All Films

Khajuraho

1956 • 19 min

Khajuraho, the city of Gods is shown in this film. During the period of Hindu renaissance, temple architecture received a striking impetus and its most eloquent expression is seen in the inspiring group of temples at Khajuraho.

Ultima Neve

1956 • 9 min

8mm short by Carlo Fuzzi.

Visiting the Groom

1956 • 21 min

Arto's watch factory releases non-operating watches through the fault of the quality controller. One of these watches causes a lot of trouble for the family of his beloved, Armenuhi. A dinner in honor of the groom turns into a severe censure of a bad workman.

Destiny Beyond the Horizon

1956 • 14 min • Sweden

Norrland in Sweden while the power plant dams are being built.

Them in the Thing

1956 • 19 min

An Englishman's children come back home from playing to tell him they've made contact with a flying saucer.

Cracovian Wedding

1956 • 7 min • Poland

The film popularizes folk music, folk dance, and Karol Kurpiński’s piece titled "Wesele w Ojcowie". We could see dancers of the State Dance Ensemble led by Eugeniusz Papliński.

Black Waters

1956 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

The poetical composition of the photography aims to express, by means of the shadow-and-light play, the characteristic surroundings of the life in the marshes near Osijek in Croatia.

From Rugs to Riches

1956 • 15 min

In this training film for Caprolan nylon rugs, the great Jonathan Winters shows sales-folks how to do their job better. How, indeed, to go FROM RUGS TO RICHES.

Here Comes Tobor

1956 • 26 min

A young boy uses his ESP to control a robot created by his wheel chair bound Uncle, and together they combat the forces of evil.

Pe-Copter

1956 • 28 min • Soviet Union

According to the custom of pre-revolutionary Moldovan villages, a young girl who had been deceived by a boy could come to his house, climb onto the stove, and refuse to come down until the seducer agreed to marry her. A film adaptation of the story of the same name by M. Kotsyubinsky.

Two Little Oxen

1956 • 27 min • Hungary

To Your Health

1956 • 10 min • United Kingdom

An animated short outlining the problems with alcohol consumption.

Brief History

1956 • 8 min • Romania

This 1957 Romanian short animation and Cannes Film Festival winner skilfully and with incredible artistic expression manages to condense the entire narrative of human evolutionary theory into a ten minute short film. Not only that, he eerily anticipates the communist triumph of the USSR launching the first man into space by a few years.

Our Unsung Villians

1956 • 60 min

The Slave in the Magic Mirror hosts this tribute to Disney villains, claiming that without whom, no one would need heroes.

What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street

1956 • 6 min • United States of America

Short film with sound by Rudy Burckhardt, assembled from the footage shot by Joseph Cornell for his own silent "Mulberry Street."

Bunker Hill 1956

1956 • 17 min

Rumor

1956 • 6 min

A short animated film about the 1943 detroit race riots and how rumors played a role in it. RUMOR Discussion film on prevention of rumors Drawn by the celebrated cartoonist, Robert Osborn, this highly original, animated film traces the development of an idle rumor into a city-wide riot, and poses the question What Defense Against Rumors? Pro- duced with the cooperation of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. One of the Challenge films designed as discussion springboards.

Races to Remember

1956 • 8 min

This Sportscope series short contains highlights from several significant horse races, such as the 1948 Kentucky Derby (won by Citation); the 1953 Preakness Stakes (won by Native Dancer); and a match race in which Nashua beats Swaps.

Das Walk

1956 • 7 min • Austria

A "stroll" at various locations: the St. Marx Cemetery, the Prater park, Carnuntum. We see people taking walks, construction workers, people flying model planes and other little observations. Kren also used a short segment of found footage in colour which shows a woman in a bikini.

The Story of a Star

1956 • 8 min • United States of America

The Deering Milliken Research Corporation sponsored this visually striking production to push Agilon, a "new and better stretch yarn for stockings." A narrator tells us that "people want better, newer, more beautiful things" and that Agilon is superior to standard Nylon, which has "no standard for stretch." The rhetoric in this film is more or less typical, but its stylish visual look makes it memorable. Lots of leggy models and sparse fifties sets.

The Clever Girl

1956 • 10 min • Hungary

A village girl raises the young king's interest with her extraordinary ingenuity.

Rural Constructions

1956 • 10 min • Brazil

Operation Cue

1956 • 15 min • United States of America

A reporter is given a tour of the Nevada Test Site before witnessing an atom bomb detonation, part of the Operation Teapot series of nuclear tests in 1955.

Baladita

1956 • 3 min • Argentina

An animated short film by Víctor Iturralde.