All Films

Fright Before Christmas

1979 • 6 min • United States of America

The Tasmanian Devil escapes from a plane and lands in Santa's suit. After taking off in Santa's sleigh he lands on Bugs' roof where he tries to eat everything in sight including the present Bugs got for him.

Kikos

1979 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The animated show is crafted based on Hovhannes Tumanyan's fairy tale with the same title.

First

1979 • 6 min • Soviet Union

An overweight sports fan runs a race to the finish...

Not Only Strangers

1979 • 23 min • United States of America

A college student is raped by an acquaintance, and struggles with reporting the incident.

The Daughters of Albion

1979 • 56 min

Three biscuit factory girls mix with students at a party.. Boozing, smoking, jaunty cross-talk and invitations to come to bed follow.

The Cheryl Ladd Special

1979 • 60 min • United States of America

A TV musical special starring Cheryl Ladd and her guest stars in various musical numbers and vignettes.

Justice - Uncle Sangi

1979 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Sharm's dog attacks a hostile neighbour, and has to make a decision for which he has no guide lines.

The Hollywood Clowns

1979 • 49 min • United States of America

Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history.

Emekli Başkan

1979 • 50 min • Turkey

The president, who believes that he caused an unjust execution because he complied with the presiding judge in the first death sentence he participated in, is re-investigating the incident after his retirement.

In Memoriam, or The Ballad of Reading Gaol

1979 • 30 min

A man in a Liverpool office conjures up the last hours of a condemned prisoner, in this reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s poem, given a non-naturalistic treatment using electronic effects and voiceover narration.

Oranging'79

1979 • 25 min • Japan

With the camera in love between them, the real Mayumi Mitome and the Mayumi in the film are in honest agreement, and there is a freshness to the film that leaves no room for the viewer to question or feel any directorial intent. In the last part of the film, Mayumi arrives at the beach of Enoshima and says, "I'm going to America to swim in this film," and as she changes into a bathing suit and jumps into the sea, she says, "She really went to America. When she changed into her bathing suit and jumped into the sea, the narrator said, "She really went to America, don't you believe me? The film is symbolized by her reply to the camera, "Yes!

Boys and Girls Together

1979 • 57 min • United Kingdom

Six members of a multi-cultural household in Hampstead, north London, explore their innermost fantasies

Cinématon n°44 : Michael Snow

1979 • 3 min • France

Portrait of Michael Snow

Version

1979 • 51 min • Hungary

A Hungarian Jew is forced to give a false testimony on his relatives in WW2 Hungary.

Follia come poesia

1979 • 40 min

Two years together by Le Nemesiache with the psychiatric patients of the former 'Frullone' hospital in Naples. This experience of music and dance had a profound impact on those who took part in it. This film is a testimony that indicates possible alternatives to the inhuman marginalization of the mental hospital institution. The director of the hospital Sergio Piro, operators and nurses from the 6th women's division and the Department for Youth Problems of Naples collaborated in the making of the film.

Good Humor

1979 • 7 min • United States of America

a Joe Ranft Cartoon

ABBA in Switzerland

1979 • 59 min • United Kingdom

ABBA star in their first European TV special, recorded on location in the Swiss Alps. Also featuring special guests Kate Bush and Roxy Music.

Life on the Line

1979 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Covers safety procedures in track maintenance work. Intended primarily for track maintenance staff and use on induction courses.

Zbigniew in Love

1979 • 4 min

UCLA Animation Workshop and University of Chicago Color Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. "An animated experimental film which is a comment on the perils of absorbed devotion. The main character, who enjoys creating shadow figures, becomes absorbed in the fantasy of a shapely female who assumes a reality for him, only to turn him into a shadowy substance that disappears"--OCLC worldcat.

Giufa

1979 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Film about Giufa, the spoon, who is lucky to find a great treasure.

Planet Mars

1979 • 29 min • United States of America

Something with the Telephone

1979 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Based on the fantastic story by Kir Bulychyov "Can You Ask for Nina?". Guests gathered in Vadim Nikolayevich’s apartment to celebrate the 1979's New Year with a cheerful company. The landlord unsuccessfully tries to reach his friend Nina. He, dialing a number, gets to a girl who is also called Nina. Her answers seem strange to Vadim Nikolayevich until he realizes that he is in some unusual way talking with a child from Moscow in 1942.

Dread Beat and Blood

1979 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Follows dub poet master Linton Kwesi Johnson out of the recording studio onto the Brixton streets.

Nightmare at Midsummer

1979 • 53 min • Norway

Businessman Henrik Lehmann and his wife Tove are spending the summer at their country house near Risør. The idyll is shattered by a sinister incident. An accident, or perhaps a crime? Police officer Sigurdson, who happens to be holidaying in the same place with colleague Mette, has a mystery to solve