Best 26 Short Movies Worth Watching Released in 1966

In a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail. Get info on Les escargots / IMDB / YouTube

A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, save one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based around Bishop Berkeley's principle 'esse est percipi' (to be is to be perceived), Keaton's very existence conspires against his efforts Details on Film / IMDB / YouTube

A Noh dramatization of the suicides of Lt. Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko. After participating in a failed 1936 coup and being ordered to execute his friends, he bids his wife an intimate farewell and commits harakiri. More about Patriotism / IMDB / YouTube

When his team is offered membership in the Little League, Charlie Brown finds he must make a difficult moral decision. Explore Charlie Brown's All Stars! / IMDB / YouTube

The insane government bureaucracy at a state pension window. More about The Office / IMDB / YouTube

Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters her counterpart, Sari, and falls in love with...a vampire? Details on Emotion / IMDB / YouTube

An examination of the lifestyles of female college students in 1966. Explore A Modern Coed / IMDB / YouTube

Daffy Duck's nephew is convinced he has seen a witch while trick-or-treating at an old house. So, Daffy goes to the house to investigate. Meanwhile, Witch Hazel has decided to take a vacation and uses drugged cheese to turn Speedy Gonzales into her look-alike to mind the house while she's gone. Daffy arrives, meets Speedy in Witch Hazel form, and is invited inside by . Details on A-Haunting We Will Go / IMDB / YouTube

A homebody hobbit finds himself going on a quest to save a dwarven treasure from a dragon in this loose adaptation of the classic novel. Info on The Hobbit / IMDB / YouTube

A psychiatrist, referred to only as Doctor, is living alone in a snowy field surrounded by pine woods. When a former patient named Ralph appears, the Doctor is distraught. Ralph has been following him obsessively. Look into Transfer / IMDB / YouTube

The story of a poet's (Louis Aragon) love for his wife, the writer Elsa Triolet. Details on Elsa la rose / IMDB / YouTube

Wile E. Coyote finds a spy kit and uses its contents (sleeping gas, a mail bomb, explosive putty, and a gadget-filled spy car) in his unsuccessful attempt to catch the Road Runner. Check out Sugar and Spies / IMDB / YouTube

Wile E. Coyote uses scrap metal from a dump to build a huge, mechanical likeness of himself, and uses this robot to chase the Road Runner. It ends up as just another pile of scrap. Read about The Solid Tin Coyote / IMDB / YouTube

Journalists from all over America meet Marlon Brando in a New York hotel room to interview him about his new film, Morituri. Seeing this as an opportunity to let the legendary actor promote the film, they find Brando unwilling to talk about it, instead he is more interested in larking about and turning on the charm when being interviewed by Bobbi Johnson (a reporter f. Find out about Meet Marlon Brando / IMDB / YouTube

This film consists of alternating black and white frames. Info on The Flicker / IMDB / YouTube

Wile E. Coyote uses a chemistry set to try and catch the Road Runner. He mixes chemicals to yield invisible paint, a bouncy outer skin, and a jet-powered spray can, none of which are successful. Details on Clippety Clobbered / IMDB / YouTube

Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner using a skateboard, a hunting falcon, two doves tied to his feet, a hot rod, a wind sail, and glue stuck on the road. The last scheme ends with himself becoming stuck in the glue and flattened by a steam roller driven by the Road Runner. See more about Out and Out Rout / IMDB / YouTube

Wile E. Coyote uses suction cups, a tennis net, TNT sticks on a rope, a skateboard, helium gas, and a bomb in his unsuccessful attempts to catch the Road Runner. Learn about Shot and Bothered / IMDB / YouTube

Amateur journalist Buster covers a story about construction site safety regulations and gets first-hand experience in the process. Info on The Scribe / IMDB / YouTube

Jonas Mekas' elegant report on a Poughkeepsie police department's raid of Timothy Leary's base-of-operations amply demonstrates the political potential of his diary filmmaking. The film's protest is lodged in the disjunction between sound and image, with Mekas' intimate, idyllic footage of the Millbrook property undercutting audio of the sheriff's fear-mongering ratio. Read about Report from Millbrook / IMDB / YouTube

THE FOUR ELEMENTS is a poetic and avant-garde documentary Curtis Harrington made for the United States Information Agency. Check out The Four Elements / IMDB / YouTube

A woman has a brief amorous liaison while on a trip along the South of France to Saint Tropez, but returns disillusioned. Info on Road to Saint Tropez / IMDB / YouTube

Documentary examining the work of sculptor Richard Lippold, particular his sculpture of the sun at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Explore The Sun and Richard Lippold / IMDB / YouTube

Though lesser known than Leni Riefenstahl's OLYMPIA or Kon Ichikawa's TOKYO OLYMPIAD, Santiago Alvarez's tribute to Cuba's sporting triumphs is no less breathtaking. A ship of athletes training on the rough seas becomes a symbol of Castro's Cuba, the games projected on the backdrop of political struggle: This is the story of a ship and of a sports delegation whom the. Read about Cerro Pelado / IMDB / YouTube

This instructional film teaches parents how to talk to their children about sex. See more about Parent to Child About Sex / IMDB / YouTube

The Web of Love is the Invalid ranked movie in 1966 short list. Read about The Web of Love / IMDB / YouTube