All Films

Una corona para mi madre

1957 • 43 min • Guatemala

A newly orphaned boy attempts to raise money to buy a funeral wreath for his mother's grave, with the assistance of an alcoholic man. First medium-length film with direct sound produced in Central America.

The Golden Gate

1957 • 22 min

Documenting the urban environment of Gothenburg, Sweden.

The Jamestown Colony (1607 Through 1620)

1957 • 16 min • United States of America

Chronicles early history of the Jamestown Colony. Describes voyage and hardships of the first settlers from England and the trials of later arrivals.

The House on Our Street

1957 • 24 min

A poem about the memory of objects in which the things that furnish a house are described.

The Ordeal of Thomas Moon

1957 • 14 min

The struggle of an overweight traveler ascending the stairs at Pennsylvania station and trying to enter a phone booth to make a call. Fed up and exhausted, the man seeks medical advice.

How to Relax

1957 • 47 min

A series of Goofy cartoons demonstrating his desire to relax.

Merino

1957 • 17 min • Yugoslavia

Documentary about the merino sheep farming in Macedonia.

Eye Witness: Service in the Sky

1957 • 10 min • Canada

Made in 1957, this film glamorizes a service job in which minor emergencies appear as serious and absorbing challenges. Marriage is assumed to be the natural end of the middle-class woman's working life. No. 97 in the Eye Witness film series.

Deseo de Cristal

1957 • 7 min • Spain

Short Spanish avant-garde film

Mankinda

1957 • 9 min • United States of America

An animated drawing done directly under the camera, combining painterly images and a drawn calligraphy, the works unfolds as you watch, permitting the viewer to see the process of the drawing.

Gilitrutt

1957 • 60 min

A fairy tale based on the stories about the troll Gilitrutt

On a Platform

1957 • 5 min • East Germany, Germany

The short documentary was shot at Ostkreuz station in Berlin-Friedrichshain and captures a snapshot of proletarian Berlin in 1957: it is early evening on a weekday. Workers drink a beer on their way home, look after the women or chat with colleagues. Two boys hang around the kiosk and steal deposit bottles unnoticed.

Crisis in Levittown

1957 • 32 min

Unrehearsed and often startling interviews with residents, filmed during disturbances following arrival of the first Black family.

Fukusuke

1957 • 18 min • Japan

The story of a top-heavy frog.

The Twins

1957 • 18 min • China

Big Fatty and Little Fatty are a pair of twins. Because they look almost identical, grandma often mistook them, but the two brothers have different personalities. One day, the two brothers started to do their homework after breakfast. When Fatty was concentrating on solving problems, Fatty planned to kick a ball and slipped out while Fatty was not paying attention.

Responsibility

1957 • 16 min • Sweden

About the importance of personal responsibility and the advantages of sobriety.

Emotional Maturity

1957 • 21 min • United States of America, Canada

The story of Dave, an emotionally unstable adolescent who cannot accept that his girlfriend has quit going steady with him and the football coach has benched him, and how he loses control and gets into trouble.

Polar Outpost

1957 • 15 min • United States of America

This RKO-Pathe short film produced with the assistance of the United States Air Force is about the construction of the DEW Line, the Distant Early Warming System, a string of radar stations built across Alaska and the Canadian north as part of NORAD, the North American Air Defense Command. These are isolated outposts, many of which are only accessible by air. Buildings, roads and landing strips had to be built from scratch. There's a visit to Barrow Village, Alaska the most northern point of US territory.

Nice Time

1957 • 17 min • United Kingdom

A montage of the night-life of Piccadilly Circus across the hours, from early evening to the last lingering passers-by.

In the Suburbs

1957 • 19 min • United States of America

Film promoting advertising in Redbook as the best way to reach young suburban consumers, a growing demographic of the late 1950s. It makes the point through a rich collection of actuality footage showing families and children engaged in leisure activities at home and at the shopping center. Produced in Kodachrome.

The Magic Scissors

1957 • 18 min • East Germany

Two hands prepare a paper cutting... They create a tailor made from black cardboard and let him go into a paper world. He comes alive and together with the scissors, which created him, he wanders around.

Steps of the City

1957 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

The necessity of progress and the strength of nostalgia.

Bring Out a Briton

1957 • 6 min • Australia

‘Bring Out a Briton’ was a short appeal for Australians to help the Immigration Department in its plan to form and assist a ‘Bring Out a Briton’ Committee in each district. It featured popular Australian actor Chips Rafferty as the spokesman for the campaign. Aimed at the Australian public rather than the prospective immigrants it was designed to allay a perceived anxiety amongst the public about non-British European migration.

100%

1957 • 1 min • France

An abstract animation made for Nescafé.