All Films

Mulberry Street

1956 • 9 min

Joseph Cornell shot footage on Mulberry Street with Rudolph Burckhardt and made this silent film. Burckhardt would make his own sound version, "What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street," and Cornell would also make Children out of the same material.

Pluto's Day

1956 • 47 min

Walt Disney looks at a typical day in Pluto's life.

Lovely Week End

1956 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Three models from Manchester enjoy a weekend in the Cheshire countryside.

The Horses Are Not Guilty

1956 • 35 min • Soviet Union

On the eve of the 1905 revolution in a Ukrainian village, a liberal landowner refuses to distribute land to peasants, leading to an uprising. To protect his reputation, he calls in gendarmes, claiming he supports democracy but must care for his animals during the riot. Based on the novella of the same name by M. M. Kotsiubinsky.

Mr. Finley's Feelings

1956 • 10 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Our animated hero questions his sanity after blowing his top and driving his car into a police station.

Der nackte Morgen

1956 • 12 min • Germany

Hamburg awakens to a new morning in Peter Pewas short film.

Osram

1956 • 1 min • France

An abstract animation made for Osram.

The Sun of Hittite

1956 • 28 min

Documentary about the Hittites, produced by Mazhar Şevket İpşiroğlu and Sabahattin Eyüboğlu with the help of Istanbul University Art History and Archeology Institutes and Ankara Hittite Museum (Anatolian Civilizations Museum).

Ritm-Zoo

1956 • 4 min

A symphony of the animal park where the rhythm of jazz are crisscrossed with unforeseen movements and games between animals with the means of in-camera editing. This work was one of the favourites of Lidia García Millán, who deeply investigated the importance of sound in cinema. From this concern came her choice to make a type of non-narrative cinema, where sound (incidental in some of her works) was given special prominence. At the time, this led to disagreements among Uruguayan film culture agents, who sought to create a national cinema geared towards Europe. Thanks to feminist genealogies, her work is now considered a historical reference.

Meus Oito Anos: Canto Escolar

1956 • 11 min • Brazil

A cinematographic interpretation of a Casimiro de Abreu poem.

The Nature of Things: The Elephant

1956 • 8 min • United States of America

An educational short featuring Jiminy Cricket.

The Horse in Focus

1956 • 16 min • Sweden

A documentary covering the equestrian events of 1956 Olympic Games in Stockholm.

Cats

1956 • 2 min • United States of America

Short hand drawn representation of a cat

Once And Forever

1956 • 13 min

On the importance of specifying long-life cast-iron soil pipes when you build your new home.

The Museum and the Fury

1956 • 56 min • United States of America

From the perspective of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, documentary material, amongst this the freeing of the camp and the Nuremberg Trials with clips from films which were produced shortly after the war, and pictures of museum visitors are assembled into an essay about memory.

Plumpy Aunt Goes Back to Her Parents’ Home

1956 • 10 min • China

When Plumpy Aunt, who has just made a new dress for her sleeping baby, receives a letter telling her that her mother is seriously ill, she prepares to leave that very night but is so scatterbrained that she starts forgetting things.

Ant Trails

1956 • 13 min • Poland

Educational documentary that illustrates the living conditions and importance of ants in environmental ecosystems.

Pioneer Boy of the Midwest

1956 • 12 min • United States of America

Shows interdependence of members of a pioneer family. A typical pioneer school is portrayed.

Keeping Clean and Neat

1956 • 10 min • United States of America

Two eighth graders doing an assembly on cleanliness and neatness seek underclassmen. A look into Don and Mildred's hygienic endeavors.

Corn's-a-Poppin'

1956 • 58 min • United States of America

A popcorn company hopes to boost sales with a live TV program featuring Western swing music, but the hustler hired to assemble the production is secretly in the employ of the company’s competitor, and is also trying to sabotage it.

Grandpa's Portrait

1956 • 5 min

A part of Strange Experiences

Somethin' About Scandinavia - As Told by a Danish Boy

1956 • 9 min • Denmark

A film about the Nordic countries and the possibilities for cooperating. Based on an idea by Danish film auteur Carl Th. Dreyer. (DFI)

Stones, Castles and Men

1956 • 29 min • Hungary

Color and Texture in Aluminum Finishes

1956 • 19 min • United States of America

Film from the leading American producer of aluminum illustrating the versatility of the material in building and design. Color and Texture in Aluminum Finishes was singled out in the trade press for its avant-garde qualities and considered by Howard Thompson as “probably the most strikingly imaginative industrial short subject ever filmed in the United States.” Although originally targeted at design professionals, the short was also successfully shown to general audiences.