All Films

Stars of Cabaret

1956 • 18 min • United Kingdom

A collection of amateur films made by photographer Roderic Vickers and friends.

The Art of Chinese Puppetry

1956 • 40 min

An introduction to Chinese puppet shows, including two plays: "Jiang Gan Steals Books" and "The Road Fights the Injustice" ("Lei Wanchun Fights the Tiger") performed by Yang Sheng and Chen Nantian.

No Cigar

1956 • 2 min • United States of America

No Cigar (1956) is Francis Ford Coppola’s earliest surviving short film, made when he was a teenager. It follows a lonely man in his apartment as he prepares beans.

Bettie Page In Red Lingerie

1956 • 4 min

Bettie Page dances in red lingerie.

Rome

1956 • 3 min • Austria

Vacation pictures from Rome.

Why Study Industrial Arts

1956 • 10 min • United States of America

A high school student really likes his shop class...perhaps a bit too much!

The Model's Handbook

1956 • 14 min • United States of America

A promotional film for Ford's Model Agency, directed by Robert Altman, as a potential television pilot.

The Miracle of Todd-AO

1956 • 11 min • United States of America

A short film demonstrating the new 70mm widescreen Todd-AO system.

The Battle of Wangapore

1956 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A parody of a well-known text by Rudyard Kipling.

The Deadly Riddle

1956 • 41 min • United States of America

Traveling through his kingdom’s forest one day King Arthur is confronted by The Red Knight who plans to slay him but decides to challenge him with the riddle “What does a woman want from a man?” Instructing him that there is only one correct answer he sets him free with the proviso that he must return in a month with the solution or be put to death. Riding beside the King, Sir Gawain and he become acquainted with Maid Marian who exiled herself to the forest. A frustrating month ensues as Arthur seeks the answer finally, striking a bargain with a hag to save himself. But will the price be too high?

The Atlantic Community: Introducing the United Kingdom

1956 • 21 min

One of a series of short documentaries giving an overview of the various members of NATO.

You and Your Eyes

1956 • 8 min • United States of America

Jiminy Cricket teaches children about the eyes.

Haute-Lisse

1956 • 16 min • France

A captivating short film, showing the various processes in the production of a tapestry in the workshop of the famed Gobelins Manufactory.

Mountain Spring: The Flinders Range

1956 • 10 min • Australia

Progress in South Australia manifests itself around the Flinders Range country in the industries of Whyalla, Port Pirie, Port Augusta, Leigh Creek and Aroona Dam. Wildflowers cover the countryside.

A Tub Named Desire

1956 • 12 min

"A Tub Named Desire," the first movie with Donna Kerness, does not exist anymore, except for one 8mm print that was in George Kuchar's possession. The footage was taken apart, and some of it is included in "The Naked and the Nude." - Carnegie Museum of Art archive.

Dream Dance By Betty

1956 • 3 min

Bettie Page dances for the photos

L'album de famille de Jean Renoir

1956 • 16 min • France

Royal Visit to Leith

1956 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Colourful commemoration of Royal Yacht Britannia's majestic visit to Leith in 1956, courtesy of Messrs Joseph and J Arthur Rank.

Spring Symphony

1956 • 10 min

Fountains and gardens, parks and meadows; recordings of all those monuments and constructions from where the water springs embellishing the urban landscape of Mexico City.

So Passionate

1956 • 53 min • China

On Sunday, Fu Ping dresses herself up very beautifully, as usual, wondering who she should date.

St. Florian - Geistige Heimat Anton Bruckners

1956 • 11 min • Germany

Short film about the Austrian diocese of Sankt Florian near Linz.

Houston, Texas

1956 • 9 min

A report on this extraordinary boom town that owes its fortune to oil.

The Dangerous Drugs

1956 • 26 min

The Narcotic Educational Foundation of America presents “The Dangerous Drugs” an anti-drug movie in which pre-presidential narrator Ronald Reagan examines the health risks and growing societal problem of barbiturate and amphetamine abuse.

Sable Island

1956 • 28 min • Canada

This short documentary profiles the uniquely cloistered wildlife of Sable Island, known as the “Atlantic graveyard” due to its inhospitable conditions. Barren sands and endless gales proved too much for human settlement on this island off the coast of Nova Scotia. Only a small group of researchers and maintenance people occupy the island; horses run wild, seals and birds multiply profusely, and the Ipswich sparrow has found a fruitful breeding ground for itself. Sable Island provides a perfect opportunity to observe nature in an untouched, organic laboratory.