1964 Movies

Reel 24, Test #9

This short film tells the tale of the men who drove big freighter canoes into the wilderness in the days when the fur trade was Canada's biggest busin...

One of two(?) 1964 screen tests of Linich. Runs 4 minutes, 24 seconds in length.

Taking advantage of a new government education program, a farmworker trains for a better-paying job as a welder.

A documentary produced by Histadrut about Kibbutz Tel Katzir. Although modest in size, Tel Katzir stands in the center of a border conflict between I...

Orange is a randomly generated montage consisting of visual and verbal associations that can be evoked by the image and notion of an orange.

The tattoos of two men lying on a beach come to life, and start playing tricks on the surrounding bathers.

Hector is operating a rolling store in Indian territory. He ends up having to smoke a peace pipe in order to save his scalp.

Study of the present state of bookmakers in England, their possible future, and competition represented by the tote.

Little Walk (1964) is Michael Snow’s first gallery film installation. It arrives as a diplomatic envoy from New York’s art and film worlds of the sixt...

A young man at the beach wearing a crucifix tries to put on his Argentina's national football team t-shirt but it suffocates him

Before music videos, there were scopitones (a popular music jukebox/viewing machine). This is a strangely homoerotic scopitone featuring the French si...

Paradoxically described by Walter Sorell as "a tender lullaby of love" and by Richard Buckle as "cold and menacing, the courtship of the Macbeths," Ni...

A little boy swings, breaks sticks, looks up into the sky, himself a cherub, while on the soundtrack Chad and Jeremy sing "and if a hundred boys shoul...

A young man smokes a cigarette and then uses a surgeon scalpel to wound his thigh.

Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan was one of the foremost musicians of Hindustani music and was regarded as the best representative of the Patiala Gharana. P...

American Industrial Film. A Pontiac and a competitor are put to a 24-hour speed test on a racetrack to see which fares better.

You must have passed through here at least once, says the voiceover commentary during the opening shots of this film. We learn that express trains pas...

A look at Britain's nursery schools.