All Films

Aquarium Wonderland

1955 • 10 min

A boy of intermediate grade age sets up a home aquarium and observes how fish breathe, hear, feel, smell and swim. Close-ups, microscopic photography and animation are used. The interdependence of plants and animals is pointed out.

Manzanderan

1955 • 17 min

This amateur colour film includes the ancient stone tower of Kavus at Gorgon and the Grand Hotel at Ramsar on the Caspian Sea, routes through the Alborz or Elburz mountains and Mount Damavand, the highest peak. The film includes expeditionary treks using horses, camels and mules, along with aerial coverage of the valleys beneath the Elburz mountains taken from ‘Stinky Wings’; a light aircraft.

Huff and Puff

1955 • 8 min • Canada

Huff and Puff is a comic animated look at the serious problem of hyperventilation. Produced for the Royal Canadian Air Force to inform air crews about the dangers, and serious side effects, of hyperventilation in high altitudes. The film shows how to recover with appropriate respiration and emphasizes that this problem can occur in other situations, such as when a person is under stress.

Colourful Caribbean

1955 • 59 min

Amateur film from 1955 showing the people, landscapes and architecture of numerous islands in the Caribbean by Everild Helweg-Larsen, F.R.G.S.

J.C. Mol (filmer)

1955 • 14 min • Netherlands

A compilation of J.C. Mol's work; Mol was a filmmaker who made his name with microscopic recordings, his use of the "time lapse" camera and sped-up/slowed-down film recordings. Mol delivers the commentary himself.

Entspanntes Wasser zum Spülen und Putzen

1955 • 12 min

Short educational film about water.

The Queen of Belgium

1955 • 12 min • Poland

Impressions of Elisabeth of Bavaria's, Queen of the Belgians, visit to Poland in 1955.

Fish Market

1955 • 20 min

An amateur newsreel about a 1950s fish market, the Fulton Street Fish Market.

Life of Things

1955 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

The film shows Josip Vaništa's eerie paintings.

The Indian Was Alone

1955 • 2 min

The erasure of Native storytelling and beliefs is told through the archetype of the crying or dispossessed Indian.

Card from the Cotswolds

1955 • 23 min • United Kingdom

The lives of farmers working in the Cotswolds.

The Star and the Story: Dark Stranger

1955 • 26 min

A writer's fiction becomes terrifying reality, sucking him into his own novel being played out. Ray Ericson writes of a lovely woman who leaves her steady boyfriend for a man out to kill her. Suddenly he realizes life is imitating art: he is in the killer role! How can the novelist prevent destroying the woman he's come to love?

Impressions of Japan

1955 • 14 min

"This film presents the impressions of William Faulkner during his visit to Japan to participate in a USIS-sponsored American literature seminar. The program is based on an essay that Faulkner wrote prior to his departure from Japan" (US National Archives).

Bullfight

1955 • 9 min • United States of America

Anna Sokolow’s choreographed reinterpretation of a bullfight. Sokolow plays the matador, an audience member, and the doomed animal.

Cell 2455 Death Row

1955 • 1 min • Japan

An amateur handmade film found on the backside of another paper film that includes theatrical signage, admission prices and a recreation of a chase scene from the 1955 film noir Cell 2455 Death Row.

Survival City

1955 • 9 min • United States of America

Survival City is a 1955 American short documentary film directed by Anthony Muto. It shows the effects of an atomic bomb on an American town. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Joanne, Union Square

1955 • 7 min

Footage shot for Cornell by Rudy Burckhardt in December 1955 of a woman buying chestnuts from a street vendor and watching people and birds in a city square.

And There Was No More Sea

1955 • 23 min • Netherlands

Short poetic documentary about the southern sea in the Netherlands.

Through the Night to the Light

1955 • 4 min

Animated commercial by Fischerkoesen.

Day In, Day Out

1955 • 12 min • Poland

Rhythmic and indicative documentary that shows how every day 150,000 people hurry to work by public transport from their homes in the suburbs of Warsaw.

God Shiva

1955 • 11 min • Netherlands

Impressive, abstract dance film from Bert Haanstra.

Ships Do Not Come Ashore

1955 • 15 min • Yugoslavia

Anti-film by Mihovil Pansini.

Little Lost Scent

1955 • 8 min

Adventures of a skunk family.

Um Crime na Rua

1955 • 6 min • Brazil