Most Viewed Year 1959 - 146

An animated short film directed by Víctor Iturralde.

This sponsored film from Chicago’s Goldsholl Design & Film Associates captures the lively world of pre-1960s advertising through animation and...

A document of an early encounter between native New Guineans and Western anthropologists, the film was shot, edited, and used in lectures by Prof....

The relationship between forms in nature and their interpretation in art is explored in independent avant-garde filmmaker Wayne Sourbeer’s...

A banana tree was uprooted by the storm and washed to the shore by flash floods. When the tortoise found out, he called the monkey to help him carry...

Made by the Hemel Hempstead Development Corporation in 1959, this short records the development of Hemel Hempstead following its assignment of New...

A lonely lady makes a call to her female friend and when she arrives, they make love.

A sales film about a plastic molding injection machine made by Stokes. Very very industrial and beautiful.

Television manufacturing at RCA's New Jersey plant. Includes scenes of design, engineering and quality control.

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

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

Two children fight with wooden blades while standing beneath a pendulum.

Another educational short from Young America Films designed to answer a burning question.