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Energies

Energies

1957 • 10 min
1957 short film by Jim Davis.
Mealtime Manners And Health

Mealtime Manners And Health

1957 • 11 min
A boy learns the connection between good manners and healthful eating.
De Verzonken Klokken

De Verzonken Klokken

1957 • 7 min
A short, paper-based stop-motion film by Toonder Studio's inspired by The Netherlands' history of sea floods.
Métrografic

Métrografic

1957 • 3 min
"A film of drawings and movement" by Toonder Studio's
None for the Road

None for the Road

1957 • 10 min
Scare film on the dangers of drinking and driving from an adult perspective.
Spuk im Atelier

Spuk im Atelier

1957 • 13 min • East Germany
Real part: A puppet animation film studio. The director, cameraman, animators and lighting technicians set up a scene in which a streetcar car with passengers appears. The recording begins, the animator moves the puppets phase by phase. Trick part: An old woman gets on the streetcar at a stop and can't find a seat. Fritzchen deliberately looks away so that he doesn't have to get up. All the puppets look at him indignantly. Real part: The scene is over. It's closing time and the dolls are put in a cupboard. The staff leave the studio. Trick part: The puppet cupboard comes to life. Fritzchen apologizes to the old woman and blames the animator and director for his behaviour. He calls on the puppets to shoot the scene again. This happens, and now he does offer his seat to the little mother. Real part : The doorman notices a glow of light in the studio, opens the door, but sees nothing unusual. The dolls have returned to their cupboard. Shaking his head, the doorman returns to his box.
Practical Dreamer

Practical Dreamer

1957 • 13 min
A fantasy of kitchen planning and modernization.
The Story of Creative Capital

The Story of Creative Capital

1957 • 14 min
Based on the 1955 pamphlet “This Is du Pont: The Story of Creative Capital”, it shows how personal investment makes the average Joe a partner in America’s ever-growing economic affluence.
Golf

Golf

1957 • 1 min • United States of America
"Golf" was the result of my attempt to make space in the frame, space that was non-film space, that would take over the film space. With each random hole punch, I chanted, 'Emptiness is fullness. (Raphael Montañez Ortiz)
Essex Village

Essex Village

1957 • 8 min
It looks like time stands still there, but Finchingfield in Essex is changing: talk to the locals when visiting a village to find out what's new in their lives.
Kiddieland

Kiddieland

1957 • 9 min
Two young children are escorted around by a dodgy looking old geezer with a hat and snake skin boots. They ride boats, a mini-railroad, and horses too! At times reminiscent of someone’s home movies, at least this film’s narrator doesn’t badger us with unimportant details.
Fritz Cremer, Creator of the Buchenwald Memorial

Fritz Cremer, Creator of the Buchenwald Memorial

1957 • 17 min • East Germany
This portrait of East German sculptor and graphic artist Fritz Cremer (1906-1993) shows the artist at work in his studio and some of his art works, including sculptures for his Buchenwald Memorial. It accompanies the images with a text by Bertolt Brecht, read by actor Wolfgang Heinz of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.
The Trouble Shooter

The Trouble Shooter

1957 • 8 min • Soviet Union
The adventures of Skilful Master (Samodelkin), the little mechanical fix-it man.
Children

Children

1957 • 8 min
Slightly different version of Cornell's Mulberry Street. Scenes of Mulberry Street on New York City's Lower East Side, as seen from the point of view of a bust of Mozart sitting in a store window.
Meeting with the Elections

Meeting with the Elections

1957 • 11 min • Yugoslavia
This is a survey of the economic and cultural achievements of the territory of Macedonia from the elections in 1952 till 1957 and pre-election activities in the Republic.
India: Introduction to Its History

India: Introduction to Its History

1957 • 15 min • United States of America
This film describes the nature and impact of major religions in India, artistic monuments and contributions of each dynasty and cultural development of the people in different regions of the vast subcontinent.
The Emerald Island

The Emerald Island

1957 • 28 min • United Kingdom
Travelogue showcasing the history, culture, industry and natural beauty of Ireland.
The Phoenix Tower

The Phoenix Tower

1957 • 39 min
A short documentary charting the construction of the BBC Crystal Palace Television Tower.
Life On a Dead Tree

Life On a Dead Tree

1957 • 10 min
Dave and Tommy have found an old dead tree in the woods. As they explore it, they find that it is the home of many different plants and animals such as lizards, beetles, crickets, slugs, fungus plants, tree salamanders, ants and gopher snakes.
Full Screen Ahead

Full Screen Ahead

1957 • 26 min
A short documentary going behind the scenes at Pinewood Studios.
Farewell to Gabriela Mistral

Farewell to Gabriela Mistral

1957 • 17 min • Chile
After her passing in New York in 1957, Gabriela Mistral’s remains arrived in Chile on January 18 and lay in state for 39 hours at the University of Chile. The film includes images from her life. The funeral ceremony was led by Cardinal José María Caro at the Metropolitan Cathedral, followed by a burial at the General Cemetery, after being honored by 200,000 people.
Newsreel Nr. 22/1957

Newsreel Nr. 22/1957

1957 • 18 min
Celebrates the 500th journal made since August 23rd 1944.
Grukh and Grushka

Grukh and Grushka

1957 • 8 min • Bulgaria
Anthony's Broken Mirror

Anthony's Broken Mirror

1957 • 12 min • Yugoslavia
First five minutes of the film show a weird fellow who is playing marbles with kids and seems to be just biding his time. Film after the titles continues to follow his adventures as his love story unfolds. A love story between him and a doll in a window shop.