1959 Movies

There are currently only about 42 minutes of fragments of this film left.

The farming villages that exist throughout Tohoku are known for their rice production but struggle with cold-weather crop damage. Many who rely on t...

Look at Life was a regular series of short documentary films produced between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of Rank Organisation and...

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...

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

Filmed only a few months after Tatsumi Hijikata’s first explosive public butoh performance, “Gisei” features Hijikata and members of his Asbestos Hall...

A cameraman on an assignment to Darkest Africa to film wild life finds into the top of the species in Heckel and Jeckel, and they foil all of his effo...

A patchwork of East End colours and characters on Middlesex Street, better-known as Petticoat Lane.

Educational film about the life and habits of the praying mantis. Description of its diet, adolescence and awe-inspiring love customs.

Short documentary about dancing hands.

The film deals with a fisherman's home on the coast, where everyone one autumn evening sits with their work in the living room.

A "milieustudie" about a girl going to the famous Cafe Odeon and trying to make ends meet.

Overview of raw and finished products of the chemical industries in the GDR.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at advances in the treatment of infectious diseases.

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