1958 Short Movies

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Two Men and a Wardrobe(1958)

15min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 24 votes)

A short Polish black and white silent movie directed by Roman Polański. The film features two men who emerge from the sea carrying a large wardrobe, which they proceed to carry into a town. Carrying the wardrobe, the two encounter a series of hostile events, including being attacked by a group of youths (one of whom is played by Polanski himself). Finally, they arrive back at a beach and then disappear in the sea.

Directed by Roman Polanski - With Andrzej Kondratiuk, Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass, Roman Polanski, Stanisław Michalski

Robin Hood Daffy(1958)

| 6min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family

3.5/5 (with 43 votes)

Daffy attempts to convince Porky, as Friar Tuck, that he really is Robin Hood.

Directed by Chuck Jones

Knighty Knight Bugs(1958)

| 6min | Animation

3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

King Arthur's kingdom and the knights of the Round Table are in the doldrums since the Dark Knight stole the Singing Sword and put it under the protection of a fire-breathing dragon. The king's jester, Bugs Bunny, says only a fool would try to steal it back, so the king orders him to try. The jester boldly enters the Dark Knight's castle, initially catching his adversaries napping, but when the Singing Sword wakes the knight and the dragon, can Bugs complete his mission? He's a clever fool. A moat, portcullis, and catapult all figure in the face off.

Directed by Friz Freleng

Hare-Way to the Stars(1958)

| 6min | Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy, Science Fiction

3.5/5 (with 24 votes)

Bugs Bunny, groggy from a rabbit hangover, climbs out of his hole and into a rocket ship parked directly above. He thinks that he's still in his rabbit hole. Reaching the top, he unwittingly stows away aboard the rocket to Mars and is carried off by a satellite onto a futuristic landscape of panels suspended in outer space.

Directed by Chuck Jones

Schwechater(1958)

1min

2.3/5 (with 22 votes)

In 1957, Peter Kubelka was hired to make a short commercial for Schwechater beer. The beer company undoubtedly thought they were commissioning a film that would help them sell their beers; Kubelka had other ideas. He shot his film with a camera that did not even have a viewer, simply pointing it in the general direction of the action. He then took many months to edit his footage, while the company fumed and demanded a finished product. Finally he submitted a film, 90 seconds long, that featured extremely rapid cutting (cutting at the limits of most viewers' perception) between images washed out almost to the point of abstraction — in black-and-white positive and negative and with red tint — of dimly visible people drinking beer and of the froth of beer seen in a fully abstract pattern.

Directed by Peter Kubelka

Paul Bunyan(1958)

| 17min | Kids & Family, Animation

3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

A retelling of the classic Canadian / American tall tale of the enormous lumberjack and his loyal companion, an equally huge blue ox.

Directed by Les Clark - With Thurl Ravenscroft

Whoa, Be-Gone!(1958)

| 6min | Animation

3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

Wile E. Coyote's plans for catching the Road Runner involve a giant elastic spring, a gun and trampoline, TNT sticks in a barrel, and tornado seeds. The last of these schemes results in the Coyote being swept up by a twister and carried into a mine field.

Directed by Chuck Jones

Tot Watchers(1958)

| 6min | Comedy, Animation

3.0/5 (with 11 votes)

The lady of the house has gone out for a few hours, leaving her baby in the care of a stereotypical 1950s teenager, who immediately begins calling her friends. Tom and Jerry must call a truce to their constant chases as the baby, unsupervised, continually gets loose. When the baby escapes out the front door, Tom and Jerry chase it to a construction site, where they frantically try to keep it from harm.

Directed by William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

Cat Feud(1958)

6min | Animation

3.0/5 (with 13 votes)

Bulldog Marc Anthony is a guard at a construction site. He finds a kitten, Pussyfoot, to whom he affectionately gives a wiener for lunch. A hungry, grown cat sees the wiener and tries to take it from Pussyfoot. So, in defense of his kitten friend, Marc Anthony fights the cat on the steal beams of the partly constructed skeleton of a building.

Directed by Chuck Jones

Hook, Line and Stinker(1958)

6min | Animation, Comedy

3.3/5 (with 8 votes)

Wile E. Coyote hopes to catch the Road Runner using a mallet, a cooking pan, a TNT stick, a balloon, and a piano dropped from a precipice. The last of these results in Wile E. falling to the road below along with the piano and ending up with 88 teeth.

Directed by Chuck Jones

A Movie(1958)

12min

3.4/5 (with 18 votes)

Bruce Conner's landmark experimental film consisting entirely of found footage edited to a new score.

Directed by Bruce Conner

Véronique and Her Dunce(1959)

18min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Véronique gives a mathematics lesson to a dunce who answers the prepared questions with disconcertingly sound answers.

Directed by Éric Rohmer - With Nicole Berger

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Pre-Hysterical Hare(1958)

7min | Kids & Family, Animation

3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Bugs discovers a Micronesian Film Documentary in "Cromagnonscope" showing Elmer Fuddstone and a sabertooth bunny in 10,000 BC.

Directed by Robert McKimson

Feather Bluster(1958)

6min | Animation

2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Geriatrics Foghorn Leghorn and the barnyard dog recount their years of violent, mutual heckling, unaware that outside the window of their house their grandsons are behaving the same. The short is essentially a clip show, in that the majority of the footage is reused from earlier cartoons.

Directed by Robert McKimson

Weasel While You Work(1958)

6min | Animation

3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

Amid a snowy barnyard, Foghorn Leghorn deflects the carniverous attentions of a lip-smacking weasel.

Directed by Robert McKimson

Broadway by Light(1958)

| 11min

3.3/5 (with 8 votes)

William Klein’s first film is an impressionistic study of late-fifties Broadway, an ominous city-symphony lit by bright flickering light. Orson Welles would delcare it "the first film I've seen in which colour was absolutely necessary".

Directed by William Klein

Gopher Broke(1958)

6min | Animation

3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

The Goofy Gophers are about to harvest the vegetables on the farm when the farmhands beat them to the punch. Worried that their food source is being "vandalized," they follow the truck to the barn so they can recover what they consider to be their food.

Directed by Robert McKimson

A Bird in a Bonnet(1958)

6min | Animation

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

The chase continues between Tweety Bird and that persistant puddy tat, Sylvester. Tweety hides in a millinery store (where Granny happens to be shopping) and hides on a hat.

Directed by Friz Freleng

Hare-Less Wolf(1958)

| 7min | Animation, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

An absent-minded wolf sets out to catch Bugs for dinner but keeps forgetting what he was heading out to shoot in the first place.

Directed by Friz Freleng

A Pizza Tweety-Pie(1958)

6min | Animation

3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

Another wet and wild Sylvester Cat-Tweety Bird chase, this time in the flooded areas of Venice, Italy, where Granny has taken Tweety on vacation.

Directed by Friz Freleng

The Very Eye of Night(1958)

15min | Music

2.9/5 (with 16 votes)

Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield background. Their movements are accompanied by music scored for a small ensemble of woodwind and percussion.

Directed by Maya Deren

Hip Hip-Hurry!(1958)

6min | Animation

3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Wile E. Coyote is once again after the Road Runner, this time resorting to hand grenades, dynamite, falling rocks and a speed potion (which contains vitamins R, P and M).

Directed by Chuck Jones

Now, Hare This(1958)

| 7min | Animation, Comedy

3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Big Bad Wolf and his little nephew try to trap Bugs Bunny by making like fairy tale characters.

Directed by Robert McKimson

Tortilla Flaps(1958)

7min | Animation, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

A hungry crow intrudes on a party honoring Speedy Gonzales, Mexico's fastest mouse, and tries to catch and eat some of Speedy's friends. Speedy leads the crow on a frustrating and violent chase that demoralizes the crow into surrendering and joining in Speedy's party, as the center of a dart board, and the target of a ball-throw.

Directed by Robert McKimson

Don't Axe Me(1958)

6min | Animation

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Farmer Elmer Fudd agrees to provide a duck to his wife for dinner. Daffy Duck has been a moocher on Elmer's farm and has therefore not endeared himself to Fudd or to Fudd's dog.

Directed by Robert McKimson

Amelia and the Angel(1958)

26min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

A young girl (Amelia) is distressed and feeling guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. Then she notices an angel and follows the angel into a dark building. Upstairs in the attic, bathed in heavenly light, is an artist's model - the ANGEL. The painter ascends a ladder until he is out of shot - supposedly to heaven-and reappears to restore Amelia's joy with a pair of wings.

Directed by Ken Russell

The Little Island(1958)

33min | Animation

3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Depicts the dreams, ideas, and struggles of three men (representing "truth," "beauty," and "good") who settle on a tiny island.

Directed by Richard Williams

Chew Chew Baby(1958)

7min | Animation

A cannibal wreaks havoc in Cincinnati.

Directed by Isadore Sparber

The Quest(1958)

36min | Drama

This short film is a re-enactment of the critical year in Dr. Frederick Banting's life when he discovered insulin for the treatment of diabetes at the University of Toronto. It depicts the odds against which he and his assistant, Charles Best, worked; the scepticism of other doctors and the final victory that gave thousands of diabetics hope for a healthier life.

Directed by Stanley Jackson

The Living Stone(1959)

34min

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

The Living Stone is a 1958 Canadian short documentary film directed by John Feeney about Inuit art. It shows the inspiration behind Inuit sculpture. The Inuit approach to the work is to release the image the artist sees imprisoned in the rough stone. The film centres on an old legend about the carving of the image of a sea spirit to bring food to a hungry camp. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Directed by John Feeney

1958 Short Movies

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Two Men and a Wardrobe(1958)

Robin Hood Daffy(1958)

Knighty Knight Bugs(1958)

Hare-Way to the Stars(1958)

Schwechater(1958)

Paul Bunyan(1958)

Whoa, Be-Gone!(1958)

Tot Watchers(1958)

Cat Feud(1958)

Hook, Line and Stinker(1958)

A Movie(1958)

Véronique and Her Dunce(1959)

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Pre-Hysterical Hare(1958)

Feather Bluster(1958)

Weasel While You Work(1958)

Broadway by Light(1958)

Gopher Broke(1958)

A Bird in a Bonnet(1958)

Hare-Less Wolf(1958)

A Pizza Tweety-Pie(1958)

The Very Eye of Night(1958)

Hip Hip-Hurry!(1958)

Now, Hare This(1958)

Tortilla Flaps(1958)

Don't Axe Me(1958)

Amelia and the Angel(1958)

The Little Island(1958)

Chew Chew Baby(1958)

The Quest(1958)

The Living Stone(1959)

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