1956
Organising Committee
#5
Once again a co-operation amongst various groups concerned with the cinema has made the Festival possible.
It has became the meeting place for everyone who is seriously interested in the film, and it is now firmly established in the cultural life of our community.
This year we have entered a new phase of consolidation developing the Festival within the general pattern evolved in earlier years.
It has always been the aim of the Festival to present the widest range of films from all parts of the world, especially those films which are unlikely to reach our local theatre screens.
On this occasion we are delighted to be ale to screen feature from thirteen countries, and all of them major productions. This contrasts with the rather restricted coverage available to us at earlier festivals. The growth in status of the Festival is further demonstrated by the action of three overseas Governments in officially entering films for exhibition.
We hope to continue our development and make the Melbourne Festival equal to the world best.
Introduction taken from the 1956 official guide
Films
Short
Australia Builds
Director
Australia
MIFF 1956
Feature
OTHELLO
Director Orson Welles
USA
MIFF 1956
Short
Down a Long Way
Director Bob Privett
UK
MIFF 1956
Short
Spring Comes to Sweden
Director Gosta Werner
Sweden
MIFF 1956
Short
The Bespoke Overcoat
Director Jack Clayton
UK
MIFF 1956
Feature
THE RATS
Director Robert Siodmak
West Germany
MIFF 1956
Feature
LONG PANTS
Director Frank Capra
USA
MIFF 1956
Feature
THE BANDIT
Director Limo Barreto
Brazil
MIFF 1956
Short
The Making of the River
Director
USA
MIFF 1956
Short
She Shall Be Called Woman
Director Gerard de Boe
Belgium
MIFF 1956
Short
The Rival World
Director Bert Haanstra
UK
MIFF 1956
Short
Black on White
Director John Read
UK
MIFF 1956
Feature
OLIVIA
Director Jacqueline Audry
France
MIFF 1956
Feature
ANIMAL FARM
Director John Halas, Joy Batchelor
UK
MIFF 1956
Feature
FIVE BOYS FROM BARSKA STREET
Director Aleksander Ford
Poland
MIFF 1956
Short
Circus
Director Wlodzimierz Haupe
Poland
MIFF 1956
Feature
SEVEN SAMURAI
Director Akira Kurosawa
Japan
MIFF 1956
Short
Cannibal Plants
Director Dr. U. K. T. Schultz
Germany
MIFF 1956
Short
Green Plants
Director Jan Calabek
Czechoslovakia
MIFF 1956
Short
Animal Friendships Under the Sea
Director Wiehelm Siem
Germany
MIFF 1956
Short
Mutton Birds of Bass Strait
Director R. R. Crispe, S. T. Evans
Australia
MIFF 1956
Short
The Waiting People
Director Norman Swallow
UK
MIFF 1956
Short
Cassino
Director Edmondo Albertini
Italy
MIFF 1956
Short
The New Chapter
Director
Germany
MIFF 1956
Short
View of Middleharnis
Director Charles Van der Linden
Netherlands
MIFF 1956
Feature
THE LAST BRIDGE
Director Helmut Kautner, Gustav Gavrin
Austria/Yugoslavia
MIFF 1956
Feature
THE ATONEMENT OF GOSTA BERLING
Director Mauritz Stiller
Sweden
MIFF 1956
Short
A is for Atom
Director Gerald Nevius
USA
MIFF 1956
Short
Tomorrow it will be Fine
Director A. Wawrzyniak
Poland
MIFF 1956
Short
The First in the World
Director Bogolepov
USSR
MIFF 1956
Short
The World That Nature Forgot
Director Lewis Jacobs
USA
MIFF 1956
Short
What is Art?
Director
USA
MIFF 1956
Short
The Colourful World of Otakar Nejedly
Director Jiri Lehovec
Czechoslovakia
MIFF 1956
Short
The Charms of Life
Director Jean Grémillon, Pierre Kast
France
MIFF 1956
Short
Star of Bethlehem
Director W. Doderlein
Germany
MIFF 1956
Short
Paintings of the New World
Director Gian Luigi Rondi
USA
MIFF 1956
Short
Giants in the Land
Director Victor Stalow
USA
MIFF 1956
Short
Power by Road
Director Jim Sterling
Australia
MIFF 1956
Short
Berth 24
Director J. B. Holmes
UK
MIFF 1956
Short
Singapore - The Emporium
Director
Malay
MIFF 1956
Short
Open Road
Director Arne Sucksdorff
Sweden
MIFF 1956
Short
Impressions of Japan
Director
USA/Japan
MIFF 1956
Short
The New India
Director
India
MIFF 1956
Short
Yukawa Story
Director Joseph Krumgold
USA
MIFF 1956
Short
William Booth
Director Hugh Baddeley
UK
MIFF 1956
Feature
THE PROUD PRINCESS
Director Borwoj Zeman
Czechoslovakia
MIFF 1956
Short
Palaeolithic Man
Director
UK
MIFF 1956
Short
Stonehenge
Director C. W. Bending
UK
MIFF 1956
Short
The Book and the Idol
Director Samuel Elfert
USA
MIFF 1956
Short
Aztecs
Director
USA
MIFF 1956
Short
The Reformation
Director
USA
MIFF 1956
Short
Shoot The Nets
Director Herman Van der Horst
Netherlands
MIFF 1956
Short
Soviet Whalers
Director I. Setkina
USSR
MIFF 1956
Feature
BUTTERFLY LOVERS
Director Sang Hu, Huang Sha
China
MIFF 1956
Short
Papageno
Director Lotte Reineger
Germany
MIFF 1956
Short
The Art of Judo
Director
Japan
MIFF 1956
Short
Balloonantics
Director Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline
USA
MIFF 1956
Short
Tom Schuler - Cobbler, Statesman
Director Dick Lundy
USA
MIFF 1956
Short
Bones of Building
Director Keith Gow, Jerome Levy
Australia
MIFF 1956
Short
The Coal Miner
Director Peter Dimond
Australia
MIFF 1956
Short
Wide West
Director Jenny Blackwood
Australia
MIFF 1956
Short
Shearing Time at Billabong
Director Frank Land
Australia
MIFF 1956
Feature
THE CHILDHOOD OF MAXIM GORKI
Director Mark Donskoi
USSR
MIFF 1956
Short
Hen Hop
Director Norman McLaren
Canada
MIFF 1956
Short
Momma Don't Allow
Director Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson
UK
MIFF 1956
Short
Bop Scotch
Director Jordan Belson
USA
MIFF 1956
Short
Bells of Atlantis
Director Ian Hugo
USA
MIFF 1956
Short
When the Pie was Opened
Director Len Lye
UK
MIFF 1956
Short
Parade
Director Charles Eames, Ray Eames
USA
MIFF 1956
Short
Un Chien Andalou
Director Luis Buñuel
France
MIFF 1956
Feature
TWO ACRES OF LAND
Director Bimal Roy
India
MIFF 1956
Short
Dong Kingman
Director James Wong Howe
USA
MIFF 1956
Short
Paintings Need Care
Director Stanislaw Lenartowicz
Poland
MIFF 1956
Short
The Jolifou Inn
Director Colin Low
Canada
MIFF 1956
Short
Jazz of Lights
Director Ian Hugo
USA
MIFF 1956
Short
Figures in a Landscape
Director Dudley Shaw Ashton
UK
MIFF 1956
Short
The Raven
Director Lewis Jacobs
USA
MIFF 1956
Short
Blood of the Beasts
Director Georges Franju
France
MIFF 1956
Short
Short Vision
Director Joan Foldes, Peter Foldes
UK
MIFF 1956
Short
Isle of the Dead
Director Norman McLaren
Canada
MIFF 1956
Short
Death is Mightier
Director Ernst Nesswer, Eduard Hammer
Austria
MIFF 1956
Feature
THREEPENNY OPERA
Director G. W. Pabst
Germany
MIFF 1956
