All Films

The Boy Who Owned a Melephant

1959 • 30 min

A mother finds a unique method of fulfilling her son's desire to own a pet elephant.

Cups of Coffee

1959 • 3 min • Netherlands

Filmic exercise by Verhoeven

The Lamp

1959 • 8 min • Poland

In waning winter light, a doll maker works in his shop, a kerosene lamp beside him, a jumble of dolls and doll parts, whole and broken, surrounding him. There are noises, too: a cuckoo clock chirps the workday's end. The artisan completes a repair and leaves, shuttering the shop from outside. Back inside, whispering begins. What else is in store for the shop's seemingly lifeless denizens?

Skyscraper

1959 • 22 min • United States of America

Nominated for an Academy Award, this live-action short film playfully chronicles the construction of the Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City.

The Violinist

1959 • 8 min

Oscar-nominated animated short from 1959. Harry is a violinist who loves to play, but without feeling. When he is told that he plays terribly he tries to change how he plays, learning a very important lesson.

O Grande Rio

1959 • 10 min • Brazil

A trip made by Gerson Tavares in 1949, when he was a painting student, accompanying the São Francisco River from the Northeast region to Southeast Brazil, showing the authentic and backward interior of the country.

Naughty New York

1959 • 54 min • United States of America

French artist Henry Louse is frustrated. Painting landscapes and fruit just doesn't inspire him anymore, and he needs something else. His agent suggests that he start painting women. So they check out a local nightspot and find a bevy of beauties willing to pose for him: singers, dancers, and especially, strippers.

Perilous Assignment

1959 • 48 min • United States of America

"Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers behind the scenes of the daring shoots of its theatrically released or TV shows. The theme of the episode is the making of his next film, The Third Man on the Mountain, an adaptation of James Ramsey Ullman's novel Banner in the Sky, based on the true story of the first ascent of the Matterhorn. Walt Disney will not be limited to a simple promotional making-of. He offers to meet exceptional people, including the French mountain guide Gaston Rébuffat. The latter will show climbing techniques and then reveal breathtaking images of his ascents of steep cliffs with a client for the ascent of Mont-Blanc, filmed for the occasion. In 1958, Walt Disney will therefore offer him to be deputy director on the high mountain scenes of the film "The Third Man on the Mountain".

They're Off

1959 • 8 min • United States of America

A satire movie about sports car racing at the Little Lemans, directed while at New York University and very populare among sports car devotees.

Kämpfende Kunst

1959 • 9 min • East Germany

The artists Käthe Kollwitz, Otto Dix and Otto Nagel used different forms of expression, but had the same goal: fight against war, against exploitation and for the liberation of oppressed people.

The Ham's Wide World

1959 • 30 min • United States of America

The first televised broadcast covering the wonders of Amateur Radio presented on Johns Hopkins File 7 on the fledgling ABC network in 1959

The Skin of Our Teeth

1959 • 56 min

Production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play about mankind's triumph over chaos, which wildly altered dramatic conventions in freely shifting between modern-day New Jersey and the ice age. Meet George and Maggie Antrobus (married only 5,000 years); their two children, Gladys and Henry (perfect in every way!); and their maid, Sabina (the ageless vamp) as they overcome ice, flood, and war — by the skin of their teeth.

Abs/tracks

1959 • 4 min • France

Look at Life: Market Place

1959 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A look into London's street markets and how they're suffering to compete with supermarkets.

Jazz Camping

1959 • 9 min • Poland

Musicians and jazz lovers come to Zakopane to relax and make music together. Kalatówki is the location where the jazz campsite takes place. Andrzej Trzaskowski's band “Jazz Believers” is the star of the film.

The Inspector Is Back!

1959 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

The inspector cautiously walks the city streets avoiding “dangers”. He comes home, washes his feet and reads newspapers. Suddenly he sees a fingerprint that makes a run for it. The inspector follows it…

Slave of the Vampire

1959 • 7 min

Count Dracula (played by Victor Fabian) is able to control Lawrence Talbot - the wolf man (played by Don Glut) to bring back victims for the count to feats upon.

01-99

1959 • 22 min • Soviet Union

Drunkard Garsevan is supposed to bring wine for testing to specialist Poghosyan. On the road he drinks the wine and is picked up by two young men who think that he is a victim of road accident.

The Lion and the Song

1959 • 15 min • Czechoslovakia

A musician is playing his music to some animals, when a hungry lion shows up.

The Time Monsters

1959 • 6 min • United States of America

Scientist discover a way to view the past.

The Heroic Deed of Leningrad

1959 • 54 min • Soviet Union

The whole world knows the immortal feat of the residents of besieged Leningrad, accomplished during the Great Patriotic War. The tragic story of the blockade, which lasted for nine hundred days and ended with the defeat of the fascists at the gates of the unconquered city, will forever remain in the history of humanity as the most vivid example of courage and patriotism.

I Was a Teenage Vampire

1959 • 5 min

The teenage son of Dracula travels from Transylvania to the United States of America (USA) in search of new victims.

The King of the Forest

1959 • 18 min • China

The lion calls himself king in the forest, and he treats all small animals with pride and cruelty. One morning, when the little animals were playing in the forest, suddenly a lion appeared...

The Radish Comes Back

1959 • 17 min • China

In winter, the little white rabbit found two radishes in the snow, ate the small one by himself, and decided to give the big one to the deer. The little deer was not at home, so the little white rabbit put down the radish and left. When Xiao Lu came home, he saw a big carrot on the table. He felt very strange. When he just wanted to eat it, he thought of it.