1959 Movies

In this examination of the present state of unemployment in Britain, Aidan Crawley makes a tour which begins in Cornwall and ends in Dundee. On the wa...

Directed by Thomas Stobart.

The manufacturing process of an armchair is illustrated.

Tongue in cheek film begins with an American standing on Princess bridge narrating what sounds like a postcard to his mother while ogling at a passing...

A 1959 film in Taiwanese Hokkien, featuring Koa-á-hì (traditional Taiwanese opera).

Jim MacAndrew's interview with director René Clair was televised live in November 1959. With the cooperation of the New York State Education Departmen...

This 1959 film by the Bureau of Mines (US Department of the Interior.) in cooperation with asbestos manufacturer Johns Manville, describes how asbesto...

One of the first animated films from Czechoslovakia.

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

Educational film about how light and optics work.

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

experimental film by Jim Davis

A feature-length travelogue from Cameroon.

Early 1950s Instructional film on how to use the Telephone and how it works.

A refugee starts a business in Germany.

Odds & Ends is a sly comment on the collage film and Beat culture. To discarded travel and advertising footage found at a local film laboratory, Belso...