All Films

Sketch of Iceland

1957 • 16 min • France

Discovery of the land of Iceland, an island shaken by the manifestations of its volcanic activity (geysers, storms), characterized by a rich maritime activity and millennial traditions.

The Rusalia Customs of Gevgelija

1957 • 21 min • Yugoslavia

A testimony to the performance of ritual dances. Although they were performed only during the so-called “unbaptized days”, the 12 days between Christmas and Epiphany in the Orthodox Christianity, these dances are associated by some researchers with the Roman rosaries, the cult of the dead. Ritual clothing and the use of wooden swords to disperse the demons are important props in the dances that are believed to protect the folks from temptations and demons until they are baptized.

Live, Ukraine

1957 • 55 min • Soviet Union

How Much Affection?

1957 • 20 min • Canada

Teenager Mary has strong physical yearnings for her boyfriend, so she asks her mother for advice on what she should do about said carnal cravings.

The trees of Buenos Aires

1957 • 10 min • Argentina

Medieval Frescos in Macedonia

1957 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

Documentary about frescoes to be found in several churches in Macedonia.

Magic Sounds

1957 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

Tells about a little violinist who played so wonderfully that his violin was considered magical.

Mouse and Lion

1957 • 10 min • Hungary

An animated version of the Aesop fable.

Water

1957 • 48 min • China

Das Tintenteufelchen

1957 • 7 min • East Germany

A girl is sitting in the garden doing schoolwork and is distracted by butterflies flying around. She throws away her pen and runs after the butterflies. Meanwhile, a little ink devil forms at the tip of the quill and gets up to all sorts of mischief.

Handel and His Music

1957 • 13 min • United States of America

Presents Handel as a key figure in the development of Baroque music. Illustrates with musical selections his contributions to 18th century music including the oratorio form perfected in 'THE MESSIAH.'

Jumping with Toy

1957 • 6 min • United States of America

A hungry fox disguises himself as Santa Claus, and arms himself with deadly gifts, hoping to make a duck dinner out of Baby Huey.

You and the Living Machine

1957 • 7 min • United States of America

Jiminy Cricket shows how the "human machine" converts food into energy. He compares the human digestive system to a factory production line while explaining the importance of healthy food and exercise. He tells the story of a young boy who wants to stay healthy so that he can play and do all the fun things of life.

The Relaxed Wife

1957 • 14 min • United States of America

A husband who is unable to relax after work is advised by his wife on how to calm down. Promotional film for Pfizer tranquilizer Atarax.

A Sun Behind Bars

1957 • 19 min • Yugoslavia

It portrays love between a child and a dog. Just when the dog was caught by a dog catcher, the boy asks the man to let it go and thus he saves the animal’s life.

Athens dances Rock 'n' Roll

1957 • 20 min • Greece

The film refers to the fashion of the new American rock and roll dance, which also reached Athens. It is a short film that cost 100,000 drachmas. When Costas Karras appears in the movie, he says that it is a "rock and roll" competition in which he won an electric guitar and that his partner Katerina Helmi was a top performer at that time.

Golden Hands

1957 • 35 min • Soviet Union

A documentary about traditional Ukrainian arts and crafts and folk applied art, shot by Sergei Parajanov on commission from the Kyiv Television Studio. Ukrainian masters of pottery, carving, embroidery, painting, and other arts and crafts demonstrate their work in documentary and specially filmed scenes.

Cloches a travers les feuilles

1957 • 4 min

A shorter version of Joseph Cornell's Nymphlight, an experimental film shot in New York City's Bryant Park, featuring scenes of birds, fountains, people, etc. Edited to the length of Debussy's prelude of the same name.

Loving

1957 • 6 min

In Loving (1957), a couple make love in the sun and their optic system flares -- it's really the nervous system's ecstasy -- in oranges and yellows and whites. - Stan Brakhage. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2009.

Deep Dig

1957 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Pit sinkers prepare the coal mines of tomorrow. An account of shaft sinking techniques.

All the Way Home

1957 • 28 min • United States of America

A white family has just put their house on the market and are soon showing it to an interested black family. The neighbors begin to gossip and soon the white family becomes the target of harassment and threats by bigoted residents in the community, who do not want a black family in the neighborhood.

Wildlife in the Rockies

1957 • 13 min • Canada

After many years of careful conservation, Banff and Jasper National Parks have become vast zoological gardens. Deer, moose, bear, big-horn sheep, birds and small animals that live above the treeline are natural subjects for the close-up camera, with a backdrop of snowy peaks.

Venga a bailar el rock

1957 • 57 min • Argentina

A group of young people organizes a music festival.

Foothold on Antarctica

1957 • 20 min • United Kingdom

An absorbing record of the advance preparations for the historic first crossing of the Antarctic Continent by Dr. Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary.