1958 Movies

A portrait of Hamburg and its people.

When the pet shop owner goes home at night, one of the monkeys gets loose and releases some of the others. Mischief and mishaps ensue until the owner...

Pure color forms float lyrically across the screen in this abstract film exercise to the music of Greensleeves.

Study of posters and graffiti on the walls of Paris, using ellipses, brief shots and quick camera movements. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

This documentary shows the early ideas about how nuclear war between the USA and the USSR could look like. It is made purely from the US side and take...

Mohan is a young man who lives with his widowed mother, is in love with a young woman named Shyama, and both would like to get married. Unfortunately,...

A day in the life of the last line fisherman in Aberdeenshire, Norman Grant of Collieston, with a voiceover giving details of his work.

Working in the yard of his old primary school, a plumber recalls his schooldays and in particular his best friend Jérôme. Poignant memories because Jé...

An old woodcarver lives alone in the forest while a deer wanders around nearby.

Ethnographic film

Directed by Prabhakar Manajirao Nayak.

Short film about the flora and fauna in the Murnau Moor.

Animated rendition of the famous poem.

This short film from 1958 compiles 3 short reportages on different ways kids are schooled in remote areas. To School by Boat follows children of isola...

Experimental short by Edgardo Berjman.