All Films

Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised

1997 • 60 min • United Kingdom

The Doctor is everyone’s favourite Time Lord. And Tom Baker is everyone’s favourite Doctor. With his manic grin, his wild hair and his mile long scarf, Baker became the definitive Doctor. His wicked sence of humour and naturally gentle personality added whole new dimensions to the character. This video includes a highly revealing interview with Baker that’s never been seen on television or video. Margarita in hand, he soaks up the California sunshine and talks openly about his time as the Doctor.

Red monster

1997 • 1 min

Short animated film presented at Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy in 1997 by the students of GOBELINS, l'école de l'image.

Hassan Hussen

1997 • 7 min • Kyrgyz Republic

Aktan Abdykalikov's simple, clear-eyed poetry finds an elemental form here. Two twin brothers are walking down the road carrying a pail of water, they fight and come to blows, and a bemused older man intervenes and sets them back on their way. It's that simple and it's that lovely. A graduate of the Art School of Kyrghyzstan, Aktan Abdykalyko (or Abdikalikov) first worked as a set designer for Kirgisfilm. After several well-received documentaries and short films, his first feature-length fiction film, Beshkempir, won several awards including the Silver Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival.

Spf 2000

1997 • 11 min • United States of America

In this hilarious homage to 1970's Italian sexploitation films, Pucci and JJ sunbathe by a creek, bored, until they spot Gretchen and her delectable son, Kip. They all become quick friends and rub sun protection lotion on each other, when suddenly an alien named Suroh appears. This visitor offers a more potent sunscreen, SPF 2000, to be shared by the entire human race, in light of the earth's decreasing ozone layer. Suroh learns the sensual aspects of applying lotion to human bodies, starting with them.

New Day

1997 • 50 min

A dramatic story that happened during the summer haymaking season to ordinary Yakut people

The Art of Illusion: 100 Years of Hollywood Special Effects

1997 • 50 min • United States of America

A history of movie magic from 1895 to 1995, showing primitive effects used in such films as "A Trip to the Moon" up to the state of the art effects used in "Apollo 13" and "The Abyss."

Myth Makers 38: The Directors Vol. 1 - Christopher Barry and Paul Bernard

1997 • 55 min • United Kingdom

Directing any television programme is demanding enough, Doctor Who brings its own special challenges. Between them, Christopher Barry and Paul Bernard have directed thirteen stories in the BBC TV series and worked with four Doctors. Here, in this special Myth Makers, they talk about their careers in television and share memories of working on Doctor Who. Since recording his interview Paul Bernard has sadly died. This production is respectfully dedicated to him.

Sing Along With Frank Woehrle

1997 • 30 min • United States of America

Musician and singer Frank Woehrle performs ten classic songs and you can sing along too! Featuring guest vocalist Linda Kilty.

All Visitors Must Be Announced: The Lives and Loves of Doormen in New York City

1997 • 52 min

One chooses to have a doorman mainly for practical reasons and safety. The friendly smile every time you arrive at or leave your building is a pleasant extra that makes the sometimes lonely life in this big city somewhat more bearable. The presence of the doorman appears to be hardly noticed. In most cases however he knows more about his residents than they would like to believe.

bp: pushing the boundaries

1997 • 60 min

In this award-winning documentary, filmmaker Brian Nash has created a tapestry of style and content as he reveals the essence of the late Canadian poet bpNichol, author of over 300 publications including books of poetry and fiction, sound recordings, television scripts, libretti and comic strips.

Classic Striptease and Glamour Films 21

1997 • 56 min

SWEATER GIRLS 4 tasty TITBITS, the famous VIRGINIA BELL calisthenics film with upside down jiggles and slo-mo bounce, the golden globes of JANE REYNOLDS, 3 CHERRIE KNIGHT peel downs and 3 definitive HONEY BEE strips induding her very earliest appearance pre-augmentation, and the later enhanced Ver.44E.

Yours

1997 • 3 min • United States of America

An animated short film created by the artist Jeff Scher.

Little Bear: Family Tales

1997 • 34 min

4 Family Tales

Monkeys. The First Aid

1997 • 10 min • Russia

The seventh story in the "Monkeys" series

Fanny Farveløs

1997 • 23 min • Denmark

Fanny is a little pale faced girl with tangled hair. She wakes one miserable day to find she has 'fake' measles. Reluctantly she is sent to a nurse and to her surprise her day turns into a fantastic fairy tale.

Manu: Peru's Hidden Rain Forest

1997 • 53 min • United States of America

Along the eastern edge of the Peruvian Andes runs a river called the Manu, the heart of one of the world's largest and most pristine rain forest parks in the world: Manu National Park and Biosphere Reserve. Filmed over several years, "Living Edens Manu" chronicles some of Manu's extraordinary inhabitants-a giant Harpy Eagle family that preys upon monkeys and sloths so that their chick can successfully fledge, jaguars, Giant Otters, 20-foot caimans (relatives of the alligator), tree sloths, anteaters, brilliantly-plumaged macaws, Howler, Squirrel, and Spider Monkeys, and tapir.

Rich People Are Weird

1997 • 2 min • Russia

The film tells the story of a little dog who prefers life on the streets to living in a luxurious palace.

The Best of Abbott & Costello Live

1997 • 58 min

"He-e-ey Abb-o-o-o-tt!!" screamed Lou. And all America knew the fun was about to begin. For decades, lanky straight man Bud Abbott and tubby spark plug Lou Costello brought the knock about outrageousness of vaudeville to Hollywood... and uncontrolled laughter to millions. Chances are you already know the duo from the widely-syndicated The Abbott & Costello Show. Now see these two comedy greats as you've never seen them before in this inspired, exclusive hour-long assortment of timeless good times culled from Bud and Lou's appearances as host on network TV variety hours. Preserved originally on kinescope and available here for the first time in nearly 25 years, this fast, funny unforgettable lineup of more than 29 classic Abbot & Costello skits and manic moments will have you in stitches over "Who's on First?"- and keep you looking forward to what's up next.

Cette télévision est la vôtre

1997 • 60 min • France, Portugal

Over a period of several months, director and writer Mariana Otero has been looking through the uncompromising lens of her camera at the realities of life behind the scenes at a commercial TV station: the Portuguese channel SIC.

Forest Tales

1997 • 15 min • Belarus

A poetic tale directed by Elena Petkevich for children on a small grasshopper, which is trying to learn the secret of life.

The Birth of Light

1997 • 5 min • Iran

One shot, taken using a time-lapse technique, of a sunrise in an Iranian mountain landscape. A thin band of light shines across a starry sky, the sun comes up, the dawn light glows.

Evil of Dracula

1997 • 2 min • United States of America

Short by Martha Colburn.

Face to Face

1997 • 50 min

US-Documentary on Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee

A Speck on the Eyelash

1997 • 34 min • Israel

Can Fear be a self fulfilling prophecy? A husband, a wife and their best friend return from a ski vacation. The husband suspects that his wife has fallen in love with the friend. He confronts his friend rather than his wife. The friend dismisses the accusation. Is he lying? and if not, how will these doubts affect him, and will he view the wife differently from now on? And the wife: Is she indeed in love? if so, will she do something about it? If not, will she sense the suspicions around her? could she not? And the husband: should he discover that he was wrong, would he be able to stop that which he had begun with mere words? An anxiety that settled in the mind of one, takes over his life and rocks the lives of two