1958 Movies

Randomly spliced pieces of a newsreel featuring notable news from 1946.

Metaphor on the massacre with the help of diverted images and a very varied soundtrack. The soundtrack was added in 1962.

Chen San is a very lazy hunter who often lies under a big tree and sleeps. One day, he saw the old hunter go hunting and got up to accompany him. At f...

Yang Min, a county party committee secretary, goes against superstition and leads a prospecting team to Baoshan to look for iron ore.

"An 80-year-old priest who religiously reads L´Equipe because of his commitment to cycling is a good start to a film. If, in addition, that priest is...

Short film on Donosti (Basque country)

A documentary about Eskimos in northern Alaska made by the Ommidvar Brothers on their travels around the world

The short film is the earliest surviving Japanese anime broadcast on television. Originally airing on July 14, 1958, on NTV and again on October 15, 1...

An abstract animation made for L'Oreal.

Introducing the giant four-track tape cartridge, an obsolete consumer recording format that survived for eight years.

Dramatizes the work of the Department of Health in dealing with unsanitary living conditions, accidents, contagious disease and the danger of contamin...

Attention is drawn to the interesting chemical structure of water and then to its amazing life-sustaining properties.

Children watch Siamese fighting fish and the Egyptian mouth breeder in aquariums. They witness the reproductive processes of these fish.

Functions of the human body explained with special emphasis on the senses of sight and hearing and the individual's responsibility to care for the hou...

Brilliant application demonstrations. The goofy world of fifties' education. Explains what flannel boards are, how they are made and how they may be u...

Depicts a primary-grade youngster who becomes willing to work with numbers after he spends a day without numbers. Emphasizes the many daily uses for n...