1959 Movies

Photographed on the streets of New York, this film penetrates the world children create in their play. It shows children of varying ages and different...

Arctic landscape. Polar station. Winterers at their instruments, by the map. Preparing dog sleds for the journey. Winterers and dogs making their way...

Directed by Datta Dharmadhikari.

Educational film about how light and optics work.

A 20 minute amateur 16mm cine film from 1959 about floral colour in Haringey. It’s as interesting for the people, buildings and vehicles as it for the...

A unique chronicle of Salvador Dali’s constructivist outrageousness. As you know, during this period, Dali began, as the newspapers wrote, “shaking th...

Short documentary about a small circus.

A modified version of The Little Red Hen folk tale. It stars a squirrel and the moral of the story (no work=no prize) is removed as the animals who di...

Geeta's father Rattan cancels her engagement to Raja after meeting his mother. As Geeta tries to reason with her father, she unravels the truth.

Featured artists: Yoshida Toshio; Kanayama Akira; Shiraga Kazuo; Shimamoto Shōzō

This sponsored film from Chicago’s Goldsholl Design & Film Associates captures the lively world of pre-1960s advertising through animation and collage...

Taking the lid off the creative process with a group of theatrically-minded 11-year-olds as they stage the nativity.

Documentary short filmed in Sunnmøre

A film reportage on countryside laundresses by Jože Bevc.

Made by the Hemel Hempstead Development Corporation in 1959, this short records the development of Hemel Hempstead following its assignment of New Tow...

Projector, reflector units, electrical and lighting elements, and a projection screen

A lonely lady makes a call to her female friend and when she arrives, they make love.

It records the festivities that, at the time, took place in the heart of the city, at the meeting of Rua dos Andradas and Avenida Borges Medeiros.