"Fisherfolk of Bombay" is a 1955 short documentary film directed by Paul Zils. The film focuses on the lives and livelihoods of the fishing communities in Bombay (now Mumbai), providing insights into their daily routines, challenges, and cultural practices. This documentary is part of Zils's extensive work in India, where he played a significant role in developing the country's documentary film movement.
This animated film features an average fellow who meets the Devil (or his envoy, anyway), who has a plan to turn his nice neighborhood into a slum.
An ad for the new Motoramic Chevrolt.
An abstract film in which Jesús Soto's art and André Almuro's musique concrete combine to evoke the modern age.
The first Taiwanese-language film produced by a public studio.
hese two churches, Viersehnheiligen and Ottobeuren are rich examples of mid-18th-Century German Baroque, a time when music, literature, architecture and philosophy were unified. The film, rather than explaining the structure, attempts to express the feeling of what German Baroque was, and what gave it such great style. The music is 18th-Century, played on 18th-Century organs.
A graphic fairy tale movie about the adventures of four friends - a donkey, a dog, a rooster and a cat - who deal with an evil master and robbers.
A short animated film about the adventures of an offended hedgehog.
A mother hedgehog lives in the forest with her seven sons. Two of them fall down a slope; one is eaten by an owl, the other is found after hibernation by a forester who takes it home with him.
It tells the story that the small animals in the forest organize a travel group and set off at eight o'clock the next morning for an autumn trip. It was already nine o'clock when Little Bear arrived at the meeting place due to sleeplessness.
A fine example of the female-led melodramas of the 1950s that revived Iranian cinema after a long hiatus during WWII, The Last Night follows Monir, a happily married woman who gets blackmailed by her former lover and must rely on an actress to clear her name. There’s a striking sense of 1950s Iranian cosmopolitanism, especially when the camera leaves the studio and ventures into the streets of Tehran or the ski resorts in the north of the city.
A modern dance solo interpretation of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring created by dancer/choreographer Jim Huntley and filmed and edited by Pieter Van Deusen.
A 1950's burlesque show.
Gandy Goose has been studying his mail-order acting kit, and goes to visit his friend, Rudy Rooster, to show off his mimic skills. Rudy is unimpressed as his attention is more on another rooster who is bidding to replace Rudy as the ruler-of-the-roost in the hen-house. He gets Gandy to disguise himself as a fox and raid the hen-house, and Rudy will show up and run him off and be a hero of the hens. But...there is already a real fox in the barnyard and he has no intention of being run of by a rooster.
A remake of a 1939 British short film of the same title. A sick boy is cured when his father, who is a vivisectionist, brings home his stolen dog.
In pursuit of freedom and a peace of mind, Ali leaves his crowded family home and moves to a fishing village on the opposite side of the island. In the village, he was invited to stay at an old fisherman Pak Yem's house. Pak Yem has been living alone for a long time. On a fishing trip, Ali picks a few oysters from the sea and discovers that one of them contains a black pearl. When the pearl goes missing, Mariam, who is also from the same village and is frequent visitor to Pak Yem, is accused of stealing it. Ali knows that Mariam is not a thief, although Mariam's stepmother Zaiton insists that it's her and banishes her from their house. Mariam has no choice but to stay with Pak Yem and Ali temporarily. Later, it was found out that Mariam's unkind brother-in-law-to-be, Rahman, had stolen the pearl and sold it to a general store, where Ali saw it displayed. Rahman's misdemeanor is revealed and Zaiton regrets her actions towards her stepdaughter.
Educational film that shows all the horrors that witch-doctors caused in backwards villages before modern medicine took over.
An Indonesian drama movie directed by The Teng Chun and Roostijati
A historical overview of the development of the motion picture industry.
