1960 Movies

Released just months before the 1960 presidential election, this Ford Motor Company-sponsored short explains the electoral process and implores viewer...

This educational film explains how Earth-orbiting space platforms and lunar bases ("way stations") will serve a key role in the exploration of our sol...

Directed by Madhav Shinde.

A pine twig plays with a sunbeam and surveys the world. Next to him grows a girl-twig. Children's games are replaced by modest courtship. The wedding...

A look at Mittenwald in the Bavarian Alps, where violin making has been a traditional craft for 300 years.

One of the great number of fire's causes is a human factor. The lack of caution of the immediate producers, as well as of the persons in charge for th...

A true surrealist poem about love and desire, La femme image sparked a scandal despite its semi-clandestine distribution, because never before had a Q...

It is about the life of a peasant from the town of Nandaime who is in love with a girl, but the greatest local landowner wants to conquer her too and...

Banjarin is a 1960 hindi film drected by Jashawant Jhaweri and produced by Ratan. The film stars Manhar Desai, Lalita Kumari and Kanchan Kamini in the...

A film about the Solent with a look at the steam trains operating across the Isle of Wight.

Made by Sid Davis, a prolific director of social guidance films, this anti-smoking film takes a blunt, no-nonsense approach to smoking cessation, argu...

Short film by Allen Downs.

plasticine film animation about flying to space

Combining colour, animation and sound to clarify principles of radio-wave transmission, this film illustrates how antennas propagate radio waves.

Experimental short.

This footage is all that remains of the programme that was first transmitted in 1960. Sgt George Brown demonstrates training exercises in a wooded are...