1956 Movies

A short puppet animation movie by Tadahito Mochinaga.

This colourful archival record of Québec City’s Winter Carnival shows that many popular events of today—pageants, parades, boat races, folk dancing, f...

An educational short featuring Jiminy Cricket.

Innovations in computer technology as weapons in the Cold War.

Short documentary about the German subway.

Short film with sound by Rudy Burckhardt, assembled from the footage shot by Joseph Cornell for his own silent "Mulberry Street."

Part of BFI collection "On Yer Bike."

This short, evocative account of the poet's life is set among contemporary scenes of the people of south-west Scotland as they grow from children to m...

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

Directed by Geoff Busby.

An didactic, catholic film made for a Congolese audience by Belgian missionary and filmmaker André Cornil.

One in a series of films about the feats of Chinese folk hero, Wong Fei-hung. English title "How Huang Fei-hong Vanquished the Terrible Hound at Shami...

A popular science film on the physical properties of matter and nuclear physics, which simply and clearly presents complex phenomena. From Democritus...

Chronicles the life of the João-de-Barro bird.

A morning in the farm shown with a beautiful musical background.

A film on the methods used by the communists to indoctrinate and gain converts.