1959 Movies

From the opening sequence, combining underwater and aerial footage, this masterpiece about the construction of a steam-power plant in Kurihama (south...

In the hands of another director, the inner-workings of a magnet laboratory could have caused a whole classroom to fall asleep of boredom. No so when...

First social and scientific short film. It depicts a surgical intervention on a real blind patient to encourage reflection on the problems of this dis...

Firewalkers records a traditional Greek rite which, now Christianized, goes back to the ancient Orphic Mysteries of Thrace: walking barefoot on burnin...

One of Jordan Belson's presentation reels used in the Vortex Concerts.

An overview of the lobster fishing industry in Nova Scotia.

The short documentary film by Fritz Illing was awarded with the German Film Prize in 1960 and shows an Andalusian pilgrimage.

Explains how to drive a diesel multiple-unit train.

A bright outlook in Birkenhead for a thriving British enterprise.

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...

Short film by Gianfranco Mingozzi.

Geeta and Raja falls in love and everything seems to be going well until the day of their wedding, when Geeta's father breaks off their ceremony

Documentary chronicling the Kyoto Alpine Club's 1958 ascent of Chogolisa, the "Bride's Peak," in the Karakorums.

Ingeborg Nyberg makes a dream trip to Italy to study singing. She drives from Stockholm in her own car. She passes Helsingborg, Helsingør and Hamburg...

A short documentary about log driving in the Halden waterways. Made in connection with the 100th anniversary of Haldenvassdragets fløtningsforening.

A sales film about a plastic molding injection machine made by Stokes. Very very industrial and beautiful.