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A Family Circus Christmas

A Family Circus Christmas

1979 • 24 min • United States of America
The family is decorating their tree when Daddy notices the star his father made is missing. When Billy asks Mommy why this made Daddy sad, she tells him it's because the star was made by his father, their Granddad, who is in Heaven. Jeffy then has a vivid dream about Santa, and asks him in the dream to bring Granddad home from Heaven for Christmas to make Daddy happy again. When Billy learns that Jeffy thinks this really will happen, he is afraid that Jeffy's Christmas will be ruined, since Santa can't do that. Mommy tries to explain why it's not possible to Jeffy after Dolly tells her what Jeffy thinks, but he gets upset and doesn't want to hear it. That night, he gets a visit from Santa, and Granddad.
The Footloose Fox

The Footloose Fox

1979 • 30 min • United States of America
A wildlife adventure about a fox cub who teams with a badger to survive wilderness dangers.
Uncle Au in the City

Uncle Au in the City

1979 • 18 min • Soviet Union
Uncle Au is an usual wood goblin loving to frighten and misbehave. Once he woke up and surprised, how the world changed around. And even children now are not afraid of him.
Canada Vignettes: Don Messer - His Land and His Music - Don Messer 1910-1973

Canada Vignettes: Don Messer - His Land and His Music - Don Messer 1910-1973

1979 • 1 min • Canada
One of six Canada Vignettes from the NFB production Don Messer - His Land and His Music, featuring one of the principal performers, Don Messer, who has since passed away.
Slow Morning Rain

Slow Morning Rain

1979 • 30 min
A ceremonial healing film, with footage shot by William Moritz, Harry Frazier, Robert Curtis, Amy Halpern, Phil Stuart and FuDing Cheng, with additional camerawork by Pat O'Neill and Elfriede Fischinger. Music by Robert Curtis, Brian Eno and Tony Selvage. "I am fascinated by the theories of Italian Renaissance philosophers who maintained that a created image = a created event, and therefore all image-makers (and image exhibitors) are responsible for the karma of the subject matter in the pictures that create (or show); and furthermore, that various images have essentially detrimental or essentially salutary effects. The imagery is structured with an introductory sequence of hypnagogic, hypnogenic flashes, an invocation by the Three Graces of the Spirits of the Four Elements (Fire, Water, Earth and Air), and a holy ritual of Aether and ecstasy for the transmutation. Dedicated to the principle that everything exists all the time and always has and always will."
The Fate of Salmon

The Fate of Salmon

1979 • 10 min
A documentary about the short lives of Pacific salmon. In the autumn, salmon born in the pond have a single path and destiny. In the spring, those that have wintered in the river move downstream to adapt to brackish water before heading to the depths of the Pacific Ocean. When it’s time to reproduce, an instinct drives them back to their birthplace, where they must spawn in their native waters. There, in a final act of creation, they release the next generation, Both male and female find their end after spawning, leaving the cycle to begin anew.
The Flying Ship

The Flying Ship

1979 • 18 min • Soviet Union
Poor chimney sweep Ivan and Princess Zabava fall in love with each other. They dream of their future happy life, but the difference in their social status and the treacherous Polkan, who dreams of marrying a royal daughter and becoming a ruler, stand in their way. To avoid marriage with the royal adviser, Zabava informs that she will marry only the one who can build a flying ship. Now Ivan has to solve this problem by all means.
Mariana Alcoforado

Mariana Alcoforado

1979 • 37 min • Portugal
An adaptation of the renowned Portuguese Letters, originally written in French and attributed to Soror Mariana Alcoforado. As letters may have been written by Soror, in the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Conceição in Beja, to her lover Noel Bouton, Count of Chamilly.
Canada Vignettes: Alouette

Canada Vignettes: Alouette

1979 • 1 min • Canada
A story about two symbolic characters who sway to the song Alouette.
The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches

The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches

1979 • 15 min • United States of America
Wendy the witch has low self-esteem. She doesn’t believe she has any witch power until she makes a new friend who convinces her try something new.
Pink Lady's Spring Holidays

Pink Lady's Spring Holidays

1979 • 24 min • Japan
Short movie featuring Pink Lady
Quattro Delitti: Professione Farabutto

Quattro Delitti: Professione Farabutto

1979 • 60 min
Mario has just been released from prison for a crime he never acknowledged having committed. Back home, he once again crosses paths with the former friend who betrayed him. Tensions are high, tragedy is on the way.
Fogo, Fire Island

Fogo, Fire Island

1979 • 32 min • Cape Verde
Documentary about Cape Verde and the island of Fogo produced by the revolutionary government of the new country. A culture learning to live without tutelage.
Canada Vignettes: Riverdale Lion

Canada Vignettes: Riverdale Lion

1979 • 1 min • Canada
A visual interpretation of the poem "Riverdale Lion" by Canadian poet and essayist John Robert Colombo.
Canada Vignettes: Dance

Canada Vignettes: Dance

1979 • 2 min • Canada
The metamorphosis of a map of Canada into human forms who share the natural resources to the rhythm of a dance.
Q'eros: The Shape of Survival

Q'eros: The Shape of Survival

1979 • 50 min • United States of America
Exploration of the way of life of the Q’eros Indians of Peru, who have lived in the Andes for more than 3,000 years.
Uncle Au

Uncle Au

1979 • 19 min • Soviet Union
Soviet puppet cartoon trilogy basis on a fairytale story by Finnish writer Hannu Mäkelä.
Starzinger: The Nightmare of Energy

Starzinger: The Nightmare of Energy

1979 • 24 min
I’m Looking at Your Photo

I’m Looking at Your Photo

1979 • 9 min • Poland
A documentary film composed of private photographs taken from prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The authors use them to build a story, full of carelessness but also growing tension, about the end of the 1930s, the last days before the outbreak of war.
Pavane For A Missing Play

Pavane For A Missing Play

1979 • 36 min
Foreman spent the early months of 1979 rehearsing a play called Madness and Tranquility (My Head Was a Sledgehammer), which he abruptly cancelled very shortly before its scheduled opening. Film critic and longtime CalArts professor Berenice Reynaud documented those rehearsals and used the footage in this rarely screened essay film, which had long been considered lost. Miraculously, Anthology has recently rediscovered the original 16mm elements and has digitally restored the film for this occasion. A truly exciting find that presents the only known footage of an important, albeit lost, Foreman work.
Roger of the Raj

Roger of the Raj

1979 • 30 min
On the eve of the Great War Roger Bartlesham's aristocratic parents are firm believers in the Empire though Roger, encouraged by socialist Latin teacher Mr Hopper,dreams of equality and opening a tea shop with his sweet-heart Miranda. After a sojourn in India where various officers shoot themselves to atone for breaches in etiquette Roger gets caught up in Hopper's attempt to bring the Russian revolution to England but is rescued from the chaos by Miranda in time for them to pursue their dream.
Leeds Castle

Leeds Castle

1979 • 5 min
Fashions and pageantry put fabrics to the fore in this COI cinemagazine story filmed at Leeds Castle in Kent.
Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kōya Hijiri

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kōya Hijiri

1979 • 45 min • Japan
While on a pilgrimage, young monk Sōchō sees a waterfall turn blood-red, a sight villagers fear is the curse of a woman who drowned herself years ago. Ignoring their warnings, he ventures into the haunted Tenbu Pass to find a missing medicine seller. There, he encounters a stunning woman in a remote house, but anyone who touches her is transformed into an animal…
You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown

You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown

1979 • 23 min • United States of America
Charlie Brown, Marcie and Snoopy compete in the Junior Olympics' decathlon event.