All Films

The Stranglers: The Raven Tour live in Paris

1979 • 23 min • France

The Stranglers perform live at Théâtre de l’Empire in Paris 1979.

Caninabis

1979 • 10 min • Canada

Driven by his love of cannabis, a street dog displays incredible promise for the drug squad when he chases down a local dealer. He makes headlines worldwide as he takes on smugglers and crime lords. But when his drug habit and his work inevitably collide, a clear message emerges: dogs and cannabis don't mix.

Film (A Screenplay by Samuel Beckett)

1979 • 26 min

A man attempts to remain hidden from view from the camera and other eyes.

Coppélia

1979 • 14 min

With music by Delibes, Frantz the photographer is trapped by the terrible Dr. Coppelius who intends to use him in his experiments to bring to life the clockwork doll Coppélia.

Greve

1979 • 37 min • Brazil

A documentary about the 1979 workers strike.

Canada Vignettes: Woolly Mammoth

1979 • 1 min • Canada

An animated film showing a woolly mammoth and its offspring. These animals lived on the Canadian tundra over ten thousand years ago.

Germs: Caught In My Eye

1979 • 40 min

This captures a performance of Los Angeles punk icons, Germs, performing live at The Whiskey A Go-Go . The remaining portion of the film are taken from The Decline of the Western Civilization.

Canada Vignettes: Ma Chère Albertine

1979 • 5 min • Canada

This short film from the Canada Vignettes series depicts the Montreal of 1905-1910 with hand-painted vintage postcards.

U.E. Wells

1979 • 18 min • United States of America

U.E. Wells follows an organizing drive by the United Electrical Workers Union at the Wells Foundry in Chicago. The multi-ethnic work force of Polish, Arab, Jewish, Hispanic and African American men and women unite together despite the company's efforts to use race as a wedge to divide them.

Do It With Joy

1979 • 27 min

British Columbia has a reforestation program to restock vast tracts of land stripped by logging companies. DO IT WITH JOY is about a unique community: a group of people from widely varying backgrounds who come together each spring to plant trees in the vast logged areas of northern British Columbia. For all of them, tree planting is a source of income, but more importantly it is a chance to share in the building of a self-sufficient community for the few months of the planting season.

Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy in the Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile

1979 • 30 min

Aunt Agatha threatens to call the police on innocent trick-or-treaters. Her nephew, Ralph, would love to be out with them. But what he wants most of all is a pumpkin. From across the street, Raggedy Ann and Andy watch the drama unfold. Andy is furious at Agatha for preventing the boy from enjoying the wonderful, horrible holiday. Ann, with her irritating insistence on fairness, decides that Agatha has merely forgotten what it's like to be young. The pressing matter ahead is getting Ralph a pumpkin. Andy scoffs at the idea of finding one at this late date. Ann reasons that if there's a little boy who needs a pumpkin, there must be a pumpkin who needs a little boy. She's right. Not far away, a miserable pumpkin is blubbering out pumpkin seed-tears because no one wants him for Halloween.

Bourbon Street Blues

1979 • 26 min • Germany

An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Lady Larkspur Lotion" created by Douglas Sirk with the assistance of his film students and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It depicts the conflict between a dreamy, delusional heroine and her brusque, practical landlady, who wants to kick her out of her apartment.

Hela långa dagen

1979 • 47 min • Sweden

A single mother unable to find someone to look after her youngest son Tobben gets her older son Pingo to look after him for the day.

The Making of the Wizard of Oz

1979 • 30 min • United States of America

The time was 1938. The place, Hollywood. This is the story of one of the 456 films made that year, how it was made, and why it has endured.

The Reflecting Pool

1979 • 7 min • United States of America

Viola's seminal piece, The Reflecting Pool, was made three decades ago on analogue video tape and yet could easily pass for a contemporary digital piece; in it, Viola emerges as central protagonist from a thick forest into a clearing filled by an artificial pool. As the noise of an aeroplane slowly passes and fades overhead, Viola approaches the edge of the pool, whereby he removes his shoes, squats down yelling and then prepares to make a powerful jump.

Queen of the Blues

1979 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A seedy striptease club in London's West End becomes the target for unpleasant crooks.

Intô na onna: Otoko o sosoru

1979 • 60 min • Japan

Sibylle

1979 • 13 min • France

A movie collector buys a short film titled "Sibylle", showing a young woman, very beautiful, enigmatic, in the Funicular of Montmartre, in Paris. But this reel has something strange which will develop in a mysterious and disturbing way.

Franzmann

1979 • 47 min • Germany

Germany, 1937. Paul v. Kammer has lived with his grandfather in Germany for ten years. He has just finished school and faces a difficult decision: his mother, who is French, urges him to leave Germany and start university in France; his grandfather, on the other hand, demands that he enter into the family business, which would also mean conscription for Paul. Only one day left to make his decision. Paul meets his friend Max. A decisive day. Two friends and a girl in the summer of 1937.

Canada Vignettes: Instant French

1979 • 1 min • Canada

This film promotes, in the best K-Tel tradition, a new device used to speak French.

The Magic Ring

1979 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Vanya has no money at all, and he gave away his last piece of clothing to save some poor animals. Now he has a cat, a dog, and a snake living in his house. But it turns out that the snake is the king's daughter, so she gave him a magic ring as a gift for saving her. Now Vanya can wish for anything he wants, and his wish will come true!

Gymnastics for the Tail

1979 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Parrot teaches Elephant, Marmoset and Boa to do charging.

T.v.o.

1979 • 7 min • Venezuela

Television is one of the themes in T.V.O., which tells the story of a lonely woman’s interaction with the contraption. “The dog is no longer man’s best friend; now it’s television,” Castillo said in a conversation with the author of this article. The character is played by Mimí Lazo, one of the country’s most prominent actresses and a Venezuelan sex symbol. The film toys with this stereotype as regards the vicarious satisfaction given by romance and sex on screen. The other theme, linked to loneliness, is developmentalism: the main character lives in Parque Central, a middle-class housing complex whose residential buildings were finished in 1972 and became a symbol of well-being on the brink of the oil boom. (Pablo Gamba)

Almost a Movie!

1979 • 47 min

A young man meets up with his new stepmother, and his father is also supposed to join them for a holiday but never shows up. Suspicious of his step-mother, he then proceeds to keep her a prisoner in the villa as he forces her to reveal details of her hidden past.