1957 Movies

A couple on a street corner and in a cafe, birds circling above the city street, window displays in a shop.

Big Fatty and Little Fatty are a pair of twins. Because they look almost identical, grandma often mistook them, but the two brothers have different pe...

Things are peaceful in John Doormat's neighborhood until he gets a new neighbor, and the new neighbor comes with a dog that likes to grab and gnaw on...

Because of a cruel ringmaster, Jolly the Clown and Ellsworth Elephant are both fired from the circus. Jolly tries to help the pink pygmy elephant's ac...

A love torn apart by divine fate.

In 1957, Ghatak premiered Oraon. This is often regarded as a preparatory work for Ajantrik and is based on the Oraon tribes. It was shot in 1955 in Ch...

Documentary about anchovy fishermen in San Sebastian

The film tells the history of the Bulgarian town of Nesebar from the moment of its foundation (2500 years ago) to the present day and acquaints with t...

This is what winter sports used to look like in Poland's skiing capital. A story about skiers with casts, full of funny gags and jokes.

Part comic adventure, part travelogue, this short film features the folkloric character of Ti-Jean, a French-Canadian kid endowed with magic powers. H...

Film promoting advertising in Redbook as the best way to reach young suburban consumers, a growing demographic of the late 1950s. It makes the point t...

After Perséphone, his first film which he describes as “an experimental, mythological poem” and shoots under the pseudonym Luc Zangrie, he makes a por...

Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked separately,...

Documentary short about coal mining in Germany.