Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater is bringing back eight 1950s rock flicks, newly restored from the vaults of Columbia Pictures.

The plots aren’t much, but the vintage music – by pioneers such as Bill Haley and His Comets, Chubby Checker, the Platters and Gene Vincent – is timeless.

This weekend’s fare includes “Rock Around the Clock” (1956), which affords a look at Alan Freed, the ill-fated deejay (he got caught in a payola scandal) who coined the phrase rock ‘n’ roll; and “Don’t Knock the Rock” (1956), in which the self-styled “queen” of R&R, Richard Penniman (a.k.a. Little Richard) gets down with “Tutti Frutti” and “Long Tall Sally.”

Tomorrow through Aug. 8 at Lincoln Center, 65th Street and Broadway; (212) 875-5600, http://www.filmlinc.com.