Movies 1959 Page 44

Hickory and Dickory, the two mice, overhear a news report that all black cats will be exterminated because it is Friday the 13th. Doc, who is a black...

Costume comedy

Diagnosed with a "Cleopatra complex", a married woman named Cora believes she is a femme fatale and invites three suitors to her vacation home.

When Grover's Corner, a small, uneventful American town, becomes a mirror to an entire society. This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic of American...

"Witch Ride Over Stockholm - A Visit to Blåkulla" - a story from the night's adventure and dangers.

Cerasella escapes just before her marriage with Alfredo and meets Bruno, the son of a wealthy industrialist.

The second installment in the crime reporter series, this is a full-fledged crime reporter film depicting a scoop battle among crime reporters...

Two naive high-school students must deal with the unexpected consequences after a night of passion.

Young teacher Floras arrives to teach a class at a girls’ high school in Athens. His students, daughters of rich Athenian families, are very spoilt...

Bugs fights with Blacque Jacque Shellacque over Klondike gold.

In 1956, the humorous designer Oski made a work about the foundation of the city of Buenos Aires. Fernando Birri made a film from this work in 1959,...

A mob assassin holds innocent hostages at an airport in upstate New York.

An American engineer reaches Mombasa to finish the works of an African railroad and to find his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared. While...

Animated film by Vladimir Lehký.

Puppet film-fairy tale in an entertaining form teaches viewers to ski correctly, to overcome steep hills.

The right-hand man of a narcotics ring (Tsuruta) is shot by gangsters and left for dead at a Tokyo waterfront and subsequently suffers from amnesia....

Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his...

Mysteries of the Deep is a 1959 Disney nature documentary short film. Though not an official True-Life Adventures film, it did accompany the release...

Historical drama depicting the life of Banzuin Chobei.

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

Sonic boom is the sound of security.

Part of the Look at Life Rank series reels. A look at the SOHO bohemian coffee bars of London in the 1950s.

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

One of the few short films shot in the three strip Cinerama process, this promotional film is essentially an ad for Renault’s “new” car, the...

Dorothy Montgomery uses a Leybold tube to measure the curvature of the path of the electrons in a magnetic field and thus determine the mass of the...

short experimental animation from Spain

A look into different styles of dancing and how they have changed.

Photographed on the streets of New York, this film penetrates the world children create in their play. It shows children of varying ages and...

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

Educational film about how light and optics work.

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...

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

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

The life of Mariana de Jesus, Saint of Quito.

Featured artists: Yoshida Toshio; Kanayama Akira; Shiraga Kazuo; Shimamoto Shōzō

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

Tongue in cheek film begins with an American standing on Princess bridge narrating what sounds like a postcard to his mother while ogling at a...