1959 Movies

History of Indian Film Music

Jordan Belson’s pure meditation on space: fluid and unfixed, where forms become free abstractions in motion (Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Arch...

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

A feature-length travelogue from Cameroon.

Rock salt seas, in the Rio Maior region. Life of salt and salt workers.

Saint-Junien, opening day of the hunt, an enthusiastic but clumsy hunter sets off to hunt down game...

short experimental animation from Spain

Ethnographic documentary on the folk tradition of the Busójárás Carnival in Mohács, Hungary.

This creepy film starts with newsagent posters telling of an escape from Broadmoor. We see a girl deliver newspapers to a house from which a small chi...

Girls parade on the stage of the Eden theater in Bologna.

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

1959, 7:35 min., color, silent, 8mm

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

Documentary about the National Broadcasting Corporation.