1959 Movies

A short documentary about the town of Stockport

Jordan Belson’s pure meditation on space: fluid and unfixed, where forms become free abstractions in motion (Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Arch...

A postman has to deliver a letter addressed to the “best boy”. He goes door to door, looking for this boy, but finds that children everywhere are naug...

experimental film by Jim Davis

A refugee starts a business in Germany.

A devilish, surreal nightmare of bisexual lust.

“Apolline” is an adaptation of a short story by Franz Hellens from the collection Les saisons de Pontoise, published in 1956 by Albin Michel. The stor...

Rock salt seas, in the Rio Maior region. Life of salt and salt workers.

This West German made report on the state of Israel, not neglecting the lingering problem of Palestine, was meant to open warmer relations between the...

A feature-length travelogue from Cameroon.

Ballet by the Lake: The Wilderness Ballet Camp in Ontario's Algonquin Park. Dancing on the Rockies: The Banff School of Fine Arts ballet class practis...

Short documentary providing a detailed look at different types of film and their uses, with a focus on film used in projectors and how projectionists...

Ethnographic documentary on the folk tradition of the Busójárás Carnival in Mohács, Hungary.

Widower Barrister Ashok lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bombay, India along with his sister-in-law, and a young son, Ramesh. One day while driving, he ac...

Saint-Junien, opening day of the hunt, an enthusiastic but clumsy hunter sets off to hunt down game...

Directed by Bhalji Pendharkar. With Suryakant, Master Vithal, Ramesh Deo, Ganpat Patil.

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