1957 Movies

Short by Robert Vickrey.

Short film by Robert Vickrey.

A boy learns the connection between good manners and healthful eating.

A girl learns how to look after her younger brother.

Two young children spend a summer weekend at the lake with their parents, aunt and uncle.

A skimpy plot---hunting for sunken treasure in the waters of Florida and Haiti--- tied mostly to some underwater scenes shot in the safety of Cypress...

This video was produced by Fr. Patrick Peyton, the famous “Family Rosary Crusade” priest. It is a full-scale drama of the Joyful mysteries of the Rosa...

Tells about two children who eagerly await the birth of a family of kittens. Covers an eight-week span, showing the kittens being born, learning to cr...

1950's road safety short film.

Educational short

Driven by his attraction to Layonsari, the King orders his adopted son, Jayaprana, who is Layonsari's husband, to go far away to battle insurgents. Me...

Africa and Schweitzer is a rarely-seen, excellent documentary made while Albert Schweitzer was still alive. Narrated by Lowell Thomas and photographed...

1957 Jim Davis short

1957 Jim Davis short

Short experimental film from Spanish-Parisian art collective Equipo 57. Bright abstract paintings fill the screen, the illusion of motion or character...

Propaganda short made by the French army about French women helping Algerian families.

Joseph Cornell film from 1957, color

Part of BFI collection "On Yer Bike."

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."