Movies 1958 Page 43

This short documentary, shot in the glass factories of Leerdam and Schiedam, demonstrates how glass blowers do their work. But thanks to the superbly...

Phonetics professor Mr. Higgins decided to prove that he could, thanks to his knowledge and teaching skills, turn Eliza - a simple street flower girl...

Yanko and Olesya are looking for the Wind, on which their harvest depends.

A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly woman. After a car accident, he meets a doctor who...

A prostitute and a sewer worker try to rebuild their lives, but his ex-wife complicates the relationship.

The boy Mitya overslept in the morning. The alarm clock rang - he turned it off. The signal "Listen up everyone" / wake-up call to the Pioneer Dawn...

Dr. Sturdy is trying to establish a modern hospital in the jungle. His efforts are strongly opposed by Futa, the witch doctor, and Ramo, a native...

A Hokkien period opera film based on a popular Chinese story about Tang Dynasty General Guo Ziyi’s son, Guo Ai, who rebukes his wife, Princess...

As young boys, two brothers, Jed (AKA: Chip) and John, witness their father being hung by a vigilante gang. Chip, angry and bitter, grows up to be an...

Armed with a harpoon, a Swedish whaler is out for revenge after the death of his father. A greedy oil man trying to buy up the Swede's land might be...

The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a...

Three independent storylines about the completion of the Xin'anjiang Power Station. Adapted from Fu Geng's original work.

Derives from the pattern that appears when two celluloid sheets painted with different patterns are moved over one and other. (Filmform)

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is...

A beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which she was born. After many tries she...chooses the...

Japanese drama film.

Tells story of an adolescent who returns home late at night and neglects his school work. Pictures alternate methods of discipline being tried by his...

This film describes the building of the drilling platform ADMA Enterprise in a shipyard on the Kiel Canal, from where it was rowed to the Arabian...

A look at the country we know now as Taiwan.

1958, 3 min, b&w, sound, 35mm, Argentina

This documentary shows the early ideas about how nuclear war between the USA and the USSR could look like. It is made purely from the US side and...

The tragic tale of a man and his singing flea.

This educational film is an introduction to the ergot fungus, including lifecycle, cultivation, medicinal uses, and toxic effects. The film also...

Visit Pitlochry, a “busy, bustling town” in the heart of the Scottish Highlands featuring boozing stags, ladies lunching, tweed and whisky galore!

Semi-documentary on how marijuana dealers lure small-town teenagers into heroin use and prostitution and how the police help to fight it.

“Simply cannot be crossed in one continuous walk, said Swiss mathematician Euler in his famed theorem. . . and this charming, irreverent film...

Promotes Sinclair Power-X Gasoline, a high octane fuel developed in the 1950s.

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...

From 1958 Brussels World’s Fair to the election of Pope John XXIII

To avoid making travelers walk excessive distances through a large airport, Washington, D.C.'s new airport is to use mobile departure lounges to...

Harue was born the daughter of a poor farmer. Her father, who was crazy about chicken, and her mother, who struggled to make ends meet, heard from...

Roll-call in the Rockies: In Banff National Park census takers on horseback count animals. Zoo Comes to Class: Animals from Stanley Park Zoo visit...

A documentary about New Zealanders in Antarctica: researching International Geophysical Year, and supporting the Trans-Antarctic Expedition by laying...

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