1961 Movies

A model of a proposed terminal which will serve a Channel Tunnel demonstrates the facilities it will offer and show the possibilities of a dry land cr...

With impressive shots, the film shows the situation at various sections of the Wall, the escape of a young border soldier, protest measures by West Be...

Synthetic rain; Camera-less film.

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

Documentary short directed by Gerald Cockson.

Short documentary about industry and landmarks in the Midlands.

Cheap exploitation flick

Based on a real life event, the story of a taxi driver who, after winning the lottery, leaves his wife for another woman who obsesses him.

Experimental animated short by Cioni Carpi based on the Mayan pictorial tradition.

Three children from different regions travel across the country to obtain a fellowship.

Direct paint on celluloid by Galician surrealist painter Eugenio Granell.

The director recounts his disastrous expedition to Antarctica.

An experimental mathematics film designed to elucidate the study of four-line conics.

A “Puppetoon” style retelling of the tragic tale of Orpheus and his lost love. It features a very vivid rendering of the Underworld, with Hades and Pe...

A film by Galician surrealist painter Granell made with two Japanese spinning tops. These were a present from Marcel Duchamp.