All Films

Andy's Funhouse

1979 • 48 min • United States of America

This special was taped in 1977 but did not air until August 1979, on ABC. It featured most of Andy's famous gags, including Foreign Man/Latka and his Elvis Presley impersonation, as well as a host of unique segments (including a special appearance by children's television character Howdy Doody and the "Has-been Corner"). There also is a segment that included fake television screen static as part of the gag, which ABC executives were not comfortable with, fearing that viewers would mistake the static for broadcast problems and would change the channel—which was the comic element Kaufman wanted to present. Andy's Funhouse was written by Kaufman, Zmuda, and Mel Sherer, with music by Kaufman.

Autobahn

1979 • 12 min • United Kingdom

An animated visual interpretation of the song "Autobahn," by German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk. A fast-paced experimental film which proved to be a groundbreaking combination of electronic and manual animation. One of the first films produced specifically for video disk.

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1979 • 6 min • United States of America

The first film of mine which is so very much there where it's at THAT it deserves visual symbol as title and no further explanation from me at/et? all.

The Albion Band

1979 • 44 min

A rare 1979 BBC Arena documentary on the Albion Band, Ashley Hutchings and the development of English folk rock up to that time.

Big Jim and the Figaro Club

1979 • 30 min

In the early 1950s 'College' comes down from Cambridge to work for the summer with his old mates on the buildings - only to find a seething passion gripping the Figaro Club.

Father's Day

1979 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Teenager Philip has a day out with his father, whom he has not seen since he was two years old. His mother is not keen to hand her son over to the man who deserted them.

Vampires

1979 • 49 min • United Kingdom

Three boys watch horror films on late night TV and let their imaginations run wild seeing a man in a local cemetery who they believe to be a vampire.

Track Stars.: The Unseen Heroes of Movie Sound

1979 • 8 min • Canada

Two Foley artists provide live sound effects to an action scene.

Black Island

1979 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Joe and Michael, 13-year-old Brits, become separated from their class outing, stranded on a small island, and captured by armed men.

Möblerna som försvann

1979 • 35 min • Sweden

A film about the importance of phone etiquette. When Kalle Svensson comes home one day he finds all his furniture gone, this leads him into a rabbit hole of bureaucracy.

Beauty Becomes the Beast

1979 • 41 min • United States of America

Beauty Becomes the Beast describes a random access world mediated by TV images and shards of popular culture. The film features a powerful performance by Lydia Lunch regressing from adulthood to childhood, hinting at a sexually abusive past. It concerns itself with the position of woman as subject and the way women experience patriarchal law and the heterosexual order.

First Strike

1979 • 36 min • United States of America

Dramatization of a devastating nuclear strike against the United States by the Soviet Union, followed by interviews with analysts and military figures. Produced by the United States Air Force.

Encore un hiver

1979 • 12 min • France

A chance encounter on a park bench in early Spring. Two takes on waiting and love.

My Floating World: Miyuki Tanobe

1979 • 27 min

This documentary short is a portrait of Miyuki Tanobe, a Japanese painter who has chosen to make Québec her home. She works in the Nihonga style, applying centuries-old techniques to scenes drawn directly from the working-class neighborhoods of Montréal. The film records the progression of one of her paintings from preliminary sketch to completion.

Moonraker: 007 in Rio

1979 • 12 min

Original 1979 short promotional production featurette for the James Bond movie Moonraker (1979) featuring interview and behind the scenes footage.

Gulliver's Travels

1979 • 60 min • Australia

Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally minuscule rival, Blefuscu. This version of Gulliver's Travels aired in 1979 on CBS as part of "Famous Classic Tales".

Street Music

1979 • 57 min

A collection of performances by street musicians across the country, from New York to San Francisco, New Orleans to Chicago, the film presents 19 musicians in seven cities, and was one of Doob's first feature-length films. Among the singers, guitarists, drummers, dancers, and other artists, Doob includes street performance legends such as Brother Blue, Gene Palma, Bongo Joe, the Automatic Human Jukebox, and bluesman Jimmy Davis. The film captures a cross-section of Americans filled with raw talent, showmanship, and hustle, and presents a time capsule of the fashion, architecture, and culture of the 1970s. (Yale Film Archive)

Pat Boone and Family: A Christmas Special

1979 • 60 min

Pat Boone and Family Christmas Special presents a festive celebration of favorite holiday songs and comedic moments with The Hudson Brothers plus an array of ABC-TV stars: Norman Fell & Audra Lindley (Three's Company), Tom Bosley (Happy Days) and Gavin McLeod (The Love Boat) as well as Dinah Shore and Rosemary Clooney. Yogi Bear & Friends join in for It's Okay To Be A Kid At Christmas.

Jorge Amado no Cinema

1979 • 37 min • Brazil

Jorjamado no Cinema foi feito para um programa de televisão consagrado ao escritor Jorge Amado. Nesse documentário, Jorge Amado é filmado em sua casa, rodeado por sua numerosa família; numa livraria, durante uma sessão de autógrafos de um de seus livros, em um cinema em Salvador, na avant-première do filme Tenda dos Milagres, de Nelson Pereira dos Santos, adaptação do livro homônimo de Jorge Amado. Glauber filma seu amigo com muito humor e carinho. A câmera vai evoluindo lentamente, sem cessar e com rapidez sobre o escritor, seus familiares, atores e atrizes do filme de Nelson, além de passar por objetos de rituais de candomblé que constituem o museu de Jorge Amado.

Maedeli the Breach

1979 • 18 min • Belgium

While his parents are away, a little city boy goes to the countryside. This stay will be one of initiations and forbidden games in the company of Maedeli, a little girl who is not afraid.

Jesse: The First Year

1979 • 2 min • United States of America

For a year, Jarnow photographed and recorded the sounds of his newborn child.

It Took Guts

1979 • 4 min • United States of America

A teenage boy, troubled and alone wanders the grassy hills looking for something. He settles on a slope and searches for some activity to amuse him. He begins to pick pieces of his body off and taste them. This seems like a good thing to do. So he removes his eye, his face and finally his own guts and eats them all in an orgy of ecstasy and gore.

Prelude to the Murder of a Prison Guard

1979 • 57 min • Japan

A young man idles around Tokyo, collecting materials to construct a diorama of a cityscape.

Java Junkie

1979 • 4 min • United States of America

Joe has lost everything and is now addicted to coffee.