1959 Movies

A British Transport Film.

Polish Film Chronicle was famous for its style, resembling a report, and for its witty commentaries. This special edition is about dogs and the voiceover was recorded by Kazimierz Rudzki.

Early Shaw Brothers Cantonese musical

Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Bicentennial Association to celebrate the city’s 200th anniversary, PITTSBURGH was created by a team of filmmakers that included Stan Brakhage (working under the pseudonym James Stanley),Weegee, Len Lye, and Stan Vanderbeek, and...

A short documentary about the town of Stockport

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at advances in the treatment of infectious diseases.

1959 Jim Davis short

A society of friendly frogs is terrorized by Danbei, a frog with his slingshot, and the only thing that might challenge his mischief is a mysterious gourd.

The Urdu film Himmat (1959) was directed by Amin Malik.

A Bollywood adventure movie.

Organic forms are beating and resorbing, reflections dance to the rhythm of Henk BADINGS 'music, circles of light flash like disturbing eyes, perpetual metamorphoses evoke a great living and throbbing organism.

The Taiwanese Hokkien film released in 1959

The film is about Necdet trying to find his sister Selman. Necdet and Selman haven't seen each other in eleven years. Selman invites Necdet to Istanbul. Necdet sets off from Bursa to Istanbul with his close friend Abdi. When the two friends arrive in Istanbul,...

Mixes the grim facts about inflation, rising costs, the national debt and the shrinking dollar.