1958 Movies

Partch takes the viewer on a tour of his Chicago home, and plays his microtonal instruments. Includes his demonstration of how the soundtrack for Wind...

We spend the day at a firehouse with Fireman Bill.

An exploration of the human body through non-traditional, abstract focusing techniques.

It's Peter's birthday and Mum wakes him with cards and presents. After breakfast he goes off to school, with his toy locomotive, but fails to return a...

A celebration of transatlantic commercial jet travel: 6.5 hours from New York to London. Columbus took two months, Lindbergh took 33 hours, but by 195...

The story of the railroad in Illinois and the train's role in moving product out of the states to the rest of America.

A stop-motion adaptation of Sergei Prokofiev's symphonic fairy tale.

Short documentary about the processing of tobacco.

Imaginative film showing how automatic gadgets in homes and workplaces alienate people from one another.

short experimental animation from Spain

This short film from 1958 compiles 3 short reportages on different ways kids are schooled in remote areas. To School by Boat follows children of isola...

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

Part of BFI collection "Roll Out the Barrel".

An experiment in the creative use of colour visuals, natural sound and dialogue commentary, this film shows the loneliness of the aimless wanderers in...

Directed by Khalil Shawqi.