1962 Movies

A look cinema and its evolution regarding comfort and the different types of films that drew audiences in during the 1950's.

Greenaway's virtually unseen first film is described by the director as "a work of juvenalia" shot in four London cemeteries, focusing on "church yard...

A short civil war comedy film made for a Sunday night TV special hosted by Bill Thompson. The confederates have run out of coffee and plans to steal s...

Over 24 hours, camera follows everything that is happening on a bench. In that time, the bench is used by a variety of people: pensioners basking in t...

Van Bellingham Cartwright Forbes arrives at Camp Swampy to take on the best men for the new psychological test. Beetle and Snorkle are picked to parti...

The Fellini of Foam's fifth and last film before The Endless Summer, Waterlogged is made up of highlights from Bruce Brown's four previous films. This...

Pergolesi Opera Buffa

Directed by Jean Rouch.

An old man accidentally drops his rice ball for lunch into a rat hole. The happy sound of singing lures him into the hole, where he is welcomed with o...

Three jewel thieves on the run hide out in an old dark house inhabited by a cadre of eccentric ghosts who want to kill them.

A Lidia Hornicka Animated Short Film

In the Colombian-Venezuelan Andes, a peasant works the land under exploitative conditions to ensure the survival of his family. His son is ill, his wi...

A look at the importance of the helicopter and its uses, both civil and military, but also its failure to become a passenger carrier.

Impressions of a typical weekend in Blackburn in the early 1960s.

A children’s art project done at the Norton, Ohio Elementary Schools in 1962. Using scrap wood the 4th, 5th, and 6th graders plan and make wooden scul...