All Films

Elbow (As Such)

1959 • 17 min • Yugoslavia

A tale of two brothers from babies to adulthood told without words. One brother is upstaged by the other from the crib onward. Eventually the tables are turned.

The Paintjackers

1959 • 20 min • Soviet Union

When the clock strikes twelve in a toy store a bunch of paint tubes come to life.

I Was a Teenage Apeman

1959 • 3 min

This is about a mad scientist, Doctor Macabre who creates a teenage ape man through the by transplanting of a teenager's brain into that of an ape.

Gaudi, Catalunya

1959 • 20 min • Japan

In 1959 Hiroshi Teshigahara shot the following 16 mm footage of he and his father’s first trip to Barcelona and the outlying Catalonian countryside, including a visit to the home of Salvador Dali in Port Lligat. The footage was recorded without sound.

The Choo-Choo Train

1959 • 14 min • Czechoslovakia

A puppet fairy tale about a disobedient train that did not just want to carry coal and drove to return to his work after a sad experience.

O'Hara's Holiday

1959 • 20 min • Ireland

Stressed-out New York cop O’Hara travels to Ireland where he finds his roots and a charming young colleen, Kitty, into the bargain. Together they travel the country enjoying its simple rural charms and sophisticated Dublin nightlife.

Children Adrift

1959 • 26 min

A documentary about the sad plight of those living on the outskirts of Paris.

Great Housewarming Time

1959 • 36 min • Soviet Union

The Teenage Werewolf

1959 • 2 min

A "Monster Mash" riff grinds away as a door opens on leather-clad teenage toughs huddled in a dark room. A caption reads, "This is Doctor Mabuse." Underground genre legend Don Glut spins a short take on the man-as-wolf mythos in dusty sepia with snowbound suburbia as a backdrop. - Jackson Scarlett

The Teenage Frankenstein Meets the Teenage Werewolf

1959 • 7 min

Tony Rivers - the teenage werewolf (played by Paul Klug) returns. It was thought that he had been killed (Return of the Teenage Werewolf).

Ten Little Indians

1959 • 52 min • United States of America

Ten strangers are invited to a mansion on a remote island, where they are killed one by one by a mysterious assailant. Based on the Agatha Christie novel, also known by the title And Then There Were None.

Return of the Teenage Werewolf

1959 • 4 min

Tony Rivers (played by Don Glut) transforms into the Teenage Werewolf when harassed by Vandals gang members.

Broadway by Light

1959 • 11 min • France

An experimental meditation on Times Square's marquees and iconic advertising that captures the concurrently seedy and dazzling aspects of New York's Great White Way.

When Angels Fall

1959 • 21 min • Poland

The twenty-one-minute-film is set in a men's public rest room and recounts the day to day existence of an elderly woman who serves as an attendant in the lavatory. As an endless procession of men pass before her, relieving themselves in the urinals, the attendant escapes her reality by daydreaming about the past and the soldier she once loved and the child she bore him.

The Ransom of Red Chief

1959 • 26 min • United States of America

Based upon a famous O. Henry short story, two crooks think they have an opportunity to make a quick buck by kidnapping a rich man's son. Ironically, the hostage takers become the hostages as they pay through the nose becoming the butts of the kid's stunts.

Wedlock House: An Intercourse

1959 • 11 min • United States of America

We see a film negative of a nude couple embracing in bed. Then, back in regular black and white images, we see them alone and together, clothed, at home. It's night, she sees his reflection in the window, she closes the drapes. After sex, again in a black and white negative, they sit, smoke, have coffee. They kiss, she smiles. They light candles. The images are often quick, the camera angles occasionally are off kilter; the room is sometimes dark and sometimes lit, as if lit by the rotating of a searchlight. The images again appear in negative when they return to bed.

Look at Life: New Roads for Old

1959 • 9 min • United Kingdom

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. This release compiles 54 memorable films which offer a fascinating snapshot of transport in 1960's Britain. A look at road building in the United Kingdom in the 1950's.

Madeline and the Bad Hat

1959 • 8 min • United States of America

Nothing frightens Madeline-- not tigers, not even mice-- but how about troublesome young ambassadors? Can she and Pepito ever get along? With its endearing, courageous heroine, cheerful humor, and wonderful, whimsical drawings of Paris, the Madeline stories are true classics that continue to charm readers even after 75 years. In this next adventure, Madeline has a new neighbor who she does not like so much.

The Master of Apipucos

1959 • 10 min • Brazil

Documentary about influential Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, made in his country house in Apipucos, Pernambuco (Northeast Brazil).

The Teenage Frankenstein

1959 • 12 min • United States of America

Doctor Frankenstein (played by Charles Martinka) is rescued from being hung by a desperate stranger.

Highway to Trouble

1959 • 46 min

Donald Duck is furious when he gets his nephews' report cards and finds that they flunked geography, a fact proven by their claim that Disneyland is the capital of California.

Too Salty

1959 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Three Woodcutters

1959 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Bubble, Straw and Bast Shoe look for firewood. Bubble doesn’t want to work but when, on their way back he shifts the share of firewood on the shoulders of the Bast Shoe, he gets in a trouble – the wind blows him off. After some adventures Bubble is rescued and reforms.

This Is Malta

1959 • 28 min • United Kingdom

The history and sights of Malta.