America

A young girl pulls a sled as she explores Philadelphia in the summer.

The Egg

1959 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

A distinguished sculptor Mr Peacock laid an egg. Thrilled with himself and his work of art, he made it widely known.

White Storks

1959 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

A film dedicated to the white storks in the Balkan region; the film describes the laying of the eggs, hatching, growing up of the young storks till their leaving, in Autumn, towards the coasts of North Africa.

雕龙记

1959 • 34 min • China

The puppet animation won the Silver Award at the 2nd Bucharest International Puppet Film Festival in Romania.

Félix Leclerc, troubadour

1959 • 27 min • Canada

Havenlichten

1959 • 10 min • Belgium

In a coastal village a faulty street lantern lands on the rubbish yard. During a storm a fishermen's boat is in trouble. The big lighthouse has fallen asleep, but the street lantern saves the boat.

The First Foundation of Buenos Aires

1959 • 44 min • Argentina

In 1956, the humorous designer Oski made a work about the foundation of the city of Buenos Aires. Fernando Birri made a film from this work in 1959, using the original text of the German explorer Ulrich Schmidel. This film, which disappeared in the years of the dictatorship, was miraculously restored on video in 2000. The story that the documentary describes can be compared with the situation of Latin American cinema throughout all these years.

A Little Train

1959 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

The film narrates the adventures of an animated train.

Doors

1959 • 2 min • Canada

An unfinished animated short from the late 1950s.

The Wheat Passion

1959 • 11 min • Italy

An expressionist and hypnotic vision of a disconcerting rural ritual in Lucania, the symbolic slaughter of a goat, a collaboration between Mangini and her husband and partner Lino Del Fra.

Lobsters Unlimited

1959 • 13 min • Canada

An overview of the lobster fishing industry in Nova Scotia.

An All-Round Help

1959 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

Robot Minus serves Doctor Sinus, its creator and constructor, who works at a desk. However, a magnetic horseshoe gets into the robot’s mechanism and disrupts its functioning. Dr. Sinus first tries to tame the Robot, then breaks it, but it’s all in vain.

Transformation

1959 • 5 min

The pointillist score accompanies changing line, form, and color to create an animated film painting, achieved through the exploration of spontaneous abstractions. Utilizes evolving changes style, technique and rhythm.

Lock Up Your Daughters

1959 • 51 min • United Kingdom

A collection of scenes from various Bela Lugosi movies.

The Lonely Sex

1959 • 57 min • United States of America

Maniac kidnaps a young girl and holds her prisoner in a shack in the woods.

The Amber Castle

1959 • 21 min • Soviet Union

In the film an ancient Lithuanian legend is told about an origin of amber. For the sake of love to fisherman Kastytis sea tsarevna Jurate offered herself up. Her fiance, terrible god Perkunas destroyed the amber castle where she lived and it scattered into a thousand slices.

Fred Barry comédien

1959 • 30 min • Canada

New Power in Their Hands

1959 • 21 min

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

What About Prejudice?

1959 • 12 min • United States of America

At East High, students resent the admission of Bruce—an unseen classmate their parents have warned them to avoid. But when an unexpected incident unfolds, they are forced to confront and reconsider their own prejudice.

Dumpling

1959 • 10 min • Poland

A story about the adventures of a girl made out of dumplings, who along with a bunny, goes on a trip to Toruń, the land of gingerbread.