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- Windjammer, the first presentation in CINEMIRACLE, is the record of a training cruise of the full-rigged S/S Christian Radich from Oslo across the Atlantic, through the Caribbean, to New York and back home again.
- A witty examination of life and culture in Siberia.
- The wildlife of the arctic is explored in this true-life adventure.
- Documentary showing the struggles of the inhabitants--both human and animal--of what was then called the Belgian Congo.
- Documentary with recordings from the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
- 1950's television documentary special that includes interviews with Hitler's sister Paula Wolf and a fellow prisoner who was incarcerated with Hitler, actual footage shot by the Nazi's and Eva Braun's rare home movies.
- Surfers Henry Ford, Freddy Pfhaler, Kemp Aaberg, Del Cannon, and Dick Thomas decide to leave California so they can embark on a dream trip to Hawaii. While in Hawaii the carefree quintet ride all kinds of waves at various top Hawaiian surfing spots and live together in a rundown shack on the North Shore of Oahu on only a hundred dollars a day.
- In 1930, a group of three Russians - Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Alexandrov, and Eduard Tisse - began an ambitious film in Mexico. A year later the backers halted the project before filming was complete.
- On water reconnaissance with dowsing people. Is it natural gifts, divine knowledge or self-suggestion? Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, grave-sites, and many other objects and materials without the use of scientific apparatus. Dowsing is considered a pseudoscience and there is no scientific evidence that it is any more effective than random chance.
- The film presents how the human body recognizes and becomes aware of its surroundings. The various information pathways to the brain such as sight, sound, smell, taste and touch are explored in a accurate but simple manner via human impression and cartoon characters!
- Documentary telling the story of the 1958 FIFA World Cup (Association Football). The tournament, held in Sweden, was won by Brazil for the first time in their history, and is also notable for being the debut on the world stage of Pelé at the age of 17.
- The narrator states, 'This is a documentary fantasy', in the prologue. The film is edited into four segments: 1) 'The Snow Queen', featuring the Bolshoi Ballet and a tour of Siberia; 2) 'A Fairy Tale of Wonderous Transformations', featuring Galina Ulanova and the Ukrainian Folk and Dance Ensemble; 3) a tour of Red China, with performances by the Peking Classical Opera Company; 4) a visit to Expo '58 (The Burssels' Worlds Fair), the Piatnitsky State Chorus.
- The film is structured as a vaudeville show, with the sounds of a band and a live audience. In between strip-tease dancers, comics Edward Innes and John Maloney entertain, sometimes with Jean Carter. She also gets to sing risqué songs. Ray Vaughn plays bottles and washboard with pans; Dot Hackley does rope tricks; and, Jacqueline Hurley, in scanty attire, performs contortions.
- Carlo Lizzani spent ten months as a filmmaker and researcher in China, to make the first feature-length documentary film by a Western director in a nation that at the time was considered almost like a fairy-tale land by Westerners.
- About the way of life in the East, in China, during the months before spring. An early spring.
- Live transmission of a grand gala show at Tivolis Koncertsal launching the Danish Dairy Board's new "Karoline" brand and the largest ever marketing push for dairy products backed by the government and national health authorities . Opening speakers including prime minister H.C. Hansen. Ballet sequence: Royal Ballet dancers. Quiz-show: "20 spørgsmål til professoren". Choir concert: Radiodrengekoret. Cabaret: Ko-Optimisterne.
- The Soviet Union's version of Cinerama where the cameras tour parts of Moscow and show buildings, streets and people. Followed by forests, fields, rivers, a visit by a jet plane to the Ukraine, and an oil town on the Caspian Sea. And farming in Siberia, an agricultural exhibition, the Carpathia Mountains, a ride down a river on a raft, a tour by air of the Causasus, a car trip, a festival and a costume ball.