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You and Your Ears

You and Your Ears

1957 • 8 min • United States of America
Jiminy Cricket explains how the ear works, both for hearing and balance.
Dearth of a Salesman

Dearth of a Salesman

1957 • 30 min • United Kingdom
Comedy short starring Peter Sellers. Previously thought lost, but discovered in a skip outside Park Lane Films.
X

X

1957 • 9 min • Sweden
Pontus Hultén's X consists both of animated, geometric sequences and of other photographic scenes reminiscent of home movies. In the geometric part of the film, Hultén works with the rhythmic displacement of contrasts and patterns in bright primary colors. Geometric images are intertwined with jazz to illustrate analogy of form. The photographic part consists of family sequences of various persons. The catalogue of Arbetsgruppen för film of 1960 lists the work as unfinished. (Filmform)
Hurry, Hurry!

Hurry, Hurry!

1957 • 4 min • United States of America
In this strange little film, Marie Menken photographs billowy flames superimposed over microscopic medical footage of writhing spermatozoa.
The Moșilor Fair

The Moșilor Fair

1957 • 9 min • Romania
The Moșilor Fair is an exercise by a student director who used his film before he had managed to finalize the originally planned movie. The result is a fascinating experimental montage, without music or sound of any kind, showing details of a legendary fair in the capital.
Living Stones

Living Stones

1957 • 16 min • Poland
The ‘Żywe kamienie’ (meaning living stones) from the title are architectural monuments that convey the history of past generations. In this respect, Kraków is a special city - it was not only the royal capital of Poland, but also a city of Jews.
Norbert, der Ausreißer

Norbert, der Ausreißer

1957 • 13 min • East Germany, Germany
Five-year-old Norbert visits Haus des Kindes in Berlin with his parents. He runs away and visits the whole house on his own. He strolls through the clothing department, past shoes, takes the escalator and elevator up to the children's café, barely escapes an attentive waitress and ends up in the toy department while his parents are looking for him upstairs. Found and punished by his father, Norbert experiences all kinds of adventures in his dream.
Le Corbusier, l'architecte du bonheur

Le Corbusier, l'architecte du bonheur

1957 • 21 min • France
Documentary devoted to the architectural and urban planning designs of Le Corbusier. The architect supports his in-depth reflection on the city and its necessary adaptation to modern life with plans, drawings and images, particularly Paris, whose revolutionary development dreamed of by Le Corbusier is exhibited here. Its first projects will remain at the stage of a model: the modernization plan for the city of Algiers. Some will be created by other architects: Ministry of Education in Rio de Janeiro, UN Palace in New York. From the post-war period in less than 10 years, Le Corbusier created large housing units in Marseille, Nantes, a chapel in Ronchamps, a factory in Saint-Dié, a town in Chandigarh in India. Through diagrams, the architect presents his theory of the "radiant city", the mathematical key modulor of his work as well as his project for reorganizing the countryside, industrial and urban cities into a grouping around a cooperative system.
East of the Malverns

East of the Malverns

1957 • 14 min • United Kingdom
Scenic route through the Vale of Evesham, Worcester and Great Malvern, with a detour to a lost masterpiece of outsider art.
La tarde del domingo

La tarde del domingo

1957 • 33 min • Spain
It Could Be You

It Could Be You

1957 • 20 min • United Kingdom
Two London models on their journey through Germany as their prize for winning a newspaper competition.
Congonhas do Campo

Congonhas do Campo

1957 • 16 min • Brazil
Aspects of the city of Congonhas do Campo. The preponderance of baroque architecture, the Basilica of Senhor Bom Jesus de Matozinho, the six chapels on the terrace leading to Morro do Maranhão. Each chapel contains statues representing moments of the Passion of Christ. While in the first chapel there is Santa Ceia figuration, in the second there is the Passo Horto scene. The kiss of betrayal and the imprisonment of Christ before the scene of the third chapel. In the fourth, two scenes are gathered: the coronation and the flagellation. On the fifth, the Christ bears the cross and the crucifixion is featured in the sixth chapel. The twelve apostles of Aleijadinho and the Latin inscriptions of each one. The interior of the Basilica and its main altar, with the figure of the Lord Dead.
Angel

Angel

1957 • 4 min • United States of America
Short film of a statue of an angel by an ornamental pond on a summer's day.
Ritual Destruction of "Follow Through"

Ritual Destruction of "Follow Through"

1957 • 3 min
An 80-sec excerpt of the edge-to-edge scan of Raphael Montañez Ortiz’s 1957 film "Golf"s 16mm celluloid print with punched holes across the frame lines and on the original soundtrack.
The First Christmas

The First Christmas

1957 • 8 min • United States of America
The Nativity story, retold via puppetry and narration.
Petar Dobrovic

Petar Dobrovic

1957 • 16 min • Yugoslavia
Documentary about painter Petar Dobrovic.
Des Kaisers neue Kleider

Des Kaisers neue Kleider

1957 • 20 min • East Germany, Germany
A vain emperor is constantly preoccupied with his appearance. Three swindlers promise to make him extraordinary clothes that can only be seen by people who are honest and clever. The emperor provides the three fashion designers with expensive material and expects to make a grand entrance in his new costumes.
Ghost in the Well

Ghost in the Well

1957 • 45 min • Japan
Harima Aoyama (Chiyonosuke Azume) was a young hatamoto (samurai bannerman) to the Shogun. He seduced his commoner house maid Okiku (Hibari). He promised that his love was no passing infatuation & she would never suffer for it. She resisted his charms for some while knowing full well that they are of classes that do not intermarry, but in time he broke down her resistance, for how could she help but love him. Political expedience puts the young hatamoto in the way of a marriage with a woman of his own station. This will cement family connections & see his family safely through a crisis, at a time when many clans were finding themselves abolished on any pretext.
Wonders of New Orleans

Wonders of New Orleans

1957 • 19 min • United States of America
Travelogue featuring New Orleans, its music, and its Mardi Gras.
Energetically Yours

Energetically Yours

1957 • 14 min
Tracing the story of primitive man's discovery of energy.
As Long As We Love Her

As Long As We Love Her

1957 • 21 min • France
Lucien Berardini and Edmond Denis are two mountaineers who took part in the French expedition to Aconcagua (Andes Mountains) in 1954. Both suffered severe frostbite to their fingers and toes, and three years later, they set out to climb the Aiguille du Géant, a legendary route in the Mont Blanc massif. The camera closely follows the efforts of the roped party, an example of strength and self-sacrifice, until their victorious arrival at the summit.
There Was a Door

There Was a Door

1957 • 27 min • United Kingdom
The Dock Brief

The Dock Brief

1957 • 51 min
This hilarious one-act play by John Mortimer (creator of Rumpole of the Bailey) is the story of a highly incompetent lawyer preparing to defend a man who, by his own admission, is guilty of murdering his wife. Starring Sir Michael Hordern (Gandhi, How I Won the War), two-time Tony winner George Rose (My Fair Lady), and Leueen MacGrath (who with George S. Kaufman co-wrote Silk Stockings).
Sopot 1957

Sopot 1957

1957 • 16 min • Poland
After the 1957 jazz festival in Sopot, the city is still hectic. However, the resort is a bit different. Tourists rest on the beach, in the afternoon they stroll along the pier and the promenade. In the evening, they have fun in clubs.