All Films

The Silent Kill

1959 • 30 min

Retired football player and current P. I. Brock Callahan (Ken Clark) is hired to investigate the death of a decorator. The police think it's a suicide, but Callahan's not so sure. Directed by Don Siegel from a script by Stirling Silliphant as the pilot for a CBS television show called "Brock Callahan" which was not picked up.

Merry Minstrel Magoo

1959 • 6 min • United States of America

Magoo thinks he’s entering a talent show but ends up at a dentist.

Der verlorene Ball

1959 • 26 min • East Germany, Germany

Magoo’s Homecoming

1959 • 6 min

Magoo ends up at the zoo instead of his college homecoming.

El Corazon Delator

1959 • 25 min • Spain

Spanish avant-garde adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart

The Animal Fair

1959 • 7 min • United States of America

A compilation of spot gags about animals with scenes from "Fun At The Fair" and "Philharmaniacs." The fair is on, with airplane rides, a Ferris wheel, hot peanuts, watermelon (mother kangaroo eats it, while her joey spits out the seeds) and a charity bazaar with kisses for everyone for a buck... till a skunk comes along. A musical concert is going on. The long-hair music gets replaced with swingin' jazz.

Helsinki - Pohjolan valkea kaupunki

1959 • 18 min • Finland

Another documentary film about Helsinki.

Cars Without a Home

1959 • 6 min • Czechoslovakia

Jan Schmidt and Pavel Juráček turn their attention to the problem of Czechoslovakia's unloved cars in this whimsical documentary short.

The Cloud in Love

1959 • 19 min • Soviet Union

It’s an allegorical story about an evil desert spirit who tries to destroy an oasis that is tended by beautiful Aishe. Luckily, a cloud falls in love with her and protects the oasis, although it costs him his life. It features mixed techniques (puppets, marionettes, and hand-drawn animation). Based on a script by a Turkish poet, Nâzım Hikmet Ran (who lived in exile in Soviet Union).

Jose Torres

1959 • 25 min • Japan

A documentary about the eponymous Puerto Rican boxer

Truant Student

1959 • 6 min • United States of America

A truant officer mistakes Windy Bear for a very large schoolboy playing hooky.

Devil's Bait

1959 • 58 min • United Kingdom

The police, with the help of a baker, try to find the owner a loaf of bread accidentally poisoned with potassium cyanide.

Hare-abian Nights

1959 • 7 min • United States of America

Bugs entertains the Sultan with tales from his cartoons: "Bully for Bugs", "Sahara Hare" and "Water, Water Every Hare".

City Out of Time

1959 • 16 min • Canada

This Colin Low documentary from 1959 depicts Venice in all its splendor. In the tradition of Venetian painter Canaletto, the film captures the great Italian city’s elusive beauty and fabled landscapes, where spired churches and turreted palaces soar into a blue Mediterranean sky. Narration by William Shatner.

Soon There Will Be Rain

1959 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A gambling-addicted old man loses all the water on Earth, condemning all living beings to death from drought.

The Cat Gang

1959 • 48 min • United Kingdom

The Cat Gang is a group of precocious British kids. They have a habit of hanging around a grown-up customs official who wishes that they'd beat it. But the Gang comes in handy when a smuggling gang arrives on the scene.

Uncle

1959 • 6 min • Czechoslovakia

In this six-minute short, a man’s attempt to burgle a home is interrupted by a child.

Yujiro in Europe

1959 • 41 min • Japan

Travelogue made by Yujiro Ishihara during the location shooting of his 1959 film Love and Death (Sekai o kakeru koi) in Europe.

All the Drawings of the Town

1959 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

The boy and the girl are suddenly separated from the picture book by a hand, which tears off a page from the book and makes a paper airplane in which the boy remains trapped. In her attempt to help the friend, she couldn’t achieve anything if all the children’s drawings in the city did not help her.

The Legend of the Moor's Inheritance

1959 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A water seller during the time of the Spanish Inquisition in Grenada rescues a stranded Moor by the roadside, which leads to uncovering a legend.

Kinoreportazh Nr. 1

1959 • 8 min

This newsreel presents the one and only visit to Albania by Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. But behind the bear hugs and airport kisses, Enver Hoxha bristled at Khrushchev’s suggestion that the Albanian leader attempt reforms and back off from the demigod status accorded to the Russian dictator Joseph Stalin. Within a year, Albania would create shock waves in the communist universe after Hoxha denounced Khrushchev at a 1960 Moscow party congress.

The Sunrise Gun

1959 • 30 min

Johnny Sunrise is training his son to avenge the injury to his hand which was caused by Sam Duskin. Then Sam Duskin, Jr. comes to town and the sons agree to avoid a fight. But can they?

Masque of the Red Death

1959 • 4 min • United States of America

Two children fight with wooden blades while standing beneath a pendulum.

Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)

1959 • 5 min • United States of America

Mr. Magoo agrees to babysit Gerald McBoing Boing.